Issue Description

The story of life in Hiroshima after the atomic bomb continues! Gen fights against a corrupt medical system, the discriminatory practices of his neighbors, and the American presence in Postwar Japan. Gen's brother, Koji, has gone away to work in the coal mines, but has since disappeared. To make up for the shortage, he and his friends must resort to more drastic measures, which lands one of the bunch in a juvenile detention center.

Barefoot Gen (2004)

Publisher

Last Gasp

Volume Description

A 10 part-series that is loosely based on Keiji Nakazawa's own experience as a Hiroshima survivor of the atom bomb. The series is about a six-year-old boy named Gen Nakaoka living with his family in Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. After Hiroshima is destroyed by the bomb, Gen and other survivors are left to deal with the aftermath.

English translation of the Japanese manga Barefoot Gen.

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