ION (manga)

ION is a Science Fiction Shoujo manga by Arina Tanemura.

Once when she was a little girl, Ion Tsuburagi learned a chant to make miracles occur. In high school, she is a simple and cheerful girl who has a Stalker with a Crush, Kouki. She gets a big crush on Mikado Hourai. Mikado decides to make a club for psychic investigators, and she joins and becomes president. Ion sneaks into a building with Mikado's expiriments in it, she touches a blue stone and gains the powers of telekinesis and levitation.

Mikado's ex-girlfriend Ai transfers, and she also has psychic powers. Mikado is entirely unsure of his feelings toward Ion, as to whether he likes her romantically or just another experiment. Who will Mikado choose, and why does Mikado only seem to like Ion when she begins losing her powers?

Originally published in 1997, it made BookScan's list of top 20 graphic novels for the year 2008. It has been released in Germany, Spain and America by Viz Media.

Tropes used in ION (manga) include:

• Applied Phlebotinum
• Bishie Sparkle: So much with Mikado.
• Bishonen: Mikado
• Born Lucky: Ion. She has known a jinx since she was little that when you say it, you land in a fortunate situation. She uses it often.
• Broken Pedestal: Kouki used to be a fan of Psychic Man...until one day when he went to a live stage show and saw the actor take the helmet off behind the stage.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Ai
• Corner of Woe: Ion pulls this after Mikado explains his dream.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Kouki
• Extreme Omnivore: Ion has a large appetite, particularly when she's depressed. It's also revealed in the end that she has psychic powers because she ate a psychic-stone made by her father. It had stayed in her system all through her life, and its effects were magnified once she had come into contact with the one made by Mikado.
• Finger Wag: Ion does this pose while sticking her tongue out when she refuses Kouki. It gets him every time.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Adios!
• Love Bubbles: So much. The original mangaka admitted later that she used far too many frilly decoratives for the panels.
• Kawaiiko: Ai, who's more like a burikko (a girl who tries to act cuter and younger than she is but fails) than anything.
• Meet Cute
• Not Quite Flight
• Only Six Faces
• Power Crystal: This is what gives Ion the power to fly and read minds.
• Power Glows
• The Power of Love
• Psychic Powers
• Show Within a Show: Psychic Man, which Mikado and Kouki is a fan of after all of these years.
• Stalker with a Crush: Kouki
• Student Council President: Kouki
• Those Two Guys: Kiyo-chan and Manami.