Akira Ijyuuin
#Rank: 6464
20 Mensou ni Onegai!!Man of Many Faces - CLAMP
Synopsis
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)
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)
Background
The storyline of 20 Mensou ni Onegai!! occurs simultaneously with both CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan and Gakuen Tokukei Duklyon. As demonstrated by a conversation between Nokoru and Suou which also takes place in CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan, while in Duklyon Akira and Utako appear at their age as they do in 20 Mensou ni Onegai!!.
The manga took inspiration from the works of Edogawa Rampo, most notably from Kaijin Nijuu Mensou (The Fiend with Twenty Faces).
The manga has been published in English by TokyoPop on May 6, 2003 and Jul 15, 2003 respectively.
The manga took inspiration from the works of Edogawa Rampo, most notably from Kaijin Nijuu Mensou (The Fiend with Twenty Faces).
The manga has been published in English by TokyoPop on May 6, 2003 and Jul 15, 2003 respectively.
