Earlier this month, reports from Japan piqued curiosity as it was revealed a seminal World War II manga was ousted from schools in Hiroshima. For years, Keiji Nakazawa’s Barefoot Gen has been used ...
Thanks to a new report from Japan, the anime fandom has turned its eye to Hiroshima. The city is drawing headlines right now as its Board of Education chose to ban one of manga’s most important takes ...
Frank Fuller is an adjunct professor of political science at Villanova University. This story was originally featured on The Conversation. At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film ...