Six new manga and light novel works are due to commence being published during or around June 2022, with North American licensor and publisher Yen Press confirming they now hold the rights to six new Japanese works. For those who prefer manga, you will have the option of enjoying Magical Explorer; The Girl I Saved on the Train Turned Out to Be My Childhood Friend; Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included; Shadows House; and Mato Seihei no Slave. For those who love to chill out to a novel, you may find Yokohama Station SF National to your liking.
Curious about these works? You can read more about each of them below. Expect to hear more about their precise release dates in the coming months.
1Magical Explorer
Format: Manga
Story: Iris
Art: Yukari Higa
Character Design: Noboru Kannatuki
Living in the world of Magical★Explorer, the legendary erotic game, sounds like a dream. Problem is, I reincarnated not as the lady-killer protagonist with his overpowered cheat skills, but as his unlucky comic-relief best friend!
2The Girl I Saved on the Train Turned Out to Be My Childhood Friend
Format: Manga
Story: Kennoji
Art: You Midorikawa
Character Design: Fly
When high schooler Ryou Takamori steps in to save a girl on a crowded train, he never expected her to be his childhood friend Hina Fushimi. Though the two of them sit next to each other in class, they haven’t spoken since middle school—but this heroic act may give Hina the push she needs to shorten the distance between them!
3Yokohama Station SF National
Format: Novel
Story: Yuba Isukari
Art: Tatsuyuki Tanaka
This follow-up volume to the science fiction hit sheds light on the history of Yokohama Station and people all across Japan through a series of short stories. “Kyoto” tells the tale of a struggle against the information warfare of the station monitoring systems. “Gunma” details the collapse and reconstruction of Yokahama Station. In “Kumamoto,” people tolerate violence and mistreatment in exchange for safety from the looming threat of the station. Finally, “Iwate” follows a spy’s escape to an unknown region of the north.
4Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included
Format: Manga
Story: matoba
Art: Yukari matoba
Tarou Tokumitsu is a high schooler living all alone, when he encounters a pure and kind girl named Towa on his balcony. But who is she, really…? Matoba, author of As Miss Beelzebub Likes, brings you the latest cute and innocent romantic comedy!
5Shadows House
Format: Manga
Story: Somato
Art: Yukari Somato
Shadows House—a strange mansion that receives no callers, inhabited by a race of faceless shadows who play at being aristocrats and are waited on hand and foot by “living dolls,” who also serve as their masters’ faces. What goes on inside this enigmatic manor is anyone’s guess, but soot and shrieks billow up from within…
6Mato Seihei no Slave
Format: Manga
Story: Takahiro
Art: Yohei Takemura
Otherworldly spaces known as “demon cities” appeared in various parts of Japan, and those who partook in the “peaches” growing there gained unique abilities—but only if they’re girls. One day, a down-in-the-dumps high school boy named Yuuki Wagura suddenly gets lost at the entrance of a demon city. There, he meets Kyoka Uzen, the beautiful leader of the seven programs of “Magical Defense Corps,” who orders him to become her slave?!
