The shortest month of the year saw the birth of several well-known anime characters, heroes and villains alike.

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Ogawa, now 51, went to a makeshift mortuary set up in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, and waited. It took about a week for the rescue team to find all three of the bodies. “I got so tense.