SOUVENIRS D'EMANON

1967, in the south of Japan. Away from the events that are rocking the world, one student takes the way back home after a trip of wandering. A long night in the ferry. While he seeks to forget' - yet another disappointment in love by immersing himself in his novels of SF, an intriguing young woman moved to his side. Smoking cigarette on cigarette, it has the unique baggage, a backpack marked with the initials "E.

N." His name ? Emanon, or "no name" played backwards... She also travel alone and without apparent aim. First, talkative, eyes in the wave, she approaches the young man, because it reminds him of a former love... dating back several centuries ! In the course of the conversation, she revealed to him her secret : beneath its air of a student, it hides a soul as old as three billion years ! His memories go back to the depths of the ages, even before the emergence of humanity.

His story is beyond all the stories of SF. This night in the company of Emanon will change forever the world view of the young traveler... Emanon is one of the most intriguing characters in the science-fiction in contemporary japan. The artist Kenji Tsuruta, fell in love with the concept imagined by the writer Shinji Kajio, gives a face as alive as melancholy in this incarnation, women of the past, the present and the future of humanity.

Whether one believes or not in his story, impossible to forget Emanon. And no you never forget...