Keiji Nakazawa's semi-autobiographical account of the bombing of Hiroshima, which depicts a second grader, Gen, surviving the bombing in 1945. Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no Gen in the original Japanese) was first serialized in 1972-73 in Shukan Shonen Jampu, the largest weekly comic of it's time. It was the first Japanese manga to be translated into English (collected in four volumes, published by New Society Publishers). In 1983 it was released as a full length animated feature (Orion Home Video). American critics tended to fault the work for being too graphic, and for making too strong a case against nuclear war.