20th Century Boys: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 7 h 18 min. Kenji and his friends in the club created an amateur comic book that imagined an apocalyptic future in which strange illnesses and bands of armed insurgents threatened to destroy the world. A fanatical cult known as Friend found the book and they've made it their business to turn it into a reality, and now Kenji and his old friends have to infiltrate the cult and stop them before it's too late.

1. 
   Movie 1

   20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)

   2 h 22 min · ★ 6.7

   In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of…

2. 
   Movie 2

   20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)

   2 h 20 min · ★ 6.7

   Set 15 years after "Twentieth Century Boys," Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an attempt to stop Friend's increasing influence over the world and continued plans to…

3. 
   Movie 3

   20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009)

   2 h 36 min · ★ 6.7

   The final showdown, and the final reveal. Who is Friend? How can he be stopped?