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Seven Seas Entertainment Announce Dozens of New Manga and Light Novel Acquisitions – Full List

Who is interested in what manga and light novels will be hitting store shelves next year? Well, in the matter of only a few days, US-based publisher Seven Seas Entertainment has teased a light novel of licenses they have acquired for localisation and publishing in 2022. Scroll down to see the full list of titles, and perhaps see if there are any that pique your interest!

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Until I Meet My Husband

Type: Light Novel / Manga
By: Ryousuke Nanasaki and Yoshi Tsukizuki.
Release Date (Volume 1): June 2022
Price: $14.99 USD each

This adult action comedy takes place during a fictional time in Japan’s history known as the Ero period, where the arts of love and war hold equal sway! A diverse cast of ninja warriors both male and female must outwit, outlast, and out-maneuver the competition, or else suffer the sexy consequences!

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Survival in Another World With My Mistress

Type: Light Novel / Manga
By: Ryuto, Yappen, and SASAYUKI
Release Date (Volume 1): March 2022 / May 2022
Price: $14.99 USD / $12.99 USD

Kousuke suddenly wakes up alone in a vast forest that clearly isn’t anywhere on Earth. Now he has to find some way to eat, drink, and survive! Luckily, Kousuke also has the power to craft using a special video game menu that allows him to harvest resources and build whatever he can imagine. However, every time he goes to sleep, he’s attacked by one of the many non-human races of this world, all of whom despise humankind. Enter Sylphy, the beautiful dark elf who lays claim to Kousuke and vows to protect him–after all, she’s taken him as her property!

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5 Minutes Before a Witch Falls in Love

Type: Manga
By: Zeniko Sumiya
Release Date (Volume 1): February 2022
Price: $13.99 USD

Solitary witch Meg likes to be mischievous and make trouble in the forest for her nemesis, Lilith the Witch Hunter. But when an altercation goes sideways, and Meg turns Lilith into a cat, a cascade of unfortunate events means witch is now responsible for saving witch-hunter! Sparks were flying between these antagonistic ladies before–what will their relationship be like after this cat-astrophe?

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The Haunted Bookstore – Gateway to a Parallel Universe

Type: Manga
By: Shinobumaru and Medamayaki
Release Date (Volume 1): March 2022
Price: $12.99 USD

Ever since she was three years old, Kaori has lived in a bookstore where the boundaries between the mortal realm and the spirit realm are blurred. Her adoptive father, who lives with her in this magical space, is a spirit himself. One day, Kaori comes across a bleeding young man who has stumbled into the spirit realm just as she did when she was a small child. Though the young man is an exorcist who has vowed revenge against all spirits, Kaori decides to embrace kindness and help him find his way back home.

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The Girl in the Arcade

Type: Manga
By: Okushou and MGMEE
Release Date (Volume 1): March 2022
Price: $13.99 USD

A Japanese high schooler gets a part-time gig at an arcade, where he’s pretty much ignored by everyone–people even start calling him an “NPC” because of the way he blends into the background. All that changes when the gorgeous, larger-than-life Yaegashi Nanora barges into the place and demands his help learning the ins and outs of the arcade’s trickiest games. It isn’t long before she suggests they start going out, beginning a summer full of arcade fun and simmering sexual tension!

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I’m A Wolf, But My Boss is a Sheep!

Type: Manga
By: Shino Shimizu
Release Date (Volume 1): February 2022
Price: $12.99 USD

Wolf-man Ogami is a salaryman at a mattress and bedding company whose coworkers are all sheep. Normally, this lone wolf keeps to himself, but his job in this new department is both a blessing and a curse. Ogami has a crush on an adorable sheep-lady supervisor and it appears to be more than just a case of mere puppy-love…

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Classroom of the Elite

Type: Manga
By: Syougo Kinugasa and Yuyu Ichino
Release Date (Volume 1): February 2022
Price: $13.99 USD

Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom–if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks! Ayanokouji Kiyotaka has landed at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he meets Horikita Suzune, who’s determined to rise up the ladder to Class A. Can they beat the system in a school where cutthroat competition is the name of the game?

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Gunbured x Sisters

Type: Mature-Rated Manga
By: Wataru Mitogawa
Release Date (Volume 1): March 2022
Price: $13.99 USD

In a decaying gothic city, warrior nun Dorothy is tasked with hunting down and slaughtering supernatural creatures. A member of the elite Crimson Sisters, she seeks to rid the city of the vampire population that plagues it. One fateful night, she encounters a wounded woman, Maria, only to discover that she has fangs and a strange parentage. Dorothy offers the half-vampire her best and only chance at survival: become my pet. Together, Dorothy and Maria will dive into the secrets at the heart of the vampire scourge that threatens to overwhelm their home.

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The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior

Type: Light Novel / Manga
By: Tenichi, Suzunosuke, and Bunko Matsuura
Release Date (Volume 1): February 2022 / March 2022
Price: $14.99 USD / $12.99 USD

Pride Royal Ivy is only eight years old when she realizes that she’s been reincarnated, destined to become the future wicked queen and final boss of an otome game. She’s got it all in this new life: razor-sharp wit, boss-tier powers, and influence over the kingdom as crown princess. Determined to sow despair and destruction across the land, she… Wait, what kind of a rotten future is that?! Princess Pride decides to drop the maniacal villainess plan and protect the male love interests instead, cheating her way to saving everyone she can! Will this final boss end up earning the adoration of her kingdom?

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My Next Life as a Villainess Side Story: Girls Patch

Type: Manga Anthology
By: Various Creators
Release Date (Volume 1): May 2022
Price: $14.99 USD

Fans already love the romantic comedy franchise about Katarina Claes, a woman from Earth reborn into an otome game and determined to avoid her villainous end. Although she’s living in a game world full of male love interests, she also develops rich relationships with the women around her–and that’s exactly what this anthology is about. Enjoy these original manga stories about Katarina and her lovely ladies setting the boys aside to explore deeper relationships with each other. This book is a special gift to the fans of this series who dreamed of more love between the women!

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Hello, Melancholic

Type: Manga
By: Yayoi Ohsawa
Release Date (Volume 1): February 2022
Price: $13.99 USD

Asano Minato is a tall but stooping first-year high school student. Though she’s an awesome trombone player, she does everything she can to fade into the background. Despite her best efforts, however, Minato catches the attention of her bubbly and charismatic upperclasswoman Hibiki, who wants Minato to join the band she’s forming at school and won’t take no for an answer! Will Minato be able to let go of the past and play in a band again? Can polar opposites harmonize through music? Slow jam your way into this dulcet yuri series!

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2.5 Dimensional Seduction

Type: Mature-Rated Manga
By: Ya Hashimoto
Release Date (Volume 1): February 2022
Price: $13.99 USD

“I have no interest in real girls!” So claims Okumura, the president of the school’s manga club. He’s your typical otaku, obsessed with a sexy (fictional) 2D manga character known as Lilliel. Then the new school year starts, and a (real!) 3D girl named Lilysa whose passion is cosplay joins the club. Lilysa convinces Okumura to become her photographer–and guess who her favorite manga character is? Not only that, but Lilysa is into modeling the fetishy stuff! The boundaries between 2D and 3D start to blur as this hot-blooded romantic comedy unfolds.

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Sheeply Horned Witch Romi

Type: Manga
By: Yoichi Abe
Release Date (Volume 1): March 2022
Price: $12.99 USD

The world has changed: everyone has fallen into a deep slumber, except the sheep…plus a sheep-horned witch and her senpai. And now monsters are closing in! Why are the only people still awake two teenagers in love with each other? Find out in this beautifully illustrated, unique dark fantasy!

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The Muscle Girl Next Door

Type: Manga
By: Amesuke Ano
Release Date (Volume 1): June 2022
Price: $13.99 USD

College student Daria isn’t a big guy–he’s thin and kinda scrawny, and he’s a little self-conscious about it. When he bumps into Rubi-san, a totally cut lady who can haul massive logs around, he thinks she’s the epitome of macho coolness. And it’s more than just admiration or even envy–he’s immediately smitten by her! Watch slight Daria chase after the buff and sexy Rubi in this charming modern love story.

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Witches: The Complete Collection

Type: Manga Omnibus
By: Daisuke Igarashi
Release Date (Single Omnibus Volume): March 2022
Price: $19.99 USD

On a visit to the capital of a small country in the far west of Asia, a British girl named Nicola falls in love. The object of her affections is Mimar, a young man who works at a bazaar–yet despite her attempts, he doesn’t notice her. Back at home in England, the ache of her unrequited love festers. After years spent obtaining wealth, fame, and “the secret of the world,” she returns to the bazaar to exact her deadly revenge upon Mimar and those he holds dearest. This story is just one of many in this dramatic collection, which features tales of witchcraft across the globe and even in the far reaches of outer space. Originally published as two volumes in Japan and winner of an Excellence Prize at the 2004 Japan Media Arts Festival, now you can own the entire series in English for the first time in this beautiful omnibus release.

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My Deer Friend

Type: Manga
By: Oshioshiro
Release Date (Volume 1): March 2022
Price: $12.99 USD

Torako thought she had successfully buried a wild past to become a normal high school honors student, with none of her classmates aware of her delinquent roots. But that all changes when she discovers Nokotan, a new transfer student with antlers, tangled up in power lines and being attacked by birds! Is Nokotan an elk, a girl, or something in-between? Whatever she is, Torako may regret helping her, since Nokotan can smell the former delinquent on her. Now a punky past and a monster girl have crashed into Torako’s life in this hilarious (and chaotic) high school comedy!

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The Weakest Contestant in All Space and Time

Type: Manga
By: Masato Hisa and KRSG
Release Date (Volume 1): May 2022
Price: $12.99 USD

Hitomu is a young guy with no goals or dreams: he goes to work, comes home, sleeps, and repeats. That changes when he’s abducted by a god and forced to participate in a gladiatorial tournament to find the weakest being in all of space and time! After Hitomu loses repeatedly, he’s set against four weakling opponents to fight to the death…but he instead finds a way to escape, breaking out his fellow “losers”: a ghost boy, a slime girl, a useless robot, and a bug monster. Now fugitives on a hostile planet, the five weirdos must rely on each other. Alone they can’t do squat, but together they just might be able to survive.

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Monologue Woven For You

Type: Manga
By: Syu Yasaka
Release Date (Volume 1): February 2022
Price: $14.99 USD

Two college students with a shared dream and opposite paths collide–will their ambitions bring them together or pull them apart? Haruka has abandoned her dreams of the theater, but finds herself still haunted by memories. Meanwhile, Nao chases her aspirations for the stage head-on, refusing to back down or let obstacles obscure her way. When the lives of these two women cross, despite their contrary feelings, they end up entangled…as romance sparks between them.

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It’s Just Not My Night: Tale of a Fallen Vampire Queen

Type: Manga
By: Muchimaro
Release Date (Volume 1): April 2021
Price: $13.99 USD

Powerful, world-conquering vampiress Manamir is on the verge of world conquest, but when a teleportation spell goes awry, she finds herself stranded on Earth. Not only has she been flung into a world that’s not her own, she has lost the very power that defines a vampire: the ability to drink human blood! Unable to steal energy from others, Manamir has to make ends meet somehow, which is why she ends up working part-time at a convenience store, selling smokes to bikers while trying to grasp the subtleties of Earth life. Maybe she’d make more money selling her panties…

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Correspondence from the End of the Universe

Type: Manga
By: MENOTA
Release Date (Volume 1): March 2022
Price: $12.99 USD

Marko is a young Russian university student who is looking forward to finishing school so he can spend more time with his fiancée. However, those plans go out the window when he’s abducted by aliens! These extraterrestrials have a mission for Marko, one that will take ten years. All Marko can do is make the most of it and get to know the strange creatures who are now his co-workers in this offbeat tale of a life far from Earth.

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Darling in the Franxx

Type: Mature-Rated Manga
By: Code:000 and Kentaro Yabuki
Release Date (Volume 1-2 Omnibus): March 2022
Price: $19.99 USD

In a devastated post-apocalyptic future, Earth is a ruinous wasteland. Humanity’s only remaining strongholds are mobile fortress cities called Plantations. Massive beasts known as klaxosaurs, the planet’s new apex predators, have pushed mankind to the edge of extinction, and within the walls of the Plantations, things are no less dire. Humans no longer love or reproduce–adults live on in sterile immortality while children are regarded as nothing more than parasites, artificially created to pair up and pilot the Plantations’ giant defense robots known as Franxx. Former child whiz kid Hiro fails out of the piloting program after falling out of sync with his co-pilot, and a fateful decision to skip his group’s graduation ceremony puts him on a collision course with a horned girl known as Zero Two, whose co-pilots always end up dead. She claims Hiro as her “darling,” but what can that word even mean in such a loveless world?

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I am Blue, In Pain, and Fragile

Type: Light Novel
By: Haruki
Release Date (Volume 1): October 2021
Price: $13.99 USD

This adult action comedy takes place during a fictional time in Japan’s history known as the Ero period, where the arts of love and war hold equal sway! A diverse cast of ninja warriors both male and female must outwit, outlast, and out-maneuver the competition, or else suffer the sexy consequences!

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Even If It Was Just Once, I Regret It

Type: Manga
By: Miyahara Miyako
Release Date (Volume 1): February 2022
Price: $13.99 USD

Twenty-four-year-old Koduka Chiyo quit her job and is wallowing in self-pity in her apartment. She’s also three months behind on her rent. Then her landlady proposes an unusual solution: have sex with her, and she’ll help with the debt, the filthy apartment, and the loneliness driving Chiyo to beer and escapism. After a one-night stand, the two women decide to keep up the arrangement. Their growing relationship leads to questions of identity, getting one’s life together, and if something tender can develop from an arrangement that started with a bang.

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Yakuza Reincarnation

Type: Manga
By: Takeshi Natsuhara and Hiroki Miyashita
Release Date (Volume 1): March 2022
Price: $12.99 USD

Ryu may be getting on in years, but this aging yakuza boss is still tough enough to take on the punks trying to edge in on his turf. However, when the young toughs ambush him, it looks like it’s lights out for old Ryu. But instead of dying, Ryu wakes up in a fantasy world in the body of a beautiful princess! Is he the one that the ancient prophecy spoke of? Ryu might be out of place in this fantasy realm, but he may be the only one who can save it!

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The Hundred Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You

Type: Mature-Rated Manga
By: Rikito Nakamura and Yukiko Nozawa
Release Date (Volume 1): February 2022
Price: $13.99 USD

Aijo Rentaro tried and tried again, but after asking a hundred girls out on a date, he was rejected every single time. In desperation, he prays for guidance…only to be told by a god that his rejections were due to some cosmic error! Now the god is going to set things right by making sure that Aijo gets one hundred dates. Except, as things often do with gods, the dates come with a catch: one hundred girls are destined to be Aijo’s soulmate, and unless he returns their feelings each and every time, they’ll die in horrible accidents! Sure enough, girls start confessing their love to Aijo left and right. But how is he supposed to choose?! He doesn’t want to kill anyone! When he looks at each potential soulmate, it feels like a bolt of lightning. Can someone really love a hundred other people? This hilarious romantic comedy takes the harem concept to a wild extreme!

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The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent: The Other Saint

Type: Manga
By: Yuka Tachibana, Aoagu, and Yasuyuki Syuri
Release Date (Volume 1): May 2022
Price: $13.99 USD

Aira Misono is a run-of-the-mill high school girl, and never imagined that she’d be summoned to another world, let alone declared its savior. Yet from the moment the handsome Prince Kyle lays eyes on her, he’s convinced that she’s the long-awaited Holy Saint destined to banish darkness from his world. Aira herself maintains significant doubts. Is she really up to this challenge? She might be able to use magic, but is she really a Saint? Aira’s fears and struggles only deepen when the woman summoned alongside her begins to look more and more like the one who truly deserves that title.

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The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbye

Type: Light Novel / Manga
By: Mokune Hachi, Kukka, and Koudon
Release Date (Volume 1): July 2022
Price: $14.99 USD / $12.99 USD

Tono Kaoru heard a rumor: The laws of space and time mean nothing to the Urashima Tunnel. If you find it, walk through and you’ll find your heart’s desire on the other side…in exchange for years of your own life. On the night Kaoru just so happens to find himself standing in front of a tunnel that looks suspiciously like the one the rumor describes, he finds himself thinking of Karen, the sister he lost in an accident five years ago. To Kaoru’s surprise, he’s been followed by the new transfer student Anzu Hanaki, who promises to help him experiment with the mysterious tunnel–but what does she want from Kaoru in exchange? And what will he have left to give, after the tunnel’s done with him?

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My Brain is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders

Type: Manga
By: MONNZUSU
Release Date (Volume 1): April 2022
Price: $14.99 USD

This intimate manga anthology is about the struggles and triumphs of individuals learning to navigate daily life with a developmental disorder. The comics follow the stories of nine people, including: a junior high dropout finding an alternate path to education; a former “troublesome” child helping kids at a support school; a so-called problem child realizing the beauty of his own unique quirks; and a man falling in love with the world with the help of a new medication. This inspiring volume illustrates their diverse anxieties and finding self-empowerment in a world not quite built with them in mind.

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The Duke of Death and His Maid

Type: Manga
By: Koharu Inoue
Release Date (Volume 1): May 2022
Price: $12.99 USD

When the duke was a young boy, a witch made it so that any living thing he touched died. Unable to cope with such a cursed child, his family sent him away to live in an old mansion. Now a young man, his only companions are an elderly butler and his childhood friend, a buxom, blonde maid named Alice. Despite the fact that touching the duke means instant death, Alice is constantly teasing him, getting close and flirting mercilessly. But even though Alice loves to make the duke blush, her affection for him is the real deal. Can the two figure out a way to break the witch’s spell?

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