Souin Gyokusai seyo!
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
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Souin Gyokusai seyo!

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: The Banzai! Charge, Operation Death, Opération Mort, Let us all die honorably!
Japanese: 総員玉砕せよ!
English: Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 13
Status: Finished
Published: Aug 8, 1973
Genre: Drama Drama
Themes: Historical Historical, Memoir Memoir, Military Military
Serialization: None
Authors: Mizuki, Shigeru (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.641 (scored by 10081,008 users)
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Ranked: #20602
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Popularity: #6121
Members: 3,185
Favorites: 36

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Drama about World War II, potraying Japan's involvement and how it affected the Japanese too. Both made by mangaka who lived long enough to have experienced the war themselves. Focuses on war experience on a personal level. 
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Both are a portrayal of soldiers during WWII sent to an island in the Pacific Ocean to fight the american army, showing war in all its cruel and crudely way. They're also similar in representing people in a simplified, or even chibi-style in the case of peleliu, while having more realistic backgrounds. The main difference in treatment is that onward towards our noble deaths is an autobiography while peleliu is the source of a group of historians and can feel more scripted and fake compared to it.  
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Both present interesting views of WWII. El Alamein no Shinden presents the war from multiple sides in various stories, and Souin Gyokusai seyo! shows the war from the Japanese troops points of view. Thought provoking.  
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