The childhood of Keiji Nakazawa dies on a sunny Monday morning. The biggest mass destruction weapon in human history is thrown at the Japanese town Hiroshima. 20 years after the incident Nakazawa begins to work up the gruesome events of his childhood and begins to draw manga.
Barefoot Gen has finished publishing and it has 54 Chapters. It is also Known as: はだしのゲン, Barefoot Gen - Bomb on Hiroshima
Genres: Historical , Drama
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Top 6 Manga Like Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no Gen) [2024 List]
6. Comic Showa-shi
A historical story using Ghosts to explain the life times of the reign of Emperor Hirohito.Showa-shi by Shigeru Mizuki, is volume (1) in the series.
It describes an era of upheaval and impoverishment in Japanese history, beginning with the Tokyo Earthquake of 1923, and covering the financial panic, the Great Depression, the March 15th Incident, and other events up until the Manchurian Incident (1931)
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Showa: A History of Japan has finished publishing and it has 119 Chapters. It is also Known as: コミック昭和史, Comic Showashi, Shouwa-Shi, A Comics History of the Showa Era
5. Hikaru Kaze
Gen, while trying to escape from his traditional and conservative family, start to works in a publishing house. He will soon discover that a terrible illness that infected a Japanese village some years ago hides more than what the official version says. Trying to know more about it, he will discover an horrible reality...
Hikaru Kaze has finished publishing and it has 30 Chapters. It is also Known as: 光る風, Hikaru Kaze
4. Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni
1940s Hiroshima. Suzu, a young bride, leaves her home to join her new husband, a member of the Japanese navy, at a military base in the port city of Kure. Confronted with the challenges of a new life, Suzu must also come to grips with a world at war and her beautiful home collapsing around her. Unwilling to give up hope, Suzu holds on to happiness to persevere through the trials of war.
In This Corner of the World has finished publishing and it has 48 Chapters. It is also Known as: この世界の片隅に, To All The Corners Of The World, To All the Corners of the World
3. Ayako
Jiro Tenge, the second son of what used to be an influential Japanese family, returns home after being a POW in an American camp during the Second World War. He finds his family corrupted by the terrible social aftereffects of the war.
His elder brother, determined to keep what remains of the family patrimony after the Government's forced land reallocation, has prostituted his wife to his father to secure his blessing, while other members of Jiro's family have been drawn into similar corruption, and he himself is being forced to spy for the Americans after being broken as a POW. Now the family's youngest daughter Ayako will have to bear the brunt of the family's sins.
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Ayako has finished publishing and it has 19 Chapters. It is also Known as: 奇子, Ayako
2. Adolf ni Tsugu
This is a story about three Adolfs. Sohei Toge, a Japanese reporter for 1936 Berlin Olympics was surprised that his younger brother, an international student in Germany, was mysteriously murdered right after informing him about an important document. To add more confusion to his sadness, all information regarding his younger brother as a student in Germany have been erased systematically, as if he never existed. Meanwhile in Japan, a half-German, half-Japanese boy named Adolf Kauffmann and his best friend, a Jewish-German boy named Adolf Kamil, were accidentally involved in this incident. Their lives and fates are now inevitably interwoven around the biggest secret of the third Adolf—Adolf Hitler.
Message to Adolf has finished publishing and it has 36 Chapters. It is also Known as: アドルフに告ぐ, Adolf, Tell Adolf, The Stories of Three Adolfs
1. Yunagi no Machi Sakura no Kuni
Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever...
A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age.
Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing.
The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo Kouno examines this question in her outstanding book—an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece!
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms has finished publishing and it has 3 Chapters. It is also Known as: 夕凪の街 桜の国, Yunagi no Machi Sakura no Kuni, Yunagi City, Sakura Country, Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni, The Town of Evening Calm, The Country of Cherry Blossoms
