Ki-oon explained

Status:	Active
Founded:	2003
Founder:	Cécile Pournin Ahmed Agne
Headquarters:	Paris, France
Keypeople:	Cécile Pournin Ahmed Agne
Publications:	manga
Genre:	heroic fantasy

Ki-oon is a French manga publisher with its head office in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.^[1]

It was founded in October 2003 by Cécile Pournin and Ahmed Agne. It released its first manga in March 2004, the first volume of Element Line. The name "Ki-oon" comes from an onomatopoeia meaning "having the heart inflated with emotion". With an increase in revenue of 80% in 2009, Ki-oon is in 2010 the most important independent publisher of manga in France.^[2]

Published manga

Finished series

• Alice au royaume de cœur (6 volumes)
• Batipst (6 volumes)
• Bamboo Blade (14 volumes)
• Blood of Matools (6 volumes)
• Boogiepop Dual (2 volumes)
• Chichi Kogusa (8 volumes)
• Duds Hunt (one-shot)
• Doubt!! (4 volumes)
• Element Line (7 volumes)
• Guardian Dog (4 volumes)
• Jackals (7 volumes)
• Kamichu (2 volumes)
• Kamisama (3 volumes)
• Kashimashi ~girl meets girl~ (5 volumes)
• Kazan (7 volumes)
• L'Île de Hôzuki (4 volumes)
• La Mosca (7 volumes)
• Lineage Saga (3 volumes)
• Lodoss - La Légende du chevalier héroïque (6 volumes)
• Mahoromatic (8 volumes)
• Manhole (3 volumes)
• Marie & Elie (5 volumes)
• Nui! (3 volumes)
• Reset (one-shot)
• Role Playing Girl (one-shot)
• Shin Megami Tensei If... (one-shot)
• (9 volumes)
• Slayers - Knight of Aqua Lord (6 volumes)
• Stigma (one-shot)
• Stray Little Devil (5 volumes)
• Tales of Destiny (6 volumes) - based on the video game Tales of Destiny
• Tales of Symphonia (6 volumes) - based on the video game Tales of Symphonia
• Tsukihime (10 volumes)
• Vampire Chronicles (9 volumes)
• Yuma à la conquête du monde (2 volumes)

Being released

• A Bride's Story
• Afterschool Charisma (2 volumes)
• Amanchu! (3 volumes)
• Artelier Collection (12 volumes)
• (4 volumes)
• Bamboo Blade (12 volumes)
• Bitter Virgin (4 volumes)
• Blood Alone (6 volumes)
• Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (as Erased) (3 volumes)^[3]
• Breath of Fire IV (4 volumes)
• Candidate for Goddess (5 volumes)
• Hell Blade (3 volumes)
• Immortal Hounds (4 volumes)
• Judge (3 volumes)
• Jusqu'à ce que la mort nous sépare (15 volumes)
• Kurokami (15 volumes)
• No Man's Land (2 volumes)
• Pandora Hearts (10 volumes)
• Superior (9 volumes)
• Tales of the Abyss (6 volumes)
• Tsugumi Project (4 volumes)
• Twelve (5 volumes)
• Witch Hunter (10 volumes)
• Wolfsmund (6 volumes)
• Übel Blatt (11 tomes sortis (de 0 à 10))
• Tripeace (9 volumes)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Contact. Editions Ki-oon. 2023-02-12. Éditions Ki-oon 2 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg 75008 PARIS.
2. Livres Hebdo, Anne-Laure Walter, Mangas, le temps de la maturité, n°826, 18 juin 2010
3. Web site: Erased. November 16, 2014. manga-news.com. French.