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 Volume 1: Memories of Emanon

Comics & Graphic Novels

Kajio, Shinji

Manga

Dark Horse Manga

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 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.

Emanon Volume 4: Emanon Wanderer Part Three

Tsuruta,Kenji

A selection of outstanding works of fantasy and science fiction from Japan, published here in English for the first time to reveal new and very different slices of the Japanese imagination. Following the success of the first Speculative Japan book, Volume 2 explores the visions of best-selling authors across a range of genres, from the heart-warming fantasy of Awa Naoko to the cold, lonely outer spaces of Tani Koshu. Explore the Japanese view of speculative fiction, and discover the similarities and differences that make cross-cultural literature so satisfying.

Speculative Japan 2: The Man Who Watched the Sea and Other Tales

Literature & Fiction

Kobayashi, Yasumi

Hori, Akira

Onda, Riku

Ohara, Mariko

Ogawa, Issui

Tani, Kōshū

Toh, EnJoe

Takagi, Nobuko

Yamao, Yuko

World Literature

Kurodahan Press

The time is long overdue to present the work of Japanese science fiction and fantasy writers to the world in English. The first book in a planned series, Speculative Japan presents a selection of outstanding works of Japanese science fiction and fantasy in English translation... and a glimpse into new worlds of the imagination. Drawing on the talents of some of the most famous and respected fiction writers of Japan, this anthology will guide you to new dimensions of wonder. First released at Nippon 2007, the 65th World Science Fiction Convention in Yokohama, Japan, it is now available worldwide.

Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hanmura, Ryo

TSUTSUI, Yasutaka

KAWAKAMI, Hiromi

Komatsu, Sakyō

van Troyer, Gene

Mayumura, Taku

Science Fiction

The fourth book in Kurodahan's well-received Speculative Japan series introduces new talents from Japan, and fresh new stories by some of the outstanding authors already 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!
Contents:
<ul>
<li>ASAMATSU Ken "Genesis: Dark Birth - Shining Death"</li>
<li>AZUMA Hiroki "The Fish in Chryse"</li>
<li>HANMURA Ryo "The Sparrow Valley"</li>
<li>HORI Akira "Encounters on the Solar Wind"</li>
<li>INOUE Masahiko "Last Words"</li>
<li>KAJIO Shinji "Pearls for Mia"</li>
<li>KOBAYASHI Yasumi "Prototype No. 3"</li>
<li>MAKINO Osamu "Dancing Babylon"</li>
<li>MASE Junko "The Ebb and Flow of the Aurora Sea"</li>
<li>MINAGAWA Hiroko "Morceaux"</li>
<li>SUZUKI Miekichi "Nightfall"</li>
<li>TAKAHASHI Takako "Communion"</li>
<li>TSUKIMURA Ryoe "The Burning House"</li>
<li>UEDA Sayuri "Vermilion"</li>
<li>YAMADA Masaki "Matsui Seimon, on the Case"</li>
</ul>

Speculative Japan 4: "Pearls for Mia" and Other Tales

AZUMA, Hiroki

Asamatsu, Ken

Inoue, Masahiko

Yamada, Masaki

Makino, Osamu

Ueda, Sayuri

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
<ul>
<li>Masaya SHIMOKUSU — "A Cultural Dynasty of Beautiful Vampires: Japan’s Acceptance, Modifications, and Adaptations of Vampires"</li>
<li>INOUE Masahiko—"Blue Lady"</li>
<li>ASUKABE Katsunori — "Kingdom"</li>
<li>KIKUCHI Hideyuki — "The Stone Castle"</li>
<li>OKAMOTO Kidō — "The One-Legged Woman"</li>
<li>HIKAGE Jōkichi — "Vampire"</li>
<li>ASAMATSU Ken — "The Crimson Cloak"</li>
<li>SUNAGA Asahiko — "Vow"</li>
<li>KAJIO Shinji — "The Husk Heir"</li>
<li>KAMON Nanami — "A Piece of Butterfly's Wing"</li>
<li>OKUDA Tetsuya — "Unnatural"</li>
<li>IINO Fumihiko — "Paradise Missing"</li>
<li>FUKUZAWA Tetsuzō — "Dracula’s House"</li>
<li>KONAKA Chiaki — "Birth of a Vampire"</li>
<li>MIKAWA Yū — "Halvires"</li>
<li>INOUE Masahiko — "Parasol"</li>
</ul>

Vampiric: Tales of Blood and Roses from Japan

Kikuchi, Hideyuki

Konaka, Chiaki

Lipsett, Edward

Iino, Fumihiko

Fukuzawa, Tetsuzō

Kamon, Nanami

Sunaga, Asahiko

Genre Fiction

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