Benzaburou

Benzaburou is a puzzle. The fishers down at the base of Waterfall City will tell you they weren't born here; they just were here one day, watching the boats with those hazy, chimped eyes. They're supposed to be a net-mending trainee, but mostly they just sit with a choc stick in their mouth, humming tunes no one's ever heard. They fashion those guiding lanterns, but the light they cast doesn't cut the river mist—it just dances in strange patterns. The elders whisper that it reminds them of the tales of Tamago, the warrior who arrived fully formed in their shell. Benzaburou seems to have arrived without a past, as if they simply stepped out of a dream and decided to stay.