What is "simoun"

Simoun is originally an alternate spelling of simoom, but may also refer to following:

• Simoom, a strong, dry, dust-laden local wind in Sahara, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and the Arabian Peninsula
• Caudron Simoun, a 1930s aircraft
• Simoun (anime), a Japanese animated TV series and its manga adaptations
• Crisóstomo Ibarra, nicknamed Simoun(anthony), one of the main characters of El filibusterismo by José Rizal
• Henri Simoun, Howard Rodman's pseudonym when working on The Six Million Dollar Man film adaptation

is a Japanese anime television series that was broadcast in Japan in 2006. It ran for 26 weekly episodes from 3 April to 25 September.

A manga adaptation was published in three issues of Comic Yuri Hime. The manga shared the same characters and setting as the anime, but presented a different storyline. A second manga was serialised in Megami Magazine, with a radically different setting and a comic rather than serious and dramatic tone. There is also a two-volume light novel adaptation, which unlike the manga has a storyline close to that of the anime.

In May 2007, Simoun was licensed for release in North America by Media Blasters.