“Nine-year-old thief Akira steals for his mothers while falling for five-year-old Utako amid escalating heists.”
Man of Many Faces
20面相におねがい!!
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Synopsis
Nine-year-old thief Akira steals for his mothers while falling for five-year-old Utako amid escalating heists.
20 Mensou ni Onegai!! is a about a nine-year-old boy named Ijuuin Akira who steals beautiful and valuable objects to please his two mothers and is known to the public as the dashing, clever thief named the Man of 20 Faces. By day Ijuuin Akira is a normal student at Clamp School, but at night he becomes the mysterious thief 20 Masks. His thefts are usually subject to the whims of his two stepmothers, which Akira pulls off without any true objections or interactions. One night Akira ducks into the room of 5-year-old Ookawa Utako in an attempt to hide from the police. Although the pair shares a four-year age difference, they find themselves quickly falling for each other even as Akira finds himself being increasingly more involved with thefts, some of which include Utako's family. This as well as several other obstacles give the young couple's budding relationship a fair amount of difficulty. (Source: Wikipedia)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
What 3 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.41 · some divergence
3.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 5.0
↑ 1.00
Running avg · Dec 2010 → Sep 2020
- 8 “I'm surprised there aren't more reviews on here! Man of Many Faces is a story that will end up putting a smile on your face. It's one of CLAMP's more obscure and quirky titles. The plot can be...”
- 5 “The first in the "Clamp School Trilogy", Man Of 20 Faces purports to be a phantom thief thriller, but it's actually a romance manga between two elementary schoolers. And for whatever reason, these...”
- 5 “Honestly ? It's far to be the best CLAMP work. This kind of story has already been used and there's nothing original in here. 20 Masks outfit reminds me too much of Kaito Kid which is also a bad...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 11 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 28m approx
- Published Jul 1989 – Jun 1991
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0531 catalog