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Seven SeasThe Ancient Magus’ Bride, vol. 6Story and art by Kore Yamazaki

The New York Times bestselling series about a gifted young girl and the demonic sorcerer who takes her in

The Ancient Magus’ Bride is a supernatural romance manga series that features a fascinating relationship between a troubled teenage girl and an inhuman wizard. Kore Yamazaki combines a fantastical shoujo style with a darker, brooding tone that is reminiscent of shonen hits like Pandora Hearts and Blue Exorcist.

The Ancient Magus’ Bride is an ongoing manga series that includes captivating artwork and color inserts in each volume.

Hatori Chise has lived a life full of neglect and abuse, devoid of anything resembling love. Far from the warmth of family, she

has had her share of troubles and pitfalls. Just when all hope seems lost, a fated encounter awaits her. When a man with the head of a beast, wielding strange powers, obtains her through a slave auction, Chise’s life will never be the same again.

The man is a “magus,” a sorcerer of great power, who decides to free Chise from the bonds of captivity. The magus then makes a bold statement: Chise will become his apprentice—and his wife!

“What conflict all these lovely details might be leading towards is a mystery so far, but the execution is so strong that I’m ready to follow wherever it leads. The Ancient Magus’ Bride is a generous work, full of magic and mystery.” —ANIME NEWS NETWORK

Kore Yamazaki is best known as the author and artist of The Ancient Magus’ Bride.

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5” x 7.125”/ 180 pagesAge: Teen (13+)On Sale: January 3, 2017

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January 2017

Seven SeasBloom into You, vol. 1Story and art Nakatani Nio

For fans of Citrus and Girlfriends comes an all-new yuri series!

Bloom into You is a charming love story about two young women who together discover that their dreams of a heart-pounding romance can indeed come true. With endearing characters and a beautiful art style, Bloom Into You is a fan-favorite series within the yuri genre that will appeal to fans of Citrus and Girlfriends.

Bloom into You is an ongoing manga series that will be released as single volumes, including at least one full-color insert per book.

Yuu has always loved shoujo manga, and fantasizes about the day that, she too, will get a love confession that will send her

heart a-flutter. Yet when a male classmate confesses his feelings to her...she feels nothing. Disappointed and confused, Yuu returns to school unsure how to respond. That’s when Yuu sees the beautiful student council president Nanami turn down a suitor with such maturity and finesse that Yuu is inspired to ask her for advice. But when the next person to confess to Yuu is the alluring Nanami herself, has Yuu’s shoujo romance finally begun?

Nakatani Nio is a Japanese manga creator best known for Bloom into You.


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Seven SeasMagical Girl Apocalypse, vol. 10Story and art by Kentaro Sato

The zombie survival genre has just met its match!

Magical Girl Apocalypse is an ongoing manga series that is a mash-up of the magical girl and zombie genres. What happens when you mix the lighthearted “magical girl” trope with the sort of gory ultraviolence seen in The Walking Dead? The result is Magical Girl Apocalypse, a unique dark parody that features striking artwork and pulse-pounding storytelling.

High-schooler Kii Kogami is stuck in a rut, loathing the monotonous doldrums of his everyday life. If only something exciting were

to happen, something magical. As fate would have it, Kii is about to get his wish, but in a way more terrifying than anything he could have imagined.

When a little girl clad in gothic lolita attire appears at school and starts to gruesomely bludgeon, dismember, and mutilate all who cross her path, while chanting the mantra “Magical Girl” under her breath, the school devolves into a state of bloody chaos.

Just how will Kii escape from this murderous magical girl? To make matters worse, the magical girl’s victims reanimate and join her killer rampage. Is there no way out of school for hapless Kii Kogami? And even if he escapes, what will be left of the world outside?

Kentaro Sato is best known as the author and artist of Magical Girl Apocalypse.

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Seven SeasMonster Musume: I Heart Monster Girls, vol. 3Original Story by OKAYADO Story and Art by Various Artists

A hilarious companion series to Monster Musume!

Monster Musume: I Heart Monster Girls is a brand new manga series starring everyone’s favorite monster girls from the New York Times bestseller, Monster Musume. Monster Musume: I Heart Monster Girls doubles-up on the humor and heart, telling all-new, all-original stories in four-panel comic strip anthology format.

Monster Musume has been adapted into a hit anime series, currently streaming on Crunchyroll, and boasts a passionate fan base around the world as its manga volumes continue to top sales charts.

Each volume of Monster Musume: I Heart Monster Girls will include multiple full-color inserts.

When hapless human twenty-something Kurusu Kimihito becomes an involuntary “volunteer” in the government

homestay program for monster girls, his world is turned upside down. A reptilian lamia named Miia is sent to live with him, and it is Kimihito’s job to tend to her every need and make sure she integrates into his everyday life. While cold-blooded Miia is so sexy she makes Kimihito’s blood boil with desire, the penalties for interspecies breeding are dire.

Even worse, when a buxom centaur girl named Centorea and a scantily clad harpy named Papi move into Kimihito’s house, what’s a full-blooded young man with raging hormones to do? And they’re only the beginning of Kimihito’s foray into the world of monster girls!

OKAYADO is a Japanese manga artist and author who is best known for their series 12Beast and Monster Musume. They are the original creator of the Monster Musume franchise.

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Seven SeasArpeggio of Blue Steel, vol. 9Story and art by Ark Performance

The science fiction epic continues, with an anime now available from Discotek Media!

Arpeggio of Blue Steel is a gripping, action-packed manga series set in the near-future, where humans must wage an aquatic war of survival against a mysterious alien invader. Humanity’s only hope is to launch a sentient superweapon: a girl able to transform into a deadly submarine.

The Japanese animation studio, Sanzigen, that worked on the Attack on Titan anime, recently adapted Arpeggio of Blue Steel into a thirteen-episode anime, which debuted on Japanese television in Fall 2013.

Each meticulously illustrated volume of the manga Arpeggio of Blue Steel contains color inserts and features futuristic and explosive submarine battles that are sure to captivate readers.

In the early twenty-first century, the majority of Earth’s landmass is submerged due to rising sea levels. Enter the Fleet of Fog, a host

of sentient alien battleships of unknown origin who easily decimate earth’s naval forces. Humanity is now on the verge of extinction.

In the year 2039, the stalwart Captain Chihaya Gunzou and his intrepid crew in the Blue Steel fleet may be humanity’s last chance to fight off the alien invaders. The Blue Steel fleet happens to contain a secret weapon that could turn the tide of war: a mysterious I-401 submarine that can transform into a girl.

Ark Performance is a Japanese author/artist duo responsible for Samurai Commando and has contributed to the Trigun: Multiple Bul-lets anthology.

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January 2017

Seven SeasBattle Rabbits, vol. 3Story by Amemiya YukiArt by Ichihara Yukino

From the same team that created the hit manga series, 07-Ghost!

Battle Rabbits is the most recent series by Amemiya Yuki and Ichihara Yukino, the creative team behind the popular manga series, 07-Ghost. Battle Rabbits is the story of a young man seeking vengeance against demons who murdered his father. An action-filled story with a suspenseful plot and a supernatural twist, Battle Rabbits sports stunning shonen-style artwork and attractive characters that will appeal to readers of Servamp and Black Butler.

Battle Rabbits is an ongoing series and will be released as single volumes with a full-color insert in each book.

Kokuryuu Kaguya was only a little boy when he witnessed his father’s murder by a group of demons. Kaguya spent years trying

to convince people about what he witnessed but was dismissed as a traumatized child with an over-active imagination. Now a teenager, Kaguya still remembers....

One day, Kaguya is struck by a mysterious light and meets a young woman named Mao—a skillful warrior wearing bunny ears—who rescues him from a demon attack, then demands to know what planet he’s from! Kaguya finds himself inducted into a secret organization of other-worldly individuals whose goal is to defend Earth from monstrous invaders. Reborn as a Battle Rabbit, strange powers awaken within Kaguya, which allow him to fight these creatures and seek vengeance for his father’s death!

Amemiya Yuki is a Japanese manga author best known for the series 07-Ghost.

Ichihara Yukino is a Japanese manga artist best known as the creator of 07-Ghost.

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Seven SeasGolden Time, vol. 6Story by Yuyuko TakemiyaArt by Umechazuke

The hilarious rom-com manga series from the author of New York Times’ bestselling Toradora! continues

Based on the popular light novel series of the same name, Golden Time is a hilarious coming-of-age romance by Yuyuko Takemiya, the bestselling author of Toradora!.

Golden Time has been adapted into an anime, which has been licensed and released on home video by Sentai Filmworks and made available to stream on Crunchyroll.

Golden Time is an ongoing manga series that includes color inserts in each volume.

Life, love, and education! College freshman Tada Banri is looking forward to a new lease on life, starting with his ambitious journey

and entry into a private law school in Tokyo. As luck would have it, during the opening ceremony for the freshman class, he happens across an unfortunate person from his past.

Her name is Kaga Kouko, a buxom-beauty who slaps Banri’s new friend, Mitsuo, across the face with a bouquet of roses. Just who is she and what’s her beef with Mitsuo?

Yuyuko Takemiya is the author of Toradora!, Golden Time, and Evergreen.

Umechazuke is a Japanese manga artist best known as the artist of Golden Time.

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Seven SeasMy Monster Secret, vol. 5Story and Art by Eiji Masuda

A high school rom-com with monsters, now a hit anime!

My Monster Secret is a new, ongoing manga series that combines both supernatural and extraterrestrial elements in a high school romantic comedy setting. For fans of hit series like Monster Musume and Haganai: I Don’t Have Many Friends comes a fresh take on the high school romantic comedy genre quite unlike anything seen before.

Published in Japan by Akita Shoten in the Weekly Shounen Champion magazine, My Monster Secret has been met with critical acclaim, with each new volume ranking highly on Japanese bestseller lists. In summer 2015, My Monster Secret received a television anime adaptation.

Each volume of the manga features a charmingly eccentric art style and contains color inserts.

High school student Kuromine Asahi is the kind of guy who literally cannot tell a lie. Whether it’s trying to maintain a poker face in a

simple game of cards or keeping scurrilous gossip to himself, Asahi is a total failure when it comes to the art of deception.

So what happens when he stumbles upon the most shocking secret of his life? When Asahi learns that Shiragami Youko, a beautiful girl of few words, is actually a vampire. Can Asahi possibly keep his lips sealed?

Eiji Masuda is a Japanese manga-ka best known as the creator of My Monster Secret.

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Seven SeasFranken Fran, vol. 7-8Story and art by Katsuhisa Kigitsu

Dr. Frankenstein has met his match in Franken Fran!

Franken Fran is a hilarious, dark parody manga series that combines elements from Frankenstein with horrifyingly cute girls that will appeal to fans of irreverant manga like Love in Hell and Magical Girl Apocalypse.

The delightfully creepy tale of a beautiful patchwork doctor and her even stranger patients has become a cult classic among English-speaking manga fans. Seven Seas is pleased to present this series for the first time in print in North America in four omnibus editions. Each omnibus contains two volumes worth of content and includes color inserts.

Somewhere, out in the sticks of rural Japan, there is a mysterious manor that is home to the greatest surgeon who ever lived.

Actually, the surgeon hasn’t been seen for years, but Fran, his reanimated daughter, takes up the family profession in his stead. Starting with the bolts that protrude from her head, Fran isn’t exactly what you would call a normal girl, nor is the cast of horribly disfigured creatures who join her.

Despite her Frankenstein-like ways, Fran cares deeply for her patients and holds steadfastly to the Hippocratic Oath. Her creed is: “All lives must be saved, no matter the cost!” For Franken Fran, the ends always justify the means, no matter what ungodly creations emerge from her lab.

Join Fran, her twisted sister Veronica, and the rest of her monstrous entourage in a gruesomely hilarious tale that would put Mary Shelley to shame! Katsuhisa Kigitsu is a Japanese manga-ka best known as the creator of Franken Fran.

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January 2017

Seven SeasHow to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King, vol. 2 Story by Yakan Warau Art by Toshimasa Komiya

An all-new manga series about dungeons, succubi, and black magic for fans of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King is a dark fantasy series about one man’s thirst for power and his ambition to create the ultimate dungeon. Fans of dark harem fantasies like Overlord or Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? will enjoy this even darker take on the dungeon genre.

How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King is a beautifully illustrated ongoing manga series and will be released as single-volume books. Each volume will include at least one full-color insert and will be shrink-wrapped.

At the end of his life, after decades of painstaking research, Aur’s quest for ultimate power is within reach. But first he

must die! Now, reborn into a magical world as the Demon King, he uses his newfound abilities to make his dark visions a reality. Upon summoning an alluring succubus known as Lilu to serve him, he immediately begins the task of creating a dungeon—an underground kingdom of his own, filled with all manner of fantastical beasts. As Aur crafts the intricate and dangerous world of his dungeon, he’ll learn what it takes to become a true Demon King, with all the pleasures, troubles, and trials that come with it. And his enemies will cower in fear!

Yakan Warau is an author best known for the light novel series, How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King

Toshimasa Komiya is a manga artist best known for How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King.

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Seven SeasMy Girlfriend is a T-Rex, vol. 2Story and art by Sanzo

For fans of Monster Musume comes a hilarious story of dinosaurs and dates!

My Girlfriend is a T-Rex is the story of a young man learning to live with his attractive but prehistoric new roommate—a girl that’s half-human, half T-Rex! A bestseller in Japan, My Girlfriend is a T-Rex has fun lively artwork and side-splitting comedy.

My Girlfriend is a T-Rex is an ongoing series and will be released as single volumes with at least one full-color insert in each book.

Yuuma Asahikawa is a young man looking for a fresh start after a series of unfortunate decisions leaves him wanting for a new

life. In this world dinosaurs and humans are living side by side, and Yuuma finds his future from our distant past when he starts dating Churio—a half human, half T-Rex!

Follow Yuuma and Churio as they spend their days together, traversing a world where humans and dinosaurs are still learning to get along, and even the most simple of activies are an adventure when you have claws, a tail, and razer sharp teeth!

Sanzo is a Japanese manga creator best known for the series My Girlfriend is a T-Rex.

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Seven SeasNon Non Biyori, vol. 6Story and art by Atto

The manga series that inspired a hit anime adaptation, for fans of Yotsuba&!

Non Non Biyori is a delightfully charming, all-ages manga series that follows the miscellaneous adventures of a group of girls in the Japanese countryside. Striking a balance between slapstick humor and heartfelt nostalgia, Non Non Biyori features both artwork that beautifully depicts nature, as well as adorable characterizations of its main characters. This slice-of-life gem is sure to appeal to fans of Yotsuba&! and Azumanga Daioh.

The Non Non Biyori anime adaptation was released on home video and digital distribution by Sentai Filmworks in early 2015 and received a second season anime adaptation in Summer 2015.

Welcome to the countryside village of Asahigaoka, a quaint town far removed from the hustle-and-bustle of the big city.

You couldn’t imagine a more isolated setting in all of Japan. So when Tokyo-raised elementary school student Hotaru Ichijo transfers to the tiny Asahigaoka Branch School due to her father’s job, she’s in for the culture shock of her life!

Join Hotaru and her new friends, the eccentric Renge and the mischevious sisters Natsumi and Komari, as they share daily adventures in the idyllic Japanese countryside.

Atto is a Japanese artist best known as the creator of Non Non Biyori.

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