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Genres
Shounen, Slice of Life, Historical, Mature, Tragedy, One Shot
Summary
- Keiji Nakazawa, as a young boy, suffered from seeing almost his entire family die in the war
- The Hiroshima bombing robbed him of everything, and he had to live in poverty for the next years
- After years of suffering, he was determined to show the bombing disasters through his drawings
Description
I Saw It is a biographical piece following the life of Nakazawa from his youngest days in post-war in Hiroshima up until his adulthood. I Saw It became the predecessor for Nakazawa's popular manga series Barefoot Gen.
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