Seven Seas Entertainment
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Seven Seas Entertainment is a publishing company located in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

. It was originally dedicated to the publication of original manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

, but now publishes licensed manga and novels, as well as select webcomics. The company is headed by Jason DeAngelis, who coined the term "World Manga" with the October 2004 launch of the company's web site.

In April 2005, Seven Seas became the first manga publisher to release downloadable manga content for the Sony PSP and, as a result, gained over 12,000 downloads in the first five days. Seven Seas followed the Sony PSP announcement with enlisting the platinum-selling
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...

 Filipino group the J Brothers to create a theme song for its web manga series Aoi House
Aoi House
Aoi House is a harem original English-language manga series written by Adam Arnold, with art by Shiei, and published by Seven Seas Entertainment...

entitled "Itsumo Futaride." During Comic-Con
Comic-Con
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 2005, Seven Seas Entertainment premiered the pilot of its No Man's Land
No Man's Land (manga)
No Man's Land is an shōnen Original English-language manga series written by Jason DeAngelis, with art by Jennyson Rosero. It is published by Seven Seas Entertainment....

flash anime series and later followed it with a flash animation music video based on Aoi House
Aoi House
Aoi House is a harem original English-language manga series written by Adam Arnold, with art by Shiei, and published by Seven Seas Entertainment...

.

In October 2005, it announced plans for its first Japanese
Japan
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 license for novels and manga from the Boogiepop series
Boogiepop series
The of Japanese light novels is written by Kouhei Kadono and illustrated by Kouji Ogata. It includes titles from different media, each connected by repeating characters and related plots...

 by Kouhei Kadono
Kouhei Kadono
is a Japanese author, best known for the Boogiepop series, which has also been adapted as a live action movie, two manga and an anime.- Biography :Born December 12, 1968, he graduated from Hosei University...

 and Kouji Ogata
Kouji Ogata
is a Japanese artist, character designer, and manga artist best known for his work on the Boogiepop series and Gin-iro no Kami no Agito. He was born on December 14, 1970. He has another pen name .- External links :...

.

In September 2006, Seven Seas announced a project to translate and publish Japanese light novel
Light novel
A is a style of Japanese novel primarily targeting junior high and high school students . The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. Light novels are often called or for short...

s, including popular titles such as Strawberry Panic!
Strawberry Panic!
is a series of Japanese fictional illustrated short stories written by Sakurako Kimino, which focus on a group of teenage girls attending three affiliated all-girl schools on Astraea Hill. A common theme throughout the stories is the intimate lesbian relationships between the characters...

.

In March 2008, Seven Seas Entertainment began publishing new editions of Rachel Robert's popular children's fantasy novel series Avalon: Web of Magic
Avalon: Web of Magic
Avalon: Web of Magic is a series of 12 children's fantasy novels by the American author Rachel Roberts. Some of them were also released under the title Avalon: Quest for Magic and there is a related graphic novel series, Avalon: The Warlock Diaries...

in conjunction with Red Sky Entertainment. A three-volume manga spin-off
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...

 titled Avalon: The Warlock Diaries followed which started in June 2009. Seven Seas and Red Sky Entertainment also launched a dedicated website for the Avalon novel series in September 2008 at AvalonMagic.com.

Publications

For a list of titles released by Seven Seas Entertainment, see also the Seven Seas Entertainment titles.
  • A Certain Scientific Railgun
  • Afro Samurai
    Afro Samurai
    , also written AFRO SAMURAI, is a Japanese seinen dōjinshi manga series written and illustrated by manga artist Takashi Okazaki. It was originally serialized irregularly in the avant-garde dōjinshi manga magazine Nou Nou Hau from September 1999 to May 2000...

  • Amazing Agent Jennifer
  • Amazing Agent Luna
    Amazing Agent Luna
    Amazing Agent Luna is an original English-language manga series written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir , with art by Shiei. It is published by Seven Seas Entertainment. The first volume of Amazing Agent Luna was one of Seven Seas Entertainment's four initial releases...

  • Amnesia Labyrinth
  • Aoi House
    Aoi House
    Aoi House is a harem original English-language manga series written by Adam Arnold, with art by Shiei, and published by Seven Seas Entertainment...

  • Avalon: Web of Magic
    Avalon: Web of Magic
    Avalon: Web of Magic is a series of 12 children's fantasy novels by the American author Rachel Roberts. Some of them were also released under the title Avalon: Quest for Magic and there is a related graphic novel series, Avalon: The Warlock Diaries...

  • Arkham Woods
  • Ballad of a Shinigami
  • Blade for Barter
    Blade for Barter
    Blade for Barter is an Original English-language manga series written by Jason DeAngelis, with art by Hai! and was the premiere publication of Seven Seas Entertainment....

  • Blood Alone
    Blood Alone
    Blood Alone is a vampire manga with crime fiction undertones, written by , author of Boogiepop Dual. It was originally published as a dōjinshi.-Plot:...

  • Boogiepop
  • Captain Nemo
    Captain Nemo
    Captain Nemo, also known as Prince Dakkar, is a fictional character featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island ....

  • Dance in the Vampire Bund
    Dance in the Vampire Bund
    is a supernatural romance manga written and illustrated by . The manga series is serialized in Media Factory's seinen manga magazine Comic Flapper, and is licensed for an English-language release by Seven Seas Entertainment....

  • Dead Already
  • Destiny's Hand
    Destiny's Hand
    Destiny's Hand is a pirate Original English-language manga written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir , with art by Mel Calingo...

  • Earthsong
    Earthsong
    Earthsong is a popular webcomic with a manga influence. The author, Lady Yates, started the comic on June 8, 2004. Earthsong frequently holds the high spots on Topwebcomics and buzzComix. Earthsong volume 1 was published in mid-2006 by Seven Seas Entertainment, an imprint of the Macmillan...

  • First Love Sisters
    First Love Sisters
    is a Japanese manga originally conceived by Mako Komao with original art designs by Reine Hibiki, and illustrated by Mizuo Shinonome which was first serialized in the now-defunct yuri shōjo manga magazine Yuri Shimai on June 28, 2003 under the title . The manga was transferred to Comic Yuri Hime,...

  • Free Runners
    Free Runners
    Free Runners is an original English-language manga about free running with story by Bill Strauss and art by Jennyson Rosero. Volume 1 was released on July 25, 2007, and was published by Seven Seas Entertainment.-Plot:...

  • Gun Princess
    Gun Princess
    is an ongoing Japanese light novel series written Madoka Takadono and illustrated by Katsumi Enami. The first novel was published under Media Factory's MF Bunko J imprint in April 2004, and as of December 2009, eleven novels have been released...

  • Gunslinger Girl
    Gunslinger Girl
    Gunslinger Girl is an ongoing manga by Yu Aida. It first premiered in the November 2002 issue of the monthly shōnen magazine Dengeki Daioh. The chapters are also being published in tankōbon volumes by ASCII Media Works. 13 volumes have been released in Japan as of April 2011...

  • Hayate X Blade
  • He Is My Master
    He Is My Master
    is a gag comedy manga which ran in Monthly Shōnen Gangan, later spun off into a television anime series in the harem genre with a lolicon aspect. The manga is authored by two individuals: Mattsu who does the story and his ex-wife Asu Tsubaki who does the artwork...

  • Hollow Fields
    Hollow Fields
    Hollow Fields is a steampunk-themed original English-language manga written and illustrated by Madeleine Rosca.Volume 1 was released by Seven Seas Entertainment in June 2007, with a second volume released on May 29, 2008, and a third released on January 6, 2009.- Plot :Little Lucy Snow was meant to...

  • I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara
    I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara
    is a Japanese manga series written by Japanese author Jirō Suzuki. The manga is serialized in the Japanese shōnen manga magazine Monthly GFantasy...

  • Inukami!
    Inukami!
    is a Japanese light novel series written by Mamizu Arisawa, with illustrations by Kanna Wakatsuki. The series originally started serialization in volume seventeen of ASCII Media Works' now-defunct light novel magazine Dengeki hp on April 18, 2002...

  • Inverloch
  • InVisible
  • It Takes A Wizard
  • Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl
  • Laddertop
  • Last Hope
    Last Hope
    Last Hope is an original English-language manga series written by Michael Dignan, illustrated by Kriss Sison and published by Seven Seas Entertainment...

  • The Last Uniform
    The Last Uniform
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mera Hakamada. The series was first serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Carat on February 24, 2007, published by Houbunsha, but later had concurrent serialization in the magazine Manga Time Kirara Max between May...

  • Moonlight Meow
  • Mr. Grieves
  • My Boyfriend is a Vampire
  • The Ninja Diaries
  • No Man's Land
  • The Outcast
  • Pandora: A Death Jr. Manga
  • Paranormal Mystery Squad
  • Pita-Ten
  • Ravenskull
    Ravenskull (manga)
    Ravenskull is an Original English-language manga written by Chris Vogler and illustrated by Elmer Damaso. It has been published by Seven Seas Entertainment. The story is written as a sequel to Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and takes place during the reign of King Richard I of England...

  • Speed Racer
    Speed Racer
    Speed Racer is an English adaptation name of the Japanese manga and anime, which centered on automobile racing. Mach GoGoGo was originally serialized in print form in Shueisha's 1958 Shōnen Book, and was released in tankōbon book form by Sun Wide Comics, re-released in Japan by Fusosha...

  • Strawberry Panic!
    Strawberry Panic!
    is a series of Japanese fictional illustrated short stories written by Sakurako Kimino, which focus on a group of teenage girls attending three affiliated all-girl schools on Astraea Hill. A common theme throughout the stories is the intimate lesbian relationships between the characters...

  • 10 Beautiful Assassins
  • Tetragrammaton Labyrinth
    Tetragrammaton Labyrinth
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by manga author Ei Itou. The manga was serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Comic Gum between January 26, 2005 and November 26, 2007, published by Wani Books. The manga has been licensed by Los Angeles-based company Seven Seas...

  • Toradora!
    Toradora!
    is a Japanese light novel series by Yuyuko Takemiya, with illustrations by Yasu. The series includes ten novels released between March 10, 2006 and March 10, 2009, published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. Three volumes of a spin-off light novel series was also created,...

  • Unearthly
    Unearthly
    Unearthly is an shōjo Original English-language manga series written by Ted Naifeh, with art by Elmer Damaso and is published by Seven Seas Entertainment.- Characters :...

  • Vampire Cheerleaders
    Vampire Cheerleaders
    Vampire Cheerleaders is an original English-language manga series written by Adam Arnold, with art by Shiei, and published by Seven Seas Entertainment...

  • Venus Versus Virus
    Venus Versus Virus
    is a Japanese manga series created by Atsushi Suzumi which was first serialized on June 27, 2005 in MediaWorks' shōnen manga magazine Dengeki Comic Gao!...

  • Voiceful
    Voiceful
    Voiceful is a Japanese yuri manga by Nawoko. The first chapter was serialized in the manga magazine Yuri Shimai under the title Voice, and the next three chapters were serialized in Comic Yuri Hime under the title Voiceful. The bound volume, released in Japan on May 18, 2006, was also published...

  • Wicked City
    Wicked City (novel)
    Wicked City is a series of novels written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and published by Tor/Seven Seas. The first book served as the basis for an anime film and live-action film of the same name.-External links:*...


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