Ink Pop has a new license to announce at Anime Expo.
During the panel, the imprint for Penguin Random House that focuses on manga, manhua, manhwa, and webtoons for kids and teens revealed their licenses for the upcoming year. Most of the licenses were announced before at Anime Expo last year, but there is one new license which is a manga about yokai.
Marionetta
Miriam Bonastre Tur
A mysterious circus.
A missing friend.
A dangerous deal.
Julia Lazarrett is happy with her honest, predictable life. But when her best friend, Kamille, convinces her to visit a travelling circus, both girsl are suddenly thrust into a strange and dangerous world governed by secrets, magic, and death. To survive, Julia will have to strike a horrific bargain with consequences beyond her imagination.
Marionetta was announced earlier at another con. The first volume comes out on October 6 and is available in both paperback and jacketed hardcover.
I Shall Master This Family
Roah Kim, Mon & Ant Studio
Sometimes all you need is a second chance… to make the right people pay.
The great Lombardi family once sat at the top of the empire, and no one was prouder than Firentia, despite her being an illegitimate child of the family. When the Lombardi patriarch dies, and the family falls to ruin at the hands of Firentia’s cruel uncle and cousin, all seems lost. However, that’s when she wakes up as her eight-year-old self. Armed with knowledge of the future. Firentia works to stop the disasters of her old life, and in this lifetime, there’s only one way for her to win: become the head of her mighty household.
I Shall Master This Family was announced earlier at another con. The first volume comes out on October 13 and is available in both paperback and jacketed hardcover.
Brass & Sass
Enlik Gobran (antlerella)
It may have been the music that attracted her to band class, but it was love that made her stay…
Camilla falls in love on the first day of the school year…with the band. The only issue is she can’t play at all. But what she lacks in ability, she makes up for in passion–especially when it comes to Victor, the handsome musician who’s caught her eye. Will love rule the day, even when your crush-of-choice is a real brass-hole?
The first volume comes out in Spring 2027 and will be available in both paperback and jacketed hardcover.
My Neighbor Yokai
noho
Yokai, Japanese creatures of myth, come to life in this cozy series following a talking cat and his neighborhood friends.
Welcome to a town where people and all sorts of spirits and monsters live together in harmony! When Buchio the cat suddenly sprouts a second tail, becoming a talking cat spirit, he decides to learn more about the yokai that are his neighbors and master his new powers.
The first volume comes out in Spring 2027 and will be available in both paperback and jacketed hardcover.
Swimming Lessons for a Mermaid
What’s the point of being a mermaid if you don’t know how to swim?! Choa is a literal fish out of water in this cozy and contemporary romance.
Choa is a mermaid who’s never fit in because of her unusual problem–she can’t swim! So she abandons the ocean and her tail, for high school and a pair of legs. However, her new life hits a snag when another student discovers her secret. Fortunately, that student happens to be Soo, the star of the high school swim team. Rather than expose Choa, he offers her the chance of a lifetime, free swimming lessons for a mermaid!
The first volume comes out in Summer 2027 and will be available in both paperback and jacketed hardcover.
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