![]() ![]() This series, which eventually filled ten volumes, was based on the same events as I Saw It but expanded and fictionalized, with the young Gen Nakaoka as a stand-in for the author. Immediately after completing I Saw It, Nakazawa began his major work, Hadashi no Gen ( Barefoot Gen). The story was translated into English and published as a one-shot comic book by Educomics as I Saw It. Nakazawa chose to portray his own experience in the 1972 story Ore wa Mita, published in Monthly Shōnen Jump. Kuroi Ame ni Utarete ( Struck by Black Rain), the first of a series of five books, was a fictional story of Hiroshima survivors involved in the postwar black market. ![]() įollowing the death of his mother in 1966, Nakazawa returned to his memories of the destruction of Hiroshima and began to express them in his stories. Nakazawa graduated from middle school in 1954, and in 1961, he moved to Tokyo to become a full-time cartoonist and produced short pieces for manga anthologies such as Shōnen Gaho, Shōnen King, and Bokura. Most of his family members who had not evacuated died as a result of the explosion after they became trapped under the debris of their house, except for his mother and an infant sister (who died several weeks later whether from malnutrition or radiation from her mother afterward). Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan and was in the city when it was destroyed by an atomic bomb in August 1945. Keiji Nakazawa ( 中沢 啓治, Nakazawa Keiji, Ma– December 19, 2012) was a Japanese manga artist and writer. ![]()
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