Mr. Keiji Nakazawa, manga "Barefoot Gen", a manga with the theme of the atomic bomb, retires the manga artist because he can not expect sight recovery

It seems that Mr. Keiji Nakazawa of Manga "Barefoot Gen" who depicted the appearance of a boy · Gen living strongly and strongly in Hiroshima town where the atomic bomb was dropped decided to retire the manga family. Mr. Nakazawa said that there was also the idea of ​​"Barefoot Gen 2", but it seems that it will no longer be a sequel to be drawn in the future because it will appeal through oil painting and self-made imaging. is.

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Author of "Barefoot Gen", Retired due to the decline of sight: Culture: Society: YOMIURI ONLINE (Yomiuri Shimbun)

"Barefoot Gen" is a manga painted by Mr. Keiji Nakazawa based on his own experiences of atomic bombings, serialized in a weekly juvenile jump from 1972 to 1974, and then published as "citizen" "cultural review" It finally ended the series in the journal "educational review" of the Japanese faculty and staff association. The cumulative issuing number of copies is over 10 million copies, and it is considered that there are more readers than the number of copies because the book is often placed in elementary school.

Mr. Nakazawa had planned to write the second part after finishing "barefoot gens" as the first part in 1985 and was proceeding to the draft, but I want the reader to think how Gengen did afterwards I judged it and stopped it. The second part was supposed to be set in Tokyo, and it seems that Gen was talking about practicing painting in France.

Originally Mr. Nakazawa suffered from diabetes, left eye was not easily seen around 2000, cataract also advanced in the right eye. Although I underwent surgery in January 2009, my eyesight did not recover and I decided to retire the manga family because I could not draw delicate lines when drawing manga.