Kana: version 1

Saved 2026-09-13 21:13 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **Capitaine Albator, tome 5** (ISBN 978-2-87129-477-1), a wanted-list barcode from the 2006-2013 site: volume 5 of 5 of Kana's French paperback edition of Leiji Matsumoto's *Space Pirate Captain. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# Kana <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Kana
disambiguation: manga imprint of Dargaud-Lombard
website: https://www.kana.fr/
founded: 1996
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target                  | market | from | until | ended | status  | source    | note                                                       |
| -------- | ----------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/dargaud-lombard |        |      |       |       | sourced | ^kana-cgu | kana.fr: Dargaud-Lombard SA, under its editorial mark KANA |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name              | type   | locale | from | until |
| ----------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Editions Kana     | name   | fr     |      |       |
| Les Éditions Kana | search | fr     |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref       | url                                                        | title                                    | accessed   | publisher       | kind         | published | record_id | locator              | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | -------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| kana-cgu  | https://www.kana.fr/conditions-generales-d-utilisation/    | Kana: Conditions générales d'utilisation | 2026-09-13 | Dargaud-Lombard | manufacturer |           |           | 1) Qui sommes nous ? |              |             |          |
| kana-wiki | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana_(maison_d'%C3%A9dition) | Wikipédia: Kana (maison d'édition)       | 2026-09-13 | Wikipédia       | publication  |           |           | Historique           | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Kana is a French-language manga label created in 1996 on the initiative of Yves Schlirf, a Brussels bookseller close to the Dargaud group; it began with two manhwa by Hyun Se Lee and turned to manga in 1997 with Yū Yū Hakusho, Saint Seiya and Détective Conan, later publishing Naruto and Death Note.[^kana-wiki] Kana is the editorial mark of Dargaud-Lombard SA, a Belgian company of the Média-Participations group.[^kana-cgu]
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