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Yen Press announces 21 New Licenses for the Summer

Yen Press has announced twenty-one new title acquisitions, which include special releases of fan-favorite series, battles for humanity, monsters, romance, and more.

Releasing in July 2025, the lineup includes six novels and fourteen manga.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Collector’s Edition (novel)

By Fujino Omori
Illustrated by Suzuhito Yasuda

In Orario, fearless adventurers search for fame and fortune within the monstrous underground labyrinth known as the Dungeon. But Bell Cranell has bigger plans. He wants to pick up girls! Blessed by the clumsy but caring goddess Hestia, Bell forges friendships, makes alliances, and continues to venture deeper into the Dungeon. There are big decisions to make, trouble is constantly afoot, and—most importantly—there’s always beautiful women to encounter! 

This collector’s edition of the first 10 volumes features a cover printed on silver foil with embossed border areas and silver-printed edges, with a custom blue ribbon. The spine is designed to ensure the book lies flat so fans can enjoy the dazzling interior art as if it’s a full spread. Fans can look forward to future, color-coded editions, ensuring a dazzling collection of this beloved series.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Collector’s Edition (novel)

[Oshi No Ko]  Spica of the First Star (novel)

By Hajime Tanaka
Original Story by Aka Akasaka
Illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari

Sometime after joining B Komachi, Ai Hoshino tells Ichigo Saitou, the president of her talent agency, that she has decided to quit the idol business. Though her group appears to be thriving on the surface, there is serious discord among its members. That’s when Ichigo offers her a different proposition…

A companion to the hit manga, this volume also includes the story of how Gorou and Sarina meet and part ways before becoming Aqua and Ruby, and a special bonus episode entitled “POV B”!

[Oshi No Ko]  Spica of the First Star (novel)

To Sir, Without Love: I’m Divorcing You, Part 1 (novel)

By Kori Hisakawa

At sixteen years old, Byletta was married off to Arnald, a nobleman’s son with a reputation for being both ruthless and handsome—although she hasn’t seen him once in eight years. Thankfully, Byletta is a strong, independent woman, who don’t need no man! When the empire’s war finally comes to an end, he returns home as a distinguished army commander…so Byletta takes the opportunity to request a divorce. But in response, he proposes a wager that’ll keep them together for one more month. A clumsy love story unfolds between a young woman with the reputation of a villainess, and a young man who has never known love!

To Sir, Without Love: I’m Divorcing You, Part 1 (novel)

How to Eat Life, Vol. 1 (novel)

By Ao Juumonji
Original Story by Eve
Art by lack

Tobi Otogiri, a second-year student in middle school, doesn’t spend much time with his peers. Instead, he mostly chats in secret with his pal Baku, a mysterious backpack he received the day he last saw his older brother. Or at least, Tobi thought his chats were secret until a girl in his class named Ryuuko suddenly mentions Baku. Soon, strange things start happening at school, and the two of them realize the cause might be a creature only they can see… Thus begins an adventure blending reality and fantasy, human and nonhuman—a story about life eating life.

How to Eat Life, Vol. 1 (novel)

Sword of Stallion, Vol. 1 (novel)

By Gakuto Mikumo
Illustrated by Manyako

Rass Tarlion has fallen far. A mercenary who once single-handedly slayed a Greater Dragon, he now indulges in a hedonistic lifestyle, visiting brothels night after night, earning him the derisive nickname The Stallion by people all across the empire. Yet one day, the Imperial Princess Fiarca—his ex-fiancée who was thought to be dead—appears before him. To save the country from impending doom, the princess takes Rass back to the Imperial Palace…and tells him he has to seduce the crown prince’s fiancée, Princess Tishna from the neighboring kingdom!

Sword of Stallion, Vol. 1 (novel)

The Theater of Haruhi Suzumiya

By Nagaru Tanigawa
Illustrated by Noizi Ito

SOMETIMES EVEN HARUHI DOESN’T KNOW WHAT SHE WANTS! While the SOS Brigade visits a shrine to ring in the New Year, Kyon can’t help but notice a distinct lack of supernatural or reality-bending phenomena. Despite this, he’s as wary as ever. After all, Haruhi has a tendency to turn even the most mundane events into impossible uproars! That danger could not be more pressing when their club activities lead them into a world of school wonders and whodunit mysteries. Even peaceful moments are remarkably bizarre when Haruhi is around…

The Theater of Haruhi Suzumiya

Delicious in Dungeon World Guide: The Adventurer’s Bible, Complete Edition

By Ryoko Kui

Back for seconds? With more than seventy pages of brand-new comics, character info, and secrets on the menu, this updated edition of the Delicious in Dungeon World Guide, covering the complete series, is packed with all you need to know to explore even the deepest of labyrinths!

Delicious in Dungeon World Guide: The Adventurer’s Bible, Complete Edition

Lycoris Recoil Official Comic Anthology: React

By Spider Lily

Welcome to Café LycoReco! Join Chisato, Takina, and their Lycoris co-workers inside for a taste of their lives off-the-clock from Lycoris duty, whether it’s devising new menu items or balancing the books!

Lycoris Recoil Official Comic Anthology: React

Dead Mount Death Play Side Story: Phantom Solitaire’s Art of Disguising Oneself as a Supernatural Being

By Ryohgo Narita
Art by Yata Sugami

Catch the manga edition of the novel following a certain delightfully devious criminal!! “This astonishing autobiography written by me, Sorimura Tena, follows my rise to the top as well as how I became known as Phantom Solitaire. You’ll find some familiar names, including our friends at the Shinjuku police department! It’s phenomenal, extravagant—you’ve never read anything like it before! That’s right—get a front-row seat to this DEATH PLAY!”

Dead Mount Death Play Side Story: Phantom Solitaire’s Art of Disguising Oneself as a Supernatural Being

Guillotine Bride (manga)

By Daigo Murasaki
Art by Kayahara and Shibakame

Rinne Irako, a girl with the potential to bring the world to ruin, has been sentenced to execution. But on the way to the guillotine, a sudden incident sends her crashing down to earth—right in the path of Ryuunosuke Dazai, a boy who’s eager help save Rinne and the world. All he has to do…is marry her?!

Guillotine Bride (manga)

Konosuba: Even More Explosions on This Wonderful World!

By Kasumi Morino
Original Story by Natsume Akatsuki
Art by Kasumi Morino

Yearning to follow in the footsteps of the silver-haired girl she met at the Eris Festival, Megumin decides to form her own band of thieves! She soon attracts several like-minded allies, but considering her nature, perhaps that’s not such a good thing… 

Konosuba: Even More Explosions on This Wonderful World!

A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans (manga)

By Atsu Benino
Original Story by Kurusu Natsume

Rei Hitoma is a former schoolteacher and a self-professed misanthrope due to past trauma. Hoping to live a slow, relaxing life, he takes a new teaching job in the mountains. But it turns out that this place is actually an all-girls school for demi-humans who want to become full-fledged human beings!

A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans (manga)

Bocchi the Rock! Comic Anthology

By Anthology

Hitori “Bocchi” Gotoh might find it hard to make friends, but that doesn’t mean she’s lacking in admirers! This rockin’ anthology features a lineup of all-star guest authors ready to take the stage for the ultimate Bocchi the Rock! tribute concert! With a set list featuring hits such as “What If Bocchi Was Totally Ripped?,” “Kessoku Band Tours in Another World,” and “Hitori Gotoh vs the Police,” you’ll discover new sides to your favorite characters you never even dreamed of!

Bocchi the Rock! Comic Anthology

Almark, Vol. 1 (manga)

By Hiyoto Yunoki
Original Story by Noboru Yamada

In the northern lands where war continues without end, young Almark hopes to be a mercenary like his father one day. Thinking the timid boy ill-suited for such a life, however, his worried father envisions a different future for him—all the way at the Nork Magical Academy in the peaceful South, once he’s old enough to attend. And so, despite Almark’s efforts on and off the battlefield, he eventually sets out for the academy to respect his father’s wishes. But what lies ahead on his journey to becoming a magician?

Almark, Vol. 1 (manga)

Double the Trouble, Twice as Nice, Vol. 1

By Ryo Ichino

This was a mistake. A very big mistake. Well, it’s not like Yuri Hayama could just abandon an unconscious child in the middle of the street… And since her phone was dead, she ended up bringing him back to her place, which leads to her current dilemma—there’s a ridiculously hot guy in her bed! Plus, because he has a mysterious ability to transform from angelically cherubic to sinfully sexy and zero qualms about using that to get whatever he wants, he’s already got her twisted around his little finger…

Double the Trouble, Twice as Nice, Vol. 1

MONSTER TRIBE, Vol. 1 (manga)

By Jyuu Masui

Ten is a high school boy who wants nothing more than an average, uneventful life. Unfortunately, that’s not going to be easy for a half-human, half-monster child whose entire family is made up of monsters! What’s more, Ten and his brother are assigned an extraordinary mission—to hunt down the monsters threatening the human world! With the fate of humanity on his shoulders, will Ten ever be able to achieve the normal life he dreams of?!

MONSTER TRIBE, Vol. 1 (manga)

Super String: Marco Polo’s Travel to the Multiverse, Vol. 1

By IN-wan YOUN
Art by BOICHI

When Marco Polo’s parents are wrapped up in a royal conspiracy and executed, he takes on a job as a deckhand in order to provide for his younger siblings. But one day, a monster attack causes a shipwreck, leaving Marco stranded in a mysterious town in Asia. As it turns out, this is just the beginning of a cross-dimensional journey spanning time and space, in which the fate of the world—including Marco’s family—hangs in the balance!

Super String: Marco Polo’s Travel to the Multiverse, Vol. 1

Suzuki-kun’s Mindful Life, Vol. 1

By Yuki Fujimoto

Kaoru Suzuki is the kind of guy who towers over his classmates and exudes an intimidating presence, but beneath his tough exterior, he’s just a student who loves sweets, crafts, and flowers. When a handsome and unexpectedly tough classmate steps in to save him from a drunk on the first day of school, this unlikely duo becomes fast friends.

Suzuki-kun’s Mindful Life, Vol. 1

Neighborhood Craftsmen: Stories from Kanda’s Gokura-chou, Vol. 1

By Akihito Sakaue

It’s not about the money. It’s about heart. Here in this masterpiece historical anthology, that heart will be laid bare to you: the spirit of craftsmanship, flowing from fingertip to final product, be it a barrel, indigo cloth, razor-sharp sword, soft tatami mat, or even complete plastered building…

Neighborhood Craftsmen: Stories from Kanda’s Gokura-chou, Vol. 1

Li’l Miss Vampire Can’t Suck Right, Vol. 1

By Kyosuke Nishiki

Luna Ishikawa is a dark and mysterious vampire—or so she’d like her new classmates to believe. The truth is, while she may be one of the not-so-mythical bloodsuckers, she doesn’t really live up to the hype. She’s short and clumsy, and she can’t even suck blood properly! So when her classmate Tatsuta Ootori discovers her little “drinking problem,” he can’t help but lend a hand. Can he nurse Luna from the small, timid animal she is into a fearsome creature of the night?!

Li’l Miss Vampire Can’t Suck Right, Vol. 1

Level Up with the Gods

By Ohyeon
Art by B. Ain

After the world as he knew it came crumbling down, ordinary college-student-turned-warrior Yuwon Kim, made his way to the Tower in the company of the Inner Gods. But even with his hard-earned skills and mighty companions, taking on the Outer Gods was an impossible feat—at least this time. Given a second chance, Yuwon returns to the beginning, before it all began, with a promise to return and fight again. Armed with the knowledge of a returnee, can he level up once more and find his place among the Gods? 

Level Up with the Gods

Anime NYC 2023: Yen Press announces 11 New Releases

Yen Press, LLC announced eleven new acquisitions at its Industry Panel at Anime NYC. Releasing in May 2024, this lineup includes eight manga (Bungo Stray Dogs Official AnthologyDays with My StepsisterGoblin Slayer: A Day in the LifeSword Art Online Re:AincradThe Kept Man of the Princess KnightNo Game No Life Chapter 2: Eastern UnionShe Likes Gays, but Not MeFriday at the Atelier), and three novels (Brunhild the DragonslayerThe God of Nishi-Yuigahama StationGuillotine Bride).

Bungo Stray Dogs Official Anthology

Original Story by Kafka Asagiri
Character Design by Sango Harukawa
Art by Various Artists

Presenting the first anthology of the popular supernatural action series Bungo Stray Dogs! Featuring a luxurious list of guest authors, these new Bungo stories include everything from gags to heartwarming moments in a charming collection that will leave you begging for more!

Bungo Stray Dogs Official Anthology

Days with My Stepsister

Story by Ghost Mikawa
Art by Yumika Kanade
Character Design by Hiten

After his father’s remarriage, high school student Yuuta suddenly finds himself stepsiblings with his classmate Saki. However, unlike the plain and simple Yuuta, his new younger sister has an over-the-top sense of style and is known as the hottest girl in the grade! Due to past trauma, Yuuta isn’t great at talking to women and at first is perplexed by this new family member who seems to be his complete opposite…but as the two settle into a shared lifestyle, could their relationship blossom into something more?!

Days with My Stepsister

Goblin Slayer: A Day in the Life

Original Story by Kumo Kagyu
Art by Daichi Matsuse
Character Design by Noboru Kannatuki

The party of Club Fighter, Supreme God’s Cleric, and Harefolk Hunter takes on a new challenge only to discover there are some enemies they can’t hope to defeat… Priestess joins Female Knight, Witch, and High Elf Archer on an adventure—but somehow, they end up defending a besieged fortress… And then there’s Goblin Slayer, who’s once again teamed up with Spearman and Heavy Warrior! This special manga adaptation of volume 12 of the popular light novel series follows a day in the life of adventurers in the Four-Cornered World!

Goblin Slayer: A Day in the Life

Sword Art Online Re:Aincrad

Original Story by Reki Kawahara
Art by KIMI
Composition by Mito Satou
Character Design by abec

Die in the game, and you die in real life. The only way out is clearing the massive floating castle Aincrad. The pinnacle of heroic sagas kicks off here!  

Sword Art Online Re:Aincrad

The Kept Man of the Princess Knight

Story by Toru Shirogane
Character Design by Mashimasaki
Art by keyyang

The dungeon calls, and is answered by adventurers, profiteers, and anyone looking to make a quick buck. And in this town inhabited by the dregs of society live a man and the woman who owns him. Arwin, the Crimson Princess Knight with lofty dreams of restoring her homeland—and Matthew, the town drunk. As Arwin challenges the dungeon, Matthew spends his days in taverns and brothels living off the money he gets from her. But the town laughingstock has a side that no one knows about. In service of Arwin, Matthew would do anything—no matter how dirty he might get.

The Kept Man of the Princess Knight

No Game No Life Chapter 2: Eastern Union

Story by Yuu Kamiya
Art by Ryu Naitou

The manga adaptation of the hit light novel series enters its second chapter! 

Summoned by a boy who calls himself God in a world where games decide everything, the prodigy gamer siblings Sora and Shiro quickly rise to the top of human society. Having secured a future for the Kingdom of Elkia and humankind in this world, the siblings set their sights on a new prize—the Eastern Union. It’s finally time to challenge the other races! 

No Game No Life Chapter 2: Eastern Union

Brunhild the Dragonslayer

Story by Yuiko Agarizaki
Illustration by Aoaso

Eden… A place of perfection… A place where man and beast live side by side in harmony… Eden’s protector, the silver dragon, regularly visits retribution upon those who would bring harm to paradise. But when the dragon discovers a human girl on the shores of Eden, he decides to raise her as his own. He teaches her that if she is to be welcomed into God’s Kingdom after death, she must not harbor hatred in her heart. But when the dragon’s life is mercilessly snuffed out by human machinations, the girl must choose whether to heed the dragon’s dying wish and stay the course of righteousness…or walk a path of vengeance.

Brunhild the Dragonslayer

The God of Nishi-Yuigahama Station

By Takeshi Murase

On the first day of spring, a train derails, causing numerous deaths. Two months later, rumors spread of a ghost at Nishi-Yuigahama Station with the power to send others back in time to the day of the terrible accident. The story attracts a woman who lost her fiancé, a man who lost his father, and a boy who lost his unrequited love. A chance to go back, to see those dear to them, seems almost too good to be true. What will they do now that they have it? 

The God of Nishi-Yuigahama Station

Guillotine Bride

Story by Daigo Murasaki
Illustration by Kureta

Rinne has been sentenced to death. That’s where the dragon princess’s story should have ended. Instead, she’s blown out of the sky en route to her execution and winds up in front of Ryuunosuke. The young boy has no time to be shocked by this wild development because the dragon girl needs him to lend her a hand—in marriage! For the sake of the world, Ryuunosuke has to marry Rinne and smother her with love, because if he fails to keep her in check, the entire human race will probably go extinct…! 

Guillotine Bride

She Likes Gays, but Not Me

Story by Akira Hirahara
Art by Naoto Asahara

Based on the critically acclaimed novel. High schooler Atsushi Andou has always hidden the fact that he’s gay. But one day, he sees his classmate Sae Miura with a BL book—a small moment with major consequences. Atsushi longs for a “normal” happiness with a loving wife and a biological child, but what can he do when he’s not turned on by women? 

She Likes Gays, but Not Me

Friday at the Atelier

By Sakura Hamada

Tamaki, a woman who’s grown tired with her life, is one day asked by the famous painter Shunsui Ishihara to become his model. And not just any model—a nude model. But when she accepts without hesitation, Ishihara is taken by her peculiar response and somehow falls for her…?! The misaligned love story between an oblivious girl and a handsome but extremely self-conscious artist begins here! 

Friday at the Atelier