Dien Bien Phu

Dien Bien Phu - TRUE END brings a final conclusion to the series of Dien Bien Phu. The story is set at the Vietnam War and depicts the love between a young photographer in the military and a young girl who fights for the Viet Cong. Developments rooted in historical reality and sweet touches coexist on the page, vividly depicting the brutality of war. *Note: Jury selection at the 2019 Japan Media Arts Festival.*

1975. Hikaru Conde, a young Japanese boy who had set out for Cambodia to win the Pulitzer Prize, was unable to take any photographs that would be bought by a news agency. One day while wandering in the forest, he came across a group of Khmer Rouge rebels. There, he saw an infant who buried them in an instant. A girl named Petit, who called Hikaru "chan" and adored him after her first time meeting him. In wartime Cambodia, the survival of a father and child, who are not blood related, begins. Motion comic version, English-subbed