¡Give Me Chocolate
¡Ijima Toshihiro / Cho
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[Machine Translation] Born and raised in Hongo, Tokyo, Hiroshi was enjoying his childhood in a relaxed atmosphere with his gang of mischievous kids. However, the worsening war situation changes his daily life. The special police, who are following him around, his foreign friends who have disappeared, and sweets that have become substitutes for the police. Teachers who loved the arts and preached the value of freedom left the school, and were replaced by militaristic teachers. Even though they had to endure military-style discipline, and were hungry at the evacuation site, Hiroshi and his classmates looked to the future. However, in March 1945, when they returned to Tokyo to take the entrance examination for junior high school, they were met with a massive air raid of unimaginable scale. Based on his own war experiences, the director of "Ultra Q," "Ultraman," and "Weep, Tarutamaruka" vividly depicts the children who were called "Shokumin" (small countrymen) in this autobiographical novel.
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