Mizuki tells us that soldiers faired no better. In Barefoot Gen and Grave of the Fireflies, we see the civilian population starving and people dying of malnutrition. One thing that stands out when reading Japanese experiences of World War II is how hungry everyone is. They battle hunger, malaria, abusive squad leaders, and finally US fighting forces. Life on the tropical island is hard for the Japanese soldiers. Mizuki’s stand-in is Private Second Class Maruyama.
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is the semi-autobiographical story (in the afterward, Shigeru Mizuki tells us 90% of it is true) of Japanese soldiers stationed on New Britain Island in the Papua New Guinean Archipelago during Word War II.
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