Seven Seas Announces New Manga License Acquisitions

It's that time of the week where our friends at Seven Seas outline some of their new license acquisitions and they have four new manga titles for everyone to look forward to! Details and covers for these titles can be seen below!

Anti-Romance

Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce the license acquisition of the manga series Anti-Romance by Shoko Hidaka. An engrossing tale of friends to lovers unfolds in this Boys’ Love manga by the creator of Blue Morning!

About Anti-Romance:
Suou and Ryou have been friends since childhood. The hairstylist and writer have lived together for six years now and, though they definitely aren’t dating, their close relationship is hard to define. Will they ever move beyond the nebulous territory of “more than friends” or will they keep living in a stalemate forever? Seven Seas’ print version of Volume 1 will be a Special Edition with an extra art gallery of color pages, originally released as a separate booklet in Japan!
 
The digital Anti-Romance Vol. 1 will be released for the first time in North America in September 2022 for $9.99 USA. The series will be available in digital formats in single volume editions.
 
The print Anti-Romance Vol 1: Special Edition will be released for the first time in North America in September 2022 for $15.99 USA / $19.99 CAN. The series will be available in print in single volume editions.

Night of The Living Cat

Seven Seas Entertainment is thrilled to announce the license acquisition of the manga series Night of The Living Cat by Hawkman and Mecha-Roots, a new horror/comedy about adorable threats in a post-apocalyptic world!

About Night of The Living Cat:
In the near future, a unique disease has swept across the planet: a virus that transforms humans into cats! And the horde is expanding, since if these adorable kitties snuggle with a human, the human is transformed into yet another cat. A small group of cat-loving survivors is trying to escape the madness, but how can you defend yourself against a threat you just want to cuddle and pet?! This wild new take on a post-apocalyptic survival tale will make you roll over and purr with delight!
 
Night of The Living Cat Volume 1 will be released for the first time in North America in September 2022 for $13.99 USA / $17.99 CAN, available in print and on digital platforms in single volume editions.

Let’s Buy The Land And Cultivate It In A Different World

Seven Seas Entertainment is happy to announce the license acquisition of the manga series Let’s Buy The Land And Cultivate It In A Different World by Rokujuuyon Okazawa, Jun Sasameyuki, and Yuichi Murakami. In this fantasy isekai story, a salaryman sent to another world chooses a farming life over adventure--and ends up with a mermaid wife!

About Let’s Buy The Land And Cultivate It In A Different World:
Norio, a corporate drone in modern Japan, is summoned to a fantasy world to fight evil! But it turns out that the magical ability he got doesn’t work?! Thankfully, he has a plan B. Ask for a plot of land to cultivate a farm! To his surprise, that supposedly useless magic ability turbo charges his tools, allowing him to craft with wood like a master and plant vast fields of crops. After fishing up a mermaid wife, charming a lich, and tempting a young dragon over to his side with home cooking, there’s nothing our hero can’t do!
 
Let’s Buy The Land And Cultivate It In A Different World (Manga) Volume 1 will be released for the first time in North America in November 2022 for $13.99 USA / $17.99 CAN, available in print and on digital platforms in single volume editions.

Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari

Seven Seas Entertainment is excited to announce the license acquisition of the manga series Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari by Onigunsou. A vengeful exorcist must cohabit with the spirits he hates in this action-packed supernatural tale that’s soon to be an anime!

About Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari:
When spirits cross over into the human world, they can possess old objects and gain a physical form: a tsukumogami. Tsukumogami can be gentle, violent, or somewhere in-between, so the Saenome clan peacefully helps send them back to the spirit world to avoid destruction.
 
Kunato Hyouma is a member of the clan, but is...less than peaceful, since he holds a grudge from when a tsukumogami robbed him of something important. Afraid that Hyouma’s brash anger in dealing with these spirits will lead to supernatural catastrophes, Hyouma’s grandfather sends him to live in Kyoto with Nagatsuki Botan, an unusual young woman who actually lives with tsukumogami like family! Can Hyouma learn to control his emotions when dealing with tsukumogami, or is his own spirit doomed to be possessed with rage forever?
 
Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari Volume 1 will be released for the first time in North America in January 2023 for $13.99 USA / $17.99 CAN, available in print and on digital platforms in single volume editions.

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About Seven Seas Entertainment
Established in 2004, Seven Seas Entertainment is an award-winning publisher that specializes in bringing the best of Japanese manga and light novels to English language audiences alongside the hottest hand-picked books from around the globe, as well as producing original comics, graphic novels, and youth literature. All of Seven Seas’ book imprints are distributed throughout the world by Penguin Random House Publisher Services. For more information, visit sevenseasentertainment.com