Thank you for your opinion, friend.

I don’t blame you for your words. I guess at a certain age these could have been my words as well.

“It’s a fucking cartoon.”

Well… Yes and no.

It’s a Manga called “Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen). “Barfuß nach Hiroshima” in German.

I’m German. I’m usually not a fan of Manga.

About ten years ago I saw “Barfuß nach Hiroshima” (4 books) in my local library and thought “Well, what the heck, give it a go.”

I took them, left the library, went to my my car and went back home.

On my way I was held up in heavy traffic congestion and since I was bored while waiting I began reading the first issue of “Barfuß nach Hiroshima” every time the traffic stopped or I had to wait at a red light.

After a while I was taken in by the Manga and stopped at a supermarket car park. I read and read. I couldn’t stop.

This was the first time I cried in my car, in a parking lot of a supermarket, over a Manga.

I didn’t move for a long while.

Feel free to call me any name you want, I don’t give a damn.

Nowadays I can use the story and images/videos and use them in a morbid way for some cheap laughs.

Maybe one in a hundred or a thousand readers of this sub will be curious enough to read the Manga and maybe will feel the same way as I.

That’s enough.

So for now I’m counting the downvotes.

/r/ImGoingToHellForThis never change!

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edit: a letter