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The GN it's based on is actually pretty mild, IMO.
The whole point seems to be that the terrible nuclear fallout is treated as relatively mild & manageable, due to the characters' typical English reserve... even to the bitter end. That's the huge, honking Irony as I see it. So yeah, it's nowhere near as bleak and soul-smacking as Barefoot Gen, and stuff like that.
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Barefoot Gen based on first-hand experiences so can't really compare.
I mean... I wasn't trying to compare them from a real / hypothetical POV.