Anime Scene Stunningly Visualizing the Explosion of the Atomic Bomb: Adapted from the Author’s Own True Story!

The release of the movie Oppenheimer, which has not been popular even before it was released, and the fact that it was in the middle of the agenda, made us remember and feel all the effects of the atomic bomb again.

Recently, the 1983 anime Barefoot Gen came to the fore. The cartoon about the bomb dropped on Hiroshima showed the moment the atomic bomb exploded in a very striking way.

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was the kind of disaster that we would only want to watch as “surreal” in anime, but everything was so real.

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The 13 thousand-ton atomic bomb that the USA dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II, which destroyed 70% of the city; It was as if he had turned the whole world into a place of hell.

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The effects of this event, which resulted in the death of a total of 140,000 people and a destroyed city, of course continued. People who have lost everything and have only traumas had another problem to deal with, they were transformed due to radioactive effects and the results of the bomb continued for years.

The plot and scenes of the impressive anime called Barefoot Gen reveal the events in their entirety. (You can watch the scene where the bomb is thrown from the 2nd minute.)

Barefoot Gen is actually based on a manga and the author of that manga is a 6-year-old boy who actually lived the events. This boy named Keiji Nakazawa has been writing the disaster for a year and turning it into a 10-volume manga. In 1983, it was turned into an anime and presented to the whole world.

anime; It vividly conveys the impact of the bomb, the loss of life, and what people went through due to the radioactive fallout it created afterwards. In fact, the manga of the anime was translated into Turkish in 4 volumes with the name “Yalınayak Gen”.

The moment the atomic bomb exploded in the anime and the current state of people are processed in a chilling way:

Especially when the scene where the atomic bomb exploded came to the fore again, comments poured in from Twitter: