Peleliu: Guernica in Paradise

Kazuyoshi Takeda 's Hakusensha It is a cartoon serialized in Young Animal from February 12, 2016 to April 9, 2021, in a total of 11 volumes. It deals with the story of strong Japanese soldiers defending the island, the stage of the Battle of Peleliu, by dying from various firearms of the US military.

Although the directing is purified with deformed drawings, Deadly Harmful still shows explicit descriptions and a cruel story based on actual history .

In addition, as the main work became popular, a spin-off called 'Peleliu Side Story', which deals with the perspectives of various characters and the unfinished afterlife, was serialized in 4 volumes from April 2021 to July 2025.

It was nominated for the 25th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award .

You might have guessed that it was nominated for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award, but it is a work full of ridicule, criticism, and reality without any glorification or praise of the military. [1]

2. Characters

The story itself follows actual history, but all the characters except Pedestal are unrelated to real people.

Hitoshi Tamaru (voice actor in the movie: Rihito Itagaki )

Japan. paradise?[mother. The residents of this island call Japan paradise, but I think this island is truly paradise.] [2]

The protagonist of this work. I'm often surprised or upset because I'm a sucker for glasses , but I relieve my depression with my hobby of drawing comics.

In the second half, despite hearing the news of the end of the war, he insists on a war of attrition and escapes with Yoshiki, unable to leave the dying soldiers behind. It follows the footsteps of Tsuchida Kiyokazu in real history.

Kiichi KoyamaHe was a comrade-in-arms who enjoyed farming with Tamaru in the beginning. While he was happily bathing with Tamaru during a squall , he hurriedly evacuated when an air raid alarm sounded. He slipped on rainwater and died from head trauma . Although they had a pessimistic personality in the first place, believing that they would never be able to return from this island alive, their end was in vain considering that they had at least shown the determination to die honorably like their father.However, Tamaru, recalling Koyama's words that his father's death was 'confirmed only through letters,' felt skeptical that Koyama's father's death may have been fabricated through 'public circles'.

Keisuke Yoshiki (吉敷佳助, movie version voice actor: Tomoya Nakamura )He is the second closest comrade in arms after Koyama, and goes through the same hardships as Tamaru. Although he was a rookie soldier like Tamaru, he performed excellently in training and was promoted to corporal like the seniors.Although he is a soldier with great comradeship and a burning fighting spirit for the U.S. military, this appearance is actually based on his kind personality. While fighting to protect his comrades, he felt so guilty at the sight of an American soldier who had been shot and fell into his own trench, leaving behind the last words " Mama. " that he vomited and suffered from PTSD.

Yohei ShimidaThe so-called . In the beginning, Tamaru was given a ‘public system’ [3] is entrusted with the position of As a typical soldier of the time, he was willing to risk his life and had a resolute disposition to kill a comrade who was still alive and suffering even though half his face had been blown off, but he basically followed the military's orders thoroughly.I think it would be better to go into the enemy's camp and imprison them in a grand manner, but following the colonel's order to 'focus on the war of attrition', I am maintaining the war of attrition as much as possible. Like Yoshiki, he has a certain love for comrades, and he believes that giving priority to military orders is actually the best option to avoid making his comrades' deaths meaningless. In this way, it walks a tightrope between militarism and camaraderie, as the surviving soldiers gather in the latter part of the story to form the 'Peleliu Earth Unit'. [4] It explodes in the worst possible direction.

Shigeo NemotoSergeant . In the early stages before the battle, he would get his energy up by beating up Tamaru, who was struggling. In episode 6, while the battle was taking place in Nishihama and Tamaru was leading his squad as a squad leader, when he thought that the squad was on the verge of being annihilated and there was no hope, he ordered the remaining members of the squad to be locked up as they were going to die anyway. However, Corporal Kikuda, who was dying after being shot next to him, hit an accidental bullet and died in vain. When the other units were locked up, all of Tamaru's squad survived except for a few of the dead.Although he was a soldier to his core in a bad sense, he was probably very inhumane. When he saw Tamaru still dozing off while the battle was starting and holding a notebook, he thought he must be tired from public work and hit him. [5] In his arms was a notebook containing photos of his wife and two children. Of course, apart from this, since his longing and the prison order issued just before his death did not cover it, Sergeant Kosugi, who was the division commander, said, 'I didn't want to die like everyone else, but I'm glad Nemoto died .'

Kosugi Hiroshi (小杉伍長)Sgt .

Izumi Yasushi (泉康市)Tamaru's motivation. In episode 14, he shows low self-esteem, saying that he would make his parents sad even if he lived, so he would rather die for his country and be remembered as a great 'son' .When he was a private, he was often harassed by senior officers for being 'girly', but since he received help from Lieutenant Shimada, he often leans on him.

3. media mix

3.1. animated movie

ペリリュー -楽園のゲルニカ-Homepage: https://peleliu-movie.jpOfficial X: https://x.com/peleliu_movieShinei Donghwa was in charge of production, and it was released in local Japanese theaters on December 5, 2025 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the war .

3.1.1. poster Teaser Visual Part 1 Teaser Visual Part 2 key visual 3.1.2. trailer super news special report trailer A harsh battlefield Facts Friendship 3.1.3. theme song theme song奇跡のようなことsomething miraculous MV ver. Lyric Video ver. Full ver. sing Lyricist Composition Kazuyo Suzuki arrangement Tomoki MatsuokaKinamiumi String instrument arrangement

[1] However, because the author has no military experience and drew it after reporting, this immortal masterpiece, where the author was an actual soldier, should be imprisoned! Realism is less than that. [2] One of the residents of Peleliu, who stopped for a moment to chat with Tamaru when a typhoon came during the evacuation, said that Japan, unlike them, was modernized and had many good facilities, so it seemed like paradise, but Tamaru said that the island's beautiful scenery was truly paradise, and was skeptical of the military that turned such a place into a battlefield. [3] A position to write and send letters to the bereaved families of fallen comrades containing the ‘comrade’s brave last’. However, in reality, the idea is to write as best as possible that a soldier who died in vain in the war was killed honorably, at least in the letter . The reason Shimada entrusted the letter to Tamaru in the first place was because he thought that an aspiring manga artist would be good at making up stories that did not exist . [4] At this point, rather than the concept of a unit, it was in fact closer to a social club with the primary goal of surviving together . [5] In fact, in this situation, I was practicing comics the night before, so I mistook the drawings I had made in my notebook for a public mission diary (. )

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