is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by Miyabi Fujieda. The manga was serialized between the first and last issues of the now-defunct '' Dengeki Teioh'', a special edition version of ''

Dengeki Daioh is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) under the ''Dengeki'' brand. Many manga serialized in ''Dengeki Daioh'' were later published in ''tankōbon'' volumes under ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Comi ...

'', from April 26, 2004, until November 26, 2006, and was published by MediaWorks. The series contains twelve chapters released in two bound volumes originally published under MediaWorks '' Dengeki Comics EX'' label. The manga has been licensed for English language distribution by Infinity Studios. The first volume in English was published on June 15, 2007, but the series was canceled before volume two was released.

Plot

The series is about Iono, the queen of a small European kingdom with a fetish for black-haired women, who comes to Japan to recruit , which can mean both "

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" and "

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" in Japanese.

References

External links

''Iono-sama Fanatics''
at Infinity Studios

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