Format: MOVIE
Episodes: 1
Episode length: 86 min
Status: Finished
Aired from: Jun 14, 1986
Until: Jun 14, 1986
Season: Summer 1986
Source: Manga
Average score: 71%
Mean score: 71%
Popularity: 4,610
Favorites: 39
Studio: MADHOUSE
Producers: Discotek, GEN Productions
Genres: Drama
Romaji: Hadashi no Gen 2
English: Barefoot Gen 2
Native: はだしのゲン２
Synonyms: Barfuss durch Hiroshima 2 Barfuß durch Hiroshima 2 Boso przez Hiroszimę 2

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Barefoot Gen 2

★ 7.1 4,610 members

Three years have passed since the bombing of Hiroshima and Gen is now a fourth-grader. Hiroshima is still a ruin, and Gen must scrounge for scrap metal to help keep himself and his remaining family fed, but at least commerce has returned to the land. As his mother gradually grows ill from radiation sickness, Gen and Ryuta befriend a group of orphans led by a tough-nosed older child and including a girl who still bears ugly burn scars from the day of the bomb. An old man suffering from depression is also drawn into the group as they come together to support each other and form a makeshift family. Reality is still harsh, however, as many orphans still die lonely deaths and the grim reminders of what happened linger everywhere.

(Source: Anime News Network)