![]() ![]() ![]() The result of Mizuki's wartime experience was a concurrent sense of pacifism and goodwill. ![]() Regarding this life-changing event, a NovemNHK announcement of his death showed excerpts of a video interview with him at age 80, in which he said that as the only survivor of his unit, he was 'ordered to die' - a prospect he considered ridiculous. Finally, in an Allied air raid, he was caught in an explosion and lost his left arm. His wartime experiences affected him greatly, as he contracted malaria, watched friends die from battle wounds and disease, and dealt with other horrors of war. However, in 1942, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army and sent to New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea. In addition to this penchant for the artistic, Mizuki had an interest in the supernatural - something that was fueled by listening to ghost stories told by a local woman named Fusa Kageyama, but whom the young Mizuki nicknamed "Nononba". During his time in elementary school, Mizuki's teachers were so impressed by his skills with a pencil that they organised an exhibition of his work, and he later went on to be featured in the Mainichi newspaper as something of an artistic prodigy. He displayed from an early age a particular talent for art. He was raised in the coastal city of Sakaiminato 境港, where he spent much of his childhood as a 'scrapper': picking fights and participating in childish warfare with the neighbouring children. ![]() Mizuki was born Shigeru Mura in the city of Osaka, the second of three sons. ![]()
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