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Also known as Hadashi no Gen, Barefoot Gen - Bomb on Hiroshima, Gen: Gutten fra Hiroshima. Picked from what people who loved Barefoot Gen went on to love and from what they share with it, like Autobiographical, Adoption, Educational. Show
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Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
Souin Gyokusai seyo!
Recommended by 8 Barefoot Gen fans on AniList. Both have Autobiographical, War, Tragedy.
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English and is a semiautobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War II. The soldiers are told that they must go into battle and die for the honor of…
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About Barefoot Gen
One quiet morning, the US forces drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In an instant, the city is completely destroyed, leaving thousands dead and many more exposed to radiation. Though Gen manages to survive the blast, he finds his life irreversibly changed. Regrouping with what's left of his family, Gen must now grapple with starvation, destitution, and an unsympathetic public who see survivors as little more than disease-ridden beggars.
Based on author Keiji Nakazawa's real-life experiences, Hadashi no Gen follows Gen and his fellow survivors in their struggle to survive in post-war Hiroshima. Gen resolves to soldier on with unwavering determination, while never forgiving those who caused the atrocity, never forgetting the pain of the bomb, and never letting his spirit be broken by the tragedy.