Tonkam is a prominent French publisher of manga and was one of the first publishers of manga in French, issuing its first titles in 1994. It was founded by Sylvie Chang and Dominique Véret with the financial assistance of a Parisian bookseller, Yu-Chi Chang. The company had some legal problems when it published New Angel; because of its hentai content was forced to retire the product from the market. In 1996, Tonkam entered into a venture with the Belgian publisher Ypnos to publish Korean manhwa, but the experience was short-lived as Ypnos closed soon after. Manga )   is the Japanese word for comics and print cartoons. ... New Angel (also known as Shin Angel) is a hentai series created in 1991 which consists of five episodes. ... Hentai tankōbon on display in Japan Hentai )   is a Japanese word that means abnormality or metamorphosis. However, in slang situations it often means perverted and is subsequently used in many other countries to refer to anime, manga and computer games with explicit sexual or pornographic content (see Japanese pornography). ... Manhwa, in Korean, is a general term for comics and cartoons (including animated cartoons). ...

Dominique Véret, left his post of publishing director in the early years 2000 to found the publishing company Akata, in partnership with Delcourt.

At the end of 2005, after the death of Yu-Chi Chang, Mmes Françoise and Sylvie Chang, owners of the company, signed a contract with Delcourt which became the major actionist of the company, but the two companies kept different editorial strategies and identities. However, Tonkam could enjoy the structures and editorial presence of Delcourt, so during January 2006, Tonkam dropped its in-house distribution system, and its distribution is currently assured by Hachette. Hachette is a large French media group, now a multinational. ...

Titles published

Titles published by Tonkam include the following:

• Adolf
• Angel Dust
• Angel Sanctuary
• Appare Jipangu!
• Asatte Dance
• Ayashi no Ceres
• Black & White
• Black Magic
• Blue Spring
• Bokko
• Buddha
• Butsu Zone
• Cat's Eye
• Crazy Kouzu BC
• Cross Game
• Descendants of Darkness
• DNA²
• Dominion
• Duck Prince
• Fake
• Family Compo
• Fever l'ultime rencontre
• Flame of Recca
• Frères du Japon
• Fushigi Yuugi
• Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden
• Gankyu Kitan Yui
• Gantz
• Godchild
• Gyo
• Hana-Kimi
• Hellsing
• Hidamari no Ki
• High School! Kimengumi
• Hikaru no Go
• Homunculus
• Hyper Rune
• I¨s
• I'll
• Ichigo 100%
• Imadoki
• Joan
• Jesus
• Jinbē
• Kare Kano
• Kindaichi Case Files
• Kizuna
• Komorebi no Moto de
• Koucha Ouji
• Lawful Drug
• Le chien de mon patron
• Le Cratère
• Le jeu du hasard
• M
• Magical Tarurūto-kun
• Maison Ikkoku
• Mélodie de Jenny
• Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
• MW
• Nouvelles de la littérature japonaise
• Phoenix
• Please Save My Earth
• Pretty Face
• Rash!!
• RG Veda
• Rookies
• Sakura no Hanasaki Kukoro
• Secret Chaser
• Seimaden
• Shadow Lady
• Short Program
• Spirit of the sun
• Tenshi no okurimono
• The One I Love
• The Tragedy of P
• Screw
• Tokyo Babylon
• Tomie
• Tough
• Trigun
• Trigun Maximum
• Uzumaki
• Vagabond
• Video Girl Ai
• Wish
• X
• Zetman
• Zetsuai 1989

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Flame of Recca ) is a Japanese anime and manga series by Nobuyuki Anzai. ... Fushigi Yūgi (不思議遊戯 lit. ... Fushigi YÅ«gi Genbu Kaiden (ふしぎ遊戯玄武開伝) is a Japanese manga written by YÅ« Watase. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that may be overly long, confusing, or ambiguous. ... This article is about a Japanese anime manga series. ... Gyo is a horror manga by Junji Ito. ... Hana-Kimi, known in Japan as Hanazakari no Kimi-tachi e (花ざかりの君たちへ) is a shōjo manga series written by Hisaya Nakajo. ... Hellsing is an anime and manga series by Kouta Hirano. ... Highschool! Kimen-gumi (also romanized High School! Kimengumi and Highschool! Kimengumi) is a manga series written by Motoei Shinzawa (新沢基栄, Shinzawa Motoei), as well as an anime series by the same title. ... Hikaru no Go ) is a popular Japanese anime and manga coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. ... Homunculus. ... Hyper Rune ) is a manga by Tamayo Akiyama, former member of the CLAMP. Rune is an 8th grader, granddaughter of a mad scientist, and can transform into a robot. ... Ill (titled Ill Generation Basket in its French release) is a sports shonen manga by artist Hiroyuki Asada. ... Ichigo 100% ) is a 167-chapter manga by Mizuki Kawashita ) that was serialized in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 2002 volume 12 to 2005 volume 35, and collected in 19 tankōbon volumes between August 2002 and December 2005. ... JinbÄ“ (じんべえ) is a manga by Mitsuru Adachi which appeared in irregular fashion in the manga magazine Big Comic Original from 1992—1997. ... Kare Kano ), or His and Her Circumstances, or Kareshi Kanojo no Jijō ), is a 21 volume manga series by Masami Tsuda, and a 26 episode TV anime series directed by Hideaki Anno of Gainax. ... Kindaichi Case Files ) is a serialized mystery manga series about a high school student who has an uncanny knack for solving murders. ... 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Shadow Lady is a manga series written and drawn by Masakazu Katsura. ... Short Program is a collection of short manga stories by Mitsuru Adachi. ... The One I Love (わたしのすきなひと Watashi no Suki na Hito) is manga created by CLAMP. It is an anthology of twelve vignettes about various unnamed heroines falling in and out of love with the world, themselves, and others. ... Takahashi Rumiko Gekijou ), (Rumiko Takahashi Anthology, also known as Rumic Theater) is a thirteen episode collection of anime from short stories by Rumiko Takahashi that includes the Mermaid Saga. ... Tokyo Babylon (東京 BABYLON) is a shōjo manga series created by CLAMP. In 1991, it was made into a two-part anime OVA series, and the two OVAs are now available in the United States in both DVD and VHS. There is also a live action movie entitled Tokyo Babylon... Tomie is the main character in Junji Itos horror comics from Japan, as well as the title character in a string of Japanese horror films made from 1999 - 2005. ... In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the resistance to fracture of a material when suddenly stressed. ... Trigun ) is a sci-fi manga series with a space western theme created by Yasuhiro Nightow in 1995, and adapted into a 26 episode anime series in 1998 by Madhouse. ... Trigun manga, volume 1 (English version) Trigun (トライガン) is a 26-episode Anime series which originally aired in 1998 in Japan. ... Uzumaki is a horror manga by Junji Ito. ... Vagabond ) is a manga drawn by Takehiko Inoue and adapted from the fictionalized accounts by Eiji Yoshikawa of the samurai, Miyamoto Musashi (宮本武蔵, 1584-1645). ... Video Girl Ai ) is a manga series created by Masakazu Katsura and published by Shueishas Weekly Shonen Jump. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... X ), an early work of the hit all-female manga-ka group CLAMP, details the apocalypse in a very literal adaptation of the Book of Revelation. ... Zetman ) Is a Japanese manga by Masakazu Katsura. ... Zetsuai 1989 Zetsuai 1989) is a yaoi manga known for its melo-dramatic, almost operatic plot (Aestheticism), its disturbed characters, and for the controversial style of its artwork. ...

External links

• (French) Editions Tonkam (official site)
• (English) Anime News network