The morning of August 6, 1945, begins sunny. No one suspects what will soon befall the residents of the city of Hiroshima. Keiji Nakazawa is six years old when the atomic bomb is dropped on his hometown. In the first part of his four-volume autobiography, the author documents the final months of World War II in militaristically influenced Japan: the iron war propaganda of an unteachable regime, the blind opportunism of the followers, the suppression of politically dissenting voices, and ultimately, the catastrophe. "One of the most significant manga artists of our time." (Christian Schlüter, Frankfurter Rundschau).