[DeepL Translation - needs review] The main character, Sun, who attends the best girls' school in Shima, and her classmates go to the war zone as a student corps. As the war worsens, San and her classmates lose one by one, and she finds herself caught between the horrors of the world and her own girlhood. Sixty-five years after the war. A shocking masterpiece by a new generation of lyricists.
(Translator: DeepL)
This is a graphic fictionalized account of the experience of the Himeyuri girls during WWII - high schoolers who were used as assistants to nurses in cave hospitals as the war moved to Okinawa. Pretty much every bad thing you can imagine happening to them is shown on-page in the manga.
Once I got a few chapters in, I couldn't put it down; the manga is very dark but compelling. While the art style is relatively simple - it's more 'children's book' than a more typical manga style - that only