Barefoot Gen
Immediately after completing "I Saw It", Nakazawa began his major work, "Hadashi no Gen" ("Barefoot Gen"). This series, which eventually filled ten volumes, was based on the same events as "I Saw It" but expanded and fictionalized, with the young Gen Nakaoka as a stand-in for the author. "Barefoot Gen" depicted the bombing and its aftermath in extremely graphic detail, with Gen's experiences being even more harrowing than Nakazawa's own. It also turned a critical eye on the militarization of Japanese society during World War II and on the sometimes abusive dynamics of the traditional family. "Barefoot Gen" was adapted into a trilogy of live action movies, two animated films, and a live action TV drama.