More than Meets the Eye: Seven Seas Licenses BOY MEETS MARIA Manga (LGBT+)
What You Need to Know:
- Seven Seas Entertainment just announced their acquisition of Boy Meets Maria by PEYO, an LGBT+ manga exploring love and gender at a high school drama club.
- Taiga dreams of becoming an actor, so the first thing he does upon entering high school is join the drama club. There, he meets the beautiful, enigmatic Maria and immediately falls in love with her. Not long after, Taiga is told that she is actually a boy--but is that all there is to Maria’s story? This beautifully illustrated one-volume tale, the debut work of creator PEYO before their untimely passing in 2020, explores the layered nature of personal expression and the fluidity of the power of love.
- Seven Seas will publish the manga Boy Meets Maria for the first time in North America in print and on digital platforms in a single large-trim edition. The book will be released in October 2021 for $13.99 USA / $17.99 CAN.
Source: Official Press Release
About Seven Seas Entertainment
Established in 2004, Seven Seas Entertainment specializes in bringing the best of Japanese manga and light novels to North American audiences, and producing original comics, graphic novels, and youth literature. As of July 2021, Seven Seas and all of its book imprints are distributed by Penguin Random House Publisher Services. For more information, visit sevenseasentertainment.com
This sounds like such a GREAT story!
I'm sure it's full of all kinds of emotions. Can't wait to read it!