20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End

In 1969, a group of childhood friends secretly built an underground base, fueled by their vivid imaginations and fantasies of battling villains who threatened to conquer the world - events they would later write down in the Book of Prophecies. Decades later, Kenji's ordinary life is disrupted when his old classmate dies under mysterious circumstances and a neighborhood family vanishes, mirroring the exact prophecies he had written years earlier. As a cult emerges with its enigmatic leader Friend, a series of eerie events unfolds that blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, leaving Kenji questioning whether this is the beginning of the end of the world.