A landmark publishing event of one of Japan's most famous cartoonistsShigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure ofGekigamanga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today-a true living legend.Onward Towards Our Noble Deathsis his first book to be translated into English and is a semiautobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of WorldWar II. The soldiers are told that they must go into battle and die for the honor