Yen Press has announced a fresh batch of English-language licenses, headlined by Cross-Dressing Villainess Cecilia Sylvie: Extra Round! and the fantasy novel And Thus, the Wizard Noi Garené Became a Bride 100 Years Later, alongside eight more titles. The new slate gives fans of villainess stories and slow-burn fantasy romance plenty to look forward to on Yen Press’s release calendar.
Cecilia Sylvie (Credits: Yen Press)
Cross-Dressing Villainess Cecilia Sylvie: Extra Round! Brings Back the Bonus Stories
The new Cross-Dressing Villainess Cecilia Sylvie: Extra Round! collection continues the story of Cecilia, the reincarnated villainess who dodges her doomed fate by living as a boy. Written by Hiroro Akizakura with illustrations by Dangmill, the bonus volume gathers short stories set after the main series, plus an alternate-history branch for fans who always wondered what might have been.
One storyline, dubbed Oscar’s Route, sends Cecilia and Oscar to a princess’s wedding in a neighbouring country, only for the celebration to hit trouble when the bride-to-be threatens to call everything off because of her feelings for Oscar. The other, Gilbert’s Route, rewinds to a turning point after the third volume: Gilbert walks away from the Sylvie household and quits school, and Cecilia must go undercover at a masquerade ball tied to the Prosper Kingdom underworld to win him back and finally say what she feels.
For readers who followed Cecilia’s cross-dressing gambit from the start, the extra volume promises the same mix of romantic comedy and high-stakes identity juggling, with each route offering a different answer to the question of who Cecilia ends up with.
And Thus, the Wizard Noi Garené Became a Bride 100 Years Later
The second headliner, And Thus, the Wizard Noi Garené Became a Bride 100 Years Later by Eiko Mutsuhana, leans into a very different kind of fantasy. Noi Garené is celebrated as the greatest wizard in the Kingdom of Ethria, and when the Demon Lord turns out to be an orphaned child, she takes him in, raising the boy she names Kaldia and teaching him magic while searching for a way to stop the Demon Lord’s rise.
When the fated day arrives, Noi gives her life to save her apprentice, only to wake up a century later to a man who looks strikingly like Kaldia proposing to her on the spot. The premise blends mentor-and-student devotion with a second-chance romance across a hundred-year gap, and it should appeal to readers who enjoy fantasy stories where the emotional payoff is a long time coming.
Yen Press’s Latest License Batch Adds 8 More Titles
Beyond the two headliners, Yen Press’s announcement covers eight additional titles, rounding out a ten-title slate that spans novels and manga. The publisher has built its English catalogue around exactly this kind of mix: beloved light novel series, their manga adaptations, and new fantasy and romance finds that already have passionate fan followings in Japan.
Release dates and formats for the newly licensed titles will follow in Yen Press’s usual announcements, so fans should keep an eye on the publisher’s channels for pre-order details. In the meantime, the Cecilia Sylvie bonus volume and the Noi Garené novel give two very different fandoms something to celebrate: one gets more time with a cross-dressing heroine who outsmarted her own story, and the other gets a century-spanning love story between a legendary wizard and the boy she once raised.
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