I.O.N

I.O.N
Cover of the original Japanese release of I.O.N published by Shueisha
イ·オ·ン
Genre	Magical girl, Romance
Manga
Written by	Arina Tanemura
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA Viz Media
Demographic	Shōjo
Magazine	Ribon
Original run	June 1997 – November 1997
Volumes	1

I.O.N (イ·オ·ン)((Lit.Ice on Nature)) is a Japanese science fiction manga written and illustrated by Arina Tanemura. Originally serialized in Ribon from May to November 1997, the six chapters were collected and published in a single tankōbon volume by Shueisha in December 1997. The series was originally intended to be only three chapters, but Ribon had her lengthen it to six chapters. On October 22, 2010, an additional chapter of the manga was published in Ribon Fantasy Zokan Go Magazine.

The series is licensed for English language release in North America by Viz Media, which published its single volume on April 1, 2008. It is also licensed for regional language releases in Spain by Planeta DeAgostini and in Germany in Egmont Manga & Anime.

Ion Tsuburagi (粒 依音, Tsuburagi Ion) is a friendly and cheerful high-school student who likes to eat. When she was young, she had learned how to chant a jinx to make miracles occur, which involves her spelling out her first name as if it were a magic spell. Ion has a crush on a boy named Mikado Hōrai (宝来 帝, Hourai Mikado), who's interested in psychic powers, and has his own lab at school. When she finds out that he has a club for psychic researchers, she plans to join the club and ends up becoming its president. During one of Mikado's experiments, she touches an object similar to one that her late father made which she swallowed as a child and gains two psychic powers: telekinesis and levitation, which she activates by chanting her jinx, and begins using them to save people from getting seriously hurt.

The student body president, Koki Shiraishi (白石 広貴, Shiraishi Kōki), has feelings for Ion, though she has never returned his feelings, instead regularly avoiding him. He hates psychic powers and Mikado, because Mikado studies them, unaware of Ion's powers. Even after Ion's feelings for Mikado become obvious to him, Koki continues to pursue her.