SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT Just Added to May 2017 Hatsune Miku: Bad∞End∞Night, vol. 1 Original concept by Hitoshizuku-P x Yama Story and art by Tsubata Nozaki An all-new tale of drama beneath the spotlight starring the global sensation Hatsune Miku and her fellow vocaloids! atsune Miku is a young woman seeking to Hbecome an actress. Although she’s finally gotten her chance, everything is thrown upside down when she finds herself hurled into the “world of stage” within a strange mansion. There she meets seven mysterious, and potentially dangerous, characters. Although each comes with their own secrets, they almost all have one thing in common—find the stolen script pages or be trapped in this false world forever! COVER NOT • GLOBAL PHENOMENON: Based on the global FINAL hit vocaloid franchise, Hatsune Miku, which has inspired dozens of manga, anime, music, and video games FINALNEW VOLUME SERIES • DELUXE PRINTING: Each volume will be MANGA printed at a larger trim size Trade Paperback • FOR FANS OF: Unofficial Hatsune Mix, The ISBN: 978-1-626924-74-1 Disappearance of Hatsune Miku, and Alice in the Country of Joker Rated: Teen (13+) On Sale: May 2, 2017 5.875” x 8.25”/ 180 pages $13.99/US | $15.99/CAN Hitoshizuku-P x Yama is a Japanese song composer whose lyrics have been used as the basis for a variety of light novels and manga. Tsubata Nozaki is a manga creator best known for Hatsune Miku: Bad∞End∞Night. SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT Just Added to July 2017 Hatsune Miku: Bad∞End∞Night, vol. 2 Original concept by Hitoshizuku-P x Yama Story and art by Tsubata Nozaki An all-new tale of drama beneath the spotlight starring the global sensation Hatsune Miku and her fellow vocaloids! atsune Miku is a young woman seeking to Hbecome an actress. Although she’s finally gotten her chance, everything is thrown upside down when she finds herself hurled into the “world of stage” within a strange mansion. There she meets seven mysterious, and potentially dangerous, characters. Although each comes with their own secrets, they almost all have one thing in common—find the stolen script pages, or be trapped in this false world forever! COVER NOT • GLOBAL PHENOMENON: Based on the global FINAL hit vocaloid franchise, Hatsune Miku, which has inspired dozens of manga, anime, music, and video games ONGOING • DELUXE PRINTING: Each volume will be MANGA printed at a larger trim size Trade Paperback • FOR FANS OF: Unofficial Hatsune Mix, The ISBN: 978-1-626925-26-7 Disappearance of Hatsune Miku, and Alice in the Country of Joker Rated: Teen (13+) On Sale: July 25, 2017 5.875” x 8.25”/ 180 pages $13.99/US | $15.99/CAN Hitoshizuku-P x Yama is a Japanese song composer whose lyrics have been used as the basis for a variety of light novels and manga. Tsubata Nozaki is a manga creator best known for Hatsune Miku: Bad∞End∞Night. SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT Just added to August 2017 Akuma no Riddle: Riddle Story of Devil, vol. 5 Story by Yun Kouga Art by Sunao Minakata From the bestselling creator of Loveless comes the dramatic conclusion to this tale of student assassins! t Myojo Academy, an elite all-girls boarding Aschool, the Class Black is comprised of thirteen students, twelve of whom are assassins. Their prey is the thirteenth student, Haru Ichinose, an upbeat girl who vows to survive school and graduate unharmed! Enter Tokaku Azuma, a cold-blooded killer who transfers from another school to kill Haru. What should have been a routine hit turns into a far more complicated affair as Tokaku is unable to pull the trigger on Haru. As Tokaku copes with her strange, budding feelings, will she decide to protect Haru’s life from the other COVER NOT assassins—or will she end it? FINAL • ANIME ADAPTATION: An anime adaptation is FINAL VOLUME currently streaming on Funimation • FOR FANS OF: Loveless and Gunslinger Girl MANGA Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-626923-38-6 Yun Kouga is best known as the creator of Rated: Teen (13+) Loveless and is a well-known doujinshi author On Sale: August 15, 2017 and artist. 5” x 7.125”/ 180 pages $12.99/US | $14.99/CAN Sunao Minakata is best known as the artist of Akuma no Riddle: Riddle Story of Devil. SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT September 2017 Arpeggio of Blue Steel, vol. 11 Story and art by Ark Performance The popular science fiction series of naval strategy and political drama continues! It’s been seventeen long years since the Fleet of Fog—a mysterious, unmanned fleet of powerful vessels that appeared out of nowhere—took control of the oceans, barring humanity from traveling between continents or islands. Now, a weapon powerful enough to damage the Fog’s vessels has finally been invented, and there’s just one way of getting the critical information and prototypes from Japan to America, where the weapon can be produced. The submarine I-401, with its humanoid avatar—a “mental model” named Iona, who’s taken the shape of a young girl— was once part of the Fleet of Fog, but has chosen to side with humanity. Captained by Chihaya Gunzo and his crew, the I-401 is the COVER NOT only ship under human control that can move FINAL freely through the seas. But she answers only to her captain, and he answers to no one. ONGOING • LOOT CRATE: The first volume of Arpeggio MANGA of Blue Steel was a recent inclusion in the Trade Paperback anime-exclusive Loot Crate box with over ISBN: 978-1-626925-43-4 60,000 subscribers Rated: Teen (13+) • ANIME ADAPTATION: The Arpeggio of Blue On Sale: September 5, 2017 Steel anime is currently streaming on 5” x 7.125”/ 180 pages Crunchyroll $12.99/US | $14.99/CAN “[...] an interesting, exciting story of mysterious Ark Performance is a Japanese author/artist vessels and warfare on the high seas.” duo whose best known credits include Samurai - Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network Commando, Arpeggio of Blue Steel and a Mobile Gundam Suit spin-off. In 2011, the “[...] an excellent mix of sci-fi and naval two contributed to the Trigun: Multiple Bullets combat backed up with an exploration of anthology. human emotions through an entertaining cast of sentient battleships.” - Richard Eisenbeis, Kotaku SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT September 2017 Golden Time, vol. 8 Story by Yuyuko Takemiya Art by Umechazuke The hilarious rom-com manga series from the author of New York Times bestselling Toradora! continues! ife, love, and education! College freshman LTada Banri is looking forward to a new lease on life, starting with his ambitious journey and entry into a private law school in Tokyo. But 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? • ANIME ADAPTATION: An anime adaptation is currently streaming on Crunchyroll and was released on disc by Sentai Filmworks • BASED ON A LIGHT NOVEL: Golden Time is based on the bestselling Japanese series of ONGOING light novels by Yuyuko Takemiya MANGA Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-626924-94-9 Yuyuko Takemiya is the author of Toradora!, Golden Time, and Evergreen. Rated: Teen (13+) On Sale: September 5, 2017 Umechazuke is a Japanese manga artist best 5” x 7.125”/ 194 pages known as the artist of Golden Time. $12.99/US | $14.99/CAN “This is Takemiya’s writing. Emotional, dramatic—perhaps even a little melodramatic—but intelligent and insightful, with a fine-grained eye for psychological detail and relational nuance and an infallible sense for how to bring everything to a boil.” - Carl Kimlinger, Anime News Network SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT September 2017 The Secret Garden Story by Frances Hodgson Burnett Art by Shiina Yuu Revisit the hallowed halls of the Misselthwaite Manor in this newly illustrated edition of the classic novel oung Mary Lennox is left an orphan when Yher parents die of illness while living abroad in India. Raised primarily by servants, Mary is left to mourn the loss of her inattentive parents before eventually being sent to live under the care of her Uncle in Yorkshire, England. It’s there in Misselthwaite Manor that she meets two young boys—a young servant named Dick and her cousin Colin who lives locked away in the manor due to a disability that leaves him bound to a wheelchair. Together the trio discover a secret garden hidden away in the manor grounds. As they work to restore it, the three learn about each other, their families, and their own personal strengths. COVER NOT FINAL • A LITERARY CLASSIC: A classic piece of literature, beloved for decades by readers of all ages STAND-ALONE • NUMEROUS ADAPTATIONS: The Secret ILLUSTRATED NOVEL Garden has been adapted into numerous Trade Paperback films, plays, cartoons, movies, and novels ISBN: 978-1-626926-02-8 • EYE-CATCHING ARTWORK: Shiina Yuu’s vibrant manga artwork reinvigorates this Rated: All Ages must-read classic for a modern audience On Sale: September 5, 2017 5” x 7.5”/ 300 pages $11.99/US | $13.99/CAN Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English- American author best known for A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. During the course of her lifetime, Burnett wrote some of the best-loved children’s novels in modern literary history. Shiina Yuu is a Japanese artist who has illustrated dozens of novel adaptations, light novels, and manga series.