Manga titles include To Another World… with Land Mines!, My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World, which will launch on Friday.
J-Novel Club announced on Friday that it has licensed five more light novel series and four more manga series. The new licenses include:
Image courtesy of J-Novel Club Title: From Two-Bit Baddie to Total Heartthrob: This Villain Cross-dresses to Impress! (Mob Dōzen no Akuyaku Reijō wa Dansō Shite Kōryaku Taishō no Za wo Nerau)-title J-Novel Heart (novel)
Author: Masamune Okazaki (writer), Jyun Hayase (illustrator)
Release date: Out today with Parts 1 and 2 of Episode 1
Summary: The world is unfair and Elizabeth Burton knows it better than anyone. Reincarnated into an otome game as a two-bit villain, she has endured the tropes of the genre with a miserable life.
What's a girl to do… but dress her way into the protagonist's heart and be guaranteed of course a happy ending! After years of blood, sweat and tears to become the perfect beauty, all she has to do is wait for her first fateful encounter with the main character… or so she thinks!
As it turns out, her boyish charm has come back to bite her in the ass. The other lovers also start cross-dressing, and they don't want the main character's heart—they want Elizabeth's heart!
Image courtesy of J-Novel ClubTitle: The Surprisingly Happy Engagement Between the Slime Duke and the Fallen Lady (Slime Taikō to Botsuraku Reijō no Angai Shiawase na Konyaku)-title J-Novel Heart ( novel)
Author: Mashimesa Emoto (writer), Kasumi Nagi (illustrator)
Release date: Out today with Parts 1 and 2 of Episode 1
Summary: After her sister's engagement to the crown prince is suddenly canceled, tragedy strikes, and Lady Francette and her family lose all their wealth and status. With nothing left but her name and determination, Francette moves to the slums and makes a living selling homemade cakes.
That's when she meets an unexpected new friend named Wibble, a talking slime, who introduces her to the one and only slime duke himself: Gabriel! To her surprise, the unusually stern Gabriel soon proposed to Francette—and she accepted. Now she must adapt to Triste and its eccentric people, and she soon finds herself breathing life into the strange but lovable backwater.
What was once a marriage of convenience will turn into something bigger over time…and— of course—expect a lot of slime!
Image provided by J-Novel Club Title: Goodbye, overtime! This reincarnated villain is living for her new big brother (Akuyaku Reijō, Brocon ni Job Change Shimasu)-title J-Novel Heart (novel)
Author: Chidori Hama (writer), Wan Hachipisu (illustrator)
Release date: Out today with Parts 1 and 2 of Episode 1
Summary: Yukimura Rina is an overworked twenty-something systems engineer who is dangerously close to breaking point. Her only solace is an otome game with a charming side character, the villain's brother, who soothes her weary heart. She gets so engrossed that she forgets to sleep and ends up passing out…only to wake up in the game as the villain, Ekaterina.
She is now the younger sister of her favorite character! Her new brother, Alexei, is handsome, kind and responsible. Rina, now Ekaterina, would be happy to be by his side, except for one small problem. If she lets the game take its course, she and her brother will head straight towards a terrible future! Can Ekaterina overcome the flags of doom that threaten her new family and empire, and prevent Alexei from working himself to death?
Image provided by J-Novel ClubTitle: The Invincible Summoner Has Crawled From Level 1: Destroy the Reincarnated Ones with My Hidden Dungeon (Level 1 kara Hajimaru Shōkan Musō: Ore dake Tsukaeru Ura Dungeon de, Subete no Tenseisha wo Bucchigiru) (novel)
Author: Arata Shiraishi (writer), Yuunagi (illustrator)
Release date: Out today with Parts 1 and 2 of Episode 1
Summary: Things couldn't get any worse for Shinobu Iijima. After a terrible house fire takes his life and leaves his sister, Megumi, in a hospital bed, Shinobu wakes up in his favorite MMO: La Vita Online. With all of his data erased and reset to level 1, the only solace Shinobu has is that his scum foster father, Ayumu, died with him…only to find out He was also reincarnated in the game?!
Nightmare reincarnated, Ayumu determined to take revenge on the two brothers, waiting for the opportunity until Megumi died and was reborn in La Vita. While Megumi struggles with her last breaths in the real world, Shinobu tries her best to reach the level before her reincarnation.
Armed with a hidden dungeon, hard-earned legendary summons, and an invincible will, Shinobu must reach maximum level to protect her sister from their adoptive father and other reincarnated people. threatening to stop him at all costs.
Image provided by J-Novel ClubTitle: Death of the Skeleton Swordsman: Ruling Like a Cursed Saint (Kotsugai no Kensei ga Shi wo Togeru: Noroware Seija no Gakuin Musō) (novel)
Author: Hozumi Mitaka (writer), kudos (illustrator)
Release date: Out today with Parts 1 and 2 of Episode 1
Summary: Al is a holy knight, a warrior tasked with protecting the innocent from the ferocious monsters terrorizing the lands. Anyway, he… After being bitten by an undead creature, Al dies – but not for long. Al wakes up as a zombie! However, unlike regular zombies, for some mysterious reason he still retains his mind and sanity.
Three hundred years later, the flesh rotting to reveal a living skeleton, Al meets Astrantia. As the descendant of a witch, Astrantia offers to restore his body on one condition: he must agree to become her knight and help her end the evil curse once and for all. Along with Astrantia, Al joins the academy for the training of saints—a team of holy knights and holy maidens who fight to rid the world of the undead. Al must hide his zombie identity—which everyone at the school seeks to destroy—in order for Astrantia to succeed and keep its word. Keeping his secret is proving as difficult as hiding his lack of flesh, but if there's one thing he can't hide, it's the strength he's honed for three hundred years. via!
Image provided by J-Novel ClubTitle: I'm a noble on the brink of decline, so I might as well try mastering magic (Botsuraku Yotei no Kizoku dakedo, Hima datta kara Mahō wo Kiwamete Mita) (manga)
Author: Rio Akisaki (manga), Nazuna Miki (original work)
Release date: Out today with Chapter 1 of Volume 1
Summary: Liam Hamilton is not what you think. On the outside Liam is the son of a failed noble family, but on the inside… he's actually a lowly farmer?! One night he's a miserable middle-aged commoner drinking cold beer at the local pub and the next day he suddenly wakes up as the youngest son of a noble earl?! Make it meaningful! Liam Hamilton doesn't know how he ended up like this, but he knows one thing for sure: as a noble, he can finally try learning magic like he's always dreamed of!
It's a shame that the noble house he was reincarnated into is on the brink of collapse – that is – unless they prove themselves worthy of high society. When Liam discovers he has a natural gift for magic, can he save his doomed home or will he return to being a lowly commoner?
Image courtesy of J-Novel ClubTitle: The Eternal Fool's Words of Wisdom: A Pawsitively Fantastic Adventure (Yūkyū no Gusha Asley no, Kensha no Susume to, Pochi no Daibōken) (manga)
Author(s): Fuh Araki (manga), Hifumi (original work)
Release date: Out today with Chapter 1 of Volume 1
Summary: A few thousand years of loneliness would exhaust any young man—that is, anyone except Asley, an eternally young and eternally stupid wizard. After all, he has man's best friend…er, familiar, always by his side. When the level 100 dog Pochi asks him to breathe fresh air for the first time in two centuries, Asley sets out to reintegrate into society and test his magical mettle. His mission? Remove some unappealing titles from his repertoire and restore his good (fine, decent) name.
A whole new world and fresh adventures await Ashley after many years of living in seclusion. Maybe he'll give Pochi a hand in getting first place in the mysterious Familiar Feud. Or maybe he will lose all dignity and hang his tail. Whichever comes first! Whatever the case, Asley has great evil to fight, a vast world to save, and even a little growing up to do…that is, if he can endure the” friendly advice ”of Pochi on the go!
Image provided by J-Novel ClubTitle: My Silent Blacksmith Life in Another World (Kajiya de Hajimeru Isekai Slow Life) (manga)
Author(s): Yoshino Himori (manga), Tamamaru (original work)
Release date: Out today with Chapter 1 of Volume 1
Summary: Eizo Tanya is a middle-aged, very exhausted software engineer. One night after working late, he threw himself in front of a speeding truck to save a cat. Although the cat survived, Eizo was not so lucky. In a flash of divine fate, the cat turned out to be a divine creature who gave him a second chance in another world! Is he a legendary warrior? A noble king? Are not! All Eizo wants is a peaceful life, doing things for others, and what better way to do that than to become a blacksmith? He also has another wish: to live next to a cute cat. His request is granted but there's a twist—Eizo's blacksmithing skills are so strong that they're practically cheating abilities. Best of all, the cat friend he wished for turned out to be a half-tiger girl! With so much upheaval in this world, can Eizo create a new, quiet life?
Image provided by J-Novel ClubTitle: Go to another world… with the Land Mine! (Isekai teni, Jirai-tsuki.) (manga)
Author: Relucy (manga), Mizuho Itsuki (original work)
Release date: Out today with Chapter 1 of Volume 1
Summary: When an entire class of high school students die in a tragic bus accident, an evil god sends them to another world with supernatural skills to help them survive. However, they don't realize that some of those skills are landmines—powers that seem good but have deadly drawbacks!
Among those students are childhood friends Haruka, Nao, and Touya, who work together to establish a safe and secure place. stable life in this new world. None of them want to be heroes, and that realistic perspective is exactly what they need to survive. After all, the world they are in is not a game. That's reality.
Source: Press release
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