Seven Seas Entertainment has announced licensing of five new light novel and manhwa series scheduled for release throughout August 2024 to November 2024. The new licenses include the light novel series An Autumn in Amber, a Zero-Second Journey and I’m a Heroic Knight of an Intergalactic Empire!, as well as the manhwa series The Perfect Friend, The Big Apple and The Lady and Her Butler.
Here are the details on Seven Seas’ latest titles:
Light Novels
Autumn in amber, journey without seconds
© Mei Hachimoku, KUKKA
Story: Mei Hachimoku
Illustration: KUKKA
Seven Seas will release An Autumn in Amber, A Secondless Journey Through Its Airship Signature Light Novel, produced by the same creative team as Tunnel to Summer, Exit of Goodbye. It will be published for the first time in English in September 2024, with the book available in a single cut-out edition. The ebook version will also be available on digital platforms soon.
Summary:
Kaato, a socially awkward loner, has an intense fear of being touched and finds making friends extremely difficult. When he and his high school classmates visit Hakodate for a field trip, he goes through several attempts to socialize with others, until…
Time stopped for the entire world, but not for him.
All the hustle and bustle of the city disappeared into an eerie curtain of silence, leaving him as the only soul still moving – until he found another soul in Akira, a delinquent. Edgy local stuff. Even though she is his complete opposite, she reluctantly agrees to help him solve the mystery. Their only clue is what Kayato’s uncle said shortly before his death about a “world removed from time,” as if preserved in amber. Hoping to find clues about their late uncle’s fortune in Tokyo, two teenagers must travel through a frozen world.
I am the heroic Knight of the Intergalactic Empire!
© Yomu Mishima, Nadare Takamine
Story: Yomu Mishima
Illustration: Nadare Takamine
This is a spin-off light novel series of I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!. The first volume will be released for the first time in English in August 2024, with the series available as single editions as part of Seven Seas’ Airship imprint. The e-book version will also be available (soon) on digital platforms.
Summary:
Emma has just taken her first step as a knight. Emma’s new job? Commander of a useless squad. Just as her efforts begin to change her mind, a pirate base is discovered on Alias. What will happen when an elite force is sent from their home planet to destroy them?! An epic new story of a loser’s rise to glory in an intergalactic Empire begins!
Manhwa
Perfect friend
© Lash, daki
Story: Lash
Art: daki
The first volume of the webtoon manga Boys’Love will be printed for the first time in English in September 2024. The series will be available in full-color, large-bordered versions as part of the Webtoons Seven label Seas and recommended for mature audiences.
Summary:
New Design Team As the head of the famous men’s magazine City Casual, Seo Hyunsoo wants nothing more than to live a simple, everyday life. But the Planning Team leader, Baek Youngchan, was proving to be an annoyingly complicated problem. The two constantly confront each other and Hyunsoo cannot stand the other man’s cheerful personality! Trying to avoid Youngchan, Hyunsoo ends up catching the man doing something unsafe for work in the men’s bathroom. Worse yet, Youngchan won’t leave him alone after the awkward encounter! Will Hyunsoo be able to continue his work on schedule or will things heat up while on vacation at the company?
Big apple
© Harusari, Hodot
Story: Harusari
Art: Hodo
The first volume of the supernatural action manhwa will be printed for the first time in English in November 2024. The series will be available as a full-color, large-bordered version as part of the Seven Seas Webtoons label and is recommended for mature audiences..
Summary:
Joachim Hjerpe has a deadly secret: he is the lone sniper for the Secret Intelligence Service—an organization of people with magical abilities. Working in the shadows, Joachim is an expert at taking on dangerous missions and performing them to perfection. However, despite his aptitude for the job, Joachim still hated it! He is constantly drawn into daydreams about giving up his risky life and trading it all for peaceful happiness with his handsome and generous lover, Juergen Eisler. But quitting SIA is easier in dreams than in reality.
When his latest mission goes wrong, putting his personal life and secrets at risk, Joachim is determined to do whatever it takes to keep Juergen safe—even if it means is to destroy everything and disappear. Except Juergen isn’t ready to give up on him so easily. Can Joachim protect his little bit of happiness without revealing his secret or is this a love story that ends in tragedy?
The lady and her butler
© Jade
Story and art: Jade
The first volume of the romance manga The Lady and her Butler will be printed for the first time in English in August 2024. The series will be available in a full-color, large-bordered version as part of the Seven Seas Webtoons label .
Summary:
Lim Sooha is an independent woman who has it all: a busy career, a brand new house, and an ever-growing pile of housework. And the last thing she needs is a man to mess things up. But that all changes when one walks through her front door—literally! Homeless and longing for a break, Taesoo begs Sooha to let him stay in exchange for keeping the house. Tempted by the idea of returning home to a warm meal, clean sheets, and neatly ironed clothes, Sooha agrees after Taesoo shows what he’s really capable of… and also declared himself gay. Is this the perfect arrangement, or will Taesoo’s lies and Sooha’s conflicting feelings create a bigger mess?
Source: press release