Crossed Hearts unveiled an enormous slate of licenses at Anime NYC.
At their industry panel, the publisher revealed a wide range of titles which spanned boys’ love, girls’ love, romance, fantasy, and horror. Crossed Hearts is also expanding into licensing Thai titles with a Thai GL called The Devil in Me. The publisher also licensed two danmei comics called Addicted to You and The Grudge. Aside from their Glam Beat and Blush Club imprints which focuses on GL and BL, respectively, Crossed Hearts also introduced new titles from Studio Hearts, their in-house creative studio that focuses on original titles.
Crossed Hearts Licenses Six Titles
Welcome to the Rose Manor
Original Story: Lee Daran
Art: Moku
Welcome to the Rose Manor. Please read the rules carefully. Your life may just depend on it.
After her father’s death, Richelle Howard’s life crumbles overnight. With her mother’s reckless spending leaving the family drowning in debt, Richelle has nowhere left to turn when an offer arrives from the kingdom’s wealthiest and most revered family: the illustrious House of Otis.
The position seems simple.
Live at the Manor of Roses for one year. Teach the children. Follow the rules.
Never ignore the bells after midnight. Never enter certain rooms. Never question what you see.
Rules that must be obeyed without exception. Rules that offer no explanation. Rules that seem more like warnings.
Surrounded by a sprawling estate covered in roses and a family as beautiful as they are unsettling, Richelle soon finds herself entangled in a series of increasingly bizarre incidents. Doors open where none existed before. Whispers drift through empty halls. Faces appear where they should not.
“Welcome to the most fragrant grave in the world, Miss Richelle Howard. Let us become good corpses together.”
One year. One manor. One question: will Richelle survive?
The manhwa releases in March 2027.
Love Beyond the Final Boss: The Hero Party’s Quest for Love
Hadajuban Yamada
The world has already been saved… perhaps a little too well.
Thanks to the strongest Hero Party in history, the Demon King has been defeated, wars have ended, racial conflicts have vanished, cities have made peace, medicine has advanced, education has flourished… and just about every problem imaginable has already been solved.
Unfortunately, that leaves one group with nothing left to do: the other heroes summoned from another world. Robbed of their destiny, these aimless heroes have gone completely off the rails. From hopeless romantics with impossible dreams to eccentric oddballs with the strangest obsessions, they’re less “heroes” and more walking disasters.
Strongest Hero, please save the world… from its own saviors!
A wildly chaotic romance-comedy fantasy overflowing with eccentric heroes, unconventional love, and nonstop mayhem, Love Beyond the Final Boss: The Hero Party’s Quest for Love proves that saving the world was only the beginning.
Because once the Demon King is gone, the greatest threat to world peace isn’t evil anymore… It’s the unemployed heroes with far too much free time!
The manga releases in February 2027.
Flirting with the Villain’s Dad
Story: Dalseul
Art: Via
What happens when you wake up inside a novel you once read… twenty years before the story even begins?
Princess Yerenica knows exactly how this tale ends. In blood.
Her sister dies. Her brother-in-law dies. She dies. Even King Euredian, the father of the future villain, dies at the hands of his own son. One by one, everyone in her generation is erased to make way for the story she remembers.
Determined to rewrite fate, Yerenica throws herself into changing the events that set the tragedy in motion. But fate has other plans. After saving her sister, Yerenica ends up captured in her place… by none other than King Euredian himself.
There’s just one tiny problem.
He’s nothing like the ruthless man the novel described.
He’s kind. Handsome. Charming. And unfortunately, exactly her type. If the villain is never born, the future she remembers can never happen… right?
Armed with unwavering confidence and absolutely no regard for subtlety, Yerenica embarks on the most ridiculous mission imaginable: Seduce the villain’s father before the original story can begin!
“Please marry me!”
The manhwa releases in February 2027.
Emma and the Eyes That Bid Farewell
Higure Sakino
Emma has dreamed of attending the prestigious Royal Academy of Magic her entire life. There’s just one problem.
She can’t use magic.
On the day of the entrance ceremony, Emma’s dreams seem destined to shatter… until a chance encounter with the aloof and sharp-tongued Phyllis changes everything. After the two unexpectedly take the entrance exam together, they’re assigned as a provisional pair, much to their mutual dismay. But surviving academy life soon becomes the least of Emma’s concerns.
As she struggles to awaken the mysterious power sleeping within her, a deadly conspiracy begins to unfold. Someone is lurking in the shadows… and they’ll stop at nothing to assassinate her.
With deadly magic, mystery, and assassination colliding beneath the academy’s grand halls, every friendship is tested and every spell could be your last.
The manga releases in February 2027.
Where Sea Meets Shore
Al Chiaki
A young photographer finds himself captivated by the mermaid displayed behind the glass of an aquarium, and longs to speak to her despite the barrier between them.
Unable to do so, he returns day after day with his sketchbook, filling its pages with words that he shows her in the hope of reaching her.
While he is free to come and go, she remains imprisoned behind the glass, forever separated from the sea she longs to return to.
As their quiet bond deepens beyond words, he begins to wonder whether he can simply leave her behind… or if some encounters are destined to change lives forever.
A tender, bittersweet story of love, longing, and two souls reaching across the boundary between land and sea.
Two of Us Can’t Be Mobs
Sora Mizuki
Himejima is the school’s impossibly handsome heartthrob. Onimaru is a striking beauty with the unmistakable presence of an oni. They share one simple dream: to be completely ordinary. No attention. No popularity. No standing out. Just a quiet high school life as background characters. There’s just one problem. When you’re this unforgettable… being a mob is impossible. As fate keeps bringing these two reluctant scene-stealers together, every attempt to fade into the background only thrusts them further into the spotlight, sparking heart-fluttering moments, hilarious misunderstandings, and a romance neither of them saw coming. Two would-be side characters. One impossible dream. And a romance that refuses to stay in the background.
The manga comes out in February 2027.
Studio Hearts Licenses Two Titles
Doomsday Requiem with You
In a kingdom where a noble’s worth is determined by the blessing they are born with, Lady Cellestia Varst has spent her entire life branded as the one thing no aristocrat should ever be.
Blessingless.
Mocked by her peers but unwilling to surrender to fate, Cellestia forces her way into the prestigious Academy’s Special Curriculum, an elite programme reserved for the kingdom’s most powerful blessed students.
There, the strongest prepare for the return of the Enigma, an ancient calamity that awakens once every thousand years, plunging the land into darkness and reducing its victims to living flames.
Cellestia has no intention of becoming another soldier. Her father has already begun to combust, and she has only one year left to save him.
Whispers speak of twelve forgotten curses scattered across the kingdom, each concealed within an ancient myth, folktale, or riddle. Break all twelve, and the Enigma may disappear forever. The first curse is said to lie somewhere within the Academy.
Determined to uncover it, Cellestia slips through forbidden corridors, follows whispers no one else believes, and chases secrets that could see her expelled before she ever finds the truth.
Instead, every clue seems to lead her back to Crown Prince Julius, the kingdom’s golden heir blessed with the sacred power of light.
Julius is everything Cellestia expected… and nothing she can understand. Warm one moment, infuriatingly distant the next, he leaves her questioning whether he’s mocking her, testing her, or hiding secrets of his own.
The closer they grow to the truth, the more impossible it becomes to ignore each other. Can two unlikely partners unravel a thousand-year-old mystery before the kingdom is consumed by the very curse it was built to contain?
The manga releases in May 2027.
Soul Guiders
When Princess Yuzarinne awakens to a power she never asked for, she is thrust into an unlikely partnership with Zeo, a demon vice-commander as infamous for ignoring orders as he is for surviving them.
Together, they must recover the scattered shards of the Orb of Salvation, an ancient relic said to hold the power to plunge the world into chaos, before they fall into the hands of Veydris, a radical idealist whose vision of peace demands the world’s destruction. But they aren’t the only ones hunting them.
Wardens who safeguard the world’s balance. Demons with kingdoms to protect. Possessed beings struggling against the monsters within. Spirits bound by forgotten promises. Wandering souls searching for the one wish that might finally set them free.
Every faction races toward the same prize, convinced their cause is the one worth saving. As the scattered shards draw closer to becoming whole, so too does the end of the world.
Can Yuzarinne and Zeo outrun fate and stop the world from tearing itself apart before the final shard falls?
The manga releases in April 2027.
Glam Beat Licenses Two Titles
The Devil in Me
Crosswise
In a world where hope has all but vanished, two broken souls discover that even the darkest fate cannot keep them apart.
Danielle Godin is a priestess devoted to God, or so it appears. Behind her unwavering smile is a woman who has long since lost all hope, simply enduring the world one day at a time.
Then she meets a vampire with blood-red eyes, a woman just as broken as she is, surviving in the hell Earth has become.
Drawn together by the quiet weight of their shared despair, the two find an unexpected refuge in one another. As fleeting moments of warmth blossom into something deeper, they begin to discover a reason to keep living in a world that has forgotten mercy.
When faith meets immortality, can a priestess and a vampire defy a world determined to keep them apart?
The Thai GL releases in March 2027.
Ink Soaked into Ashen Paper
Ahn Siwoo
After seven years of devastating war, an uneasy peace is finally brokered between the Kingdom of Vierna in the West and the Daehyeon Empire in the East.
As the price of peace, Queen Karmi van Vierna, the formidable ruler known throughout the continent as the Iron-Crowned Queen, demands a royal spouse from the defeated empire: the Emperor’s own Crown Prince.
But the Daehyeon Empire has no heir to offer.
Instead, Princess Seo Hwahwi is sent in his place, becoming the first princess in history to enter a royal same-sex marriage with the queen who was once her kingdom’s greatest enemy.
Though their union succeeds in ending the war, it marks the beginning of another. Surrounded by ruthless nobles, hidden agendas, and enemies lurking within the palace walls, Karmi and Hwahwi must navigate a royal court where every smile conceals a blade, every alliance hides an ulterior motive, and trust may prove deadlier than betrayal.
Their wedding ended one war. Surviving their marriage may ignite another.
The GL novel releases in March 2027.
Blush Club Licenses Three Titles
Addicted to You
Penguin
At the boundary between angels and humans, 11 has one problem he cannot make sense of: his own heart.
His complicated bond with 3 has already left him tangled in feelings he would rather not name. Then a chance encounter with a human girl introduces an entirely new complication, teaching him that liking someone and loving them may be far more troublesome than he imagined.
Humans, however, are not meant to last forever.
When 11 meets the girl again after her reincarnation, memories of her former life collide with the person she has become, rekindling a connection that should have ended with death. Yet the closer he grows to her, the harder it becomes to ignore the feelings that have always drawn him back to 3.
With one love transcending lifetimes and another refusing to be neatly defined, 11 must finally unravel the desires of his own heart.
Between 3 and the girl fate returned to him, whom does 11 truly love?
The danmei manga Addicted to You releases digitally on September 15, 2026 and in print in November 2027.
Fairy Trap
Chelliace
He slept through most of his life. Until his dreams one day opened the door to another world.
Joo Yigyeol spends twenty-two hours of every day asleep, imprisoned by the incurable Rostov Syndrome. But when he discovers that his consciousness can leave his sleeping body, the endless hours he once cursed become the key to a world beyond his own.
Drawn onward by a golden butterfly, Yigyeol crosses into another dimension and encounters Seth, the enigmatic fourth prince of a kingdom on the brink of ruin. After saving Seth’s life time and again, Yigyeol becomes more than an inexplicable visitor from another world. He becomes the one person Seth cannot bear to lose.
What begins as gratitude soon darkens into something far more possessive. The deeper Yigyeol is drawn into Seth’s world, the more fiercely the prince clings to him, until even the distance between dimensions no longer feels enough to keep them apart.
“Who said you could die as you please?”
Caught between the life he left behind and a prince determined to claim a place in his future, Yigyeol must decide whether to keep running… or surrender to a fate he never thought he could come to love.
When a life saved becomes a life claimed, how far will a possessive prince go to keep the one person he refuses to lose?
The BL novel releases in March 2027.
The Grudge
JNH.WH Studio
The man who murdered him hasn’t even been born yet. So why is his face already here?
Betrayed and murdered by his own fiancée, young gang leader Charles Ji thought death would be the end of his story. Instead, he awakens thirty years in the past, trapped in the body of a nineteen-year-old Alpha who has already fallen from grace.
Lost in an unfamiliar time, Charles is rescued by a gentle, kindhearted Beta whose warmth seems almost too good to be true. There is only one problem.
His savior has the exact same face as the fiancé who murdered him. Same face. Different person. Thirty years too early.
Is this second chance an opportunity to rewrite his fate… or has Charles simply stumbled upon the beginning of the betrayal that killed him?
Source: Crossed Hearts
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