Publishing company Last Gasp has an excellentKickstarterproject run right now : it ’s raising $ 36,000 to print 4,000 copy of Barefoot Gen ( Hadashi no Gen in the original Japanese ) into schools and library . Barefoot Gen is a manga first printed in the seventies , and source Keiji Nakazawa suck on his own life to enjoin a story about the bombing of Hiroshima .
Last Gasp ’s finish is to get make the manga as wide usable as potential , with theKickstarterpage explaining the grandness of the story :
Hadashi no Gen was first serialize in 1972 - 3 in Shukan Shonen Jump , the largest hebdomadal mirthful magazine in Japan , with a circulation of over two million . It is a in writing and moving write up of the atomic bombardment of Hiroshima and its consequence , and it get out wide acclaim not only from young readers , but also from parent , teacher and critics . Barefoot Gen has been made into three live - action feature film , as well as a full - distance vivify film uncommitted in English .
Gen ’s level is of people dealing with cold-blooded situations , both in the last twenty-four hours of World War II and after a atomic tone-beginning . We trust Barefoot Gen will serve as one more monitor of the suffering war brings to innocent the great unwashed , and as a unique software documentation of an especially horrible source of agony , the atomic bomb .
Fully funding the project think of that Barefoot press will be capable to bring on a new hardcover edition — with a new cover — of Barefoot Gen which will be disperse to schools , libraries and individuals . Here ’s the video , sport the actual lyric of Nakazawa as he remembers being a six - yr - old survivor of the bombing :
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