Yen Press announced on Friday that it has licensed eight manga, six novel series, and one box set for release in December 2026.

Title: Witches Can’t Be Collared manga
Creators: Makuei, Yuri Yumemi (original story), Wata (character design)
Summary: The Las Lilte Empire, with boundless magic power at their command, has grown to great prosperity…but in the wrong hands, that power can pose a grave threat. To counteract the rampant abuse of magic, the Empire established the Magic Crimes Bureau. In the imperial capital, Elayl, hardened detective Rogue has to make a deal with the most despicable criminal of them all—because only Miseria, the witch who unleashed hell on the world, has the kind of power that can help him solve the case surrounding the Lifetaker. But when you’re dealing with convicted witches, standard investigation protocol just won’t cut it…

Title: Your Castle’s Little Helper: Please Feed Me, I’ll Work manga
Creators: Kazumi Kurihara, Kazuhito Minagi (original story), PenekoR (character design)
Summary: In the darkest corner of a grand castle, a starving young girl collapses from hunger…but the second she thinks her life is over, the soul of a former Japanese office worker, Chihiro Sagami, awakens inside of her—and there’s no way Chihiro is dying here!! As she wanders the castle in search of food, Chihiro happens upon the kitchen and begs the kindhearted chefs working there for help…and so begins her new life! Revitalized by the delicious cooking, Chihiro agrees to start working around the castle and gains a fond reputation as their little helper. But behind her eager eyes, there’s a secret unknown even to her that could decide the future of the entire world…

Title: Tale of the Wizrain Kingdom: The Nation’s Dragon Guardian Is Reborn as a Downtrodden Young Lady novel
Creators: Hyōgo Amagasa, LINO (illustration)
Summary: Elna, the adopted daughter of a baron, lives in the Wizrain Kingdom and endures constant abuse from her elder stepsister. But one fateful day, it all comes rushing back to her. In a past life, she was the famed dragon Elnarfia who protected the nation and longed to be human! Soon, a kingdom-wide search for the girl who is Elnarfia’s reincarnation brings Elna face-to-face with a dear friend from her previous life: the legendary hero, now reborn as the king of Wizrain. But can the two of them rekindle their old bonds, or will they have to start from square one in this new life…?

Title: Mafia novel
Creators: Shinano Sano, Nigata Ammon (illustration)
Summary: In the violent, crime-ridden underworld of Broken Ark, everyone knows Amrita—it’s one of the biggest gangs in the city, and also the most philanthropic. But precious few have seen its enigmatic boss, Lucy. And so, when she’s targeted by a series of escalating attacks, the suspects are limited. Someone among Amrita’s top brass is a traitor, but who?

Title: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Familia Chronicle Episode Asfi novel
Creators: Fujino Ōmori (creator), Fumikaru Nishijima (story), nilitsu (illustration), Suzuhito Yasuda (character design)
Summary: Asfi is never not busy, so it takes some doing to get her to accept a quest to investigate a mysterious ship that keeps showing up recently. But when she, Hermes Familia, and Lyu board the vessel, they are attacked by a horde of ghosts! While enduring an endless stream of inexplicable phenomena, the ship takes them to a place that shouldn’t exist—Asfi’s lost homeland.

Title: Shino & Ren: Future novel
Creators: Minori Chigusa (original story and illustration), Tsuzuro Hibi
Summary: Lovebirds Ren and Shino have left their school days behind and set out into the world of working adults. Independence is exciting, but living on their own and starting their careers come with a whirlwind of challenges. Ren is struggling to make time in her busy modeling schedule for her girlfriend. Shino is happy about Ren’s success, but she can’t help but notice all the admiring gazes Ren attracts. Then when they’re finally alone, Shino shies from physical intimacy! And to top it all off, Shino gets along with her coworkers and students so well that it’s stoking Ren’s jealousy. Do these high school sweethearts have what it takes to clear these hurdles and build a future together?

Title: Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family! manga
Creator: Nanateru
Summary: What are two underappreciated scientists to do when their greatest invention, the ultimate self-learning android, Alma, insists they’re her parents? Become an extraordinary nuclear family, of course! Alma may be small and cute, but she’s got wicked combat capabilities and an insatiable curiosity about romance and family. Unfortunately, the unexpected coparents have zero experience with those subjects and constantly find themselves at the mercy of Alma with her barrage of questions and razor-sharp analyses!

Title: I’m the Monster Girl You Once Saved: A Middle-Aged Teacher in Another World is Concerned About His Sudden Popularity manga
Creator: Okinosuke
Summary: After twenty long years, Washio, a teacher summoned to another world, has gone to seed and become the laughingstock of the student body…until one day, he catches the eye of a breathtakingly beautiful girl who tells him: “I’m the monster girl you once saved!” By some strange twist of fate, he’s won the favor of these students who were once his monster pupils…What will happen to this past-his-prime teacher?

Title: Love Me to My Core manga
Creator: An Momose
Summary: Tokiwa is complete and utter trash. At least, that’s how Yuzuriha would describe his jerk of a classmate, if anyone asked him. Too bad nobody ever looks past his pretty face to see what’s underneath. So when the opportunity to connect with someone on a deep level comes knocking, he jumps at the chance! Too bad life—or more specifically, Tokiwa— seems intent on screwing him over! Caught in front of a love hotel, one thing leads to another, and Tokiwa’s left with only one wish: for someone to love him on the inside too…

Title: The Purple Clavel: They Took Everything, So I’ve Bloomed Once More as a Villainous Femme Fatale manga
Creators: Daifuku Hoshimi (original story), Ichino Tomizuki
Summary: Maria lives a charmed life as a duke’s daughter—until her father is forced from his position through a coup d’état, and she loses everything! Now in hiding with her kid sister and her trusty lady-in-waiting at her side, Maria vows to secure safe passage into the nearby kingdom of Angelique. As luck would have it, a large trading company led by Angelique’s Count Holden is hiring…but Maria must disguise herself as a man to work for them! This is the story of a proud girl who fights with everything she has to protect the ones she loves—and the origin of a legendary seductress.

Title: The Reincarnated Devil’s Plot for Raising the Ultimate Hero manga
Creators: Ryuu Segawa, Candy Tamagokake (original story), Megumi Nagahama (character design)
Summary: Low-ranking demon Kakyuu has amassed unparalleled power during his two millennia in hell. But when he gets caught in the cross fire during a battle between gods, he’s freed from that cruel life—and banished to another world altogether!! He finally has the peaceful, relaxed life he’s longed for, but peace doesn’t come easy…especially when the village that took him under its wing is razed to the ground. When he finds Alus, a baby who was left in the ruins of the village, this demon vows to repay his debt of gratitude—by making this baby the happiest child in the world!

Title: Yamada’s Class Diary manga
Creator: Rui Aomi
Summary: High schooler Nina Yamada is serious, studious—and the only girl in her class at a formerly all-boys school. She doesn’t exactly get along with her classmates, but she’ll work her butt off for a good college recommendation no matter what! So one day, when her teacher asks her to get the truant Murata to come back to school, she puts aside her reservations and braves the local arcade…only to find Murata surrounded by girls waiting on him hand and foot! Can Nina get through to this absentee playboy, or will it prove to be the one thing her hard work won’t help with?

Title: Playful Relationships novel
Creators: Sekina Aoi, Kurehito Misaki (illustration)
Summary: Welcome to board game café Gather Round, where love starts with a roll of the dice. Join interim manager Kotarou “Banjo” Tokiwa, who has a crush on the youthful, fashionable part-timer Mifuru Takanashi but can’t ask her out because she has a boyfriend!

Title: The Immortal Witch Would Sacrifice Ten Thousand Lives to Fulfill a Simple Wish novel
Creators: Haruichi, ituca (illustration)
Summary: After being reincarnated in another world as an immortal witch lich with the appearance of a young girl, Yuurai is arrested by royal guards on the charge of killing and manipulating the corpse of a princess. While being tortured, she casts her “Descend into Darkness” skill, consuming twenty thousand souls to gain the mighty power of a Demon Lord—and in doing so, becomes a target for extermination. Yuurai is hunted by holy knights and first-rank adventurers before eventually coming face-to-face with the kingdom’s army of ten thousand soldiers. All she wants is to live in peace, but the vicious cycle never ends.

Title: Bungo Stray Dogs Case Files: BSD 01 – 10 manga Box Set
Creators: Kafka Asagiri (story), Sango Harukawa (art)
Summary: Get the first ten volumes of Bungo Stray Dogs in one gorgeous box set! A young man kicked out from his orphanage, Atsushi Nakajima is in despair when he happens upon a stranger at death’s door and rescues him. This eccentric fellow is Osamu Dazai, and he’s actually a member of a crime-fighting supernatural detective agency whose powers and identities carry a literary twist!

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Viz Media announced on Friday that it has licensed the following manga and novels for print in English for release in spring 2027 (with one in fall 2027):

Title: Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo (also known as Jujutsu Kaisen ≡)
Creators: Gege Akutami (story), Yuji Iwasaki (art)
Summary: 68 years after the Culling Game, siblings Yuka and Tsurugi Okkotsu are pulled into a galactic conflict when an alien race arrives on Earth.

Title: The Exorcist and the Lovestruck Raven
Creator: Akira Ōsora
Summary: Talented but isolated exorcist Asaki Hibana is trying to be a normal high schooler. Could a handsome boy with big black wings be her first ally, or is he hiding something sinister?

Title: WITCHRIV
Creator: Hakuri
Summary: Nona is a witch, and her world hates witches. She tries to live in peace with her mother among humans, avoiding the brutal Magic Surveillance Bureau at all costs. Will a small act of kindness change her life forever?

Title: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Over Heaven novel
Creator: NISIOISIN (story), Hirohiko Araki (illustrations)
Summary: Before Jotaro burned the diary, DIO recorded his ultimate plan. The perspective-flipping JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Over Heaven light novel, written by NISIOISIN, and with new illustrations by Hirohiko Araki, releases with a gold foil deluxe hardcover Spring 2027.

Title: #Gal x Gal Yuri
Creator: Inoue
Summary: Yua just got dumped by her boyfriend. Reina’s been single for a hot minute. So, like, what if they dated? I mean, they’re kind of #perfect for each other! A one-year trial run turns into a #relationship4life?!

Title: Sins
Creator: Shūzō Oshimi
Release: Fall 2027
Summary: Through four deeply personal vignettes, a legendary mangaka confronts guilt, shame, pride, and loneliness in unfiltered reflections on his younger years.

Title: Detective Conan 3-in-1 Edition with original Japanese names
Creator: Gōshō Aoyama
Summary: Discover the real Detective Conan in this faithful version of the renowned series, published under its original name with character names restored!

Viz Media currently publishes the ongoing manga in single volumes as Case Closed with localized names and a title based on Funimation‘s original English dub. The company most recently released the 98th volume in English on April 14.

Title: Takemitsu Zamurai
Creator: Issei Eifuku (story), Taiyo Matsumoto (art)
Summary: A ronin tries to escape his violent past, but in Edo Japan, the sword that made him a killer refuses to stay sheathed.

Title: No Glass Slippers for Me: Reincarnated Cinderella
Creators: Mio Nanao (story), Rei Tōma (art)
Summary: Three modern girls reincarnate as fairy tale heroines and must rewrite their happily-ever-afters.

Title: The Ichinose Family’s Deadly Sins digital manga release
Creator: Taizan5
Summary: A family wakes up from a coma with zero memories, only to discover their home is hiding dark, unsettling secrets.

Viz Media and MANGA Plus both publish the manga in English.

Title: Junji Ito: Dissection
Creator: Junji Ito
Summary: The ultimate dissection of the career of horror legend Junji Ito! This hardcover edition bursts with previously unpublished manga and includes an unfinished rom-com manga Ito created before his debut.

Title: Slam Dunk Deluxe Edition
Creator: Takehiko Inoue
Summary: The legendary basketball manga, Slam Dunk, returns in a deluxe hardcover edition with exclusive color pages from the original serialization, brand-new covers, volume structure reordered by story arcs.

The company will also release a hardcover book of photographs titled Odyssey by photographer Jingna Zhang and the Ashe in Orbit comic by Hakei in spring 2027.

Source: Viz Media‘s X/Twitter account