Barefoot Gen (1983)

Like the grave of the fireflies , only sadder 🥲

Oh, what an outspoken anime it is in places, how high-quality it is for that time and how much it shows the events of Hiroshima is a separate topic. I remember being afraid of this anime in the 90s because of the bomb explosion scene, as well as how people died, and this is very ingrained in my memory, although it has been 27 years since I first watched this anime. It's very high-quality and truthful, and sometimes you can cry.

My heart was breaking watching it.

Fortunately, I watched it at a conscious age and didn't get blown away by that very scene! Very informative and close to the real events of the anime, definitely worth watching!

Cruel, terrible, merciless, strong.

P.S. When viewing, I remembered about the animation of the Grave for Fireflies.

Piz@ec!
Fallout smokes quietly on the sidelines
, especially since this anime is based on real events😔
I do not advise the faint of heart to look under the food!
But I advise everyone to watch it, especially in modern realities.

"War is a mistake from the very beginning" ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹

A very tragic and terribly real picture. The footage of the bomb explosion and the subsequent footage with the consequences, with sick people who look like living corpses, is something unreal at all. The only question that arose was how Gen himself remained alive at all, why he did not get sick, he also began to have radiation sickness. But apparently it was beneficial for the plot. Otherwise, I definitely advise you to watch it, in order to understand how terrible this whole story was with the bombing of entire cities with atomic bombs and why this should not be allowed now.

Radioactive cesium penetrated the mother's bones, dried them up, and took her mother's life. What hatred rose up in me then! I hated both the Japanese government, which unleashed a senseless war and allowed the atomic bombing, and the Americans, who dropped the atomic bomb in cold blood.

This is a quote from Keiji Nakazawa, the author of the original manga Barefoot Gen, which can and even should be called autobiographical, because a lot of it is copied from the childhood of Nakazawa himself, who miraculously survived August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima.
I have nothing to say about the cartoon itself, my thoughts are confused, so I'll limit myself to superficial characteristics and divide the film into three parts.:
1. The first half hour. Kind, bright, everyday sketches of a simple Japanese family in those years
2. The scariest 10 seconds in animation history
3. Post-nuclear hell, where watching is getting more uncomfortable and harder by the minute.

The authors do not take the viewer for a fool and show the consequences of atomic bombing as it is necessary. Cruel, terrible, merciless, strong. It's full of scenes that burn out the mind with their naturalness, but there's also a lot of kindness, love for one's neighbor, and a fat dose of hope at the end.

Take a look! Life begins in the coldest time of the year. The rain washes over it, the wind blows through it, people mercilessly trample it... But it continues to grow... Children, wheat will teach you a lot!