Les Exilés de Kifa

Book Series infobox
Series = Yoko Tsuno
Name = Les Exilés de Kifa
Type = Comics
Author = Roger Leloup


Background = Orange
Released = 1991
Genre = Bande dessinée
Pages =
Publisher = Dupuis
Last Book = "Le Matin du monde"
(1988)
This Book = "Les Exilés de Kifa"
(1991)
Next Book = "L'Or du Rhin"
(1993)

"Les Exilés de Kifa" ("The Exiles of Kifa") is the eighteenth book from Yoko Tsuno comic book series written by Roger Leloup and published in 1991. (ISBN 2-8001-1748-6)

tory

During one of her visits to Vinea, Yoko discovers a small android. A strangely friendly Hégora, shortly awakens and revives the creature, called Myna. With Myna's help, Yoko finds Hégora's large faster-than-light spaceship. Once the ship's A.I., Akhar, forces everyone aboard, they head for Kifa to rescue Myna's peers. Speed is of the essence for Kifa, a satellite-like city, is on a collision course with Vinea and Vinea's government has dispatched destruction missiles to obliterate Kifa. With the help of Myna's friends, Yoko is able to overthrow Gobol, Kifa's ruler and evacuate all living residents of the city.

At the end of the story, Yoko gains the ownership of Gobol's spaceship and renames it "Ryu". "Ryu"'s female A.I. prompts Yoko to give her a five-lettered codename, with the first two letters required to be 'AK'; in line with Hégora's spaceship's A.I., called "Akhar". Yoko names her "Akina" after a friend from her youth. The story of Yoko and this original Akina is part of the events described in "L'Écume de l'aube".

Background

The Myna character was initially designed as something that could easily be used for merchandise. During the development of "Les Exilés de Kifa", there were plans for an animated feature about Yoko, which needed an easily markteable character like Myna.