North American publisher of manga, light novels and other localised published works, Seven Seas Entertainment, has in recent days announced swaths of new license acquisitions for works set to hit store shelves in 2025. Scroll down to see if any of these works catch your attention, and perhaps hold a spot on your bookshelf next year:
Himegasaki Sakurako is a Hot Mess
Type: Manga
By: Kosuke Yasuda
Release Month: June 2025
Who wouldn’t have a thing for Himegasaki Sakurako? With her blonde pigtails, cute demeanor, and buxom body, she draws all of the eyes at school. If only her crush, Mimori Natsuki, saw her as more than his childhood gal pal! Can this loveable loser stop getting into embarrassing situations and finally land the boy of her dreams?
Adored by an Elite Officer: Could This Be Love?
Type: Manga
By: Murasaki Nishino and Gondawara
Release Month: May 2025
Not only has Nagiko’s employer gone belly up, but she’s also been dumped by her longtime boyfriend! Feeling adrift, she reunites with her childhood friend Samegawa Kohei for the first time in years. And in the middle of catching up, he…proposes marriage?! The engagement may seem impulsive, but Kohei is clumsy, sweet, kind, and completely devoted to his new wife! What’s more, his job in the Japanese Self-Defense Force requires daily training, and his extraordinary declarations of love never stop! Hearts will flutter in this newlywed romance!
Two Guys at the Vet Clinic
Type: Manga
By: Sinonome
Release Month: July 2025
Takaha, a veterinary student, finds a stray cat that needs help and rushes it to an animal hospital…where he falls in love at first sight with Baba, the director. Trying to get closer to him, Takaha gets a job there, and Baba’s flirtatious behavior inflames his feelings till he can no longer repress them… A slow burn age-gap BL story about a straightforward younger veterinarian and his complicated boss!
I’ll Forget You Starting Today, Senpai!
Type: Manga
By: Megumi Yamaguchi
Release Month: May 2025
Hiromi is suddenly reunited with her high school boyfriend–at a professional match-making service! But their reunion isn’t a sweet one, because he doesn’t seem to remember Hiromi at all. In fact, he starts making wild accusations that make her question all her memories from back then. This sharp-tongued stranger is like an entirely different person from the guy she remembers! Is this a match doomed to fail?
Qualia the Purple
Type: Audiobook
By: Hisamitsu Ueo and Shirou Tsunashima
Narrated by: Katy Vaughn
Release Date: 28 November 2024
Junior high schooler Marii Yukari sees all humans, aside from herself, as robots through her vivid, purple eyes. Yet even with such a strange perspective on the world, her classmates treat her like an unassuming, strange girl, including Manabu “Gaku” Hatou, her sole friend. Yet strange things start occurring around Yukari, and when she is recruited into an underground organization due to her unique talents, Manabu finds herself tangled up in a realm of dangerous experiments and quantum physics unlike anything she could have ever imagined! Yet is her friendship with Marii enough to save them both from whatever awaits them in the scientific underbelly of the world?
Ripping Someone Open Only Makes Them Bleed
Type: Audiobook
By: Yoru Sumino
Release Date: 12 December 2024
Seventeen-year-old Akane has everything she could ever want: friends, a boyfriend, and an all-round perfect life. No one knows that her every move is a calculated performance, dictated by a compulsive need to be liked. Her flawless act is disrupted when she meets a man named Ai, who looks and sounds exactly like the protagonist of Akane’s favorite novel. Can this be a coincidence? And if not, what does it mean?
Roll Over and Die: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with my Love and Cursed Sword
Type: Audiobook
By: kiki and kinta
Narrated by: Emily Bauer
Release Date: 5 December 2024
Flum Apricot was never meant to be a hero. Despite stats that were zeroes across the board and a power she can’t even use, she somehow finds herself a member of a party of heroes. But Flum’s life hits rock bottom when the party’s renowned sage, Jean Inteige, decides that the useless girl is dead weight, and arranges to have her sold into slavery. Tossed to monsters to be feasted upon for her master’s entertainment, Flum makes the desperate choice to reach for a cursed weapon…and something new awakens within her. A grimdark tale about one woman’s blood-soaked quest to reclaim her life!
Sweet Heat Before Falling in Love: The CEO and His Fated Omega
Type: Manga
By: Yun
Release Month: June 2025
To dodge relentless alpha suitors, omega office worker Uiko hides behind the facade of a beta. But when an unexpected heat hits, she seeks refuge at AΩ—an exclusive sex salon where omegas meet their perfect alpha match. Paired with a mysterious, masked alpha, Uiko’s world is rocked by pleasure like never before. But back at the office, she starts to suspect her irresistible mystery man might be much closer than she ever realized.
BL Game Rebirth: My New Life as the Hero’s Younger Brother
Type: Manga
By: Yui Hanaka, Kana, and Shive
Release Month: July 2025
When an office lady is reincarnated into the world of a spicy BL game she played, she’s shocked to find out that she’s now part of the story…as the younger brother of the main character! What’s more, by the time “Akira” realizes what’s going on, his older brother has already gotten together with one of the game’s love interests! But what about the other boys? How will they cope with losing out on the beloved main character? And what’s in store for the main pair after the credits roll? Akira couldn’t have asked to be in a more delicious position! But the weird thing is…he doesn’t remember there being a younger brother when he played the game?!
The Twelve Kingdoms
Type: Novel
By: Fuyumi Ono and Akihiro Yamada
Release Month: July 2025
When high school student Youko Nakajima is approached by an enigmatic, blonde-haired stranger named Keiki, her life is turned upside down. Whisked away into the perilous world of the Twelve Kingdoms—a realm teeming with mythical beasts, ancient prophecies, and political intrigue—Youko finds herself alone and hunted. With danger at every corner, she must fight to survive, all while grappling with shocking revelations about her true identity that could shatter everything she thought she knew.
