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NEWS: Kickstarter to Give Barefoot Gen Manga to Schools, Libraries Reaches Goal

I can guarantee you that children won´t read it as my library has it too and the only readers are 40+ or me (age 26). (The same goes for Grave of the Fireflies btw.)
The reasons are obverse but it also looks very "old" and was published before let´s say a decade ago so it is for grandparents and scholars of comics only. Now go and watch HBO´s White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima you all.

I hear about this a lot, and it always surprises me. In my own experience you can show a young person, a cartoon or comic book from long ago and they will react the same way as if it was new, because I suppose to them it is new.

While I think that it is a good idea to make this manga available, I doubt that it will resonate enough with most kids nowadays to be worthwhile (I'm specifically referring to schools, not the library aspect). Maybe it will be the subject of the occasional Book Report or something similar, but that's about as much involvement as those books will get, IMO.

While I think that it is a good idea to make this manga available, I doubt that it will resonate enough with most kids nowadays to be worthwhile (I'm specifically referring to schools, not the library aspect). Maybe it will be the subject of the occasional Book Report or something similar, but that's about as much involvement as those books will get, IMO.

Interesting. I never even gave the thought about multiple levels of surrendering. It's a pretty recent concept to me.

While it was never directly taught in school (or college) to me, an impression I had in history class was that there's only one kind of surrender: Total surrender. Either you won a war and could now decide what to do with the losers in however way you please, or you lost a war and were subject to every demand that the winners made, and hoped the winners felt merciful to you.

But most of my history teachers had kind of a sympathy for any side that lost a war, regardless of which war it was. There may have been a bias to make the winners seem more brutal and cruel.

Interesting. I never even gave the thought about multiple levels of surrendering. It's a pretty recent concept to me.

While it was never directly taught in school (or college) to me, an impression I had in history class was that there's only one kind of surrender: Total surrender. Either you won a war and could now decide what to do with the losers in however way you please, or you lost a war and were subject to every demand that the winners made, and hoped the winners felt merciful to you.

But most of my history teachers had kind of a sympathy for any side that lost a war, regardless of which war it was. There may have been a bias to make the winners seem more brutal and cruel.