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A Certain Scientific Railgun, vol. 8 Story by Kazuma Kamachi Art by Motoi Fuyukawa
The New York Times bestselling SF manga series continues
elcome to a world where mysticism and science collide, Wand supernatural powers are derived from either science or religion. At the heart of this world is Academy City, an advanced metropolis whose population is comprised mostly of students. The majority of students are enrolled in the city’s “Power Curriculum Program,” where they must learn to master their latent psychic powers. Out of several million students, only seven are deemed powerful enough to have Level 5 status.
Meet Mikoto Misaka, the third most powerful Level 5 esper in Academy City. Together with her best friend Kuroko Shirai and the other members of Judgment, a student-run law enforcement agency, Mikoto delves deep into the dark heart of the scientific (cover not final) sprawl she calls home and uncovers secrets she wishes she hadn’t! MARKETING PLANS: • Promotion at Seven Seas website gomanga.com A Certain Scientific Railgun is a must-have manga series for fans • Promotion on twitter.com/ of stories that blend science and magic like Psychic Academy gomanga and facebook. and Full Metal Alchemist. com/gomanga The “Certain” franchise began with the long-running light novel ALSO AVAILABLE: series A Certain Magical Index, which was adapted into both A Certain Scientific Railgun, vol. 7 a manga and an anime series. Its spin-off, A Certain Scientific (4/13) Railgun, became a breakout hit with a better selling manga ISBN: 978-1-937867-21-8 and higher rated anime series. In October 2010, a new anime $12.99 ($14.99 CAN) series following the further adventures of both series’ protagonists A Certain Scientific Railgun, vol. 6 began airing in Japan. A second season of the TV anime A (12/12) Certain Scientific Railgun will air in 2013. ISBN: 978-1-937867-03-4 $12.99 ($14.99 CAN) “Part girl. Part railgun. All awesome.” —JAPANATOR.COM A Certain Scientific Railgun, vol. 5 (8/12) Kazuma Kamachi is a Japanese writer of light novels and manga. ISBN: 978-1-935934-78-3 $12.99 ($14.99 CAN) He is best known for A Certain Magical Index and A Certain A Certain Scientific Railgun, vol. 4 Scientific Railgun. (5/12) ISBN: 978-1-935934-18-9 Motoi Fuyukawa is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator best $11.99 ($13.99 CAN) known for A Certain Scientific Railgun. MANGA Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-937867-39-3 $12.99 ($14.99 Canadian) 5” x 7.173”/ 256 pages Age: T (13+) August 2013 SEVEN SEAS
Alice in the Country of Hearts: The Clockmaker’s Story Story by QuinRose; Art by Mamenosuke Fujimaru
By the creators of New York Times bestselling manga Alice in the Country of Clover
In this all-new follow-up to QuinRose’s bestselling Alice in the Country of Hearts manga series, Alice in the Country of Hearts: The Clockmaker’s Story focuses on the fan-favorite character of Julius. As this manga is an alternate retelling of the “hearts” storyline, it can be read independently of the original Alice in the Country of Hearts series.
Alice in the Country of Hearts: The Clockmaker’s Story is a oneshot volume that chronicles the further adventures of Alice as she goes deeper down the rabbit hole. Like the other New (cover not final) York Times bestselling books in the Alice in the Country of Clover series, this new volume is an oversized edition that features MARKETING PLANS: impressive artwork and color pinups. Also includes a special bo- • Promotion on Seven Seas website nus feature: a 34-page Crimson Empire short story! gomanga.com • Promotion on twitter.com/gomanga ulius Monrey is the grim Clockmaker of Wonderland, and facebook.com/gomanga Jresponsible for controlling the world’s time from his lonely Clock Tower, not to mention fixing the stopped clocks of the ALSO AVAILABLE: dead. When the beautiful Alice Liddell comes to live with and Alice in the Country of Clover: rely upon him, will her warm personality melt through his cool, Cheshire Cat Waltz, vol. 4 (3/13) apathetic heart and bring about romantic feelings he never ISBN: 978-1-937867-10-2 knew he had? $13.99 ($15.99 CAN) Alice in the Country of Clover: Praise for Alice in the Country of Hearts: Cheshire Cat Waltz, vol. 3 (11/12) ISBN: 978-1-935934-93-6 $13.99 ($15.99 CAN) “It may be impossible to beat Lewis Carroll at his own game, but Alice in the Country of Clover: as Alice in the Country of Hearts shows, there are still ways to Cheshire Cat Waltz, vol. 2 (9/12) succeed.” —ANIME NEWS NETWORK ISBN: 978-1-935934-92-9 $13.99 ($15.99 CAN) “Nicely done art and hunky hunks make Alice in the Country of Alice in the Country of Clover: Hearts eye candy for shoujo manga fans.” —ABOUT.COM Cheshire Cat Waltz, vol. 1 (7/12) ISBN: 978-1-935934-91-2 QuinRose is a Japanese game developer who created the Alice $13.99 ($15.99 CAN) franchise of video games, which spun off into novels, manga, and an anime feature film.
MANGA Mamenosuke Fujimaru is a Japanese manga artist best known Trade Paperback for his work on Alice in the Country of Clover. ISBN: 978-1-937867-64-5 $13.99 ($15.99 Canadian) 5.8” x 8.2”/ 192 pages Age: OT (16+)
August 2013 SEVEN SEAS
Crimson Empire: Circumstances to Serve a Noble, vol. 2 Story by QuinRose; Art by Hazuki Futaba
New shoujo series by the New York Times bestselling author of Alice in the Country of Clover!
Crimson Empire: Circumstances to Serve a Noble is an all-new shoujo manga series by QuinRose, the creator of Alice in the Country of Clover. The newest installment in the Alice series, Alice in the Country of Hearts: The Clockmaker’s Story, which Seven Seas will release simultaneously to Crimson Empire volume 2, features a never before published 34-page Crimson Empire story that introduces the series to Alice fans.
Featuring a strong heroine who is a deadly assassin yet awkward when dealing with the many male suitors who surround her, Crimson Empire: Circumstances to Serve a Noble combines (cover not final) romance, fantasy, and swashbuckling adventure. Each volume contains impressive shoujo-style artwork and color pinups.
rom the time she was sold into servitude as a young girl and told MARKETING PLANS: Fby a handsome demonic figure that she had a destiny to fulfill, • Promotion on Seven Seas website Sheila’s childhood was anything but easy. After joining an assassins’ gomanga.com guild to undergo rigorous training, Sheila is later taken in by the • Promotion on twitter.com/gomanga dashing Prince Edvard to serve as both his housemaid and body- and facebook.com/gomanga guard.
ALSO AVAILABLE: As skillful as she is with a blade, Sheila hasn’t a clue when it comes Crimson Empire: Circumstances to to courtly romance. While she uses her talents to help Edvard win the Serve a Noble, vol. 1 (4/13) throne, can she stave off the many admirers who vie for her heart? ISBN: 978-1-937867-23-2 $13.99 ($15.99 CAN) Praise for Alice in the Country of Hearts:
“It may be impossible to beat Lewis Carroll at his own game, but as Alice in the Country of Hearts shows, there are still ways to succeed.” —ANIME NEWS NETWORK MANGA Trade Paperback “Nicely done art and hunky hunks make Alice in the Country ISBN: 978-1-937867-44-7 of Hearts eye candy for shoujo manga fans.” —ABOUT.COM $13.99 ($15.99 Canadian) QuinRose is a Japanese game developer who created the Alice 5.8” x 8.2”/ 192 pages franchise of video games, which spun off into novels, manga, and Age: OT (16+) an anime feature film.
Hazuki Futaba is a Japanese manga artist and light novel illustrator best known for his work on Crimson Empire: Circumstances to Serve a Noble.
August 2013 SEVEN SEAS
Kanokon Omnibus 3–4 Story by Katsumi Nishino Art by Rin Yamaki
A boy, a fox girl, and a wolf girl—definitely not your typical love triangle!
For fans of Inukami! comes an all new harem comedy manga about a teenage boy and his romantic misadventures with a feisty fox girl and wily wolf girl. Kanokon orginated as an award-winning light novel series in Japan and was then adapted into a popular anime and manga series.
This omnibus edition contains volumes 3–4 of the Kanokon manga series. Seven Seas is pleased to publish Kanokon for the first time in North America and will release the entire series in four omnibus editions, each containing color inserts.
(cover not final) nnocent country boy Oyamada Kouta transfers to a big city Ihigh school in his freshman year, and from day one, his life MARKETING PLANS: enters a world of crazy. First, a beautiful second-year student • Promotion at Seven Seas named Chizuru professes her love to him, then reveals that she website gomanga.com is in fact a fox spirit. Frisky and flirty, she suggestively teases naive • Promotion on twitter.com/ Kouta in front of his classmates, embarrassing him to no end. gomanga and facebook. com/gomanga If that wasn’t enough, a gorgeous wolf spirit named Nozomu suddenly transfers to Kouta’s class and decides she wants the hapless country boy for herself. As fox girl and wolf girl vie for his heart, does Kouta have any say in this? ALSO AVAILABLE: Kanokon Omnibus 1-2 (4/13) ISBN: 978-1-937867-35-5 Katsumi Nishino is a light novel author best known as the writer $18.99 ($21.99 CAN) of the Kanokon novels and manga.
Rin Yamaki is best known as the artist of the Kanokon manga series.
MANGA Trade Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-937867-36-2 $18.99 ($21.99 Canadian) 5” x 7.125”/ 352 pages Age: OT (16+)
August 2013 SEVEN SEAS
The Sacred Blacksmith, vol. 2 Story by Isao Miura; Art by Kotaru Yamada
For fans of Full Metal Alchemist and Final Fantasy comes an all new epic fantasy manga series!
The Sacred Blacksmith is a sweeping swords and sorcery epic about a female knight and her adventures with a young, mysterious blacksmith. The Sacred Blacksmith orginated as a light novel series in Japan and was adapted into a popular manga series, as well as a hit anime, which is currently available through FUNimation.
This manga is the second book in an ongoing series that features stunning artwork and color inserts in each volume.
ike her father and grandfather before her, Cecily Campbell (cover not final) Lhas entered the knighthood and joined the ranks of the Knight Guards of Houseman. Eager to do her heritage proud and defend her city, Cecily rushes to the marketplace to stop a MARKETING PLANS: madman from terrorizing the populace. She quickly realizes, • Promotion on Seven Seas website however, that she is hopelessly outmatched and ill-prepared for gomanga.com • Promotion on twitter.com/gomanga an actual fight. A lone figure named Luke Ainsworth swoops to and facebook.com/gomanga the rescue, a swordsman and blacksmith of much renown, who will repair the broken sword has Cecily inherited from her father and take her down a road of perilous adventure beyond her wildest dreams.
ALSO AVAILABLE: Isao Miura is a Japanese writer best known as the author of The Sacred Blacksmith, vol. 1 (6/13) The Sacred Blacksmith novels and manga. ISBN: 978-1-937867-32-4 $12.99 ($14.99 CAN) Kotaru Yamada is the artist of The Sacred Blacksmith manga and Fire Emblem, a manga adaptation of the Nintendo game franchise.
MANGA Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-937867-65-2 $13.99 ($15.99 Canadian) 5.8” x 8.2”/ 192 pages Age: OT (16+)
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