On the morning of Friday 11th, as I was listening to the worrying coughs of my outdated coffee maker struggling to produce my necessary morning fix, I was sorting out my impressions of the event held the night before: the lecture on and screening of the anime “Barefoot Gen” (1983), a manga author Keiji Nakazawa’s semi-autobiographical narrative of a young boy navigating the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing of his hometown of Hiroshima…
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