La Porte des âmes is the twenty-first book from Yoko Tsuno

Yoko Tsuno

Yoko Tsuno is a comic book series created by the Belgian writer Roger Leloup published by Dupuis and in Spirou since its debut in 1970. Through twenty-five volumes, the series tell the adventures of Yoko Tsuno, a female electrical engineer of Japanese origin surrounded by her close friends, Vic...

 comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 series written by Roger Leloup

Roger Leloup

Roger Leloup is a Belgian comic strip artist, novelist, and a former collaborator of Hergé. He is most famous for the Yoko Tsuno comic series.- Biography :...

 and published in 1996. (ISBN 2-8001-2340-0)

Story

Using the Ryu, the spaceship

Starship

A starship or interstellar spacecraft is a theoretical spacecraft designed for traveling between the stars, as opposed to a vehicle designed for orbital spaceflight or interplanetary travel....

 she acquired in Les Exilés de Kifa

Les Exilés de Kifa

Les Exilés de Kifa is the eighteenth book from Yoko Tsuno comic book series written by Roger Leloup and published in 1991. -Story:...

, Yoko and her friends discover the remains of Ultima, one of the Vinean colonies established during the evacuation as described in Le Trio de l'étrange

Le Trio de l'étrange

Le Trio de l'étrange is the first book from Yoko Tsuno comic book series written by Roger Leloup and published in 1972. -Story:...

. Once there, they quickly get mixed up in an intrigue involving technologically forced reincarnation

Reincarnation

Reincarnation best describes the concept where the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body, or, in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant...

 and the interchangeability of soul

Soul

A soul in certain spiritual, philosophical, and psychological traditions is the incorporeal essence of a person or living thing or object. Many philosophical and spiritual systems teach that humans have souls, and others teach that all living things and even inanimate objects have souls. The...

s between individuals.One of the technologically adapted beings, a girl Ethera, has a bionically developed arm. Using this, she neck chops Yoko Tsuno. Hurt by the chop from the metallic hand Yoko faints. However, she recover to bring the story to a happy ending.