Square Enix has announced their fall line-up for this year.
The publisher has announced seven manga license acquisitions and two English-language titles and fans of My Dress-Up Darling will be happy to see more content with the second season of the anime adaptation finished. A BL about stalkers stalking stalkers will make fans laugh and a romance about an exchange student wanting his classmate to be his bodyguard will make fans swoon.
The Apothecary Diaries: Xiaolan’s Story
Story: Natsu Hyuuga
Art: Itsuki Nanao
Character designs: Touco Shino
Though born into poverty, Xiaolan was content with her simple life caring for her siblings. But out of desperation, her family was forced to make a terrible decision… Sent to the imperial palace as a servant, Xiaolan now spends her days washing laundry and tending to the consorts’ needs. She doesn’t mind her new lot in life—after all, there’s food!—and soon makes friends with another servant, a strange girl named Maomao. Can the two help each other as they find their way in the scheming, status-seeking society of the rear palace?
The Apothecary Diaries: Xiaolan’s Story releases on October 6.
Boyish Girlfriend
Gyunyumugigohan
Daichi and Akira have been best friends since preschool, and now they’re dating while attending different high schools. As far as Daichi’s aware, Akira is a total tomboy who loves martial arts and masculine clothes—so imagine his surprise when he drops by her school for a festival, only to find her wearing cat ears and a maid costume! What other charms is his boyish girlfriend hiding?
Boyish Girlfriend releases on September 22.
My Ex-Boyfriend Loves Boys’ Love
Mugiimo
It’s just another day for office worker Momo Akado. She’s hitting the bookstore on payday to pick up some boys’ love manga when she notices a guy shopping in the BL section! But her excitement over spotting a BL fanboy in the wild fizzles out abruptly when she discovers he’s none other than her old high school boyfriend, Suzuya Katakura, who sure wasn’t into the stuff back then!
Could the two of them rediscover the same love that’s in the pages of their beloved BL manga?
My Ex-Boyfriend Loves Boys’ Love releases on September 8.
Stalker Stalks Stalker
Yuo Yodogawa
Itaru Hachimori, Yamato Mitsunaga, and Hiromasa Taté have a few things in common, such as attending the same university, suffering from hopeless crushes, and…being actual stalkers?! Itaru is stalking Yamato, Yamato is stalking Hiromasa, and Hiromasa is stalking Itaru! With so many arrows going so many different directions and no mutual interest of any kind, how is anyone possibly going to be able to sort anything out?!
Stalker Stalks Stalker releases on October 20.
Yang Can’t Live Alone
Sooncha
Yuu is as industrious and hardworking as a college student can be, but that means guys tend to find her serious demeanor intimidating. Should she have to change her strong-willed personality to be “number one” in someone’s heart? Yang is a puppy-like Chinese exchange student who wanders into Yuu’s life after she rescues him from a tricky situation. He asks her to be his bodyguard, and they form a new “professional” relationship. But soon, deeper feelings begin to take root…
Yang Can’t Live Alone releases on September 15.
The Princess Groom
Asaki Asagiri, selen
Lady Leticia is a duke’s daughter known as the belle poupée—beautiful doll—for her ethereally delicate looks. But with the use of a magical ring, she regularly transforms into a handsome and gallant young man!
As the belle poupée, she finds she can’t melt the heart of her new betrothed, Prince Gilbert, the brooding—and some say cursed—second-born prince of the royal family. But when Leticia reveals her other persona in front of him and his reaction is to blush and swoon, she finds herself unexpectedly charmed. It’s time for this doll to give her man a taste of true husband material!
The Princess Groom releases on August 4.
My Dress-Up Darling XOXO!
Shinichi Fukuda, Choboraunyopomi
Marin Kitagawa, Wakana Gojo, the Inui sisters, Amane Himeno, and more of your favorite characters are BACK in this collection of comedic escapades—and they’ve all gotten a zany makeover! Why is Wakana’s old classmate suddenly asking him for money? How many horror movies can Sajuna sit through for Shinju’s sake? Will Marin have a successful first stint as a booth babe for the Manga Club? There’s only one way to find out!
My Dress-Up Darling XOXO! releases on October 13.
My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 Official Anime Fanbook
Shinichi Fukuda
With even more content than the first season’s book, the My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 Official Anime Fanbook is a treasure trove of behind-the-scenes deets about one of the most popular rom-com anime of the decade! Fans will be treated to galleries of textless promotional art, production materials from animation studio CloverWorks, staff commentary on each episode of the second season, and exclusive interviews with the voice actors, series directors, character designer, animation directors, and costume designer!
My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 Official Anime Fanbook releases on November 17.
The Art of Final Fantasy Tactics
Square Enix
Memories of Ivalice come vividly back to life in this official art book for the FINAL FANTASY TACTICS franchise. This full-color, hardcover volume is printed on archival-quality text stock and features artwork created for the development of the original game, The War of the Lions, and The Ivalice Chronicles. It also includes concept sketches, rough map designs, package art, and never-before-seen character and job illustrations.
The hardover edition of The Art of Final Fantasy Tactics releases on November 10.
Source: Square Enix
