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. Shigeru Mizuki is a Japanese manga artist who is best known for his yōkai (Japanese folklore monsters)-themed manga, especially GeGeGe no Kitarō. It also received awards in France and in the United States, and was adapted into a television drama in 2007 by Japanese broadcaster NHK. After being translated and published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2011, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths has been well received by English-speaking critics. The manga was first published in Kodansha magazine Shūkan Gendai in 1973, based on Mizuki's work of 1970. He portrays the final weeks of his infantry service as the soldiers were instructed to die for their country to avoid the dishonor of survival. In it, Mizuki describes his experiences as a soldier participating in the New Guinea campaign during World War II.
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths ( Japanese: 総員玉砕せよ!, Hepburn: Sōin Gyokusai Seyo!, literally "Whole Unit Ought to Fight to Death!") is a one-shot manga written and illustrated by Shigeru Mizuki.
Kitarō ga Mita Gyokusai: Mizuki Shigeru no Sensō
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