Seven Seas Entertainment has announced a series of new manga and light novel licenses in the romance genre, Girls-Love and Boys-Love. All new licenses will be released throughout this upcoming Fall 2024.
Below are detailed information about Seven Seas’ latest titles:
Too many loser heroines! (Light Novel and Manga)
Story: Takibi Amamori
Light novel illustration: Imigimuru
Manga art: Itachi
Seven Seas will release the award-winning romantic comedy series about a guy who helps girls find love. This is the movie that inspired the upcoming animated series.
The first episode of Too Many Missing Heroines! The light novel series will be released for the first time in English in August 2024. The series will be available in single cut versions as part of Seven Seas’ Airship imprint. The e-book editions will also be available on digital platforms.
Meanwhile, the first volume of the manga adaptation will be released for the first time in English in August 2024, with the series only having a single edition. The e-book editions will also be available on digital platforms.
Summary:
The simple, boring and friendless Nukumizu Kazuhiko witnesses something completely incomprehensible: the popular girl Yanami Anna is befriended by her childhood friend and lover! In fact, all the popular girls around him were similarly rejected by the boys they liked. Without realizing it, Kazuhiko becomes entangled in a relationship drama where all the female protagonists lose their love! Can he lift their spirits and help them find happiness?
Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl: The Complete Manga Collection
© mocchi-au-lait, majoccoid
Story: mocchi-au-lait
Art: majoccoid
The complete manga collections of Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl will be released for the first time in English in September 2024, with the series available as a large-cut omnibus edition as part of the Seven Seas GL label. . An ebook edition will also be available on digital platforms.
Summary:
When Okuma Satomi’s friend seeks her help arguing with boys in a cross-dressing cafe, Satomi already has a boyfriend! Something like that. After asking his handsome and aloof classmate, Kanda Mizuki, for help in the cafe, Mizuki agrees, but on one condition: the two of them must go on a date. Satomi eagerly agrees, happy to have such a handsome guy interested in her, but Mizuki realizes that Satomi has completely misunderstood something important: Mizuki is a girl! Will this case of mistaken identity turn into something beautiful or will the truth break both girls’ hearts?
After School Etude
© Hirune Cyan
Story and art: Hirune Cyan
The first volume of After School Etude will be released for the first time in English in September 2024, with the series available as a single major edition under the Seven Seas BL label. The e-book version will also be available on digital platforms.
Summary:
When Minobe Chihiro is accepted into a private art academy to study ballet, the last person he expects to train with is cranky sophomore Ichinomiya Shun. However, by some stroke of luck, the two were paired to participate in their school’s mandatory pas de deux practice session. While Minobe was fascinated at first sight by Ichinomiya’s outstanding dancing ability, the second year’s attitude left much to be desired. For Ichinomiya, being paired with Minobe as a dance partner is just one of the ways he wants to be with his new dance partner. It’s not just the classes that have Ichinomiya dancing with Minobe-he’s smitten and after Minobe’s heart! Recommended for mature audiences.
Loved by two fiances
© Chizu Aoi, Karen Yuduki
Story: Chizu Aoi
Art: Karen Yuduki
Seven Seas will release the first volume of Loved by Two Fiancés in English in September 2024. The series will be available in single cut editions as part of Seven Seas’ Steamship imprint. The e-book editions will also be available on digital platforms.
Summary:
Barista Hayase Hinako lives with her handsome fiance Kagaya Seiya, a talented lawyer she met in her cafe. He’s everything she wants in a future husband: sweet, thoughtful, and skillful in the kitchen and in the bedroom. But just when she thinks everything is going smoothly, her loving partner turns from a gentleman to a tyrant overnight! He may look similar on the outside, but he’s not the Seiya she knows and loves…so who is he?!
Otonari Complex
© Saku Nonomura
Story and art: Saku Nonomura
The first volume of Otonari Complex will be released in English in September 2024, with the series available in single cut versions. The e-book editions will also be available on digital platforms.
Summary:
Kuji Akira and Ninomiya Makoto are childhood friends and neighbors. Because Akira is “handsome” to girls and Makoto is “beautiful” to boys, their gender presentation is often confused. As they try to untangle their complicated feelings about themselves and each other, they discover that their friends are falling in love with them, too. It’s a complicated childhood friendship story!
Love is an illusion! – Queen (Manhwa)
© Fargo
Story and art: Fargo
Seven Seas has announced the acquisition of the license to print Fargo’s colorful webtoon manhwa Love is an Illusion! – The Queen, is the mature-rated sequel/spin-off to the hit omegaverse webtoon Boys’ Love from Lezhin Comics.
The first volume will be released for the first time in English print in October 2024. The series is available as a full-color, large-bordered version as part of the Seven Seas Webtoons label.
Summary:
Park Do-gyeom, a free-spirited alpha and Park Dojin’s older sister, has finally decided to put her promiscuous past behind her and settle down. However, as a 39-year-old woman, her marriage options are dwindling. Luckily, she has her protected omega secretary, Lee Seung-ah, do most of the work of finding a mate for her. There would be no problem, even if Seung-ah and Do-gyeom had harbored secret feelings for each other for years. In fact, arranging Do-gyeom’s marriage might just be the catalyst for the two to finally admit their attraction…unless another alpha gets in the way!
Source: press release