Manga like Ore wa Mita

also known as I Saw It

Genres: Slice of Life

What is I Saw It about?

Status: Finished

I Saw It is a biographical piece following the life of Nakazawa from his youngest days in post-war in Hiroshima up until his adulthood. I Saw It became the predecessor for Nakazawa's popular manga series Barefoot Gen.



Tags: Historical , Tragedy , War , Autobiographical , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Body Horror
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Here is a list of Manga similar to Ore wa Mita

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms

Yunagi no Machi Sakura no Kuni

Also known as Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever...
A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age.

Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing.

The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo Kôno examines this question in her outstanding book—an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece!

Tags: Historical , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Tragedy , Time Skip
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Kuroi Ame ni Utarete

Kuroi Ame ni Utarete

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

It's about young people in postwar Hiroshima getting involved in the black market for weapons. The main character is an A-bomb survivor whose hatred drives him to kill an American black marketeer. He asks the Americans, "Who are you to talk about justice when you massacred hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Hiroshima, in Nagasaki, in the firebombing of Tokyo? Was that what you call justice?"

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Anthology
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