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Yen Press announced at its panel at New York Comic Con that it has licensed the following light novels:
Image courtesy of Yen PressTitle: Sword Art Online: Progressive Canon of the Golden Rule
Creator: Reki Kawahara (story), Mugetsu (art), abec (character design)
Summary: The SAO: Progressive series continues, following Asuna and Kirito to the sixth floor of Aincrad, where many puzzles and conundrums await them! Will our sword-swinging pair be exhausted by the mental challenge or will the fearsome group of assassins catch up with them first…? 
Image provided by Yen PressTitle: Trinity Seven-Revision-
Creators: Yōichi Nishio (art), Kenji Saitō (story), Akinari Nao (character design)
Summary: From the world of Trinity Seven comes an exciting new spinoff! High school student Mitsunari Miyazawa has aspirations of becoming a writer until his encounter with a demonic creature turns dangerous. Now Mitsunari has been reborn with the power of the Envy Mage, fighting with the help of the living grimoire Lydia! 
Image provided by Yen PressTitle: Tiger Has Not Eaten Dragon
Creator: Hachi Inaba
Summary: “Make me think that if you are one then it doesn’t matter who eats me…”
Somewhere in the mountains, a tiger caught its prey: a lone dragon, a species rarely seen. Eating dragon meat brings superior flavor, drinking dragon blood heals all wounds, eating dragon meat will give you immortality… However, when seeing the dragon’s undeveloped physique, the tiger refused to eat dragon meat. Dragon and tiger, predator and prey—is what binds them together simply a natural hunting instinct or something more…? 
Images provided by Yen Press. Title: Amalgam Hound
Creator: Midori Komai (story), Domino Ozaki (illustration)
Summary: Theo, a young investigator, comes across Eleven, a mixture that perfectly simulates the appearance of a girl. In a strange twist of fate, the two become partners on a special mission to track down other fugitive mixes after the war.
However, Eleven just looks like a young girl. She is a living weapon who does not understand the meaning of being human. Theo doesn’t like amalgam, but he’s going to have to deal with it, because a terrorist attack has shaken the country to its core… and someone needs to deal with it! 
Image provided by Yen PressTitle: Classroom for heroes
Author: Shin Araki (story), Haruyuki (illustration)
Summary: When the hero Blade defeated the demon king, he lost all his powers. For him, this should have been a dream come true—finally, the life of an ordinary student without fighting or adventure. That is until he finds out his school is a school for heroes. He just wanted to get by with a solid average, but as a hero with actual experience, it turns out his idea of average was a bit off…! 
Image courtesy of Yen PressTitle: My Gemini
Creator: Yuu Morikawa
Summary: John’s plain, red hair and freckles have nothing going for him, except for his two extremely popular friends at school—twin brothers Jekyll and Hyde. The twins are indistinguishable and always like to take each other’s place to have fun. But when the pair are separated by an untimely death, John must find out… which twin is left? 
Image provided by Yen PressTitle: All or Nothing
Creator: Shikke
Summary: When Kadoi and Hasumoto reveal that they have been dating for a whole month, Oka and Sawada are more jealous that their friends have lovers than anything else. So when a change in their friendship makes them more aware of each other, they can’t help but wonder what it would be like to be together—in more ways than one… 
Image provided by Yen PressTitle: Fox envy
Creator: Machi Suehiro
Summary: They meet each other for the first time on the train. When Akiha Konno was on his way to school on his first day of school in Tokyo, some bastard touched his butt… Luckily, the kind student saved him, but—uhhh…the real Akiha the unwillingness to hug him like that! Even worse, he called the fox ears that appear when he’s been overworked “cute”! Well, it looks like he’ll never see him again… 
Image provided by Yen PressTitle: I want a Gal gamer to compliment me
Creator: Geshumaro
Summary: When high school Raito Sasaki hired a professional gamer coach to help hone his FPS skills, he never expected that the person knocking on his door would be Rion Suzuki—a beautiful girl beautiful, cute and fashionable at the same age as him! With a charming and supportive gamer cheering him on, can Raito take his game to the next level or will the pressure of being up close and personal with a bombshell like Rion make him have to throw? 
Image courtesy of Yen PressTitle: Riviere and the Land of Prayer
Creator: Jougi Shiraishi (story), Azure (illustration)
Summary: Return to the world of the Wandering Witch in an all-new spin-off!
The stage is set for two girls in a land where prayers have become curses. In a small island nation, there is a mysterious town where the people’s prayers are answered by a mysterious force. I, Makmilia, assist the mysterious Riviere in our shop, where we deal with dangerous items spawned from those prayers. We have a perfume that can change fate, a talking vase, and a bag containing strange creatures, just to name a few. Yes, indeed, the deeds of the wonderful duo Makmilia and Riviere will overshadow even the Ashen Witch Elaina!
Image courtesy of Yen PressTitle: Once Upon a Witch’s Death: The Story of a Thousand Tears of Joy
Creator: Saka (story), Chorefuji (illustration),
Summary: On her seventeenth birthday, witch-in-training Meg learns she only has one year left to live. Her teacher, the long-lived wizard Faust, explains that the only way to break the death curse is to collect tears of joy and plant seeds of life. To find them, Meg will have to leave the sheltered life she has always known and head out into the world. There will be meetings, separations, many friendships and of course many tears. Meg will learn that the most important lessons for a witch are bright, sweet, and somewhat heartbreaking. 
Image provided by Yen PressTitle: Picture book for adults
Author: Kei Itoi
Summary: Erotic manga author, Kudou’s friend Haruki passes away, leaving behind his young daughter Kiki and a piece of paper leaving Kudou’s legacy. As strange as the situation is, Kudou is committed to building a real family with the girl—so when he meets a woman who reminds him of his late friend, he proposes on the spot! Whether by blood, friendship, love or circumstances, family is still family… 
Image courtesy of Yen PressTitle: You Can’t See the Snow
Creator: Rokudo Ningen
Summary: College freshman Natsuki and sophomore Yuki meet and fall in love on a summer night—the first of many nights they spend together. But as autumn approaches, Yuki suddenly tells Natsuki that she wants him to be happy and find a cute girlfriend, then disappears from campus. Hoping to see Yuki one last time, Natsuki visits her home and learns that she has an unknown illness that forces her to sleep through the winter. The modern version of Sleeping Beauty explores the magic of love.
The company also announced that it has licensed the following manga series:
Image courtesy of Yen PressTitle: Black Summoner
Creator: Doufu Mayoi (story), Gin Ammo (art), Kurogin (DIGS) (character design)
Summary: While reincarnated into another world, Kelvin gave up his memories to gain powerful new abilities. Setting out on his final adventure as the world’s most powerful Summoner—his first Follower, the goddess herself brought him!—he soon discovers his true calling is a battle addict. Facing one formidable foe after another, Kelvin can hardly contain his excitement! The curtain rises on this epic tale as the black-clad warrior and his allies enter the annals of history!! 
Image provided by Yen PressTitle: Alchemist Survive Now Dream of a Quiet City Life
Creator: Usata Nonohara (story), Aya Obara (art), ox (character design)
Summary: For an alchemist like Mariela, performing incredible magic is just part of the job. So when a horde of monsters threatens to devour the kingdom of Endalsia, she decides to put herself in a brief state of inactivity to survive. Luckily, she wakes up safe and sound—200 years in the future… Now, all Mariela really wants is a quiet, comfortable life in a land she barely recognizes. Too bad potions have become a luxury item and she’s the only girl in town with the skills to make them.
Source: Email correspondence
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