Mugikko-tachi: Barefoot Gen Shusen-hen

Author: Keiji Nakazawa

Run: 1974

Chapters: 4

Genres: Drama, Historical

The postwar chapters of Barefoot Gen: atomic-bomb survivor Gen Nakaoka struggles to keep living amid the ruins of Hiroshima after the war's end. The 'wheat children' of the title stand for children who, like wheat, sprout again no matter how often they are trampled.