Drawn & Quarterly published the manga in North America on June 1, 2008, with Adrian Tomine as editor and designer.

"Hell" was inspired by a photograph Tatsumi saw of a shadow burnt into a wall by radiation heat of the nuclear bomb.

Tatsumi also grew up in Osaka near a military base called Itami Airfield, which influenced his perception of American soldiers and their portrayal in "Good-Bye".

[7] In a starred review, Publishers Weekly observed that Tatsumi tackles difficult subjects, but instead of exploiting, he humanizes his characters.

It also called his art masterful in how he varies his style and depicts "graceful motion, grisly suffering and complicated emotion.