Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
73%
MANGA • 1973
status
Completed
start-date
8/8/1973
end-date
8/8/1973
country-origin
JP
popularity
1922
studios
synonyms
Soin Gyokusai Seyo!
The Banzai! Charge
Operation Death
Opération Mort
Marcha para a morte!
Verso una Nobile Morte
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English and is a semiautobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War II. The soldiers are told that they must go into battle and die for the honor of their country, with certain execution facing them if they return alive. Mizuki was a soldier himself (he was severely injured and lost an arm) and uses his experiences to convey the devastating consequences and moral depravity of the war.
(Source: Drawn & Quarterly)
Note: Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material at the Eisner Awards in 2012.