20 Mensou ni Onegai!!

Description

From Tokyopop:

Akira - who later appears in the CLAMP School Detectives manga series - is a dapper, debonair young thief-for-hire who becomes the object of 5-year-old Utako's affections.

Type

Manga

Related Series

Clamp Gakuen Tanteidan (Sequel)

Shoten (Side Story)

Associated Names

20 Masken!! (German)

20 Mensō ni Onegai!!

20面相におねがい!!

20면상에게 부탁해

Człowiek o dwudziestu twarzach (Polish)

El ladrón de las mil caras (Spanish)

Il ladro dalle mille facce (Italian)

Le voleur aux cent visages !

Man of Many Faces

O Homem de Varias Faces (Brazilian Portuguese)

Si Wajah Misterius

The Thief with 20 Faces

Двадцатиликий

Многоликий

怪盜千面人!!

Groups Scanlating

Be With You Scans

Selene Scans

Latest Release(s)

v.Drama CD c.Omake by Be With You Scans 16 years ago

v.2 c.7b by Selene Scans 19 years ago

v.2 c.7a by Selene Scans 19 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

2 Volumes (Complete, 1990)
2 Volumes (Complete, 2001)
1 Volume (Complete, 2012)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1

Ends at Vol 2, Chap 11

User Reviews

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User Rating

Average: 6.6 / 10.0 (114 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.53 / 10.0

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Last Updated

July 24th, 2025 11:36am PDT - 3 months ago

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Genre

Comedy Fantasy Romance Shounen
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Recommendations

Kiss

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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Kadokawa (1990, 2001, 2012, 2013)

Serialized In (magazine)

Comic Genki (Kadokawa)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

TokyoPop (Expired / 2 Vols - Complete)

Viz (2 Vols - Complete; digital)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #524

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Monthly Pos #1708

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3 Month Pos #3786

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6 Month Pos #5437

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Year Pos #7578

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List Stats

On 97 reading lists

On 187 wish lists

On 478 completed lists

On 28 unfinished lists

On 146 custom lists

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User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

Not one I would read...

by catandmouse
15 years ago

Rating: N/A

I dunno, I like CLAMP, and going through my manga collection the other day, noticed I own quite a bit of their stories, but not all are for me.....and I've never read "man of many faces" but the whole idea of a 9 year old and a 5 year old talking about love and all so seriously is kind of a turn off....

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A Bit Weird...

by Trussardi
15 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

I found this one a bit disturbing because as another commenter said, the main character is this sort of freakishly weird juvenile gentleman thief that goes around committing crimes only because his two moms decide that they want something. Yes, they are so fabulously wealthy that they could probably just buy it 100 times over easily but would rather have their son engage in criminal behavior. When he's not doing that, the plot [yes, there is one] is even less interesting.

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Man of Many Faces

by akari_mizunashi
16 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

In its fifteen or so years of existence, the manga team CLAMP has risen to legendary status. They do make some great - or at least well-selling - stuff. That said, they have made a lot of stuff, and some of it sucks utterly. Man of Many Faces is one of those unfortunate pieces.

The title character is some kind of disturbingly perfect prepubescent gentleman thief with a polygamist family and a legion of pedophilic fangirls. Sounds like it could be kind of interesting, right? Sort of? Except that he appears to spend the vast majority of his time not gentleman thieving but having disturbingly chaste cakes with a five-year old girl in her bedroom. Everyone's favorite hobby appears to be sitting in a pile of screentones and spewing huge walls of text about ridiculous parables and cliches. There is an entire thoughtful page devoted to a monologue on the moral demonstrated in the famous Some Like it Hot line "I'm a man!"

The randomly-selected messages CLAMP plonks down every three pages often manage to be both stupid and politically incorrect. The masked man's toddling lady love spends her entire life trying to figure out how to cook (even though he's practically a master chef) so that she can drop out of high school and get married to him (even though she's a supergenius) because that is a wife's duty. And yes, they really do say that. Although it was a little hard to see through all the screentones.

What good can I say about this? I don't know, the paper might have some worth?

... Last updated 15 years ago

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Man of Many Faces

by ajmanga
17 years ago

Rating: 8.5 / 10.0

All I can say is that even though it's a tad short, the main character is loyal to one girl, even as they grow up together, and the series has one of those good endings that ties up things. The series itself was interesting, him being a master thief, though it was weird how he had two moms. It even has the two extras that show the wedding and then their married life. For those who want a romance with the kind of ending you wish other series had.

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