GeGeGe no Kitarō
Shigeru Mizuki is a Japanese manga artist who is best known for his "yōkai" (Japanese folklore monsters)-themed manga, especially "GeGeGe no Kitarō". Mizuki enjoyed writing about the monsters' histories, which a local woman related to him; however in 1942, at the age of 21, Mizuki was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army. He was sent to Rabaul, a city on New Britain island in Papua New Guinea, where his comrades died and Mizuki lost his left arm. Based on these experiences, Mizuki wrote "Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths", containing "90 percent fact". Fictionalizing himself as private Maruyama, Mizuki tells the story by combining drawings with photographs.