Seven Seas Entertainment was at Anime Expo last weekend for the first in-person show since 2019, and they revealed a number of new manga licenses.
The publisher has “rescued” the shojo manga Marmalade Boy, by Wataru Yoshizumi, which was originally published in North America by Tokyopop during the first manga boom but has long been out of print. Seven Seas will publish it as Marmalade Boy: Collector’s Edition, so it will probably be in a prestige format; in Japan, publisher Shueisha issued a Special Edition that bundled the original eight volumes into six. The series has spun off an anime, which is available in English, and several sequels and a novel, which are not.
Do Not Say Mystery, by Yumi Tamura, is a josei series about a college student who solves mysteries. The series is currently 11 volumes and still ongoing; it won the Shogagkukan Manga Award in Japan in 2021. Seven Seas announced it as an omnibus edition so they may use a two-in-one format as they did for Blue Giant. While there is no anime, Do Not Say Mystery was adapted into a drama that is available on the streaming service Viki. Tamura is also the creator of the post-apocalyptic manga 7SEEDS, which was adapted into an anime that currently streams on Netflix.
Seven Seas’ other new manga licenses include The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife, by Neko Iwatobe, a one-shot about an invisible detective and his blind assistant, and a number of fantasy titles: Rise of the Outlaw Tamer and His Wild S-Rank Cat Girl, by Skyfarm, Joji Manabe, and Nekosuke Ookuma; Why Don’t You Eat Me, My Dear Wolf? By Ao Koishikawa; The Eccentric Doctor of the Moon Flower Kingdom, by Tohru Himuka; The Villainess and the Demon Knight, by Nekoda and Seikan; and Classroom of the Elite: Horikita, by Shougo Kinugasa & Sakagaki, a spinoff of a series already published by Seven Seas.
Source: ICV2
