History YMMV / BarefootGen

* MemeticMutation: Surprisingly, many of the scenes and lines (mostly in Hiroshima dialect of Japanese) became meme on Japanese internet.

** Of course, the criticism toward cruelty of Atomic Bombings, the main topic of the manga, is still relevant, as many Americans try to justify these bombings [[note]] to the extent that putting the manga’s criticism toward Japanese war crimes, which is not a main topic of the manga, as a prime example of this section[[/note]] and ignore what actually happened under the mushroom clouds [[note]]or bringing up Japanese war crimes to make Japanese people as a whole less sympathetic, saying even non-combatants served as war machines of the Japanese Empire in Total war[[/note]], similar to how many Japanese people are ignorant toward war crimes that [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Imperial Japan]] committed[[note]]As aforementioned, not in the case of this manga[[/note]].
** Stories around Mr. Park resonates to present Japanese society greatly, considering [[UsefulNotes/KoreansInJapan racism toward Koreans which strongly persists today.]]

* RootingForTheEmpire: Averted! Neither the Japanese nor the Americans look very good. Any insults directed towards the "Yankees" are probably done intentionally -- it ''is'' written in the perspective of the Japanese -- and it's not like the characters don't show any contempt towards their own country as well.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: In the manga, Gen fighting the bullies who were harassing his sister Eiko and managing to scare them off after biting their leader's finger off.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: If you're aware of its graphical violence, it may come as a surprise that this was serialized in ''Weekly Shonen Jump'', a magazine whose main audience are teenagers.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Nakazawa seems to care very little for subtlety. The entire setting being about the aftermath of atomic bombings made it a much-needed lesson for the audience to learn. In addition, The manga's condemnation of Imperial Japan's atrocities that befell not only the Japanese people, but other countries, is something that is really needed now due to the reasons listed before.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Nakazawa seems to care very little for subtlety. The entire setting being about an aftermath of atomic bombings made it a much-needed lesson for the audience to learn. In addition, The manga's condemnation of Imperial Japan's atrocities that befell not only the Japanese people, but other countries, is something that is really needed now due to the reasons listed before.
* ValuesDissonance: Several. Gen's father hits him and his brothers often as a means of discipline, and while it may be somewhat cringe worthy for modern audience, it's made clear that he loves his family and the practice was more acceptable then than now. To some, it may also be how ''hard'' Gen's father hits them. (This was fairly typical for western families and remains typical in a lot of latin american countries as well.)
* ValuesResonance: The manga's scathing criticism about the Imperial Japan's atrocities that befell not only the Japanese people, but the neighboring countries, is still relevant decades later, especially given the Japanese right-wing's constant denial of World War II crimes after the turn of the millennium.

* ValuesDissonance: Several. Gen's father hits him and his brothers often as a means of discipline, and while it may be somewhat cringe worthy for modern audience, it's made clear that he loves his family and the practice was more acceptable then than now. To some, it may also be how ''hard'' Gen's father hits them. (This was fairly typical for western families as well.)

* Sugar/AwesomeMoments: In the manga, Gen fighting the bullies who were harassing his sister Eiko and managing to scare them off after biting their leader's finger off.

* AwesomeMoments: In the manga, Gen fighting the bullies who were harassing his sister Eiko and managing to scare them off after biting their leader's finger off.

* SignatureScene: The entire three-and-a-half minutes of the terrifying bomb scene, but particularly the part where the first victim, a small girl with a red balloon, is carbonized in the initial blast of the atomic bomb.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Nakazawa seems to care very little for subtlety. The entire setting being about an aftermath of atomic bombings made it a much-needed lesson for the audience to learn.

** While the editor's words are technically true—the effects of a Fukushima-style disaster is functionally like a "dirty nuke," or radiological weapon—the implication that destroying or damaging a nuclear reactor would cause it to "function as a nuclear weapon" (like the type that was used on Hiroshima) is, sadly, ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics. [[note]] It wouldn't explode like a nuclear bomb, basically. It would be more like Chernobyl, as in heavily radiated material would leak and violently radiate everything on several miles radius. [[/note]]

* ValuesResonance: The manga's scathing criticism about the Imperial Japan's atrocities that befell not only the Japanese people, but the Chinese and the Korean, is still relevant decades later, especially given the Japanese right-wing's constant denial of World War II crimes after the turn of the millennium.

* HilariousInHindsight: Gen's teacher after the bombing has [[Literature/HarryPotter longish black hair, a beak-like nose, and seems very strict towards the students.]]

** While the editor's words are technically true—the effects of a Fukushima-style disaster is functionally like a "dirty nuke," or radiological weapon—the implication that destroying or damaging a nuclear reactor would cause it to "function as a nuclear weapon" (like the type that was used on Hiroshima) is, sadly, ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics. [[note]] It wouldn't explode like a nuclear bomb, basically. It would be more like Chernobyl. [[/note]]