Seven Seas Entertainment has announced a slate of new manga and light novel licenses in the romance, Girls’ Love, and Boys’ Love genres. All the new licenses will be released throughout this upcoming Fall 2024.
Here are the details for Seven Seas’ newest titles:
Too Many Losing 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 boy helping girls find love, which is inspiring an upcoming anime series.
The first volume of the Too Many Losing Heroines! light novel series will be released for the first time in the English language in August 2024. The series will be available in single large-trim editions as part of Seven Seas’ Airship imprint. Ebook 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 available in single editions. Ebook editions will also be available on digital platforms.
Synopsis:
Plain, boring, and friendless Nukumizu Kazuhiko has witnessed something completely baffling: popular girl Yanami Anna was friend-zoned by her childhood friend and crush! In fact, all the popular girls around him are getting similarly rejected by the boys they like. Without realizing it, Kazuhiko becomes entangled in the relationship drama where all the leading heroines are losing out on love! Can he keep their spirits up and help them find happiness?
Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl: The Complete Manga Collection
Story: mocchi-au-lait
Art: majoccoid
The complete manga collection of Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl will be released for the first time in English in September 2024, with the series available in a single large-trim omnibus as part of the Seven Seas GL label. An ebook edition will also be available on digital platforms.
Synopsis:
When Okuma Satomi’s friend seeks her help wrangling guys for a crossdressing cafe, Satomi winds up with a boyfriend! Sort of. After asking her handsome and aloof classmate, Kanda Mizuki, to help out in the cafe, Mizuki agrees, but on one condition: the two of them must go on a date. Satomi eagerly agrees, delighted to have such a good-looking guy interested in her, but Mizuki realizes that Satomi has completely misunderstood something crucial: Mizuki is a girl! Will this case of mistaken identity blossom into something beautiful, or will the truth leave both girls brokenhearted?
After School Etude
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 in single large-trim editions under the Seven Seas BL label. Ebook editions will also be available on digital platforms.
Synopsis:
When Minobe Chihiro is admitted to a private arts academy to study ballet, the last person he expects to train with is surly second-year student Ichinomiya Shun. Yet by some stroke of luck, the two are paired up for their school’s mandatory pas de deux practice. While Minobe has fallen at first sight for Ichinomiya’s superior dance sense, the second-year’s attitude leaves a lot to be desired. For Ichinomiya, being paired with Minobe as a dance partner is just one of the ways he’d like to be together with his new partner. It’s not just grades that have Ichinomiya dancing with Minobe — he’s head over heels, and he’s after Minobe’s heart! Recommended for Mature Audiences.
Loved by Two Fiancés
Story: Chizu Aoi
Art: Mia 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 large-trim editions as part of Seven Seas’ Steamship imprint. Ebook editions will also be available on digital platforms.
Synopsis:
Café barista Hayase Hinako lives with her handsome fiancé Kagaya Seiya, a hotshot lawyer she met in her coffee shop. He’s everything she could ever want in a future husband: sweet, caring, and handy in the kitchen as well as in the bedroom. But just when she thinks it’s all smooth sailing, her loving partner transforms from a gentleman into a tyrant overnight! He may look the same on the outside, but he’s not the Seiya she knows and loves…so who is he?!
Otonari Complex
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 large-trim editions. Ebook editions will also be available on digital platforms.
Synopsis:
Kuji Akira and Ninomiya Makoto are childhood friends and neighbors. Since Akira is “handsome” for a girl and Makoto is “pretty” for a boy, their gender presentation is often confused. As they try to untangle their complex feelings about themselves and each other, they find out their friends are crushing on them, too. It’s a complicated childhood friend love story!
Love is an Illusion! – The Queen (Manhwa)
Story and Art: Fargo
Seven Seas announced the print license acquisition of Fargo’s full-color manhwa webtoon series Love is an Illusion! – The Queen, which is a mature-rated sequel/spin-off to the hit Boys’ Love omegaverse webtoon from Lezhin Comics.
The first volume will be released for the first time in English print in October 2024. The series is available in full-color, large-trim editions as part of the Seven Seas Webtoons label.
Synopsis:
Park Do-gyeom, a free-spirited alpha and the older sister of Park Dojin, has finally decided to put her promiscuous past behind her and settle down. As a 39-year-old woman, however, her options for marriage have dwindled. Luckily she has her beleaguered omega secretary, Lee Seung-ah, to do most of the work of finding a marriage partner for her. It shouldn’t be a problem, even if Seung-ah and Do-gyeom have harbored secret feelings for each other for years. In fact, arranging Do-gyeom’s marriage may just be the catalyst for the two of them to finally admit their attraction…unless another alpha gets in the way!
Source: press release