Today marks 80 years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki got nuked (mentioning Nagasaki even though it got bombed 3 days after Hiroshima).

This kind of event was horrifying to talk about especially for someone who lives in the United States. Hiroshima got destroyed by what mankind created was something out of a nightmare. World War II was still going on until Oppenheimer thought "what if we created a bomb made out of uranium and radioactive material?" This is what "fuck around and find out" does during these times when the war was going on. On August 6th, 1945, the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima at 08:15 AM, killing thousands upon thousands of people, animals even. The fact there was manga and movies about it, showing the view of those who survived fucking scares me half to death.

In the movie, Barefoot Gen, during the bombing scene, everyone, even children, elderly, and animals, was getting disintegrated from the very bomb it was dropped. Everyone getting stabbed, impaled, crushed, and killed from the blast. That movie, alone, set a fear of war and a nuclear death - when the bomb drops or after the blast - within me. The aftermath alone tells us how mankind brought the most powerful and yet deadly thing upon those who suffered and/or died.

Yet to this day, the shadows of those who died from the blast remain and the structures still remain, only as a memorial of the ones who survived and died from the bombing of Hiroshima. Same goes for Nagasaki.

There are those who survived and went on to work on animated films and comics. One of those being Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata - two of the other founders of Studio Ghibli - one of them was born 3 years after the bombings. And another one being Keiji Nakazawa - mangaka of Barefoot Gen.

There is one thing I learned about the history of it. Sometimes you have to cherish these good moments before it all turns to ash and dust. Also don't launch a nuclear bomb on a city otherwise history would repeat itself.