Re: 21st Century Boys
well after rereading/finishing the series recently, there still some plots that i didn't understand... here are my guesses, if incorrect please correct me..
-Fukubei got no power just tricks... Kanna (his daughter) has real power) because she was a lab experiment when she still in her mother womb..
-in the science lab incident, Fukubei almost die but who rescue him...
-so the person got beat up for the stolen hero badge is the 2nd friend and not Sadakiyo, though they know each other... the person who communicate with aliens are the 2nd friend and the last ploy (going to mars, alien invasion) is his doing.. maybe 2nd friend and sadakiyo are brothers or something ...??
-why the hell did donkey thought kenji was the bad guy in the beginning eventhough the flashback showed that (during the science lab incident) that he knew the faces of evil (yaname, fukubei, etc)...
for what reason was donkey's death, because fukubei mess up the trick... ??
-Mon-chan and Konchi is not initially part of the group however they were present at the time capsule ..
-what is the important of kenji's rock music incident.. the person who jump off from the roof is sadakiyo or second friend..
-how did the pope found out that friend is evil..
-the child of the dream navigator is from fukubei or second friend.. (eventhough it after fukubei's death but they can still keep his sperm and stuff so i don't know)
-the robot scientist's daughter miscarriage child is from fukubei?
-the director guy from the airport where yukiji work was he one of the member of friend party at the 20th century hero thing... and the thing that Manjoume was carrying was rainbow thing from thailand..
-since when did Kiriko, Endo got tangle into the virus-vaccine mess... during her medical school years?
Kiriko knew yaname and sadakiyo but not fukubei... but how did they predict that she was the holy maiden..
-why did fukubei return to the school to be accidentally killed? he didn't think yaname gonna betray him? is his death and 2nd friend also his idea..
-the "deal with expectation" comedians are part of friend group.. but i didn't recall their fate at the end..
-all of the gangsters and kenji group present at the expo why didn't they received the vaccine.. *though i already knew the answer to this question* but fukubei at least does want his daughter to be alive..
i'm no expert, but if i may share my 2 cents:
1. i would agree with that notion. Fukubei almost killed himself in the lab incident -> trick with using a metal tube or wire hanger or something, but then he said "it slipped" and started choking...
yes Kanna was probably induced with drugs or something, i'm quite sure it was mentioned in the dialogues...
2. the 2 other boys there (yamane and a masked boy) probably helped him down. In the virtual attraction it seems that the "original" cum 2nd friend loathed Fukubei to some extent -> wanted to kill little Fukubei by pulling him down and saying something like "you're supposed to (or really did) die today"...
3. no they can't be brothers because sadakiyo moved away and he stayed.
Makes me wonder about the time frame though... is the lab incident before or after sadakiyo moved away? because when i was reading 20th CB, it seemed to me that the incident is AFTER sadakiyo moved away, thus i was always questioning who that boy in the mask was...
4. donkey probably knew that kenji stole the badge thingie since the beginning although it was only mentioned clearly in 21st CB...
i think they wanted to "banish" donkey since childhood because Fukubei can't accept the fact that donkey said that the hanging "was just a trick"...
5. i think subsequent plots and dialogues explained how they became part of the gang... but yeah you can say the writer has a knack for adding characters along the way...
6. 2nd friend... perhaps the lyrics prevented the boy from jumping...
i think it was explained in the VR game in the 21st CB...
7. god knows... divine insight? xP
8. probably Fukubei's sperm, but most likely it was pointing towards tube babies, cloning, etc...
9. perhaps, or that young assassin who pushed that guy on the train station... or perhaps miscarriages from whoring around?
10. probably was... why would anyone carry a bag of flour?!?!?
srsly...
11. Fukubei liked kiriko since childhood -> was obvious when he talked with yukiji about the fish tank...
Sadakiyo knew that kiriko liked to study germs.
Yamane was a science guy.
Fukubei liked the idea of germ warfare...
there ya go...
the virus was probably ebola (srly! blood spewing and water vector!!), and yamane and fukubei probably convinced kiriko that she will be able to help people if she help develop a vaccine for it and keep researching every possible mutation and keep making vaccines for the mutations...
12. Fukubei wanted to kill Yamane, but i guess he wasn't prepared for the chance that Yamane would shoot him...
it could also be 2nd friend's idea -> telling Yamane to bring a gun or sumtin...
13. yeah i think their last appearance was on that TV show before 2015... never knew what happened... things like these are easily written off with "got killed by the virus" xP
14. yeah, it's an easy hole to patch up by saying "the gangsters and otcho were not registered participants" etc and that they only cared about Kanna...
i think that this manga was a bit overstretched at some points, but the ending was magnificent!
and if it ended at "present day" it would not have that lingering sensation of it being 1970-VR... and the fact that 2nd friend's face was never shown just keeps us hooked...
and yeah i do believe that the "original" friend became the 2nd-friend because Fukubei was always the ambitious and goal-oriented one while the one who probably had foresight/ESP was katsumata...
and he probably also added the last pages of the new book of prophecy while fukubei only cared about the front parts and becoming world president stuff... So when it dragged on too long, katsumata probably stepped in because he became impatient on carrying out his will...
Fukubei and Manjoume were always the one who was in it for power/celebrity... Sadakiyo was probably bullied into submission and Yamane only cared about science... While katsumata was always there for revenge, thus the ending being kenji having to apologize was really the best closure...
but yeah you can't stop thinking "shit man, all this just because of that stupid badge?"
lol xP
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