After rocketing to the top of almost everyone’s anime lists in the Fall 2022 season (thanks to the fantastic adaptation by CloverWorks), Yen Press has announced that they’ve acquired the license to translate Bocchi the Rock!’s manga for English audiences.

The manga takes the form of a yonkoma (four-panel) manga and follows the eponymous Bocchi (real name, Gotou Hitori), a highly relatable high school guitarist with crippling anxiety. Desperate to fulfill her dreams of playing in a band, she’ll need to step outside her comfort zone, make new friends, and rock out!

From the artist behind Masou Gakuen HxH (Hybrid x Heart) comes a hilariously smutty adult comedy about spies, cohabitation, and crafting the perfect ‘Honey Trap’!

Hayato prides himself on being one of the world’s toughest spies, never falling for beautiful women or enemy agents. But when the fate of two warring nations is at stake, he enters into the “Honey Trap Shared House”, where he re-discovers his first love, Serafi.

In Honey Trap Shared House, the first person to fall in love loses—and the fates of two nations are at stake as each spy uses their most cunning tricks to seduce their rival!

Manhwa fans rejoice, because Ize Press has returned with four announcements, one of which we’re covering today! See You in My 19th Life reached staggering success in Korea and has a Netflix K-Drama already in the works for Spring 2023!

See You in My 19th Life follows Jieum, a woman who has reincarnated through eighteen different lives, remembering all her past knowledge and bonds. When her last life is tragically cut short by an accident, she sets about to rekindle her last romance—but this time around, the knowledge and actions from her previous life might be the biggest challenge she’s ever faced!

For all our readers that feel the need to torture their emotions, we have The Red Thread, a new Boy’s Love (BL) acquisition based on the Thai novel of the same name, and the live-action drama adaptation “Until We Meet Again.”

Dean and Pharm have never met each other, but are inexplicably drawn together, feeling a turmoil of positive and negative emotions that they can’t quite describe. Is it possible that they’ve been linked together by the mystical red thread of fate, joining their souls across different lives?
And will this be a romantic dream come true or just a tragic nightmare in the making?

After receiving huge attention in Japan, and even taking home the Gold Prize in the 27th Dengeki Novel Prize of 2020, debut novelist Kousaka Mato’s quirky take on fantasy worlds will finally see an English release with Yen Press adapting the light novels of Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga, Zangyou wa Iya nanode Boss wo Solo Toubatsu Shiyou to Omoimasu (I May Be a Guild Receptionist, But I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time).

Better known by the shorthand Guild Receptionist, this novel series stars Alina—a receptionist for the usual Adventurer’s Guild we see in practically every fantasy series. But have you ever stopped to think about how awful and time-consuming that job must be? And what about the overtime?!

Desperate to avoid drowning in paperwork, Alina sneaks out on her own quests to solo boss monsters and get home on time—she’ll just have to face terrifying monsters and somehow keep her escapades a secret, of course!