While Seven Seas Entertainment has acquired a number of licenses, many of these were manga releases and one just so happened to be a classic manga. This time around the company has picked up another classic but this time it happens to be a novel in a series that will appear quite familiar for longtime anime fans and possibly an attempt to test the waters for future releases. Record of Lodoss War: ...
All through last week Seven Seas Entertainment announced a wide-array of manga licenses and one of their last announcements will please fans of classic manga. The Dragon Half manga series ran back in 1989 and although it inspired a two episode OVA that covered a small portion of the manga, the series was never given much attention in the West outside of fan efforts. Well that will soon change as S...
With many licenses already under their belts this week Seven Seas Entertainment has added yet another one to the list by announcing that they have acquired the license to the Captain Harlock: Dimensional Voyage manga that currently has five volumes released in Japan. The first of these volumes will be released in English on October 3rd. This manga series is an all-new contemporary take on space pi...
Continuing their licensing spree Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that they have acquired the rights to release the spin-off manga by Go Nagai and Rui Takatō, Devilman G. The company describes this series as being “a modern retelling of the horror manga epic that pulls elements from the franchise’s rich forty year history.” The first volume of the series, that currently has over five m...
While Seven Seas Entertainment has plenty of different manga licenses, they are also one of the few companies that has dabbled with bringing over Japanese interpretations of classic novels and now they are expanding that reach a little further. The company has licensed five classic novels with illustrations from Japanese artists and will be releasing them later this year. The titles include The Se...
Seven Seas is continuing with their licensing spree by announcing three new acquisitions today that all happen to fall into the same category, at least as far as the focus goes. The three manga are all magical girl oriented and happen to be Ryuichi Yokoyama and Manmaru Kamitsuki’s Unmagical Girl with the first volume arriving on September 12th, Makoto Fukami and Seigo Tokiya’s Magical ...
Yesterday Seven Seas Entertainment announced a pair of manga license acquisitions and they are continuing on that role with another one that fans of a certain Vocaloid will be happy to hear about. The company has announced that they have acquired the license to Ontama’s Hatsune Miku Presents: Hachune Miku’s Everyday Vocaloid Paradise. The first volume for the manga series, which will be rele...
Seven Seas Entertainment has decided to start off the year, or at least as close as possible to the start of the year, with a couple of licensing announcements. Today the manga publisher announced that they have acquired the licenses for the Absolute Duo manga adaptation of the light novel series with the first volume set to ship on August 29th and Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea which will be r...
Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that they have acquired the license for another manga series that just so happens to focus on monsters. Re:Monster is the license they picked up this time, a manga adaptation of the light novel series that is currently sitting at a little over seven volumes in length. Unlike many of the other monster styled manga that Seven Seas has picked up in the past, the...
Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that they have picked up a rather unique sounding license. They have acquired the rights to release Land of the Rising Dead: A Tokyo School Girl’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse in North America and plan on releasing the entire single large-trim manga volume on October 11, 2016 for $14.99. When released Land of the Rising Dead: A Tokyo School ...
Continuing with their “10 Days of Licensing” Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that they are picking up the manga series How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King. Written by Warau Yakan with artwork handled by Komiya Toshimasa, How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King is a dark fantasy harem manga that takes a darker look at the dungeon genre as it follows the story of...
Although Seven Seas Entertainment has pretty much cornered the market when it comes to monster girl manga releases, this latest announcement does come as something of a surprise to me for a number of reasons, but it is a rather pleasant surprise. The company continued their licensing binge by announcing that they have acquired Kenkou Cross’ Monster Girl Encyclopedia for release in North Amer...