In Japan, the life of Mizuki and his wife was made into a top-rated television drama that airs daily. Mizuki's list of accolades and achievements is long and detailed. Mizuki was a soldier himself (severely injured and lost an arm) and used his experiences to convey the war's devastating consequences and moral depravity. The soldiers are told that they must go into battle and die for the honour of their country, with certain execution facing them if they return alive. It is a semiautobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War II. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths was his first book translated into English. Shigeru Mizuki was the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of Japan's most famous working cartoonists – a true legend. A landmark publishing event of one of Japan's most famous cartoonists
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