Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series on “Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen), Keiji Nakazawa’s manga series themed on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which began running in ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series on “Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen), Keiji Nakazawa’s manga series themed on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which began running in ...

The 1980s were a fertile era for anime, sometimes referred to as the medium's "Golden Age". This was the era of films like Akira, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and Barefoot Gen. In terms of ...