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Yen Press Adds The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, 13 More Manga/Novels (Updated)
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Update on July 13: Publisher Yen Press announced on its website and on Twitter on July 12 that "due to an error" on the company's part, the company mistakenly announced licenses to the Persona 5 Mementos Mission and Persona 5 a la Carte manga at its Anime Expo panel on July 4. ANN has removed mentions of these licenses from the below article.
Yen Press announced 14 manga and light novel licenses and releases at its panel at Anime Expo on Thursday. All of the titles are slated for release in late 2019 or early 2020.
Title: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious (Kono Yūsha ga Ore TUEEE Kuse ni Shinchō Sugiru) manga
Creators: Light Tuchihi (story), Koyuki (art)
Summary: The goddess Ristarte summons a hero who excels in every area to assist
her. He's everything she expected him to be except for one, tiny thing: this anxious hero
can't do anything unless he's absolutely sure nothing can go wrong! The manga
adaptation of the break-out hit is finally here!
Title: I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level (Slime Taoshite 300-nen, Shiranai Uchi ni Level Max ni Nattemashita) manga
Creators: Kisetsu Morita (story), Yusuke Shiba (art)
Summary: In this manga adaptation of the funny and
heartwarming light novel series, a former office worker decides to live a calm and
peaceful life after dying of overwork—even after she becomes the most powerful witch
in the world!
Title: Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun (Jibaku Shōnen Hanako-kun) manga
Creator: Iro Aida
Summary: "Hanako-san, Hanako-san...are you
there?" At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school's Seven Mysteries, one
of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls' bathroom in
the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an
occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted
bathroom...but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined! Kamome
Academy's Hanako-san...is a boy!
Title: Im: Great Priest Imhotep (Im) manga
Creator: Makoto Morishita
Summary: From the sands of Ancient Egypt to
the streets of modern Japan, the newly resurrected Great Priest Imhotep traverses time
and space on the hunt for the magai, devious beings with an appetite for destruction
who impersonate the gods! When schoolgirl Hinome crosses paths with this illustrious
ancient, is her loner lifestyle about to change for the better...or for the worse?!
Title: Breasts Are My Favorite Things in the World! (Sekai de Ichiban Oppai ga Suki!) manga
Creator: Wakame Konbu
Summary: For Chiaki,
the handsomest girl in school, breasts are her passion in life—especially her friend
Harumi's! This yuri comedy brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “bosom
buddies”!
Title: Afterschool Bitchcraft (Hōkago Bitchcraft) manga
Creators: Yū Shimizu (story), Kazuma Ichihara (art)
Summary: Science teacher Renji Fuyumi is secretly a sorcerer, but after his barriers are accidentally
broken by the fashion-obsessed Ririka Kirise, he decides to make her his disciple. Looks
can be deceiving in this titillating tale of the occult!
Title: Raw Hero manga
Creator: Akira Hiramoto
Summary: From the mind of Akira Hiramoto (Prison School) comes
a super-powered story of heroes and villains that's wild, dirty, and unpredictable. Chiaki
is desperate to find a job and support his family, but when he sacrifices a job interview
in order to stop a train groper, he winds up at the center of a fight between good and
evil!
Title: I Don't Know How to Give Birth! (Shussan no Shikata ga Wakarani!) manga
Creator: Ayami Kazama
Summary: The humorous and heartfelt
autobiographical comic essay of an otaku manga artist! Follow her journey as she learns
the ins and outs of pregnancy and childbirth.
Title: I'm a "Behemoth," an S-Ranked Monster, But Mistaken for a Cat, I Live As an Elf Girl's Pet (S Rank Monster no Behemoth dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet Toshite Kurashitemasu) light novel and manga
Creators: Ginyoku Nozomi (story), Yanomitsuki (light novel illustrations), Yanomitsuki (light novel character designs), Taro Shinonome (light novel character designs, manga art)
Summary: After
dying in a fight against the forces of evil, a knight found himself reincarnated as one of
the most powerful monsters in the world: a behemoth! Problem is, he has to grow up
before he can really strut his stuff, and a baby behemoth looks an awful lot like…a
housecat?! And when an elf adventurer decides to take him in, she may need his help as
much as he needs hers!
Title: Interspecies Reviewers: Ecstacy Days (Ishuzoku Reviewers) light novel
Creators: Habaratetsu (story), Amahara (original story), masha (original designs), W18 (art)
Summary: In a world where myriad races
live side by side, it's only natural that shops serving a great variety of tastes can be
found. It's here that the adventurer Stunk and his troublemaker friends review
everything that the exotic red light districts have to offer, where the only questions are
who is the best and where do they go next! Whether it's enjoying the poison play with a
basilisk in glasses or NTR play with a selkie, there's nothing to do but dive into these
Ecstasy Days!
Title: Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina (Majo no Tabidabi) light novel
Creators: Jōgi Shiraishi (story), Azuru (art)
Summary: Once upon a time, there was a witch named Elaina, who set off on a journey
across the world. Along the way, she would meet all kinds of people, from a country full
of witches to a giant in love with his own muscles—but with each meeting, Elaina would
become a small part of their story, and her own world would get a little bit bigger.
Title: The Penetrated Battlefield Should Disappear There: Bullet Witchcraft & Ghost Program (Uchinukareta Senjō wa, Soko de Kieteiro) light novel
Creators: Kei Uekawa (story), TEDDY (art), Naohiro Washio (mechanical designs)
Summary: For a hundred years, East and West have waged a ferocious war with
everything from tanks to witchcraft. On this savage battlefield, one young soldier from
the East uses a bullet he's never seen before and kills an enemy officer with it. After
this, nothing will ever be the same for the boy, Rain Lantz. Fate soon leads him to the
mysterious bullet's maker, a young girl named Air, who warns him that anyone struck by
the daemon's bullet he fired will disappear from the world as if they had never existed!
Armed with the staggering knowledge that every shot he takes will change history and
destiny, where will Rain aim next?!
Title: Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai (Seishun Buta Yarō wa Bunny Girl-senpai no Yume wo Minai ) light novel
Creators: Hajime Kamoshida (story), Keeji Mizoguchi (art)
Summary: Bunny girls do not live in libraries. This is simply
common sense. And yet, that's exactly where Sakuta runs into one in the wild. More
bewildering is who the bunny girl is: Mai Sakurajima, an older student who attends the
same school and is a well-known actress currently on break from industry work.
Wanting to find out more about the mystery surrounding Mai and maybe get a little
closer to her in the process, Sakuta launches an investigation to figure out what's
causing this bunny girl to be invisible and unnoticed by everyone around them.
Sources: Press release, Yen Press panel at Anime Expo (Zac Bertschy)
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