Seven Seas has announced two new manga licenses today, both of which should please many a manga reader.
Girl Friends – Milk Morinaga
I Don’t Like You At All, Big Brother!! – Kusano Kouichi
Girl Friends is a five-volume yuri series by one of the genre’s most well known creators, Milk Morinaga. This is Morinaga’s first title to be released in English.
“When it comes to grades, bookish high school student Mariko Kumakura is at the top of her class. Socially, however, she is shy and lonely, typically eating lunch by herself. Enter the charismatic and beautiful Akko Oohashi, whose mission is to befriend Mariko and burst her out of her introverted shell. In the process of transforming Plain Jane Mariko into one of the cutest, most popular girls in school, deep feelings begin to emerge that suggest something deeper than friendship.”
Seven Seas has previously put out several yuri titles – which are stories with a focus on romantic relationships between women – including The Last Uniform and Strawberry Panic. Girl Friends will be released as two omnibus volumes, each $17.99/US for 496 pages. The first will be on sale October 2012 with the second out in January 2013.
I Don’t Like You At All, Big Brother!! is a multi-volume manga series about a girl with a severe brother complex:
“Junior High School student Takanashi Nao has a problem: she has a crush on her dreamy older brother, Shuusuke. Fortunately, when Nao discovers that she was adopted as a child and they’re not related by blood, it seems like the coast is clear–but Shuusuke just doesn’t see it that way.”
To be honest, this is the kind of series I’d actively avoid (incest, no thank you) but I know it has a decent-sized fan following so many will be very glad for this news! The series will be released as 2-in-1 omnibus books at )$16.99/US)/($19.50/CAN) with the first scheduled for release in August 2012 with a 320 page count.
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I had the bad luck to watch the first episode of the “I Don’t Like You At All, Big Brother!!” anime. It’s as horrid as you might think, and then some (and this is from someone who doesn’t have an issue with incest – it’s just really -that- bad).
I can’t wait to pick up “Girl Friends”, though :D
Ditto on Girl Friends! I\’ve heard a lot of good things about it and there\’s so little yuri brought over that I always try and support the titles that come out.
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