Comments on: I ♥ Naoki Urasawa. Like a lot, a lot. And you will too. http://www.bpb-art.com/2009/12/04/i/ The most charming art group since Die Brüche. Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:06:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Jonathan http://www.bpb-art.com/2009/12/04/i/comment-page-1/#comment-379 Jonathan Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:42:26 +0000 http://www.bpb-art.com/?p=1108#comment-379 When I was reading it, I was actually pretty confused myself after finishing 20th Century Boys because I had no idea about 21st Century Boys. I had to do some research online and find out about the last chapters. I was fine with the ending of the story as a whole, once I realized there was still more to read, but I can totally understand your comments on hints of something a little more. Anyhow, thanks for chiming in, Mr. Humphries. Good insight, and I actually hadn't head about the dislocated shoulder and the delay and what not. Good stuff. When I was reading it, I was actually pretty confused myself after finishing 20th Century Boys because I had no idea about 21st Century Boys. I had to do some research online and find out about the last chapters. I was fine with the ending of the story as a whole, once I realized there was still more to read, but I can totally understand your comments on hints of something a little more.

Anyhow, thanks for chiming in, Mr. Humphries. Good insight, and I actually hadn’t head about the dislocated shoulder and the delay and what not. Good stuff.

]]> By: MrHumphries http://www.bpb-art.com/2009/12/04/i/comment-page-1/#comment-378 MrHumphries Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:55:48 +0000 http://www.bpb-art.com/?p=1108#comment-378 The link you provided doesn't seem to include 21st Century Boys, which sounds like a sequel but isn't: Urasawa just went on a hiatus because he had been working with two dislocated shoulders on 20th Century Boys and Pluto simultaneously, returning a year later to wrap up the series but put out the last two volumes under the title "21st Century Boys." I don't know if you knew about it, but someone reading the series from the link wouldn't have any indication of its existence. While I would have been fine with the ending of 20th Century Boys, I know people respond rather negatively to it as it stood (as well as to the end of 21st Century Boys, but that's another ball of wax). In any case, I totally agree with your comments. In Monster and 20th Century Boys there's this thing Urasawa does that's rather interesting to me. Throughout much of both series (moreso Monster) Urasawa is pretty up-front and direct about his themes and ideas (though not obnoxiously in-your-face either) but by the end of both series he seems to drop the bottom out so to speak in a way that points to something deeper and more coherent that has never quite reached surface level in the series but which bears obvious thematic continuity with everything thus far. Or maybe I'm just crazy. In any case, he's a bloody brilliant storyteller blessed with art skills and a literary mind. The link you provided doesn’t seem to include 21st Century Boys, which sounds like a sequel but isn’t: Urasawa just went on a hiatus because he had been working with two dislocated shoulders on 20th Century Boys and Pluto simultaneously, returning a year later to wrap up the series but put out the last two volumes under the title “21st Century Boys.” I don’t know if you knew about it, but someone reading the series from the link wouldn’t have any indication of its existence.

While I would have been fine with the ending of 20th Century Boys, I know people respond rather negatively to it as it stood (as well as to the end of 21st Century Boys, but that’s another ball of wax).

In any case, I totally agree with your comments. In Monster and 20th Century Boys there’s this thing Urasawa does that’s rather interesting to me. Throughout much of both series (moreso Monster) Urasawa is pretty up-front and direct about his themes and ideas (though not obnoxiously in-your-face either) but by the end of both series he seems to drop the bottom out so to speak in a way that points to something deeper and more coherent that has never quite reached surface level in the series but which bears obvious thematic continuity with everything thus far.

Or maybe I’m just crazy. In any case, he’s a bloody brilliant storyteller blessed with art skills and a literary mind.

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