I assume you already know about this - and I have no idea how faithful it is to the original, but in on the offchance you didn't hear about it, they made a live-action movie trilogy adaptation of 20th Century Boys in Japan (though I'm sure a version with German or English subs would be available) released over the course of 2008/2009.
I'm not sure I want to see it. 20th CB is 24 volumes of densely packed plot with something like 20 or more main characters, spanning something like four or five decades (from the 1970s to the future); there's no way they could squeeze even half of it into three movies. And I care too much about the manga to see it butchered.
My god, it's scary...hmpfJanuary 20 2010, 01:20:34 UTC
... how closely the movies get the *look* of the manga right. Nearly every frame in these trailers feels like it comes directly from the manga, and, even more amazingly, the actors look nearly exactly like their manga counterparts, too. (I remember noticing this when I watched the very first teaser trailer, in 2008 or so, but I'd forgotten how uncanny it was.)
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I'm not sure I want to see it. 20th CB is 24 volumes of densely packed plot with something like 20 or more main characters, spanning something like four or five decades (from the 1970s to the future); there's no way they could squeeze even half of it into three movies. And I care too much about the manga to see it butchered.
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http://www.4digitalmedia.com/20cb/trailers-20thcen.html
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But will that make a good movie, or a mess, I wonder?
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