Seven Seas Announces New Manga & Light Novel Acquisitions (May 2024 #3)

It's that time of the week yet again! Wednesday may not be everyone's favorite day, but it usually marks the day when our friends at Seven Seas reveal their latest license acquisitions! This week they have three manga titles, a light novel, and a manhwa for everyone to look forward to! Details, covers, and more for these titles can be found below!

Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized!

Seven Seas Entertainment is excited to announce the license acquisition of the manga series Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! by Haka Tokura, Shin Arakawa, and Eiri Shirai. In this action-packed fantasy manga based on a popular light novel, one support mage will prove he can hold his own on the front lines.

About Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized!:
Wim Strauss is a “granting caster”—a support mage who can increase the strength of his allies through the power of his spells. It’s a useful talent, but since it can’t be used directly in battle, it gets zero respect from the other members of his party. As far as they’re concerned, support magic is dead weight. It isn’t long before they toss him out on his ear, leaving Wim to wonder if his career as an adventurer is over.

Lucky for Wim, he has one big chance: his childhood friend Heidemarie is able to get him an audition with her elite A-rank party, Nachtlibelle. The two of them know his magic is good for more than just menial backup, but now he’ll have to prove it. It’s time to show the world that support mages can do more than just stand on the back lines!

Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized! (Manga) Vol. 1 will be released for the first time in the English language in October 2024 for $14.99 USA / $18.99 CAN, with the series available in single-volume editions. Ebook editions will also be available on digital platforms

Diary of a Female Lead: Shujinkou Nikki

Seven Seas Entertainment is excited to announce the license acquisition of the manga series Diary of a Female Lead: Shujinkou Nikki by Yuu Yoshinaga. This critically acclaimed meta shojo series is about taking charge of your own (love) life. 

About Diary of a Female Lead: Shujinkou Nikki:
Tsujimura Aoi wouldn’t consider herself a main character by any means. Meek and insecure, she’s constantly alone, unlike her athletic older brother, Itsuki, or her mother, a famous shojo mangaka. Aoi doesn’t need to be the heroine, though—all she wants is a true friend. But Itsuki disagrees, and when he brings home Aoi’s effortlessly cool classmate Mizusawa Sena, the two concoct a plan to teach Aoi all about love, using shojo manga as their guide. Can this drab side character become an unparalleled female lead by falling for the perfect guy?

Diary of a Female Lead: Shujinkou Nikki Vol. 1 will be released for the first time in the English language in October 2024 for $13.99 USA / $17.99 CAN, with the series available in single-volume editions. Ebook editions will also be available on digital platforms.

The Villainess and the Demon Knight

Seven Seas Entertainment is excited to announce, through its Steamship imprint dedicated to sexy romance for women, the license acquisition of the light novel series The Villainess and the Demon Knight by Nekota and Asahiko. This steamy isekai follows an unfortunate villainess and the deranged knight who’s obsessed with her—inspired the hit manga also available from Seven Seas! 

About The Villainess and the Demon Knight:
Being reincarnated as an otome game villainess is hard enough, but fate sure didn’t hold back on stacking the odds against Cecilia. Her engagement is broken off, the heroine is harassing her, and she’s forced to work in a brothel! To make matters worse, her first customer is none other than the heroine’s childhood friend and debauched leader of the Imperial Guard, Duke Lucas Herbst. Terrified, Cecilia shares an intense night with him, only to wake up the next day in his mansion—marked as his fiancée?! Bound to this unhinged knight, the troubled villainess must endure his obsessive love. But is his intoxicating affection a curse...or is it a blessing in disguise?

The Villainess and the Demon Knight (Light Novel) Vol. 1 will be released for the first time in the English language in October 2024 for $15.99 USA / $19.99 CAN, with the series available in single large-trim editions as part of Seven Seas’ Steamship imprint. Ebook editions will also be available (early) on digital platforms.

How to Repair a Broken Cup

Seven Seas Entertainment is excited to announce the license acquisition of the Boys’ Love manga How to Repair a Broken Cup by Rico Worico. In this sexy BL one-shot, a long-time couple confronts communication problems with a little bit of time travel! 

About How to Repair a Broken Cup:
Although Kippei and Keita have been together for ten years now, they’re still finding it difficult to be completely honest with one another. However, it seems fate has a plan to reignite their passion and fix their communication problems. The morning after Kippei accidentally breaks a sentimental mug, he swaps places with his younger self from ten years ago! Suddenly, the couple both have the opportunity to face the person they fell in love with a whole decade back, and maybe reignite the passion that’s been threatening to fade away. For Mature Readers.

How to Repair a Broken Cup will be released for the first time in the English language in October 2024 for $14.99 USA / $18.99 CAN in a single-volume edition as part of the Seven Seas BL label (Boys’ Love titles). An ebook edition will also be available on digital platforms.

Checkmate

Seven Seas Entertainment is excited to announce the license acquisition of the color Boys’ Love webtoon/manhwa series Checkmate by TAN, for a release in English-language print for the first time. In this Mature-rated psychological drama, two rivals become caught up in their own manipulative mind games. 

About Checkmate:
Detached. Disinterested. Dispassionate. All words used to describe Soohyun and his uneventful, mediocre life. He’s nothing like he once was. As a teen, he had a fire, a passion burning within, all thanks to one person: bright-haired and brilliant Eunsung. Throughout high school, Soohyun obsessively competed with Eunsung for the top spot in all things, only to consistently come in second place. And as high school ended without victory, so did his passion for anything. But all this changes when, as an adult, he suddenly sees Eunsung again—except the other man is in the news, embroiled in scandal! Seeing Eunsung in a state of shame ignites something in Soohyun. Fiery hate, long thought dead, comes alive within him once more.

Determined to see a fallen Eunsung with his own eyes, Soohyun reinvents himself as a reporter and begins dishing out one dirty article after another. He’s sure that with each scathing hit piece, Eunsung will come crawling to Soohyun and begging for mercy. Except, it doesn’t happen. Eunsung doesn’t react at all the way Soohyun expects! Just who is being manipulated, and who, the manipulator? For Mature Readers.

Checkmate Vol. 1 will be printed for the first time in the English language in October 2024 for $21.99 USA / $28.99 CAN, with the series available in color large-trim editions as part of the Seven Seas Webtoons label.

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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 danmei, webtoons, and other books from around the globe, as well as producing audiobooks, original comics, and youth literature. All of Seven Seas’ print book imprints are distributed throughout the world by Penguin Random House Publisher Services. For more information, visit sevenseasentertainment.com