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PS4/Vita game ships in N. America, Europe in November NIS America began streaming a trailer for its Demon Gaze II game on Thursday. The video previews the game's Asteria setting, and also shows some of the monsters the players will face throughout the game. The game will launch for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in North America on November 14 and in Europe on November 17. The game will be available in both physical and digital copies. Both consoles will have a limited edition with a soundtrack, hardcover art book, and collector's box. Kadokawa Games released Demon Gaze II for PS Vita in Japan last September. NIS America previously released the first Demon Gaze fantasy dungeon role-playing game for the PS Vita in North America and in Europe in April 2014. NIS America describes the story: The world's western frontier—with a dark shroud covering his memories of the past. The land before him contains many labyrinths that hold both treasure and danger in equal volumes

Manga launched in 2014, Yen Press releasing manga in N. America The October issue of Kadokawa's Dragon Age magazine published the final chapter of Milan Matra's Demonizer Zilch manga last Friday. Hideyaki Yoshimura and Homura Kawamoto's Rengoku Deadroll and Yoshiko Hardboiled's Kōkō no Nichijō also ended in the issue. Yen Press licensed Demonizer Zilch, and it describes the story: Listless high schooler Haruomi Io is plagued by the memory of his late kid sister. One day, he's suddenly attacked by a group of girls calling themselves the "Seven Gospel Society." In the thick of a battle he never asked for, Haruomi is rescued by Zilch, a demoness who declares herself the "29th Branch." Upon sharing a kiss with his demonic savior, Haruomi finds a strange power coursing through his body! Will this incident lead Haruomi to cast off the doldrums and delve into a new world of superpowers and the supernatural?! Matra launched the manga in Dragon Age in 2014, and Kadokawa publi

Gamer goes to another world with 2 slaves in manga debuting March 13 Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Thursday that it has licensed Naoto Fukuda's How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord (Isekai Maō to Shōkan Shōjo no Dorei Majutsu) manga. The first volume is slated for print and digital release on March 13. Seven Seas describes the story: An elite but socially-stunted gamer finds himself in another world, inhabiting the body of his character Diablo. But despite his powers, his awkwardness keeps getting in the way–so he decides to pretend to be a Demon Lord and soon finds himself with a pair of slaves: a well-endowed elf and a cat girl. Together, they struggle with everything from interpersonal relationships to diabolical beast battles! The manga is based on Yukiya Murasaki's light novel series. Kodansha published the first novel with illustrations by Takahiro Tsurusaki in December 2014 and the eighth volume on August 2. Fukuda launched the manga adaptation on Kodansha's Sui

J-Novel Club is publishing light novel series digitally Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Friday that it has licensed Hota.'s manga adaptation of CHIROLU's If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord (Uchi no Musume no Tame Naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maō mo Taoseru Kamoshirenai.) light novel series. The first volume is slated for print and digital release on May 1. Seven Seas describes the story: While on a job deep in the forest, Dale–a young, but famed adventurer–comes across a little devil girl who's almost wasted away. Unable to just leave her there to die, Dale takes her home and becomes her adoptive father. Devil or not, Latina is beyond adorable, and the adventurer soon finds himself head over heels with being a parent. But why was she out in the forest in the first place–and why does she carry the mark of a criminal? CHIROLU began the series on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō! (Let's Be Novelists) website in August 2014. Hobby Japan launched the first vo

Manga follows bored princess waiting for rescue Viz Media announced at its Anime Weekend Atlanta panel on Friday that it has licensed Kagiji Kumanomata's Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle (Maōjō de Oyasumi) manga and plans to release the first volume in summer 2018. Viz Media describes Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle: Sshhh! Princess Syalis is trying to get a good night's sleep. Some shut-eye. Forty winks. Catch some Z's. Long ago in olden times when people and demons lived together in—well, disharmony, really – a demon king kidnaps a human princess and imprisons her in his castle. Bereft, the princess's subjects beat their chests in anguish…until a hero arises to spearhead Project Rescue Our Princess! While waiting for her knight in shining armor, what's an imprisoned princess to do …? Teddy-bear guards with bat wings are all very well, but her dungeon cell is bo-o-o-ring! So, she decides to wile away the long hours by sleeping. Now if only she could get comfortabl

Seven Seas licensed manga adaptation J-Novel Club announced on Thursday that it has licensed Yukiya Murasaki's How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord light novel series. The online service is currently offering the first half of volume one for members and the first 40 pages for free users. The first e-book will go on sale in November. J-Novel Club describes the story: In the MMORPG Cross Reverie, Takuma Sakamoto is so powerful that he is lauded as the “Demon Lord” by other players. One day, he is summoned to another world – but with the same appearance he had in the game! There, he meets two girls who both proclaim themselves to be his Summoner. They had performed an Enslavement Ritual to turn him into their Summon... but that's when Takuma's passive ability <<Magic Reflection>> activated! Instead, it was the girls who had become enslaved! Though Takuma may have been the strongest Sorcerer there was, he had no idea how to talk with other people. That's when he makes h

By CHIROLU and Truffle. Released in Japan as “Uchi no Musume no Tame Naraba, Ore Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoserukamo Shirenai” by Hobby Japan. Released in North America digitally by J-Novel Club. Translated by Matthew Warner.Like a lot of second volumes, this one seems to have a bit of an “wait, I have to write more? Well, OK…” feel to it. For the most part it’s the continuing adventures of Adventurer Dale (whose last name, we find out, literally MEANS adventurer, as it’s more of a title), and his adorable adopted Devil daughter Latina (who has aged a couple more years since the first book). Since Latina is now the main reason for Dale’s existence (jokes about him being a pushover for his girl continue to be the main running gag of the series), he’s decided to take her home to meet his family. And so most of the book is a leisurely trip across the continent, as Latina experiences different cultures, tries new foods (and gets better and better as a cook), and we learn a tiny bit more abo

PS4/Vita game ships in N. America, Europe in November NIS America began streaming a video for its Demon Gaze II game on Thursday. The video previews the game's demon capturing and raising mechanics. The game will launch for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in North America on November 14 and in Europe on November 17. The game will be available in both physical and digital copies. Both consoles will have a limited edition with a soundtrack, hardcover art book, and collector's box. Kadokawa Games released Demon Gaze II for PS Vita in Japan last September. NIS America previously released the first Demon Gaze fantasy dungeon role-playing game for the PS Vita in North America and in Europe in April 2014. NIS America describes the story: The world's western frontier—with a dark shroud covering his memories of the past. The land before him contains many labyrinths that hold both treasure and danger in equal volumes. Without knowing where else to go or what else to do, Oz d

Manga went on hiatus in March, resumes on November 20 This year's 48th issue of Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine announced on Monday that Inio Asano will resume his Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction manga in the magazine's 51st issue on November 20. The manga went on hiatus earlier this year in March, and revealed at the time that it would resume in the fall. The series revolves around the strange everyday life of the very ordinary high school girl Kadode Koyama, her friend Ouran Nakagawa, and others in a world where a giant mothership has appeared over Tokyo. Asano launched the series in Big Comic Spirits in April 2014. Shogakukan shipped the sixth compiled volume on May 30. The tentative title before launch was Honobono no Fūfu (Tender-hearted Couple). Asano has put the manga on hiatus several times since July 2014. Viz Media licensed the manga in July. Viz Media has published Asano's previous series Solanin and What a wonderful world!, and is also publish

Demonizer Zilch ended in September The wraparound jacket band of the fifth compiled volume of Milan Matra's Demonizer Zilch manga announced on Thursday that Matra has a new project is in the works. More details will be revealed in Fujimi Shobo's Monthly Dragon Age magazine. Matra launched Demonizer Zilch in Dragon Age in 2014, and ended it in September. Yen Press will publish the manga's fourth volume on November 14. Matra's Omamori Himari manga launched in Dragon Age in 2006, and it ended in September 2013. The story inspired a television anime series in 2010. Yen Press released all 12 volumes of the manga in North America. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and Funimation released the series on DVD in 2016.