Seven Seas Licenses The Lying Bride and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate Yuri/Girls' Love Manga Series

(February 12, 2025) – Seven Seas Entertainment is excited to announce the license acquisition of the complete manga collection The Lying Bride and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate by Kodama Naoko. A new drama-filled yuri series about two total opposites rediscovering the meaning of love and happiness—from Kodama Naoko, the creator of Days of Love at Seagull Villa, I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up, and NTR: Netsuzou Trap, all available from Seven Seas!

Shigisawa Rei knows she's out of step with society. While everyone around her is getting married and having babies, as a gay woman, Rei feels like those things will never happen for her. Instead of looking for romance, she's thrown herself into her work and is content with that. That is, until she happens to run into Goto Saya, a former colleague. Saya is petite, cute, and has always been popular with men. So it's no surprise that Rei used to have a crush on her, but she squashed those feelings when Saya got married. Now, however, Saya comes to Rei begging for help, saying she's had a fight with her husband and has nowhere else to go. Rei quickly agrees to help her out, and soon her crush is back with a vengeance! Rei knows it's a bad idea to fall for a married woman, but can she possibly resist Saya's charms?!

The Lying Bride and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate Vol. 1 will be released for the first time in the English language in October 2025 for $13.99 USA / $17.99 CAN, with the series available in single volume editions as part of the Seven Seas GL label (Girls' Love/yuri titles). Ebook editions will also be available on digital platforms.

About Seven Seas Entertainment
Established in 2004, Seven Seas Entertainment is an award-winning publisher that specializes in bringing the best of Japanese manga and light novels to English-language audiences alongside the hottest danmei, webtoons, and other books from around the globe, as well as producing audiobooks, original comics, and youth literature. All of Seven Seas' print book imprints are distributed throughout the world by Penguin Random House Publisher Services. For more information, visit sevenseasentertainment.com