Think that manga licensor and publisher Seven Seas Entertainment couldn’t possibly add any further titles to their line-up for the next few years? Well the company has recently come out and announced a small range of new additions to being distribution in 2022. As always, scroll down to see if your new potentially favourite manga is on their radar!
4 X-GENDER
By: Asuka Miyazaki
Format: Manga
Genre: Autobiographical Diary/Essay, LGBT+ Topics
Release Date (Volume 1): June 2022
Price: $14.99 USD
At 33 years old, Asuka Miyazaki realizes that they like women! Asuka, however, is neither a woman nor a man–instead, they’re X-gender, which is a non-binary identity. Follow Asuka through the pages of this autobiographical manga as they record the ins and outs of their journey to finding love with a woman.
3 Wicked Trapper: Hunter of Heroes
By: Wadapen
Format: Manga
Genre: Mature, Fantasy, Reborn into another world
Release Date (Volume 1): March 2022
Price: $13.99 USD
Echizen is a game designer being ground under the boot of his high-pressure job. His demanding workplace won’t even let him do what he’s best at: building brutal puzzles and traps for players. When he quits his job, something suddenly sucks him into a hellish dungeon in another world. His path collides with the alluring demon princess Sophilia, but before she can explain how or why she’s summoned him, they’re threatened by a party of marauding heroes–and Echizen watches in horror as the “heroes” enact a genocidal massacre on Sophilia’s demon friends. With his life on the line, Echizen uses the world’s magic to put his game developer skills to use in Sophilia’s defense. The deadly traps he creates give the heroes some brutal comeuppance, but the rush of power unlocks Echizen’s most sadistic impulses…leading him down a path he may never be able to turn back from.
2 Magic Artisan Dahlia Wilts No More
By: Hisaya Amagishi, Megumi Sumikawa, and KEI
Format: Manga
Genre: Fantasy, Reborn into another world
Release Date (Volume 1): April 2022
Price: $12.99 USD
Reincarnated in a fantasy world, Dahlia immerses herself in the art of crafting magical items. Using manufacturing knowledge from her previous life and the skills her new father has taught her, she invents blow dryers and other specialized tools, finding pleasure in everyday activities. Dahlia won’t hang her head in depression like she used to. She’s determined to enjoy her second chance at life!
1 It’s a Little Hard to be a Villainess of an Otome Game in Modern Society
By: Tofuro Futsukaichi and KEI
Format: Light Novel
Genre: Reborn into another world, Shoujo
Release Date (Volume 1): April 2022
Price: $14.99 USD
When an exhausted career woman is reincarnated as Keikain Runa, the villainess of an otome game born in the 1990s, she’s determined to win at any cost. She may lose the love interest’s heart, but she refuses to be ruined. Armed with the foreknowledge of the economic crash looming on Japan’s horizon, Runa must revitalize her father’s company and secure her freedom for herself and her new family.
