Shinji Kajio

A new series begins from the artist of the Eisner-nominated Wandering Island! The year is 1967, and a young Japanese man is thinking about the future. On one side of the water, the war is raging in Vietnam; far away on the other side, the Apollo Project has just met with disaster as three astronauts die in a capsule fire. And here and now, on a long nighttime ferry ride back home, he will meet and fall in love with a mysterious young woman who carries a past deeper and more profound than his dreams and fears of tomorrow. Her name, she jokes, is no name--Emanon...and she can never be forgotten, any more than she can forget...

Emanon

Kenji Tsuruta

Omoide Emanon

Memories of Emanon

What happens when the woman who remembers everything...forgets who she herself is? In 1973, Ryozo, a young hiker on a mountain trail in far southern Japan, comes across a disoriented girl who doesn't know her own name, carrying on her the small change of a dozen different nations...and a bag with the initials "E.N." Haunted by nightmares of primordial seas and forests, she tries to find a new life with Ryozo--and reconnect somehow with her endless past.

Emanon Volume 3: Emanon Wanderer Part Two

Emanon Volume 1

Emanon's wanderings across late-1960s Japan bring her across other lives in small country towns, with each encounter leaving people transformed in her wake. Yet when love once again leads to pregnancy and the start of a new cycle in Emanon's birth and rebirth, she is confronted with something she has never before borne: twins, one of them, for the first time, a boy. Will he, too, grow up to inherit her immortal memories, as all her daughters have before?

Emanon, Vol. 2

I nuovi viaggi di Emanon

Le memorie di Emanon

I viaggi di Emanon

Masaki Yamada

Ken Asamatsu

New talents from Japan introduced to the English-speaking world. From deep in the mountains of the Japanese countryside to the plains of frigid Pluto, from a warm South Pacific isle to a freezing mountainside, to Mars or inside a lonely psyche... a positive smorgasbord of speculative enjoyment, in English for the first time!

"Pearls for Mia" and Other Tales

Speculative Japan 4

Mirages d'Emanon

Errances d'Emanon

Japan has always had its own vampire tradition, and has eagerly naturalized Western vampires and vampire literature to produce exotic new hybrids and species of horror, of terror, and of sensual, exquisite beauty. Here are a few of their masterpieces. The Japanese word for vampire is kyūketsuki, which translates literally to "blood-sucking monster," but the literary tradition is far, far more complex. The practice of Buddhism permeates Japan, and burials are almost always by cremation... leaving the Count and his relatives with no coffins to sleep in! But there is more than one way to sip a little blood, as these authors reveal. Thanks to Bram Stoker, Christopher Lee, and countless others who have popularized the Western vampire, modern Japanese authors have an extensive range of traditions and tales to weave into their own creations. Contents Introduction -- Raechel Dumas A Cultural Dynasty of Beautiful Vampires: Japan's Acceptance, Modifications, and Adaptations of Vampires -- Shimokusu Masaya Blue Lady -- Inoue Masahiko Kingdom -- Asukabe Katsunori The Stone Castle -- Kikuchi Hideyuki The One-Legged Woman -- Okamoto Kidō Vampire -- Hikage Jōkichi The Crimson Cloak -- Asamatsu Ken Vow -- Sunaga Asahiko The Husk Heir -- Kajio Shinji A Piece of Butterfly's Wing -- Kamon Nanami Unnatural -- Okuda Tetsuya Paradise Missing -- Iino Fumihiko Dracula's House -- Fukuzawa Tetsuzō Birth of a Vampire -- Konaka Chiaki Halvires -- Mikawa Yū Parasol -- Inoue Masahiko

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