"The memories of the attack are etched into my mind like a film," the author of the manga series on Hiroshima attack wrote in his book.
Published by one of Japan's leading manga artists, Keiji Nakazawa, 30 years after the attack, it is an astonishing piece of work that has been translated into 20 languages. Nakazawa, who was born in Hiroshima, was six years old when the bomb detonated, and the series vividly captures the horror of what happened to his home city.
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"Barefoot Gen" was published in several magazines between 1973 and 1985 and Nakazawa based the main character, Gen, on himself.
These are some of the original drawings from the series.
August 6, 1945. An atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. This was the first attack of its kind in human history. At first, there was a blinding flash.
©Keiji Nakazawa / Courtesy of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
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