Barefoot Gen is one of my traumatic manga. When I was an elementary school student, this was the only comic that arrowed to be in the library in the school. I have never experienced war, but when I read Barefoot Gen, I am experiencing the scary and horror of the war. Since this manga is sort of realistic, I feel a lot of scary and sad with this manga even now. This is a really good manga to educate children about how scary the war is to not make them do the history again.
However, this manga is a little too scary which makes children hesitate to read. The first time I read this manga, I believe that was when I was 7 years old, I could not read the entire story because I felt many scary and could not read anymore because I will cry when I read this (Then I said this manga is my traumatic manga at the first paragraph). The time I could read everything was after I became a high school student, which is almost ten years later from the first time. Compare to Barefoot Gen, Maus is more acceptable for children because the characters are not human but represented to the mouse. For educational wise, Maus is easier to be spread to everyone.
Both mangas tell a strong message to the reader because it is based on the authors’ experience. It arrows to us to experience as well by reading them. I should have the same theory when I making a game because the game is also providing experience to the player. Those readings are really valuable to me to reconfirm the important thing to tell a story.
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