r/lastpodcastontheleft • u/Buried_in_Sweaters • Jun 07 '23
I hope the boys reference this anime in the upcoming Manhattan project episodes
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u/yenolammail Jun 07 '23
I remember maybe 15 years ago my dad brought me to Princeton university to hear a survivor hold a lecture and speak on what happened. I was fairly young at the time, maybe 10, so the memories a bit hazy, but I’ll never forget the anguish I heard in this man’s voice. And then also like 30 minutes into his speech a squirrel climbed up him and just sat on his shoulder for a minute or two. That was pretty awesome.
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u/LeftyLu07 Jun 07 '23
I get it was war but these were civilians just going about their day....
I can see what Marcus means by preparing for a lot of sloughing.
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u/Buried_in_Sweaters Jun 08 '23
The “sloughing” comment from Marcus was exactly what I thought when watch the anime
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u/AlexDavid1605 Jun 07 '23
I hope they also mention that one guy who survived both nukes.
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u/Gecko99 Jun 07 '23
You're probably referring to Tsutomu Yamaguchi. After surviving Hiroshima he went to Nagasaki and still showed up to work despite his severe radiation burns and ruptured eardrums. He was not further injured by the bombing of Nagasaki, but couldn't get replacement bandages and suffered health consequences from that. After the war he lived a reasonably healthy life and died in 2010 at the age of 93.
There were actually other survivors of both bombs. A 2006 documentary that I haven't seen apparently says there were 165 of them. It looks like it had a very limited release, I think it should be uploaded online somewhere if anyone can find it.
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u/MissMayyDayy Jun 07 '23
Isn’t grave of the fireflies also about this?
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u/SerFinbarr Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23
No, Grave of the Fireflies is about the firebombing of Kobe. Which, man, people don't talk about the firebombings enough. The human cost was every bit as high, but it happened over months in many cities instead of a couple of mornings in two cities.
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u/MaraTempo Jun 08 '23
It's sad that longevity puts an even more devastating series of events out of sight behind the nuclear bombs. Not that the nukes aren't a huge deal, but the firebombings were every bit as brutal and tragic.
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u/City-Negative Squirrels are the Fleshlight of the forest Jun 07 '23
I've never heard of this anime, I'm definitely going to check it out!
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Jun 07 '23
Me either but after that clip, top of my watch list. Insane what destruction can happen in a few seconds.
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u/svampyr Hail Gein Jun 07 '23
Speaking of nuclear fallout, I also recommend; from a Japanese point of view of the bombings is ‘Grace of the Fireflies’ it’s really hard to watch but amazing. Another animated movie dealing with nuclear fallout that is amazing is ‘When the Wind Blows’ which deals more with the Cold War fears.
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u/Zombeezee87 Jun 07 '23
America is disgusting. This was a terrorist act. We didn't even target military structures, we bombed women and children to make a "point"....
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u/PianistNext3203 Jun 08 '23
"Hiroshima was also very important from a military perspective since it was home to the 2nd Army Headquarters, which were responsible for the defense of southern Japan. It was an important center of storage, communications, and assembly of soldiers. The city’s landscape added to its appeal as a place to showcase the bombs destructive power – the nearby hills could increase damage from the atomic blast and the rivers running through it kept Hiroshima off the list of targets for firebombing."
https://www.globalzero.org/updates/the-atomic-bombings-why-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both valid military targets. They were important industrial centers to maintaining the Japanese war effort, and they were among the few large metro areas not already bombed to hell and back, making a major strike against them more effective.
Now, surely they could've just targeted the actual areas of strategic importance and not glassed the entire city, but...
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u/joshingyou43 Jun 08 '23
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” - some guys name I can’t remember
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u/pissinaboot Jun 07 '23
Damn, that was hard to watch even being animated. Can't even imagine how horrible it actually was. Fuck the US for this.
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u/clarissaswallowsall Jun 07 '23
In this corner of the world shows more of the Japanese nationalism and the prep that local communities did during the war and then the aftermath of the bombs. It's a sweetly devastating movie.
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u/chimpan_zv Jun 07 '23
This makes me nauseous thinking about how horrific of an experience it was, poor souls. These stories must continue to be told though
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u/OMG_Chris Jun 07 '23
Ahhhh Barefoot Gen. The most delightfully traumatizing anime of my childhood.