UPDATE (11/11/20): Both the City of Hiroshima and festival organizers have responded to Cartoon Brew’s request for comment about the future of the Hiroshima Animation Festival. Read the new story HERE ...

Last week, we reported that Hiroshima International Animation Festival (HIAF) had closed, and that the City of Hiroshima was seeking to amalgamate elements of it into a new arts event, without the ...

The reissue of this classic manga's first volume has impeccable timing. It recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. But the book's themes (the ...

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Young Gen Nakaoka has survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and his story picks up as the city tries to reconstruct itself after being destroyed. Gen goes back to school, but he's more interested ...