Seven Seas Announces New Webtoon & Light Novel Acquisitions (March 2024 #2)

It's that time of the week once again! Wednesday means that our friends at Seven Seas reveal their latest license acquisitions and this Wednesday is no different! This week they have three webtoon titles, and two light novel series, for everyone to look forward to! Details, covers, and more for these titles can be found below!

An Autumn in Amber, A Zero-Second Journey

Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce, through its Airship light novel imprint, the license acquisition of the light novel An Autumn in Amber, a Zero-Second Journey from award-winning author Mei Hachimoku with illustrations by KUKKA. This supernatural drama from the same creative team as The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes, is about setting aside differences to solve the mystery of a world frozen in time.

About An Autumn in Amber, a Zero-Second Journey:
Socially awkward loner Kayato has an intense fear of being touched and finds making friends extremely difficult. When he and his high school classmates visit Hakodate for a field trip, he suffers through some attempts to engage with the others, until...

Time stops for the entire world, but not for him.

All the hustle and bustle of the city fades into an eerie veil of silence, leaving him the only soul left in motion–until he finds another in Akira, a sharp-tongued local delinquent. Though she’s his total opposite, she begrudgingly agrees to help him solve the mystery. Their only lead is something Kayato’s uncle said just before he died about a “world plucked out of time,” as if preserved in amber. Hoping to find a clue among his late uncle’s possessions in Tokyo, the two teens must travel through the frozen world.

An Autumn in Amber, a Zero-Second Journey (Light Novel) will be released for the first time in the English language in September 2024 for $14.99 USA / $18.99 CAN, with the book available in a single large-trim edition as part of Seven Seas’ Airship imprint. An ebook edition will also be available (early) on digital platforms. 

Perfect Buddy

Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce the license acquisition of the full-color Boys’ Love webtoon/manhwa Perfect Buddy by Lash and daki. In English-language print at last, this popular and full-color comic series—also known as XXX Buddy—follows two co-workers and their not-safe-for-work relationship! 

About Perfect Buddy:
As the new Design Team lead for the prestigious men’s magazine, City Casual, Seo Hyunsoo wants nothing more than to live a simple, routine life. But Planning Team lead, Baek Youngchan, is proving to be an irritating complication. The two constantly butt heads, and Hyunsoo cannot stand the other man’s sunny disposition! Try as he may to avoid Youngchan, Hyunsoo ends up catching the man doing something very not safe for work in the men’s bathroom. What’s worse, Youngchan won’t leave him alone after the awkward encounter! Can Hyunsoo keep his work on track, or will things heat up at the company retreat? Recommended for Mature Audiences.

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

I’m the Heroic Knight of an Intergalactic Empire!

Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce, through its Airship light novel imprint, the license acquisition of the light novel series I’m the Heroic Knight of an Intergalactic Empire! by Yomu Mishima and Nadare Takamine, the exciting spin-off to the hit series, I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!

About I’m the Heroic Knight of an Intergalactic Empire!:
Emma has just taken her first step as a knight. Emma’s new job? Commander of a squad of useless layabouts. Just as her efforts start to change minds, a pirate base is discovered on Alias. What will happen when an elite force is sent in from the home planet to eliminate them?! An epic new tale of a failure’s rise to glory in the Intergalactic Empire begins!

I’m the Heroic Knight of an Intergalactic Empire! (Light Novel) Vol. 1 will be released for the first time in the English language in August 2024 for $15.99 USA / $19.99 CAN, with the series available in single editions as part of Seven Seas’ Airship imprint. Ebook editions will also be available (early) on digital platforms. 

The Big Apple

Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce the license acquisition of the full-color Boys’ Love webtoon/manhwa series The Big Apple by Harusari and Hodot. This supernatural action comic is coming to English-language print for the first time!

About The Big Apple:
Joachim Hjerpe has a deadly secret: he’s the lone sniper for the Secret Intelligence Agency—an organization of people with magical abilities. Working in the shadows, Joachim is a pro who takes on dangerous missions and executes them with perfection. Yet, despite his aptitude for the job, Joachim hates it! He’s constantly caught up in daydreams about quitting his risky life and trading it all for peaceful bliss with his handsome and generous lover, Juergen Eisler. But quitting the SIA is easier in dreams than in reality. 

When his latest mission goes awry, putting his personal life and secret at risk, Joachim is determined to do whatever it takes to keep Juergen safe—even if that means breaking things off and disappearing. Except Juergen isn’t ready to give him up so easily. Can Joachim protect his one bit of happiness without revealing his secret, or is this a love story set to end in tragedy? Recommended for Mature Audiences.

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

The Lady and Her Butler

Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce the license acquisition of the full-color webtoon/manhwa series The Lady and Her Butler by Jade. The highly relatable hit comic about a woman avoiding romance and the man she takes in will finally be available in English-language print!

About The Lady and Her Butler:
Lim Sooha is an independent woman who has it all: a busy career, a brand-new home, and an ever-growing pile of household chores. And the last thing she needs is a man to mess things up. But that all changes when one walks through her front door—literally! Homeless and desperate for a break, Taesoo begs Sooha to let him stay in exchange for keeping house. Tempted by the idea of coming home to a warm meal, clean sheets, and ironed clothes, Sooha agrees after Taesoo shows just how capable he really is...and also claims to be gay. Could this be the perfect arrangement, or will Taesoo’s lie and Sooha’s conflicted feelings make a bigger mess?

The Lady and Her Butler Vol. 1 will be printed for the first time in the English language in August 2024 for $21.99 USA / $28.99 CAN, with the series available in full-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