Seven Seas Licenses Devilman G & Ena Moriyama's The Count of Monte Cristo

Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it has licensed Go Nagai and Rui Takatō's Devilman G manga. The company will release the manga in single volumes beginning on October 17.

Seven Seas describes the story:
When demons begin taking over the bodies of humans, only the strongest survive. When a practicing young witch named Miki Makimura asks her friend Akira Fudo for help with a ritual, the spell is interrupted and Akira is left on the brink of death. His body is overtaken by a powerful being named Amon. Now torn between his humanity and the demon within him, Akira uses his abilities to fight in the war between demons and humans for the future of the world itself!

Seven Seas Editor-in-Chief Adam Arnold stated that the manga is a "perfect entry point" into the Devilman franchise.

Takatō began the spinoff of Go Nagai's Devilman manga in Akita Shoten's Monthly Champion RED magazine in March 2012 and ended it in December 2013. Akita Shoten published the fifth compiled in February 2014. The "G" in the title stands for "Grimoire."

Nagai launched the original Devilman manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 1972. A television anime adaptation of the manga aired simultaneously that year. The anime and manga series have spawned more than a dozen different spinoffs, crossovers, and remakes since 1972, including manga, OVAs, and a 2004 live-action film.

Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it has licensed Ena Moriyama's The Count of Monte Cristo (Monte Cristo Hakushaku) manga, and will release the series in one deluxe trim volume on December 19.

The manga adapts Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure novel The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo). In the novel, Edmond Dantès, a merchant sailor in the early 19th century, is betrayed by his friends and colleagues. He loses all his possessions and is sent to prison. After escaping, he finds treasure in the island of Monte Cristo that his inmate entrusted to him. With the wealth, he reinvents his identity as the Count of Monte Cristo, re-enters high society, and plots revenge on those who wronged him.

Moriyama launched the manga in Hakusensha's Young Animal Arashi in October 2014, and ended the series in September 2015. The original French novel was released in 1844, and has since been adapted multiple times into various media. Samurai Gun creator Kazuhiro Kumagai also penned a manga adaptation of the novel in 2012. Gankutsuou, a TV anime adaptation directed by Mahiro Maeda and animated by Gonzo, premiered in Japan in 2004.​