Tonkam is a prominent French

France

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 publisher of manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 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

New Angel

is a hentai series created in 1991 which consists of five episodes. It has been released in Japan, France, and North America by ADV Films.The story follows the adventures of a perverted boy, Kouske Atami. The hentai series is based on the manga series bearing the same name. This series was created...

; because of its hentai

Hentai

is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly those of Japanese origin such as anime, manga, and computer games. The word hentai is a kanji compound of 変 and 態...

 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

Manhwa

Manhwa is the general Korean term for comics and print cartoons . Outside of Korea, the term usually refers specifically to South Korean comics. The term, along with manga, is a cognate of the Chinese manhua...

, but the experience was short-lived as Ypnos closed soon after.

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

Akata

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, in partnership with Delcourt

Delcourt

-People:* Frédéric Delcourt, French backstroke swimmer* Marie Delcourt, Belgian philologist* Tom Delcourt, English Legend-Companies:* Delcourt , French publishing house, specializes in comics and manga....

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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 (publishing)

Hachette Livre, , is a French publisher, the flagship imprint of Lagardère Publishing. It was founded in 1826 by Louis Hachette as a bookshop and publishing company. Hachette has its headquarters in the 15th arrondissement of Paris....

.

Guy Delcourt is the current CEO.

Titles published

Titles published by Tonkam include the following:

• Adolf
  Adolf (manga)
  Adolf, known in Japan as is a manga series made by Dr. Osamu Tezuka.Adolf was published in English by Cadence Books and VIZ Media. The English manga is flipped to read left to right to conform to Western practice....
  
  
• Angel/Dust
  Angel/Dust
  is a manga by Aoi Nanase. It was originally serialized in Newtype Japan, and the chapters were collected into a single volume in June 2001. It has a sequel entitled Angel/Dust Neo. ADV Manga licensed this manga for release in English, and in 2005 it was serialized in the English version of Newtype...
  
  
• Angel Sanctuary
  Angel Sanctuary
  is a shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki. Originally serialized in Hana to Yume from February 1995 to February 2001, the chapters were collected and published in twenty tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha; the first volume was released in 1997 and the final volume was published in...
  
  
• Appare Jipangu!
  Appare Jipangu!
  is a manga by Yuu Watase. Set in Japan during the Edo period, it follows the life of Yusura, who as a baby, was found under a cherry tree with the "Kongoumaru" by her side...
  
  
• Asatte Dance
• Ayashi no Ceres
• Black & White
• Black Magic
• Blue Spring
  Blue Spring (manga)
  is a Japanese graphic novel created by Taiyo Matsumoto. It is an anthology collection of short stories, all revolving around teenage boys at high school and the lives they live...
  
  
• Bokko
• Boku wo Tsutsumu Tsuki no Hikari
  Boku wo Tsutsumu Tsuki no Hikari
  is an ongoing science fiction manga series by Saki Hiwatari. It is published by Hakusensha in the monthly manga magazine Bessatsu Hana to Yume and has been collected in nine tankōbon volumes as of October 2010. It is a sequel to Hiwatari's previous work, Please Save My Earth, and features the two...
  
  
• Buddha
  Buddha (manga)
  is a manga drawn by Osamu Tezuka and is Tezuka's unique interpretation of the life of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. The critically acclaimed series is often referred to as a gritty, even sexual, portrayal of the Buddha's life. Buddha received the 2004, 2005 Eisner Award...
  
  
• Butsu Zone
  Butsu Zone
  is the first serialized manga by Hiroyuki Takei in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump of 1997. The term "Buddha Zone" refers to the concept by which a Buddha can appear on Earth using a Buddha statue....
  
  
• Cat's Eye - Rights moved to Panini Manga
  Panini Comics
  Panini Comics is an Italian comic book publisher. A division of Panini Group, best known for their collectible stickers, it is headquartered in Modena, Italy...
  
   in 2004
• Count Cain
• Crazy Kouzu BC
• Cross Game
  Cross Game
  is a romantic comedy baseball manga series by Mitsuru Adachi that was serialized by Shogakukan in Weekly Shōnen Sunday between 11 May 2005 and 17 February 2010 . It is collected in 17 tankōbon volumes, with the final volume published in April 2010, shortly after the end of the anime series...
  
  
• Descendants of Darkness
  Descendants of Darkness
  is a fantasy manga series created by Yoko Matsushita. The story revolves around shinigami. These Guardians of Death work for Enma Daiō, the king of the dead, sorting out the expected and unexpected arrivals to the Underworld...
  
  
• DNA²
  DNA²
  is a science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Masakazu Katsura. It was serialized across Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine between 1993 and 1994, spanning a total of five tankōbon volumes....
  
  
• Dominion
• Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken
• Duck Prince
• Fairy Cube
  Fairy Cube
  is a fantasy gothic shōjo manga written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki. Appearing as a serial in the Japanese manga magazine Hana to Yume from 2005 to 2006, the Fairy Cube chapters were collected into three tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha and published from October 2005 to July 2006. Yuki began Fairy...
  
  
• Fake
  Fake
  Fake means not real.Fake may also refer to:In music:* Fake , a Swedish synthpop band active in the 1980s*Fake?, a Japanese rock band* Fake , 2010 song by Ai featuring Namie Amuro...
  
  
• Family Compo - Rights moved to Panini Manga
  Panini Comics
  Panini Comics is an Italian comic book publisher. A division of Panini Group, best known for their collectible stickers, it is headquartered in Modena, Italy...
  
   in 2004
• Fever, la rencontre ultime
• Flame of Recca
  Flame of Recca
  is a manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Anzai, which was adapted into an anime series spanning forty-two episodes by Studio Pierrot. The series has also been adapted into two video games; Flame of Recca for the Game Boy Advance and Flame of Recca Final Burning for the PlayStation...
  
  
• Frères du Japon (Nihon no Kyodai)
• Fushigi Yūgi
  Fushigi Yūgi
  , also known as Curious Play, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yu Watase. Shogakukan published Fushigi Yûgi in Shōjo Comic in its original serialized form from May 1992 through June 1996. Viz Media released the manga series in English in North America starting in 1999...
  
  
• Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden
  Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden
  is a manga written by Yuu Watase. It premiered in Japan in 2003 in Sho-Comi, moved to an off-shoot magazine, Fushigi Yûgi Perfect World, in 2004. It was serialized sporadically in Monthly Flowers until 2008 when the series went on hiatus until spring 2010, when it began serialization in Rinka...
  
  
• Gakuen Heaven
  Gakuen Heaven
  is a popular franchise that is based on the PC game Gakuen Heaven: Boy's Love Scramble, originally released by the company SPRAY. The franchise gradually expanded to include three PlayStation 2 games, two PlayStation Portable games, drama CDs, manga, and anime.A Boys' Love manga adaptation series...
  
  
• Gakuen Tengoku
• Gankyu Kitan Yui
• Gantz
  Gantz
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. Gantz tells the story of Kei Kurono and his friend Masaru Kato who die in a train accident and become part of a semi-posthumous "game" in which they and several other recently deceased people are forced to hunt down and kill aliens...
  
  
• Godchild
  Godchild
  , also known as Count Cain, is a gothic shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki. Earl Cain consists of five parts or "Series": , , , , and the sequel series ....
  
  
• Guuzen ga Nokosu Mono
• Gyo
  Gyo
  is a horror manga by Junji Ito. It also includes a pair of bonus stories, titled The Enigma of Amigara Fault and The Sad Tale of the Principal Post...
  
  
• H2
  H2 (manga)
  is a Japanese manga written by Mitsuru Adachi portraying high school baseball. It has been made into an 41-episode anime series and an 11-episode television drama series, H2: Kimi to Ita Hibi, directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi.-Plot:...
  
  
• Hana-Kimi
  Hana-Kimi
  Hana-Kimi or known originally as in Japan, is a shōjo manga series written by Hisaya Nakajo. The manga was serialized in Japan in Hakusensha's semi-monthly shōjo manga magazine, Hana to Yume...
  
  
• Hellsing
• Hellstar Remina
  Hellstar Remina
  Hellstar Remina is a 2005 single-volume manga by acclaimed horror artist and author Junji Ito, which combines elements of Apocalyptic science fiction with cosmic horror. In Hellstar Remina, a planet from another quantum universe enters Earth's universe and begins to move quickly, destroying all...
  
  
• Hidamari no Ki
  Hidamari no Ki
  is a Japanese manga series written an illustrated by Osamu Tezuka about a friendship between a samurai and a doctor in the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate...
  
  
• High School! Kimengumi
  High School! Kimengumi
  is a manga series written by Motoei Shinzawa which ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1982 to 1987. The title literally translates to High School! Funny-face Club or High School! Weird Face Club. An anime TV series and movie based on the series were also released...
  
  
• Hikaru no Go
  Hikaru no Go
  is a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa...
  
  
• Hiyoko Brand - Okusama wa Joshi Kousei
• Homunculus
  Homunculus (manga)
  is a Japanese manga by Hideo Yamamoto, intended for the seinen audience. It is serialized in the magazine Big Comic Spirits.-Plot:Manabu Ito, a rich 22 year old medical student, tows 34 year old Susumu Nakoshi's car in order to convince him to undergo trepanation...
  
  
• Hyper Rune
  Hyper Rune
  is a manga series created by the former CLAMP member, Tamayo Akiyama. It is about an eight-grade girl named Rune Ayanokouji, who is destined to save the world from peril caused by notorious cyber-alien beings...
  
  
• I¨s
• I'll
  I'll
  I'll is a sports shōnen manga by artist Hiroyuki Asada. Its main plot concerns the life of a team of high school basketball players. It is focused on action scenes which depict the matches played by the team, but also puts emphasis on the interaction of characters outside of the courts...
  
  
• Ichigo 100%
• Imadoki
• Jesus
• Jin
  Jin (manga)
  is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Motoka Murakami, which was featured on Super Jump during its original run from 2000 to 2010....
  
  
• Joan
• Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Golden Wind
• Jinbē
  Jinbe
  is a romance manga by Mitsuru Adachi. It appeared irregularly in the manga magazine Big Comic Original from 1992 through 1997, and was republished in one tankōbon volume in May 1997. In 1998, it was adapted as an 11-episode television drama series by Fuji TV.Jinbē is the story of the relationship...
  
  
• Kare Kano
  Kare Kano
  , is a manga series by Masami Tsuda. It was serialized in LaLa from 1996 to 2005 and collected in 21 tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha. It depicts the romance between "perfect" student Yukino Miyazawa and her academic rival Soichiro Arima, and the relationships of several of their friends.The series...
  
  
• Kimagure Orange Road
  Kimagure Orange Road
  , usually abbreviated as KOR, is a popular shōnen romantic comedy manga and anime series from the 1980s.Written by Izumi Matsumoto and serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump, it was later adapted into an anime series broadcast on Nippon Television, animated by Studio Pierrot and directed by...
  
  
• Kindaichi Case Files
  Kindaichi Case Files
  is a serialized Japanese mystery manga series based on the crime solving adventures of a high school student, Hajime Kindaichi, the supposed grandson of the famous private detective Kosuke Kindaichi. They are written by Yōzaburō Kanari or Seimaru Amagi and illustrated by Fumiya Satō...
  
  
• Kizuna
• Komorebi no Moto de - Rights moved to Panini Manga
  Panini Comics
  Panini Comics is an Italian comic book publisher. A division of Panini Group, best known for their collectible stickers, it is headquartered in Modena, Italy...
  
   in 2004
• Koucha Ouji
• Lady Georgie
• Lawful Drug
• Love and Destroy
• Ludwig Revolution
• M
• Magical Tarurūto-kun
  Magical Taruruto-kun
  is a comedy manga by Tatsuya Egawa that was published in the Weekly Shonen Jump from 1988 to 1992, spanning a 21-volume collected edition. It was adapted into an anime TV series by Toei Animation that lasted 87 episodes and three feature films from 1990 through 1992.- Anime :The Magical Taluluto TV...
  
  
• Maison Ikkoku
  Maison Ikkoku
  is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi and serialized in the manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1980 through 1987. Maison Ikkoku is a bitter-sweet comedic romance involving a group of madcap people who live in a boarding house in 1980s Tokyo...
  
  
• Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
  Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
  is a yuri manga series created by Clamp and serialised by Kadokawa Shoten in its Japanese edition of Newtype from 1993 to 1995. In 1995, an image album and an OVA version of the first two stories was released. The English language version of the manga was published by Tokyopop in 2003.The manga is...
  
  
• MW
  MW (manga)
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• Phoenix
  Phoenix (manga)
  is a manga series by Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka considered Phoenix his "life's work"; it consists of 12 books, each of which tells a separate, self-contained story and takes place in a different era. The plots go back and forth from the remote future to prehistoric times. The cycle remains unfinished...
  
  
• Please Save My Earth
  Please Save My Earth
  , sometimes abbreviated Bokutama, is a shōjo science fiction manga by Saki Hiwatari. It was published by Hakusensha from 1987 to 1994 in Hana to Yume and collected in 21 tankōbon volumes. The series was adapted as a six-part anime OVA in 1993...
  
  
• Pretty Face
  Pretty Face
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Japanese author Yasuhiro Kano. The story revolves around a high school boy who suffers an accident and having his face reconstructed in the form of his crush, attempts to impersonate a girl who his crush mistakes for her twin sister...
  
  
• Rash!!
  Rash!!
  Rash!! is a two volume manga series by Tsukasa Hojo. It is licensed in French by Tonkam and in Italy by Star Comics.-Story:Asaka, the prison's nurse, is leaving her post to her gorgeous granddaughter Yuki, who will bring a lot of troubles and chaos in the life of the people around her, starting...
  
   - Rights moved to Panini Manga
  Panini Comics
  Panini Comics is an Italian comic book publisher. A division of Panini Group, best known for their collectible stickers, it is headquartered in Modena, Italy...
  
   in 2004
• RG Veda
  RG Veda
  is a manga created by Clamp, consisting of ten volumes in all. It was first published in Japan in 1989 as Clamp's debut manga. The story features elements of Vedic mythology; the title itself imitates Rigveda, the name of one of the four Vedas. The series is known for its extravagant and richly...
  
  
• Rookies
  Rookies (manga)
  is a Japanese shōnen manga written and illustrated by Masanori Morita. The series was featured on Weekly Shōnen Jump during its original run from 1998 to 2003. The series was licensed for release in France by Edition Tonkam and in Italy by Star Comics, where it was featured in the magazine Express...
  
  
• Sakura no Hanasaki Kukoro - Rights moved to Panini Manga
  Panini Comics
  Panini Comics is an Italian comic book publisher. A division of Panini Group, best known for their collectible stickers, it is headquartered in Modena, Italy...
  
   in 2004
• Secret Chaser
  Secret Chaser
  is a Japanese manga is written and illustrated by Tamayo Akiyama. The manga is licensed for an English-language release in North America by Tokyopop, licensed for a French-language release in France.-Reception:...
  
  
• Seimaden
• Screw
• Shadow Lady
  Shadow Lady
  is a manga series written and illustrated by Masakazu Katsura. It was canceled partway through its run, resulting in the severe compression of a new story arc and a finale.- Plot Synopsis :...
  
  
• Shiba Inu
• Short Program
• Shounentachi no ita Natsu  - Rights moved to Panini Manga
  Panini Comics
  Panini Comics is an Italian comic book publisher. A division of Panini Group, best known for their collectible stickers, it is headquartered in Modena, Italy...
  
   in 2004
• Shumari
• Special A
  Special A
  , also known as Special A or S.A, is a shōjo manga by Maki Minami. The series started serialization in the bimonthly magazine The Hana to Yume in 2003, and moved to the biweekly magazine Hana to Yume in 2004, after running for four chapters...
  
  
• Spirit of the sun
• Tenshi no okurimono - Rights moved to Panini Manga
  Panini Comics
  Panini Comics is an Italian comic book publisher. A division of Panini Group, best known for their collectible stickers, it is headquartered in Modena, Italy...
  
   in 2004
• The Executive's Dog
  Rumic Theater
  Rumiko Takahashi Anthology, also known as Rumic Theater, is a collective manga of many short stories. In Japanese it has been published under several different names, at least as and as . Some editions are numbered 1–3 while other editions are unnumbered. Volume 4 currently only exists in an...
  
  
• The Crater
  The Crater
  is a manga by Osamu Tezuka that began serialization in 1969.-Plot:"The Crater" is a collection of self-contained short stories that follow a wide range of themes. From Horror to Mystery to Science Fiction, each story focuses on different characters in different settings...
  
  
• The One I Love
  The One I Love (manga)
  is a twelve story anthology by Clamp. It is a collection of short manga vignettes and essays about various unnamed heroines dealing with various aspects and hardships of love...
  
  
• The Tragedy of P
  Rumic Theater
  Rumiko Takahashi Anthology, also known as Rumic Theater, is a collective manga of many short stories. In Japanese it has been published under several different names, at least as and as . Some editions are numbered 1–3 while other editions are unnumbered. Volume 4 currently only exists in an...
  
  
• The World Reads Japan's Modern Literature
• Tigre et Dragon
• Tokyo Babylon
  Tokyo Babylon
  is a manga series created by Clamp. The series follows Subaru Sumeragi, the head of the Sumeragi clan, and his sister Hokuto as they work to protect Tokyo from a myriad of supernatural perils....
  
  
• Tomie
  Tomie
  is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito. The manga has been adapted into a series of films, with the first coming out in 1997.-Plot:...
  
  
• Tough
  Tough (manga)
  , is a martial arts manga series written and illustrated by Tetsuya Saruwatari. A sequel series, titled simply as was introduced in 2004 which continues the story further after the first series ended its run...
  
  
• Trigun
  Trigun
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Nightow, published from 1996 to 2008 and spanning 17 collected volumes....
  
  
• Trigun Maximum
  Trigun
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Nightow, published from 1996 to 2008 and spanning 17 collected volumes....
  
  
• Uzumaki
  Uzumaki
  is a horror manga written and Illustrated by Junji Ito, and serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits.The story concerns the inhabitants of the small Japanese town of Kurôzu-cho as they become obsessed by the occurrences of natural and artificial spirals around them...
  
  
• Vagabond
  Vagabond (manga)
  is an ongoing manga by Takehiko Inoue, portraying a fictionalized account of Miyamoto Musashi's life, on a loose adaptation of Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi....
  
  
• Video Girl Ai
  Video Girl Ai
  is a manga series created by Masakazu Katsura and published by Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump. It also has an anime adaptation. The manga is published in English by Viz Communications...
  
  
• Wish
  Wish
  A wish is a hope or desire for something. Fictionally, wishes can be used as plot devices. In folklore, opportunities for "making a wish" or for wishes to "come true" or "be granted" are themes that are sometimes used.-In literature:...
  
  
• X
  X (manga)
  , also known as X/1999, is a Japanese shōjo manga series created by Clamp, a creative team made up by Satsuki Igarashi, Nanase Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi, and Mokona. It premiered in Monthly Asukas May 1992 issue and ran there until the magazine's editors showed concern with the increasingly violent...
  
  
• Yamada Taro Monogatari
  Yamada Taro Monogatari
  is a Japanese manga series created by Ai Morinaga. The manga series, published by Kadokawa Shoten, ran from 1996-2000 with a total of fourteen volumes. Besides, after the ending of the series...
  
  
• Zetman
  Zetman
  is a manga series by Masakazu Katsura. The series started as a one-shot in a series of four published in Weekly Shōnen Jump between 1989 and 1994, and collected into a tankōbon released in 1995. A more mature and full-fledged series started in Weekly Young Jump in 2002...
  
  
• Zetsuai 1989
  Zetsuai 1989
  is a Japanese yaoi manga known for its melo-dramatic, almost operatic plot, its "semi-insane characters", and for the controversial style of its artwork. The word "Zetsu-ai" is a compound created by Minami Ozaki which has been translated as "desperate love". Ozaki's preferred English translation is...