In his debut English-translated work, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, the author delves into a semi-autobiographical narrative depicting the harrowing last days of a Japanese army division during World War II. Tasked with a mission where survival means dishonor, the soldiers confront the grim certainty of death as a preferable fate. Drawing from his own wartime ordeal, Mizuki, a former soldier who suffered grave injuries and lost a limb, skillfully portrays the grim realities and ethical quandaries of warfare.