I Saw It- Keiji Nakazawa
Reading I Saw It , by Keiji Nakazawa was an incredibly flooring and informative experience- it is manga like this that really proves comic/sequential art's societal and historical importance. I had heard of this manga in the past- from watching a documentary about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in my U.S. History class back in high school. Interestingly, I felt that the manga made the event feel drastically more real and horrifying than the live-action documentary (not to say the documentary was bad- there is just such a stark difference between being fed facts about an event, and seeing the event through the eyes of an actual witness). On that note, I find it very frustrating and saddening that so many people, especially Americans, are unaware of the scope and disastorous toll that this event had on Japan all these years later. I hope that Keiji's experience finds its way to more people in the future- because we as a society need to face this, and remember what happe