Will make this review short. Thanks for reading in advance.

Story - 7
Art - 8
Character - 8
Enjoyment - 7


Memories of Emanon is a short, sad story of this wander with no name possessing a 3 billion-year-old memory of life on earth, not just human life, the life before as well, the entire evolution. Whilst the premise may seem great, the story is just a cut of one of the multiple different eras the wandered dubbed 'Emanon' goes through. Emanon is interesting, she leaves you with quite a bit of vague denotations such as a one I will give. You can tell that she has been wandering for a very, very long time. This in itself is an understatement. Thorugh this grand journey, she has come as far as to have lost her name. She has probably been named so much that her original/first ever name just isn't something she can't remember, which would be a contradiction, depending about how you look at it. As for the unnamed narrator, who by the way narrates for quite a stretch of time considering the size of this story which made for the flow to be a little bit boring at the start, is just a plain dude with a deep love for sci-fi novels. He is one of the many people Emanon has encountered. I find him ironic about how he has never been named in the duration in the story, yet he gives the Emanon, an anagram of 'no name', a name. One could perceive this as the writer's way of showing that Emanon has, is, and will go so far on this roam that the dude's name would have never made it to the future anyways. Or the writer was just lazy. I prefer (and believe) the former. The story is good at leaving little details to make you think, kinda like Emanon and her thoughts with the sci-fi dude.

The art is really good. When I first saw the cover you could tell that this was a style that if you were to come across again, your mind would instantly refer back to this. The art has been made well, the only reason I am not giving it a 9 or 10 is that it isn't groundbreaking. It is a coined style that has its glory but doesn't have the bright shining light to go with it.

This isn't the most enjoyable thing in the world but it makes you think, namely, about Emanon and the countless encounters, sights, places she has been associated with over the past evolution of life. That is where the enjoyment lies, the enjoyment of thinking about such a power.

Overall - 7.5 (8)


I recommend this manga, I read it in about 1 hour and it is one of those short stories that need to be added to one's collection of manga that needs to be read.

It is sad.
It is sweet.
It is unreal.
It is mysterious.
It is deep.

Memories of Emanon can show you all of that.