#barefoot gen

[rosequart]

by the way in this corner of the world is a movie that provides an interesting perspective on the atomic bomb dropping of hiroshima—it focuses on a normal young woman in a neighboring town and the routines of her daily life before, during, and right after the war. the art style is very endearing and the overall movie retains a slice-of-life quality despite the tragedies that happen within it.

and barefoot gen is the most well-known animated movie about hiroshima's bombing, taking place in the city itself. the horror of the moment and its immediate aftermath is depicted in graphic detail—that imagery is still burnt into my mind years after watching it. the movie is semi-autobiographical, based on the writer's own experience in hiroshima.

[mammillariatasay]

I have been wanting to ask this question to the community for a very long time

Why are we all ignoring the t-word scene from the barefoot Gen anime?

Have you seen it? YOU SHOULD SEE IT

This scene is not even one, there are two of them and the first one just destroyed me

I don't want to cut a moment out of the anime because I could be banned for copyright violations

And I don't know which sites in other countries you watch movies on (maybe YouTube?)

I'll just say this scene starts after an hour of timing with a character named Seiji

If you're not ready to watch war movies, just watch the Seiji arch, I SWEAR YOU'LL CRY

I also personally recommend watching the original voice acting or Russian (Soviet, actually) voice acting because Seiji has an incredible voice

[franki-lew-yo]

-Fantastic Videos about Animation and Animation History-

The Animation that Changed Cinema by Cinema Cartography.

A wonderful intro into the world of Chinese Animated films by Accented Cinema.

Li Speaks breakdown of the Horseland TV show.

Jenny Nicholson's well-deserved take down of The Land Before Time series of films.

Laura Crone's painful look at the original and then all TWELVE of The Swan Princess movies.

Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' crew party with Defunctland.

Phelous' entire playlist on the infamous Dingo Pictures films.

Yesterworld's very insightful history look at The Black Cauldron.

Rankin/Bass history with Quinton Reviews and Worthikids and Nutcracker Fantasy with BenettetheSage.

Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings with Folding Ideas.

Phelous' look at Ralph Bakshi's borrowing between Rocket Robin Hood and Spiderman and also that time Filmation tried to make sequels to Disney films.

Just Lady Emily talking about The Gorillaz history.

BrowsHeldHigh's look at Czech Stopmotion animators Jan Svankmajer with Little Otik and Jiri Trinki with A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Jaccob Geller's heartbreaking deep dive into Don Hertzfeldt's animation (through a single Simpsons gag).

Wonderful introspective videos on Death Note, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Barefoot Gen -cw: violence, child death, crime and sa throughout) with BenettetheSage.

In the aftermath of all....that, I recommend a happier detour into La 'Ron Readus' look at A Goofy Movie.

HBomberGuy's good look back at RWBY and Rooster Teeth.

-cw: discussion of self harm, altrightness, and sa- A sad look into Emily Youcis's infamous 'Alfred Alfer' animations and subsequent fall from grace (into racism).

The Kimba the White Lion vs The Lion King controversy with YourMovieSucks.

CynicalReviews' look at Foodfight, just to prep you for Rotten: Behind the Foodfight by Ok so...

[weeby-monster-the-bastard]

some horror/gory animes i like to watch

i watch these while I draw, write, clean etc

junji ito collection

junji ito maniac

devilman crybaby

another

Tokyo ghoul (top tier btw :3)

angels of death

chainsaw man

corspe party

mieruko-chan

the og 'devilman'

idk if considered horror but dramatical murders (bad ends is gory in game)

bludgeoning angel dokuro-chan (i don't like the premises just like the visuals and background noise but its not good)

highschool of the dead (damnit bitch i said let go)

barefoot gen

perfect blue

monster

death note

idk would highschool DXD count? its eh gory but bad its h3nta1

[weaselbeaselpants]

deaths scenes exclusive go here

[odinsblog]

Barefoot Gen (1983)

[miss-couch-potato]

What is it with main boy characters in Japanese media in frightening, horrible, or weird situations that fascinates me so much and makes me cry like a baby? I totally didn't rewatch BFG2 and cry like a baby.

[whisperingwisterias]

Barefoot Gen and the Suffering of War

While many of the anime shows and films we have watched have depicted brutality, struggling societies, pain, and death, none have done so quite to the extent that Barefoot Gen has. Barefoot Gen does not shy away from showing us the harsh realities of war and really reminds us how much everyone is affected by government decisions.

To start off with, Barefoot Gen is pretty clear in its criticism of the Japanese government and how it has handled and continues to handle the war. The people of Japan are obviously starving: getting the bare minimum of rations to live off of, fighting over food, and hoarding what they do have even when people worse off than them are suffering. It’s also especially hard for families like Gen’s, who have to prioritize who to feed, like Gen’s pregnant mother. Gen makes a comment asking why the war is still going on if Japan’s surrender is inevitable and close, and his father doesn’t hesitate to criticize those in power who are ignoring the plights of the people to continue fighting. Gen’s mother asks the same question later in the movie when she hears the news that Japan has finally surrendered—why now? Why did it take the deaths and irrevocable suffering of thousands of people for them to stop? Why couldn’t they have given up before things came to this? Why did it take not one but two devastating bombings for them to finally give in?

The anime is also very graphic in how much people suffered because of the government’s decision to keep fighting. During the actual dropping of the bomb, the film goes through a montage of people melting from the explosion. Children, families, mothers with children, people at home, people at school, people in public transport; people just out trying to live their lives as best as they could are senselessly subjected to an excruciating death. The film also shows that there were people who still lived after being disfigured by the bomb, walking around with their skin half melted off of their bones. And even after all that death the damage didn’t stop there; the chemicals from the bomb poisoned the rain and their insides, leaving people unable to drink water, sick, and dying even after the initial blast. There were so many sick and wounded that the makeshift hospitals couldn’t provide medical care to everyone and only helped people who seemed like they had a chance of making it. Gen also comments on the fact that there are so many dead bodies that those cleaning them up just treat them like bags of trash, like they had never lived once at all. And even of the survivors of the bomb, those who were most injured by it often lived in rot and were begrudgingly taken care of by their relatives, often seen as a blight upon society.

And yet, with all of this pain and destruction, Barefoot Gen showed us how people still found a way to keep living and continue finding joy. Although Gen and Ryuta originally helped Seiji for money, through their help they gave him a new purpose in life, helping him realize that his life isn’t over just because his injuries make it harder for him to do certain things, and reminding his family that his injuries don’t make him a lost cause. Gen and his mother also are able to find family again, first in Tomoko, who brightened up their lives even for the short time that she was in it, and in Ryuta, who was so similar to the brother that gen had lost. At the end of the film, Gen and Ryuta also find wheat sprouting again, even after others had been speculating that it would take decades for that to happen. Although life is still hard and tragedies still happen, happiness can still be found, and destruction can be rebuilt again.

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today's disabled character of the day is Gen Nakaoka from Barefoot Gen, who has radiation poisoning

Requested by Anon

[Image Description: Drawing of a boy with short black hair and side burns, with black eyes. He is wearing a dark blue cape with a silver square on the front, blue jacket with white collar, and white undershirt. He has a light skin tone. He is smiling with a blue sky behind him.]

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Barefoot Gen

WOW. I had heard about this anime being a hard watch and have seen the clips of the melting citizens online prior to watching the film film and my god, I sobbed... multiple times. Barefoot Gen contains the compositional beauty of a Miyazaki film with the added artistic depth of historical documentation.

I highly appreciate the telling of this massacre through animation that tells the story from the viewpoint of a survivor. Rather than reading a list of facts from a textbook we see Gen's life from before the bomb to during and the devastating events that take place after. I don't think a live action film could suffice the damage this anime depicts not only because we can't go back and film what has happened but also due to the artistic direction taken to show the bomb's drop. A moment of deafening silence is heard and the use of black and white to show where the light was effecting people and places was a series of shots I especially admire.

A scene in particular that had me crying the most was the depiction of the mother and her baby melting. The mother tries to protect her baby from the radiation but is too late and they both suffer the effects.

Even more chilling was the way the bomb DID NOT ALWAYS KILL PEOPLE?!?? If death wasn't bad enough I was shocked when the people who had suffered the radiation with skin peeling off had got up and started walking. I was under the impression this was an instantaneous death but even worse they had to endure the pain of the bomb's effects and keep living knowing their families and homes may be gone.

The scene where Gen and Ryuta fight with the sick man and his gratitude towards Gen when the boy slaps him was an enlightening one. After all these people had been through, facing economic hardship, loss of loved ones, destruction of their homes, and now disease and bodily impairments how could others in the community treat the disadvantaged so poorly? The social effects outcasting the victims is heartbreaking. Were the physical effect of the bomb on their city and families not already punishment enough?

This angrily motivated act of personal contact was enough to send the man into tears because he had been deprived of any contact by his family members for fear of contracting his illnesses. While not under the same circumstances, this scene reminded me of similar treatment AIDs victims underwent in the 1980s and 90s. AIDs patients not only dealt with the physical implications of their disease but were socially outcasted out of fear you could contract the disease by proximity. Princess Diana was the first public figure aired on television to shake the hand of a man who had AIDs, nationally broadcasting this stigma was not backed up by any truth.

I am glad to have seen this film and I admire Gen's ability to keep high spirits about the future despite witnessing multiple deaths in his family firsthand. I think Barefoot Gen should be shown in school's to older teens as a cultural example giving a deeper depiction of the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan that textbooks cannot replicate.

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Barefoot Gen Blog

Expected an Oppenheimer, this was not it. For this film, I wanted to consider the effects of war in the Japanese perspective, particularly the effects of World War II.

The story begins with a boy named Gen Nakaoka. He has a younger brother named Koji and sister named Eiko. We are shown many scout planes throughout the Nakaoka's daily lives, when sirens alert the townsfolk that enemy planes are above. The people are all struggling due to the heavy funds that are likely being sunk into war efforts. There is not enough medicine nor food for all the people, and all citizens rely on food stamps. This poses an issue when Gen's mother falls ill due to malnutrition as she is in the later stages of pregnancy with another child. The boys attempt to catch a fish for their parents which is strictly forbidden as it is stealing. For this, they are beaten by an elder, but they continue to plea with the elder and they are allowed to keep the fish. The life of the people of Nagasaki was rough, but manageable. This all would soon change.

A stray B-29 is shown flying solo as it goes undetected by the sirens. It released a bomb in broad daylight. The entire surroundings turn white. Many people are disintegrated immediately due to radiation. It targets all without discrimination. Buildings are torn to pieces. Trees are uprooted. Debris shatters and imbeds itself into everyone else. Gen’s friend, who is standing right next to him, dies. Gen lived due to plot armor. I am genuinely unsure how he remained unaffected by the initial blast while someone next to him was ripped to pieces. Anyways, he starts to run to find his family and finds his mother is lodged under debris with the rest of his family while a fire roars around them. He manages to help his mother out, but is not strong enough to save the rest of his family. Both Gen and his mother watch as their family is burned alive. Of course, to create even more struggle after the detonation, Gen's mother starts giving birth to Gen's new younger sister, Tomoko.

The mother-son duo decide to go hand out their extra water, which no doubt was a mistake due to radiation. The people who they had given water to died. The boy makes many remarks that he is desensitized to the deaths. It is announced that after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan had admitted defeat in the war. Gen's mother said that there was no purpose for the deaths that had occurred and cried out that Japan could have pulled out of the war sooner. Overall, the film shows just how great the effects of dropping one bomb was on innocent civilians. It goes to show solidify what Gen's father had said at the beginning of the movie that It takes a real man to accept being a coward in order to do what they believe.

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[digitalzombie]

I finally watched Barefoot Gen (1983)

Barefoot Gen (1983) is an anime film that's based on Keiji Nakazawa's manga series of the same name. It's directed by Mori Masaki, produced by Takanori Yoshimune and Yasutaka Iwase, and released by Madhouse and GEN Productions.

The film follows Gen Nakaoka and his family in Hiroshima, Japan, during the final days of World War II. Gen's family struggles to survive on what little provisions they could manage. And although Hiroshima had been spared from previous air raids, on August 6, 1945, a B-29 craft flies overhead and releases an atomic bomb, destroying the city and changing Gen's life forever.

Barefoot Gen is a graphic film that depicts one of the worst things that has happened in human history. The film moves at a slow pace with a somber, and often hopeless, tone that only opens into a lighter, melancholic tone in the final scenes.  Although I've never read Keiji Nakazawa's manga (or any of his other notable works), I am aware that Barefoot Gen is like his autobiography with the titular character as his stand-in.

As someone who has been lucky enough to never experience war, the events that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are hard to conceptualize. This film helps paint a vivid and violent picture of the atomic bombings. The images are surreal as people's and animals' flesh melt off their bones and singe into their clothes. Ironically, the scene where the bomb drops on Hiroshima happens to be the most vibrantly colored. The animation itself is beautiful, but the morbid imagery is a stark reminder of the War's horrors.

Barefoot Gen is a movie that will leave you thinking about how easy it can be for powerful nations to destroy one another at the cost of innocent lives. It's closing scenes at least give viewers the impression that life can move on even as our history follows closely behind us.

This post is an edited version of a post from my now inactive blog, More Thought Bubbles.

[franki-lew-yo]

Coming off of Barefoot Gen and When the Wind Blows breaks and terrifies you of nuclear energy and warpower so much- one a realworld horrific atrocity it's creator barely LIVED THROUGH, and the other a fictional one but one where you have to watch your two protagonists slowly and agonizingly die -you'd think just those films existence would be enough to never want someone playing with this stuff again....

...and then you hear Russia and Israel talk so happily about using nukes and you realize we've learned absolutely nothing as a society.

MAD

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Shadows of Hiroshima

(yes, I watched barefoot Gen)

[tinstol]

I’ve now watched both and in my opinion

Barefoot Gen > Grave of the Fireflies

I didnt feel gotf lived up to its emotionally devastating reputation while Barefoot Gen was viscerally horrifying from the moment I laid eyes on it