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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

Yen Press announces nine new titles!

Just off the heels of the recent June 2024 licenses, Yen Press has announced nine more new titles releasing in July 2024, including seven manga (Miss Savage Fang; Excellent Property, Rejects for Residents; My Oh My, Atami-kun; GOGOGOGO-GO-GHOST!; Aria of the Beech Forest; Kind of a Wolf; This Wolf Is Not Scary), one novel (The Trials of Chiyodaku), and one artbook (Yana Toboso Artworks Black Butler 4).

Yana Toboso Artworks Black Butler 4

By Yana Toboso

The color black is absolutely luscious, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the ever-expanding world of Black Butler! This fourth illustration collection from New York Times bestselling author Yana Toboso includes marvelous art from the manga’s Blue Cult and Blue Memory arcs and the anime’s Book of Murder and Book of the Atlantic arcs, as well as promotional art for the various Black Butler musicals and the Black Label product line. Presented as a deluxe beribboned hardcover tome as scrumptious as any sweet treat!

Yana Toboso Artworks Black Butler 4

Miss Savage Fang

Story by Kakkaku Akashi
Art by Umashi
Character Design by Kayahara

Envil, known by the title “Savage Fang,” was a renowned mercenary who should have died fighting in the civil war. Instead, he awoke back in time—inside the body of the very tyrant who started the war in the first place! Mylene Eltania was the world’s most beautiful, most ruthless empress. With beautiful hair signaling her divine gift, and beauty beyond compare, she was a force to be reckoned with. Now this mercenary has a second chance to fight back before it’s too late. Mylene’s beauty is on the surface, but a savage beast rages below!

Miss Savage Fang

Excellent Property, Rejects for Residents

By Suu Minazuki

Yuugo Chayama is an unemployed high school dropout renting a dirt-cheap apartment in a building nicknamed the “Loser Lodge.” Everything is communal in this rickety seventy-year-old abode, from the bathrooms to the kitchen, but at least the rent is a mere five thousand yen! But then, one day, an angel named Hamuel descends from the heavens, having been given the hopeless mission of turning Yuugo’s life around…! From the author of Heaven’s Lost Property and Plunderer comes an all-new cohabitation comedy with a no-good cast!

Excellent Property, Rejects for Residents

The Trials of Chiyodaku

Story by Fukurou Kogyoku
Illustration by jonsun

Akuto, a normal game-loving high schooler, and his older sister Tsukasa are summoned one day to a strange otherworld called Chiyodaku. There, a laid-back princess tasks them with becoming judges for her kingdom and assigns them a difficult first case—a murder trial with a hero as the accused! Akuto must help his sister, who knows nothing about fantasy worlds and their logic, navigate eccentric courtroom characters as the siblings pursue the truth, no matter where it leads.

The Trials of Chiyodaku

My Oh My, Atami-kun

By Asa Tanuma

High schooler Atami is living the dream. He’s got incredibly good looks, and girls can’t help asking him out nearly every day. There’s just one problem, though—he’s into guys, not girls! His own gorgeous face haunts him, since it’s all anyone seems to be interested in. Won’t anyone see him for who he really is?

My Oh My, Atami-kun

GOGOGOGO-GO-GHOST!

By Miyako Hiruzuka

After an illicit affair at work falls through, office worker Ushiro Akechi is wallowing in quiet desperation and stumbling toward ending it all. What she really needs is an older sister to talk her back from the edge… Luckily, she’s about to meet one—from the other side! Self-proclaimed Guardian Spiritual Older Sister Masako is ready and waiting to take Ushiro under her ghostly wing! Together, can they turn a brush with death into the start of a gloriously funny new partnership!?

GOGOGOGO-GO-GHOST!

Aria of the Beech Forest

By Yugiri Aika

The witch Aria is a little shy. She’s good at cooking and knitting. And she’s a real wiz at growing herbs. As for what she’s bad at? Why, that’s magic! One fateful day, the sheltered girl encounters a talking wolf, who becomes her very first friend. Watch the witch and wolf snuggle up in this comfy story with a touch of mystery set in the forests of Ireland!

Aria of the Beech Forest

Kind of a Wolf

By Machi Suehiro

Shiroki just wants a little bit of peace and quiet—time to chill with his cat and relax in between all his university classes. However, his next-door neighbor, Hayato, seems unable to do anything without making a racket. Which is the last thing Shiroki wants to deal with on any given day. And so life goes on, until his cat decides to climb onto Hayato’s balcony, leading Shiroki to an unexpectedly furry discovery.

Kind of a Wolf

This Wolf Is Not Scary

By Rico Sakura

In a world where half-humans who evolved distinctly from animals reside, a tough and hardheaded wolf named Shirou is often misunderstood due to his gaudy appearance. Shirou is in love with Usami, a rabbit with eye-catching brown skin. Though Shirou being a carnivore has Usami on edge, after the wolf saves him from a pervert, Usami shows a vulnerable side to Shirou that no one else can see. But then, Shirou starts to want to mate with Usami!

This Wolf Is Not Scary

Settle in for Winter with Eight New Yen Press Titles

Yen Press has announced that it will be releasing eight new titles in February 2024, including three manga (Ako and Bambi; If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love; Whoever Steals This Book)and four novels (The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter; Miss Savage Fang; You Are My Regret; The Unimplemented Overlords Have Joined the Party!). Along with these seven titles, Yen Press announced the print publication of the Black Summoner light novel under its JNC imprint.

Ako and Bambi

By HERO

When amateur novelist Bambi moves into a new, cheap place, he’s shocked to find it’s already occupied—by the ghost of a high school girl. With one amnesiac ghost girl, Ako, haunting the apartment, the stories practically write themselves! But as the days pass and they get closer, he starts wondering exactly who she is…and what she is to him.

From the author of Horimiya comes a sweet slice-of-life that transcends the boundaries of life and death!

Ako and Bambi

If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love

Original story by Harunadon
Art by Chill Ukai
Character Design by Yomi Sarachi

The awkward-yet-heartwarming love story of a scorned, incompetent villainess and an unapproachable, genius villain.  

Eleven years ago, Brigitte, the heiress of the Meidell earldom, formed a contract with the weakest type of spirit. Since then, she’s been looked down on by all the other nobles, and her fiancé, the prince, even made a public spectacle of ending their engagement. The duke of the Water Clan’s son, Yuri, is her only classmate who seems unaffected by these rumors. Yuri is feared for his incredible abilities and icy personality, but with him on her side, Brigitte’s fortunes just might change….

If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love

Whoever Steals This Book

Original Story by Nowaki Fukamidori
Art by Kakeru Sora

In a town where people live surrounded by books, there is a library overflowing with endless tomes—the Mikurakan. Its founder was Mifuyu’s great-grandfather, and her father is its manager…but Mifuyu herself hates books. One day, a collection of books is stolen, and a mysterious message is left behind: “Whoever steals this book shall be pursued by the flag of magical realism.” Thus, the town begins to shift into something out of a tale…and Mifuyu realizes she must venture into the worlds of stories to save her home!

Whoever Steals This Book

The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter

Original Story by Yatsuki Wakatsu
Illustration by Kikka Ohashi

Seiichirou Kondou is a 29-year-old accountant and major workaholic. When he’s accidentally transported to another world, not only does he demand a job, but he starts whipping the lackadaisical Royal Accounting Department into shape! When he gets in over his head and nearly dies from overwork, the handsome Commander Aresh steps in to save him, and the two develop a unique, physical relationship…as a form of medical treatment?!

The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter

Miss Savage Fang

Original Story by Kakkaku Akashi
Illustration by Kayahara

Mylene has it all: She’s the daughter of nobility, she boasts incredible aptitude with magic and the blade, and she possesses striking vermilion-tinged locks that signify she has been chosen by God. Yet this elegant warrior hides a shocking secret—inside her lurks the soul of the strongest mercenary in history, Savage Fang. In his past life, Savage Fang cut down countless foes of superior ability for his employers with nothing but cunning and strength. Now reborn as Mylene, this former sellsword will use her past experience and newfound powers to shape the world as she sees fit…even if she has to get her aristocratic peers involved along the way!

Miss Savage Fang

You Are My Regret

Story by Shimesaba
Illustration by Ui Shigure

Yuzuru Amida is filled with regret. Although he fell in love with free-spirited Ai Mizuno in middle school, he never managed to tell her how he felt and they subsequently drifted apart. But when Yuzuru reunites with Ai by chance in the summer after his first year of high school, he realizes that his feelings for her haven’t changed in the slightest. As this pair of total opposites gets reacquainted, however, they sometimes butt heads and find themselves at odds with each other. When all is said and done, will they end up as friends…or something more?

You Are My Regret

The Unimplemented Overlords Have Joined the Party!

Original Story by Nagawasabi64
Illustration by Kawaku

Young gamer Shuutarou is among the lucky few chosen to playtest Eternity, the latest VRMMORPG, and he wastes no time in activating his unique dungeon creation skill…at the exact moment when the game glitches out! Now he and his fellow playtesters are trapped, and their very lives are at stake. Shuutarou happens to end up in the one area that has yet to be patched into the game: the final-boss lair where the six Evil Overlords lurk. They promptly declare him their master—and with Eternity’s strongest baddies on his team, Shuutarou is up for any adventures this new life will throw at him!

The Unimplemented Overlords Have Joined the Party!

Black Summoner

Original Story by Doufu Mayoi
Illustration by Kurogin (DIGS)

Waking up in a strange new place with no memory of his past life, Kelvin learns that he’s bartered away those very memories in exchange for powerful new abilities during his recent transmigration. Heading out into a whole new world as a Summoner—with his first Follower being the very goddess who brought him over!—Kelvin begins his new life as an adventurer, and it isn’t long before he discovers his hidden disposition as a battle junkie!

Black Summoner