Seven Seas Announces New Manga & Light Novel Acquisitions (October 2023 #2)

The middle of the week often means that our friends at Seven Seas outline their latest license acquisitions and this week is no different! This week they have four new manga titles for everyone to look forward to! Details, covers, and more for these titles can be seen below!

My Wandering Warrior Eating Disorder

Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce the upcoming digital release of My Wandering Warrior Eating Disorder by Nagata Kabi, a new autobiographical manga by the award-winning creator of My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. This short manga will be an ebook exclusive release on October 26, with pre-orders available now.

About My Wandering Warrior Eating Disorder:
This new diary comic details the complexities of Nagata Kabi’s fraught relationship with food, from eating disorders and habits to food preparation, with unflinching and detailed honesty. This short manga was written after My Wandering Warrior Existence and was only released on digital platforms in Japan. Seven Seas will be publishing the manga in English as an ebook exclusive before the release of the book written after it–My Pancreas Broke, But My Life Got Better–in order to preserve the chronological timeline of new entries in Nagata Kabi’s powerful autobiographical series.

My Wandering Warrior Eating Disorder will be released for the first time in the English language as an ebook exclusive on October 26, 2023 for $5.99 USA on digital platforms. Pre-orders are available now.

Royal Tailor: Clothier to the Crown

Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce the license acquisition of the manga series Royal Tailor: Clothier to the Crown by Nakasane Nowaki. This charming and romantic shojo/josei fantasy is just what the tailor ordered!

About Royal Tailor: Clothier to the Crown:
Hana’s lifelong dream is to become a tailor and make wonderful clothes for people of all the different fantasy races. However, in a world where humans are discriminated against, even getting work as a seamstress is a struggle. When a handsome, mysterious prince offers her a job, it seems like Hana’s fortunes might finally be changing for the better!

Royal Tailor: Clothier to the Crown Vol. 1 will be released for the first time in the English language in June 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.

Stay By My Side After the Rain

Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce the license acquisition of the BL manga series Stay By My Side After the Rain by Shoko Rakuta. In this slice-of-life Boys’ Love romance, sparks fly when a salaryman who’s given up on love reunites with his crush from high school.

Aboug Stay By My Side After the Rain:
Kanade is an office worker who’s unfulfilled in life...and keeps the fact that he’s gay a secret. Everything changes when he reunites with an old classmate from high school: Mashiro, the boy Kanade secretly liked back in his youth. Mashiro’s arrival seems to bring new sunlight to Kanade’s dreary life. As they get to know each other again as adults, could this be Kanade’s chance to find love with the one who got away?

Stay By My Side After the Rain Vol. 1 will be released for the first time in the English language in April 2024 for $14.99 USA / $18.99 CAN, with the series available in single large-trim editions as part of the Seven Seas BL label (Boys’ Love titles). Ebook editions will also be available on digital platforms.

Tokyo Revengers: A Letter from Keisuke Baji

Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce the print and ebook license acquisition of the manga series Tokyo Revengers: A Letter from Keisuke Baji by Ken Wakui and Yukinori Natsukawaguchi, the spin-off to the bestselling series that inspired the popular anime and live-action films!

About Tokyo Revengers: A Letter from Keisuke Baji:
From the fateful moment they met to their brutal parting, the full story of Chifuyu Matsuno and Keisuke Baji is revealed at last! Racked by grief after a recent battle with Valhalla, Chifuyu receives an unexpected letter that will change everything. This spin-off series to Tokyo Revengers is currently available in English from Kodansha USA on the K MANGA digital platform. Seven Seas will publish the series in print for the first time in oversized paperbacks with new lettering, and will also release the volumes in ebook editions on other digital platforms.

Tokyo Revengers: A Letter from Keisuke Baji Vol. 1 (Seven Seas print and ebook editions) will be released in August 2024.

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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