Seven Sea's Latest Licensed Manga

Sleeping Beauty Manga by Bunny Drop's Yumi Unita
Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Friday that it has licensed Yumi Unita's Sleeping Beauty (Nemuremehime) manga. The first single volume is slated for November 21.

Seven Seas Entertainment describes the series:
High school student Yaneko loves to sleep, so much that she can barely wake up of her own accord. That is, until she is roused from her slumber by a sleep spirit known as Nerim. Yaneko must accompany the benevolent spirit on his daily work route, as he grants the gift of comfortable sleep to people (and animals!) of all ages. But just what is his true purpose and why has he chosen Yaneko to be his assistant? This could very well be the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

Unita (Bunny Drop) launched the ongoing series in Hakusensha's Le Paradis magazine in June 2014. The first compiled volume shipped on April 28.

Unita's earlier slice-of-life manga Usagi Drop (Bunny Drop) began serializing in Shodensha's Feel Young magazine in 2005 and ended in April 2011, and Yen Press published the manga in North America. A television anime aired in Japan from July to September 2011, and a live-action film opened in Japan in December 2011.

Dragon Half Manga
Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Friday that it has licensed Ryusuke Mita's Dragon Half manga. The company will release the seven-volume series in three omnibus volumes that will also include bonus material, color illustrations, silver foil wraparound covers, and the Dragon Half Z epilogue. The first volume is slated for December 26.

Seven Seas describes the story:
A young girl named Mink has fallen for the dreamy Dick Saucer, a famous idol. There's only one problem: Dick's not just an idol—he's a dragon slayer, too...and Mink is half dragon! To solve this conundrum, Mink and her friends must set out on a playful quest to destroy the Demon Lord Azetodeth and gain a potion that will make Mink completely human! Will Mink's love finally be requited or this doomed to be a fetch quest failure?

Mita's original manga began in 1989 and has not previously been released in English. A two-episode video anime adaptation premiered in Japan in 1993. ADV Films released both episodes on dub VHS tape in 2000, then released them in DVD in September of the same year. Discotek Media licensed the series, and released it on DVD in March 2014. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime with both English and Japanese audio.

Cutie Honey A Go Go!
Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Friday that it has licensed Shinpei Ito and Hideaki Anno's Cutie Honey A Go Go! (Cutie Honey aGoGo!) manga. The company plans to release the manga in a 386-page omnibus edition on September 26.

Seven Seas describes the manga:
Tokyo is under seige by the terrorist organization known as Panther Claw, and the beautiful superheroine android known as Cutie Honey appears on the scene to take them on—but fails! For her own protection, Cutie Honey must join forces with government agent Natsuko Aki, and pose as student and teacher at St. Chapel Academy. But there is nowhere to hide from Panther Claw and its leader's evil machinations!

Ito (Hyper Dolls, Taisho Baseball Girls) wrote and drew the manga with collaboration from Anno (Evangelion) beginning in 2003 in Kadokawa Shoten's Tokusatsu Ace magazine. The series is based on Go Nagai's original 1970's Cutie Honey manga. Tokuma Shoten released the full series in one "complete edition" volume (pictured above) in 2007.

Anno also directed a live-action Cutie Honey adaptation and the Re: Cutie Honey original video anime in 2004.

Record of Lodoss War: The Grey Witch Novel
Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Friday that it has licensed Ryo Mizuno's original Record of Lodoss War: The Grey Witch novel. The company will release the volume in a "Gold Edition" on October 31. The release is based on Kadokawa Shoten's 2013 deluxe edition.

Seven Seas Entertainment describes the story:
Parn, a reckless but passionate swordsman embarks on a quest to discover the source of a great evil overwhelming the country of Lodoss. Joining him are Deedlit, a young elf wielding powerful magic; Ghim, the tough-as-stones dwarf; Etoh, a fledgling priest; Slayn, the group's sorcerer; and Woodchuck, their indispensable thief. Together, this iconic group will join forces to discover the truth behind a world torn apart by ancient deities and wield the power needed to defeat the Grey Witch!

Mizuno published the novel with illustrations by Yutaka Izubuchi in 1988. The novel inspired two manga adaptations, the first of which was published in English by Central Park Media's CPM Manga imprint.

Record of Lodoss War began as a series of magazine articles that recounted the pencil-and-paper role-playing game sessions of players who called themselves Group SNE. Those fantasy adventures evolved into a series of novels by Mizuno that now have over 10 million copies in print. Mizuno's original Record of Lodoss War stories inspired the 1990 Record of Lodoss War video anime series and the 1998 Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight television anime sequel. Central Park Media licensed and released both fantasy titles in North America.

Spirit Circle Manga by Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer Creator
Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Friday that it has licensed Satoshi Mizukami's Spirit Circle manga. The company plans to release the series in single volumes with new lettering and translations. The first volume is slated for on October 10.

Seven Seas describes the series:
Fuuta Okeya can see ghosts. Besides that—and the bandage he always keeps on his cheek—he's a perfectly normal 14-year old boy enamoured with the new transfer student. Unfortunately, Kouko Ishigami wants little to do with him. A strange ghost that follows her, however, seems to feel quite differently. But, when Kouko sees the strange birthmark hidden beneath the bandage on Fuuta's cheek, she has a change of heart...for the worse. Not only does she denounce him as her enemy, but she claims that the birthmark is a curse she engraved upon his face during one of their many past lives. What happened between Kouko and Fuuta, and what is the connection to the strange, fantastical dreams that Fuuta begins to experience?

Mizukami (The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer) began Spirit Circle in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours in May 2012, and ended the series in March. Shonengahosha shipped the sixth and final compiled volume in June. Crunchyroll began simultaneous publication of the manga in 2014.

JManga once carried Mizukami's The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer manga, and Seven Seas Entertainment later licensed and released The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer for print in North America.​