Shinji Kajio Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Emanon is strange even for an immortal—a person with a mind over three billion years old, her consciousness endlessly migrating from new body to new body over the entire history of life’s evolution on Earth. Emanon Volume 4 tells the story of her existence in that odd decade called the 1980s, as Emanon’s latest incarnation grows from a grade schooler who seeks to conceal her intelligence, to a teen trying to avoid a relationship with the superhuman classmate pursuing her, to a young adult facing the death from old age of her best friend Hikari—a mortal time-jumper whose own life has crossed that of Emanon many times in the past, and will do so again many times in the future…but who dies at last in the here and now.

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...

Exploring diverse settings from the Japanese countryside to the icy plains of Pluto, this installment of the Speculative Japan series showcases both emerging talents and established authors. Readers will encounter a rich array of stories that traverse various landscapes, including warm islands and Martian terrains, as well as delve into intricate psychological realms. This collection offers a unique glimpse into the imaginative breadth of Japanese speculative fiction, now accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time.

心を揺さぶり、手放せない感動的な作品。『黄泉がえり』の物語は、熊本市で奇妙な発光体が目撃された夜から始まります。その後、死者が復活する現象が次々と起こり、かつて亡くなった人々が再び現れます。復活した人々は、亡くなった時の姿のままで戻ってくるため、周囲の人々は戸惑いと喜びの中で複雑な感情を抱えます。物語は、復活した人々が生者に何をもたらすのか、救済や赦し、理解、そして完結をテーマに描かれています。