As 2024 involves a detailed and the joy of a brand new 12 months builds, Yen Press makes one closing announcement, unveiling new licenses for manga, novels, and audiobooks. Whereas launch dates haven’t been confirmed but, followers can keep up to date by visiting their web site or following their social media.
Now, let’s dive into the thrilling new additions Yen Press is bringing to its intensive library within the coming 12 months!
The Eminence in Shadow (Audiobook)
Cid Kagenou has a dream. Not of being some typical protagonist or the Ultimate Boss-he has his eyes set on changing into a hidden mastermind working within the shadows! Now that he’s been reborn in one other world, Cid has been exhausting at work constructing the right stage to behave out his long-desired position. The one situation? His imaginary adversaries and plot gadgets appear to really exist on this new realm…and he alone is left at nighttime!
Sword Artwork On-line Unital Ring (Manga)
Orchestrated by genius scientist Akihiko Kayaba, the SAO incident created a recreation you couldn’t depart till you beat it. One the place dying within the recreation meant dying in the actual world… Kirito is a survivor of SAO who now spends his time enjoying the brand new VRMMORPG Alfheim On-line along with his previous SAO associates, Asuna and Alice. However Kirito quickly finds himself caught up in a mysterious recreation he by no means anticipated…
Secrets and techniques of the Silent Witch -another- (Novel)
After memorizing his magecraft textbook in a single week, Louis is accepted as a scholarship pupil at Minerva’s Mage Coaching Establishment. However surrounded by nobles, the tough and rowdy boy from a poor, distant village is handled as an issue little one and feared for the way in which he trounces his opponents in magic battles. And but Louis nonetheless finds lecturers he respects and associates he can depend on as he grows into the person who will turn out to be the Sage. Be taught all concerning the infamous deeds of the Barrier Mage’s youth on this two-part prequel to Secrets and techniques of the Silent Witch.
Alya Generally Hides Her Emotions in Russian (Manga)
Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou, nicknamed Alya, is a half-Russian magnificence with silver hair, on the high of her class, pupil council accountant, and fully unapproachable. She’s taken to reprimanding the slacker who sits subsequent to her in school, Masachika Kuze – a geeky, unmotivated, and unexemplary pupil who couldn’t care much less about maintaining his grades. Secretly, Alisa holds a sure fondness for Masachika, solely revealed by the occasional Russian muttered below her breath that nobody in her class can perceive… besides MAsachika! He eavesdrops on these embarrassing revelations, pretending to be clueless, all of the whereas questioning what her flirtatious feedback truly imply!
I Made Associates with the Second Prettiest Lady in My Class (Manga)
Maki Maehara is at all times on his personal in school. He has no associates or hobbies others share, and he doesn’t anticipate the upcoming educational 12 months to be any totally different, even surrounded by new faces. And 6 months later, it looks as if he was proper—till he runs into his fashionable classmate Umi Asanagi at a video retailer! At all times on the focal point and known as the “second prettiest in school” by the boys, Asanagi’s from a completely totally different world. However it seems the 2 have extra overlapping pursuits than simply the B-grade films they got here to take a look at… and Asanagi asks Meahara to be her good friend!
Isekai Samurai (Manga)
As the ultimate years of the Sengoku interval dwindle away, Ginko, the strongest swordsman of the period, has but to discover a worthy opponent to slake her thirst for a combat to dying. Simply when she’s lastly misplaced hope that anybody stronger than her exists, she will get transported to a different world! And the very first thing Ginko sees there may be—a dragon?!
Handy Semi-Pal (Manga)
“What if we turned associates with advantages…?” Suuna, a dark highschool pupil, leaves residence to reside in a dorm. However when she nervously enters her room, she finds out her roommate, Ruka, feeling up one other lady! She finds out Ruka wants a “good friend with advantages”, so Suuna takes cost and proposes they kind a “(semi) associates with advantages” contract…?
The Heroic Story of the Villainous Prince (Manga)
As the one royal with pitch-black hair and eyes, Prince Alfred is the literal black sheep of his household. However someday, he occurs to see his older brother Leor, the crown prince, publicly breaking off his engagement to his fiancée, Charlotte. To rescue Charlotte from the false accusations being hurled at her, Alfred places himself in hurt’s method as a substitute. With that, every little thing is resolved… or is it?
The Hitman Stans (Manga)
Meet “The Killing Machine” Owaru Endou: the cold-blooded and strongest hitman of an enormous underworld group, who has determined to retire out of the blue. His cause? To stan his favourite underground idol along with his head held excessive! However previous habits die exhausting, particularly for a person whose fingers are stained with blood. Can Owaru really shed his identification to reside the final word fan lifetime of concert events, meet and greets, and movie lotteries- even when his previous comes knocking?
Dara-san of Reiwa (Manga)
Clouds blacken the sky and sheets of rain flip the mountain forest right into a treacherous maze… A landslide crushes razor wire fence, and buries a “NO TRESPASSING” signal… Two younger siblings wander right into a darkish world the place they don’t belong, and an extended, horrid shadow rears as much as meet them— Anyway, in order that’s how we met Dara-san! She may look kinda scary, however simply wait till you get to know her!
“Look, I’m a god of misfortune, okay!? Aren’t you children gonna freak out about my grotesque visage!?”
Who Killed the Hero? (Novel)
4 years have handed because the Demon Lord was defeated. The dominion, now at peace, has undertaken the duty of compiling the various nice deeds of the fallen Hero, interviewing the members of his former occasion: Leon the Sword Saint, Maria the Holy Maiden, and Solon the Sage. But in between their tales of the Hero’s previous and their adventures collectively, the reality about his dying slowly involves mild. Who killed the Hero? The Demon Lord? …Or his comrades?
The Lady Who Needs to Be a Hero and the Lady Who Must Be a Hero (Novel)
After the Nice Human-Demon Warfare involves a detailed, people use a magical system generally known as the Gear to discovered the Hero Institute, a college for elevating a brand new form of hero. Ruchikai a wild and reckless demon lady, travels to the town within the hopes of becoming a member of the institute. There she meets Leonie, the serious-minded daughter of the Almighty Hero who defeated the Demon Lord. Taking a liking to her instantly, Ruchika proposes—proper in the course of their entrance examination! Do these two ladies have what it takes to turn out to be heroes? And may love bloom between a human and a demon?
This Is the Wizard’s Secret Weapon (Novel)
On a bloody battlefield, the grasp swordsman Rix lastly offers in to his deep-seated dislike for warfare. So he fakes his personal dying to enter retirement! He begins recent by coming into a magic faculty… regardless of his magical aptitude being zero. Nevertheless, alongside the scholarship pupil Shino, he’s able to work exhausting. Even her chilly perspective doesn’t discourage him! Utilizing his swordsmanship prowess, he overpowers his magic-wielding peers-inadvertently smashing by way of something that’s widespread apply at magic faculty. Within the course of, his abilities catch the attention of the imperial princess. She tries to recruit him into the military, however he shoots her down. He doesn’t need to be the strongest—all he needs is to reside a peaceable and gratifying life!
SAILOR ZOMBIE (Digital Manga)
Two months have handed because the world wa overrun by zombies. Excessive schooler Maiko Inui, a lady who longs to turn out to be an idol, finds refuge in Fujimi Ladies’ Excessive Faculty, the place the surviving college students reside. When hordes of zombies mercilessly assault the women, how will Maiko and her associates combat again?! Horror meets concord on this vibrant story the place heroes don’t put on capes… however sailor fits as a substitute!
Lord of Mysteries (Novel)
Via the storm of steam and equipment, who can obtain the extraordinary? Within the mist of historical past and darkness, who whispers to me? After I awoke from the haze of thriller, I discovered myself in a world of weapons, cannons, large ships, airships, distinction engines; potions, divinations, curses, hanged males, and sealed artifacts.
However the mild nonetheless shines between all of it, and the thriller isn’t greater than two steps away. That is the legend of the Idiot.
Yen Press delivers a improbable and balanced mixture of manga and novel bulletins, together with an audiobook of the hit sequence The Eminence in Shadow! One other extremely fashionable anime sequence this 12 months, Alya Generally Hides Her Emotions in Russian, aired on Crunchyroll, and now its manga is accessible in English—nice information for followers of the sequence.
The response to Yen Press’s announcement on X (previously Twitter) reveals that Lord of Mysteries, a Chinese language horror webnovel, has created important buzz and sparked nice enthusiasm amongst followers!
What did you consider this 12 months’s final announcement from Yen Press? Was there a title you’ve been ready for? Or a title that caught your eye? Tell us!
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