Kenji Tsuruta continues his journey at Ki-oon. After the publication of the wandering island, it is the turn of the one-shot Souvenirs d'Emanon to be published in France! It will arrive in our bookstores a few days after King of Eden.
Memories of Emanon
Original title : おもいでエマノン
Translated title : Omoide Emanon
Author : Kenji Tsuruta
French publisher : Ki-onn
Original editor : Tokuma Shoten
Release date : 25/01/2018
Number of volumes : one-shot
Status : Series completed
Price: 15 €
Synopsis :
1967, in southern Japan. Far from the events that shake the world, a student takes the way home after a wandering trip. A long night on the ferry is coming. While he tries to forget yet another disappointment in love by immersing himself in his SF novels, an intriguing young woman settles at his side.
Smoking cigarette after cigarette, her only luggage is a backpack marked with the initials "E. N." His name? Emanon, or "no name" read backwards… She too travels alone and with no apparent purpose. At first not very talkative, her eyes vague, she gets closer to the young man, because he reminds her of an old love… dating back centuries!
In the course of the conversation, she reveals her secret: under her student looks, she hides a soul three billion years old! His memories go back to the depths of the ages, even before the appearance of humanity. His narrative surpasses all SF stories. This night in the company of Emanon will forever change the vision of the world of the young traveler …
Emblematic title of Japanese literature in the field of science fiction, Emanon is basically a novel written by Shinji Kajio. A work that will not leave indifferent Kenji Tsuruta at the time in charge of making the cover illustration. He then expressed the wish to decline these novels in manga. Memories of Emanon is the first in a series of one-shots, running through the volumes of the original series. After the wandering island, Ki-oon offers us this first volume imbued with poetry of sweetness and nostalgia, hoping that the public responds and that the sequel appears at home…
