| Barefoot Gen | |
 Original Japanese first volume | |
| はだしのゲン (Hadashi no Gen) | |
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| Genre | Historical[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Keiji Nakazawa |
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| Demographic | Shōnen, seinen |
| Original run | May 22, 1973 – 1987 |
| Volumes | 10 |
| Novel | |
| Hadashi no Gen wa Pikadon wo wasurenai (Barefoot Gen Will Never Forget the Bomb) | |
| Written by | Keiji Nakazawa |
| Published by | Iwanami Shoten |
| Published | July 1982 |
| Novel | |
| Hadashi no Gen he no Tegami (A Letter to Barefoot Gen) | |
| Written by | Keiji Nakazawa |
| Published by | KyouikuShiryo Publishing |
| Published | July 1991 |
| Novel | |
| Jiden Hadashi no Gen (Autobiography of Barefoot Gen) | |
| Written by | Keiji Nakazawa |
| Published by | KyouikuShiryo Publishing |
| Published | July 1994 |
| Novel | |
| Hadashi no Gen in Hiroshima (Barefoot Gen in Hiroshima) | |
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| Published by | Kodansha |
| Published | July 1999 |
| Novel | |
| Hadashi no Gen ga ita Fukei (Where Barefoot Gen Was) | |
| Written by |
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| Published by | Azusa Syuppansya |
| Published | July 2006 |
| Television drama | |
| Barefoot Gen | |
| Directed by |
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| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | August 10, 2007 – August 11, 2007 |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Novel | |
| Hadashi no Gen wa Hiroshima wo Wasurenai (Barefoot Gen will never forget about Hiroshima) | |
| Written by | Keiji Nakazawa |
| Published by | Iwanami Shoten |
| Published | August 2008 |
| Live-action films | |
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| Anime films | |
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Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン, Hadashi no Gen) is a Japanese historical manga series by Keiji Nakazawa, loosely based on Nakazawa's experiences as a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. The series begins in 1945 in and around Hiroshima, Japan, where six-year-old Gen Nakaoka lives with his family. After Hiroshima is destroyed by the bombing, Gen and other survivors deal with the aftermath. The series was published in several magazines, including Weekly Shōnen Jump, from 1973 to 1987. It was adapted into three live-action film versions directed by Tengo Yamada, which were released between 1976 and 1980. Madhouse released two anime films, one in 1983 and the other in 1986. In August 2007, a two-night live-action television drama series aired in Japan on Fuji TV.
Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa created Ore wa Mita (translated into English as I Saw It), an eyewitness account of the atomic-bomb devastation in Japan, for Monthly Shōnen Jump in 1972. It was published in the United States by Educomics in 1982.[2] Nakazawa began to serialize the longer, autobiographical Hadashi No Gen (Barefoot Gen)[2] in the June 4, 1973 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump.[3] It was canceled after a year and a half and moved to three other, less-widely-distributed magazines: Shimin (Citizen), Bunka Hyōron (Cultural Criticism), and Kyōiku Hyōron (Educational Criticism). The series began to appear in Japanese book collections in 1975.
- ^ "Barefoot Gen Manga to Be Used as School Material". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
- ^ a b "Barefoot Gen a.k.a. Gen of Hiroshima". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on 2024-05-27. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ "はだしのゲン". Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2020.