Super-Frog Saves Tokyo and Barefoot Gen

I have been thinking about what Marko said: representation is culturally specific and has its own history.

Murakami's Super-Frog story that is to say the image of Frog's disintegration (sickening smell, maggot like worms crawling out of Frog's body) reminded me of the images of Japanese victims of the atomic bomb as depicted in the manga Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa (a survivor himself): skins melting, maggots breeding in the wounds ...

http://www.japanfocus.org/-Nakazawa-Keiji/2638