Seven Seas Entertainment

Seven Seas Entertainment

Type	Private
Industry	publication
Genre	Manga, Graphic novels, Original English-language manga
Founded	2004
Founder	Jason DeAngelis
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California
Area served	North America
Website	http://www.gomanga.com/

Seven Seas Entertainment is a publishing company located in Los Angeles, California.^[1] It was originally dedicated to the publication of original manga, 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.^[2]

History

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.^[3] Seven Seas followed the Sony PSP announcement with enlisting the platinum-selling Filipino group the J Brothers to create a theme song for its web manga series Aoi House entitled "Itsumo Futaride." During Comic-Con 2005, Seven Seas Entertainment premiered the pilot of its No Man's Land flash anime series and later followed it with a flash animation music video based on Aoi House.

In October 2005, it announced plans for its first Japanese license for novels and manga from the Boogiepop series by Kouhei Kadono and Kouji Ogata.

In September 2006, Seven Seas announced a project to translate and publish Japanese light novels, including popular titles such as Strawberry Panic!.^[4]

In March 2008, Seven Seas Entertainment began publishing new editions of Rachel Robert's popular children's fantasy novel series Avalon: Web of Magic in conjunction with Red Sky Entertainment. A three-volume manga spin-off titled Avalon: The Warlock Diaries followed which started in June 2009.^[5] Seven Seas and Red Sky Entertainment also launched a dedicated website for the Avalon novel series in September 2008 at AvalonMagic.com.^[6]

On August 1, 2012, Seven Seas Entertainment launched the ad-supported free webcomic portal Zoom Comics in partnership with Pixie Trix Comix. The initial launch titles included Amazing Agent Jennifer, Dracula Everlasting, Paranormal Mystery Squad, and Vampire Cheerleaders.^[7]

Publications

For a list of titles released by Seven Seas Entertainment, see Seven Seas Entertainment titles.

10 Beautiful Assassins 12 Beast A Centaur's Life A Certain Scientific Accelerator A Certain Scientific Railgun Afro Samurai Alice in the Country of Clover Alice in the Country of Hearts Alice in the Country of Joker Alice Love Fables Amazing Agent Jennifer Amazing Agent Luna Amnesia Labyrinth The Ancient Magus' Bride Angel Para Bellum Aoi House Arkham Woods Arpeggio of Blue Steel Avalon: Web of Magic Avalon: The Warlock Diaries Ballad of a Shinigami Battle Rabbits Blade for Barter Blood Alone Bloom Into You Bodacious Space Pirates Boogiepop Captain Nemo Citrus Crimson Empire Dance in the Vampire Bund Dive in the Vampire Bund Dead Already Destiny's Hand D-Frag! Dictatorial Grimoire Dracula Everlasting Dragonar Academy Earthsong Evergreen First Love Sisters Franken Fran Free Runners Freezing Gakuen Polizi Girl Friends Girls und Panzer Girls und Panzer: Little Army Golden Time Gun Princess Gunslinger Girl Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends Hayate X Blade He Is My Master Hollow Fields Holy Corpse Rising Hour of the Zombie How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King I Don't Like You at All, Big Brother! I, Otaku: Struggle in Akihabara Inukami! Inverloch InVisible It Takes A Wizard Jack the Ripper: Hell Blade	Kanokon Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink Kodomo no Jikan Laddertop Last Hope The Last Uniform Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries Lord Marksman and Vanadis Love in Hell Love in Hell: Death Life Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer Magia the Ninth Magical Girl Apocalypse Magika Swordsman and Summoner Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist Masamune-kun's Revenge Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Monster Girl Encyclopedia Monster Musume Monster Musume: I ♥ Monster Girls Moonlight Meow Mr. Grieves Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation My Boyfriend is a Vampire My Girlfriend is a T-Rex My Monster Secret: Actually, I Am... My Pathetic Vampire Life The Ninja Diaries No Game No Life No Man's Land Non Non Biyori Not Lives NTR: Netsuzou Trap Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary The Outcast Pandora: A Death Jr. Manga Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn Paranormal Mystery Squad Pita-Ten Please Tell Me! Galko-chan Ravenskull The Sacred Blacksmith Senran Kagura Servamp The Seven Princes of the Thousand Year Labyrinth Shomin Sample: I Was Abducted By An Elite All-Girls School As A Sample Commoner Speed Racer Strawberry Panic! Strike Witches The Testament of Sister New Devil Tetragrammaton Labyrinth The Other Side of Secret Tomodachi x Monster Toradora! Unearthly Vampire Cheerleaders Venus Versus Virus Voiceful Witch Buster Wicked City World War Blue Young Miss Holmes Zero's Familiar

References

↑ "I, OTAKU "ARE YOU AN OTAKU?" CONTEST." Seven Seas Entertainment. Retrieved on October 25, 2011. "This contest is sponsored by Seven Seas Entertainment LLC, 626 Midvale Ave. #1, Los Angeles, California, 90024"
↑ Correction: World Manga
↑ Manga for Sony PSP: Seven Seas Announces 12,000 Downloads in 5 Days
↑ Seven Seas Entertainment Launches new "Light Novel" Imprint
↑ Avalon book listing on Gomanga.com
↑ Avalon Magic: dedicated website for Avalon series
↑ Robot 6: Seven Seas sets up global manga webcomics site

External links

Official website
Seven Seas Entertainment at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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