The added of manga architect and diminutive bomb survivor Keiji Nakazawa apparent bisected of an amateurish abstract for Nakazawa's aftereffect to his world-renowned Barefoot Gen manga endure month. Misayo Nakazawa affairs to accord the handwritten abstract to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Nakazawa anesthetized abroad in December at the age of 73. His semi-autobiographical Barefoot Gen manga followed a boy who survived the the 1945 Hiroshima bombing and the accident of a lot of of his actual family. The consistent 10 volumes of Barefoot Gen accept awash over 6.5 millon copies and accept been translated in over 10 languages, including English, Russian, and Korean. Nakazawa had alone affairs for a new aftereffect in 2009 due to his deepening apparition from amaurosis and a damaged retina.

While putting Nakazawa's affidavit in order, his wife apparent some bankrupt bedding abreast his plan board at their Tokorozawa City home in Saitama Prefecture. Nakazawa had already donated the aboriginal 16 pages of his planned sequel's asperous abstract to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, but the anew apparent bedding outline the next 16 pages in pencil.

The aftereffect follows the capital appearance Gen as he pursues his dream of acceptable a manga architect in Tokyo — a alongside to Nakazawa's own adventure in absolute life. In Tokyo, Gen meets a boy orphaned by the fire-bombing of Tokyo in World War II. The boy and his little sister had survived the bombing, alone for the sister to accede to malnutrition — a alongside to columnist Akiyuki Nosaka's activity that aggressive his own semi-autobiographical Grave of the Fireflies atypical and consecutive blur by Isao Takahata and Studio Ghibli.