Barefoot Gen

Barefoot Gen

Status: FINISHED

Episodes: 1

Duration: 83 min

Season: SUMMER 1983

Source: MANGA

Studio: MADHOUSE

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Score: 74.00

Popularity: # 15966

Favourites: 185

Barefoot Gen is an anime series with 1 episodes. Explore its story, characters, genres and reviews to decide if it's worth watching.

Description

It's the summer of 1945. 3 years have elapsed since the war between Japan and USA began. Gen is a young boy living a struggling yet satisfying life in the city of Hiroshima, that has been strangely spared by the bombing taken in almost every other Japanese City. Food is scarce, and Gen's family is suffering from severe malnutrition, which endangeres his pregnant mother. There isn't much spare time as Gen and his little brother Shinji help their father and mother at work and try to make sure their family survives the tought times. Little do they know, what the Americans have in store for the city of Hiroshima and as of the 6th of August 1945, their lives are about to change dramatically.

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Historical Male Protagonist Gore Tragedy Military War Nudity Primarily Child Cast Body Horror Found Family Educational Autobiographical

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