Western licensor and localiser of manga and other printed works, Seven Seas Entertainment, has in recent days announced a plethora of new license acquisitions – spanning manga, light novel works, and even a manhwa.
All their new acquisitions are listed below, so see if anything catches your eye, and may very well deserve a spot on your bookshelf when their first volumes are all published in October 2024:
Checkmate
Format: Webtoon Manhwa
By: TAN
Genre: Mature-rated Boys’ Love Psychological Drama
Volume 1 Release Date: October 2024
Volume 1 Price: $21.99 USD / $26.99 CAN
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?
Diary of a Female Lead
Format: Manga
By: Yuu Yoshinaga
Genre: Shoujo
Volume 1 Release Date: October 2024
Volume 1 Price: $13.99 USD / $17.99 CAN
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?
How to Repair a Broken Cup
Format: Manga
By: Rico Worico
Genre: One-Shot Boys’ Love
Volume 1 Release Date: October 2024
Volume 1 Price: $14.99 USD / $18.99 CAN
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.
Magical Buffs: The Support Caster is Stronger Than He Realized
Format: Manga
By: Haka Tokura, Shin Arakawa, and Eiri Shirai
Genre: Action Fantasy
Volume 1 Release Date: October 2024
Volume 1 Price: $14.99 USD / $18.99 CAN
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!
The Villainess and the Demon Knight
Format: Light Novel
By: Nekota and Asahiko
Genre: Romance Isekai
Volume 1 Release Date: October 2024
Volume 1 Price: $15.99 USD / $19.99 CAN
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?
