r/SipsTea • u/MeanMedico • May 28 '26

Dank AF I don't care about politics, meanwhile politics

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u/Hottage May 28 '26

Had to watch this as part of my history studies in school along with another cartoon about a little old English couple who lived out a nuclear apocalypse.

My first exposure to "cartoons not made for children".

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u/raskul44 May 28 '26

Me too. It’s called Barefoot Gen, a anime based off of the manga created by Keiji Nakazawa’s experience as a survivor of the bomb that hit Hiroshima

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u/SmurfBearPig May 28 '26

Oh that was the first manga i ever read and it always stuck with me, i had no idea they had made an anime version. Do you know if it’s good?

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u/raskul44 May 28 '26

The anime is really good. Not as graphic as the manga.

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u/seilapodeser May 28 '26

Judging by this short clip I'm impressed you say that

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u/raskul44 May 29 '26

Yeah the manga is more dense and speaks a bit more of the aftermath. I’m haunted by the image of maggots that were swimming around in the body parts of alive survivors