ONE NEO EON

ONE NEO EON
One Neo Eon is a Sci-Fi webtoon created by Alpha Yu and Eggfest of Shonen Bag Studio. It follows an artificial intelligence named Eon created by a group of literally mad scientists attempting to learn how to create from a group of possibly unstable little girls. Currently, One Neo Eon is in the Discover section. The webtoon is classified by the creator as a manga, a type of Japanese comic. As such, the webtoon appears not to conform to traditional scroll-type layouts and seems to be drawn with the intention of being read from a book, with intricate panel layouts and an abnormally high number of story beats per page.

Synopsis
"A possibly unstable group of little cute girls try to teach a hopeless robot, built by a coward, an eccentric madman, and a tsundere, how to do something he is literally incapable of doing: Creation. (Drawn by a high school student.)"

Plot
''This is a chronology. Events are sorted in the order they happened, not the order in which they are shown within One Neo Eon.''

Sometime in the late 1990's, two children are born in Japan: Satomi Virgil and Suzuki Misako. Virgil moves to America and studies abroad, learning English before moving back to Japan and befriending Misako. The two are later involved in an accident and Misako begins to blame herself for Virgil's resulting hospitalization, cutting contact with him. Virgil, meanwhile, develops crippling selective cowardice.

In the 21st century, sometime between this and the events of the Art and Science expo, a Japanese girl named Yumiko witnesses the tradeoff of a monoeyed robotic unit designed to hunt down things and dispatch them between two unknown parties. She also learns of Code 95-E, a code designed to make this unit, a Hunter, retreat for 24 hours.

In 2013, a 17-year old girl in Shanghai dies from a mysterious terminal illness.

The AI known as Eon is created during the early 21st century in Tokyo by Virgil, now a programing and engineering prodigy and a genius university student. Virgil is interning at one of the most prestigious engineering institutions in the world, AI Institute and has been assigned to a think tank of two other scientists, one of which is Suzuki Misako; the other, the eccentric Takahashi Ichiro. However, they are run by a cruel director, Yamoto Daisuke, who believes that his own think tank will be able to create artificial intelligence first. Proud of their creation, Virgil decides to show it off at the International Science and Art Expo in Vancouver, Canada, a convention devoted to showcasing science and art.

At the expo, Eon wanders off and ends up meeting Multis Kwahn, an elementary school art prodigy. Multis chastises Eon for being incapable of creation, to which Eon asks Multis to teach him how to create. Meanwhile, Daisuke calls Virgil and demands him to shut down Eon, apparently in a fit of jealousy. Virgil's selective cowardice kicks in and he forces himself to comply. With the help of the convention center staff, Eon is dragged away from Multis before she can formulate a reply to his request. Virgil takes Eon outside the center, deactivates him by inserting a USB with a computer virus loaded within it into him, and leaves the AI in front of a dumpster.

Multis manages to re-activate Eon and gives him a test to see if he can "think outside the box". Eon passes the test despite doubting his doing so and Multis agrees to teach him how to create. The two leave Vancouver to enter Multis's home within the neighboring city of Vancouver, Richmond.

Virgil attempts to file a missing persons claim for Eon at the Japanese embassy. He is denied as the embassy is biased towards Yamoto Daisuke's influence and is presumably tipped off about his agenda. Daisuke then begins to pay off the press not to talk about Eon.

Eon witnesses that the Kwahn family believing he is a moving, talking statue and leaves Multis be, coming off as involved. Multis has to leave for school but gives Eon a sheet of paper, telling him to draw. Later, he learns that the Kwahn parents are simply feigning knowledge of Eon's existence as they believe Eon can teach Multis to be a less snarky human being. Additionally, Multis also has the terminal illness and has little time left on Earth. Eon returns to drawing, but becomes frustrated and concludes that he is not human.

When Multis comes home, Eon explains that he rejects his humanity but not his dignity, hence why he will drop human mannerisms but keep wearing clothing. Multis decides to enlist the help of "specialists".

Eon learns that Multis's specialists are simply three girls at her school's robotics club: The edgy and alternative weaboo, Sakura Edo (her real name is Susan Edwards); the sweet and uncaring, slightly unhinged and very mysterious Yumiko Hebru; and the 'straight man' gamer girl with unexplained unstable mannerisms, Emily Baker.

The club, at Sakura's suggestion, decides to enter into a robotics contest hosted by AI Institute for a cash prize of $10,000. Eon witnesses how effective their teamwork is.

Eon goes home and begins to show Multis a debug funcion where he projects his code and memories around him. (Multis refers to this as "reminiscing for robots".) Eon is helped by Multis to find new resolve in his quest to create.

Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Virgil unearths a scandal by Daisuke after Ichiro gets a bad feeling about the cruel dictator. Virgil finds out that Daisuke has been sexually assaulting Misako with BDSM methods on an almost daily basis in his office. Virgil's selective cowardice once again kicks in and he believes himself powerless to act.

Virgil begins experiencing nightmares of his past with Misako. He confides the entire situation in Ichiro, who encourages him to confront Daisuke about it. Deciding to ignore his Japanese heritage and non-confrontational mindset and instead paying attention to his Americian values, Virgil stands up to Daisuke with the help of Ichiro, creating a robot that broadcasts an incriminating conversation he has with Daisuke. Yamoto Daisuke is arrested.

Back in Canada, the Robotics Club goes to the historic Steveston Village for a day. Sakura begins to show signs of un-coperativity and a mindset for completing the robot no matter what the cost to her mental well-being and happiness. Multis and Eon use Eon's memory function to project happy memories of Sakura to Sakura, thus ridding her of this mindset and strengthening her character.

Emily baker is shown a trailer for the movie Meme's Bizarre Adventure: Syndicate War by Yumiko.

Sakura asks Multis to create a painting to express a radical view. Multis decides to go paint it in public. Upon nightfall, the pair is attacked by a Hunter. The Hunter goes at Eon with intention to kill, but at the last moment is subjected to code 95-E from Yumiko out of nowhere. All this is watched by a figure in unknown figure in an orange jumbsuit out of a realtime camera-to-monitor display subtitled in the Japanese language.

Yumiko flees the scene and goes missing. Multis then collapses from her illness.

Emily watches trailers for Syndicate War in club. Susan rebukes her and uses her headset, Deus Ex Machina, to hack into Emily's own headset and force her to pay attention to her.

Multis is rushed to the hospital. The doctors explain her disease in great detail to the rest of the Kwahn family.

Eon
An AI created by Satomi Virgil. Learning creation from Multis Kwahn. Generally refined and stiff, but rather empathetic.

Multis Kwahn
Presumably half-Cantonese elementary school student teaching Eon how to create. Lacks social skills but attracts a crowd. An art prodigy.

Heberu Yumiko
Mysterious girl. Appears to be dating the creator of the webtoon. (The logic of this is never explained.) Exceptionally kind and sweet, though claims to not care about anybody save for her boyfriend. Has unauthorized knowledge of 95-E.

Susan Edwards/Sakura Edo
A weaboo chunnibyou middle schooler. Convinced the Canadian government is facist and must be taken down with war robots.

Emily Baker
The straight man of the group, Emily is shown to be just as mad as everyone else in reality.

Satomi Virgil
The coward who built Eon. Hopelessly in love with Misako. Lab 89 member.

Suzuki Misako
A tsundere who avoids contact with Virgil to avoid making him upset. Lab 89 memeber.

Takahashi Ichiro
An eccentric mad scientist and a great listener.Lab 89 member.

Yamoto Daisuke
Virgil's boss and a sex offender. Lab 1 member.

The Hunter
A mysterious robot sent out to capture Eon or destroy him.

Mr. & Mrs. Kwahn
Multi's apathetic parents.