History Literature / AWindNamedAmnesia

* CoolGuns: Wataru's sidearm is a automatic Magnum.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Sophia is barefoot through the entire story, although nobody seems to notice. In the anime adaptation, the sacrify girl ditches shoes after having fun with Wataru.

* AHouseDivided: [[spoiler:For three years Sophia has been wandering the Earth, observing the effects of the amnesia on humanity in order to judge whether they can become worthy of traveling in space. However, there are factions among her race who regard humans as unsalvageable and, seeking to keep them from ever reaching space again, interfere with her and Wataru's travels]].

* IdentityAmnesia: Waturu wonders constantly what kind of person he was before the wind blew, but he believes he was probably the same.

** MickeyMouse (or at least a crude imitation) can be seen in one of the illustration pages.

* AndIMustScream: Amusingly inverted. There is an AI unit build before the wind blew, capable of managing a city. But while it's one of few beings on Earth still capable of higher reasoning, it's also trapped in that city with dwindling resources and a small staff of other robots, completely unable to stop incoming doom, since it lacks manpower to keep repairing itself and all the infrastructure.

Written in 1983 and later adapted into a film in 1990 of the same name, it was one of Kikuchi's many lesser known works (when compared to the more widely known ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD'' and ''Anime/WickedCity'').

** The girl met in the future city near the Mojave Desert is named ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Lisa Simpson]]''.

** The girl met in the future city near the Mojave Desert is named ''[[TheSimpsons Lisa Simpson]]''.

* AHouseDivided: [[spoiler:For three years Sophia has been wandering the Earth, observing the effects of the amnesia on humanity in order to judge whether they can become worthy of traveling in space. However, there are factions among her race who regard humans as unsalvageable and seek to keep them from ever reaching space again and thus interfere with her and Wataru's travels]].

* AHouseDivided: [[spoiler:For three years Sophia has been wandering the Earth, observing the effects of the amnesia on humanity in order to judge whether they can become worthy of traveling in space. However, there are factions among her race who regard humans as unsalvageable and seek to keep them from ever reaching space again]].

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Sophia. She constantly rambles all the time about moral ambiguities over such simple concepts to the point one time she comes off saying ''you should question whether you should stop human sacrifices''.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Johnny; however, it's explained he underwent gene therapy that gave him high intelligence, and luckily allowed him to keep his memories.

* WomanInWhite: Sophia again.

* AliensAreBastards: In the end, [[spoiler:it's revealed that aliens were the ones that wiped humanity's memories. The aliens did this not only because humans were seen as a threat (though considering when they started considering them a threat, it seems to be an overreaction), but also for their own good. As you might expect, by this logic, the aliens see humans going hungry and fighting each other for food and kids losing their parents, along with them setting up {{Human Sacrifice}}s are seen as "for their own good". Sophia herself showcases this by insisting to Wataru that he should ''not'' interfere in a pack of feral humans who are chasing down a woman with one of them holding a gun simply on the merits that he should respect their "traditions" of sacrificing her to a "god" which in reality is a mechanical backhoe... the traditions they had to make because her race had the bright idea to make them feral in the first place.]]

Written in 1983 and later adapted into a film in 1990 of the same name, it was one Kikuchi's many lesser known works (when compared to the more widely known ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD'' and ''Anime/WickedCity'').

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The plot of the story.

A science fiction novel by Creator/HideyukiKikuchi, ''A Wind Named Amnesia'' is a story set AfterTheEnd...sort of. Three years after losing its memories, humanity has been reduced to an almost savage level, with only the most basic of instincts now driving the lost and confused humans. Wataru, a young man, travels across America, searching for answers to what happens, and why. Along the way, he meets a [[MysteriousWaif girl named Sophia]], who tags along with him. As they travel across the country, they witness how society has changed after being stripped of all reason and logic. And it soon becomes apparent that Sophia may hold a secret pertaining to the fall of humanity...

A science fiction novel by Creator/HideyukiKikuchi, ''A Wind Named Amnesia'' is a story set AfterTheEnd...sort of. Three years after losing its memories, humanity has been reduced to an almost savage level, with only but the most basic of instincts now driving the lost and confused humans. Wataru, a young man, travels across America, searching for answers to what happens, and why. Along the way, he meets a [[MysteriousWaif girl named Sophia]], who tags along with him. As they travel across the country, they witness how society has changed after being stripped of all reason and logic. And it soon becomes apparent that Sophia may hold a secret pertaining to the fall of humanity...