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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.Mizuki is the recipient of many awards, including the Best AlbumAward for his book NonNonBa (to be published in 2012 by D+Q) and the Heritage Essential Award for Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths at the Angouleme International Comics Festival, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Special Award, the Kyokujitsu Sho Decoration, the Shiju Hosho Decoration, and the KodanshaManga Award.His hometown of Sakaiminato honored him with Shigeru Mizuki Road-a street decorated with bronze statues of his Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro characters-and the Shigeru Mizuki International Cultural Center. In Japan, the life of Mizuki and his wife has been made into an extremely popular television drama that airs daily.
Mizuki's list of accolades and achievements is long and detailed. Mizuki was a soldier himself (he was severely injured and lost an arm) and uses his experiences to convey the devastating consequences and moral depravity of the war. The soldiers are told that they must go into battle and die for the honor of their country, with certain execution facing them if they return alive. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English and is a semiautobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of WorldWar II. A landmark publishing event of one of Japan's most famous cartoonists Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today-a true living legend.
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