![]() It was the coup de grâce for an altogether miserable experience that Mizuki chronicled again and again in his works. The shredded limb was amputated by the facility’s sole medic, an optometrist by training, without anesthetic. He should have perished in 1943, when, incapacitated by malaria in a field hospital on the Pacific island of Rabaul, his left arm was mangled in an Allied bombing run. In our military, soldiers and socks were consumables a soldier ranked no higher than a cat,” the Japanese manga artist Shigeru Mizuki recalled in the afterword to his haunting illustrated Second World War memoir, “ Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths.” “But when it came to death, it seems we were human beings after all.”īy all rights, Mizuki (born Mura) should not have died on November 30th at the age of ninety-three, from complications of a fall. ![]()
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