Protein

This is "Protein" (2024) by Amemiya Nozomi.

Life and death, animals and humans, eating, killing, and memories
Born on this earth, and then gone, my form, this world. This is the culmination of a playwright's work that looks into the origins of "life." Approximately 30 photographs taken by Lieko Shiga for Norimizu Ameya's novel are woven throughout the entire work.

"Why did the human species come into being?
This thing that is born, that is born, is filled with many things
What do you want me to do with this?
To someone, to someone else

Who do I want to be with and how do I want to be with them? Why is this body packed with so many different things?
So this is the kind of body that was formed?
Various proteins, etc.
It's a protein that gives off that smell when it burns."

The playwright Norimizu Amemiya created Tokyo Grand Guignol in the 1980s and staged a play that could be considered the original work of the manga Lychee Light Club. It is a strange book that is both a novel and a prose piece, with vertical opening, horizontal text, two-color printing, and a square A5 size (Ammel).