#Ize Press Licenses 4 New Manhwa Webcomics, Announces 3 Korean Webnovels Coming to Print

During the Yen Press industry panel at this year’s New York Comic Con, Ize Press announced the licensing and print publication of four new manhwa webcomics: Lady Devil, Murderous Lewellyn’s Candlelit Dinner, Lover Boy, and Radio Storm. 

Lady Devil and Lover Boy are set to release in April 2025. The publication date of Murderous Lewellyn’s Candlelit Dinner and Radio Storm will be announced on the imprint’s social media pages later in the coming months.

Along with the four new webcomic licenses, Ize Press also revealed the release date for the English print edition of the Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint novel series, which will come out in July 2025. 

Two other webnovels were acquired by Ize Press, which include the Boys Love series Semantic Error and the reincarnation romance fantasy series Villains Are Destined to Die. The publication for the two novels will also be announced on the imprint’s social media pages in the coming months. All three novel series will be released in print, ebook, and audio formats.

Here are the details on the newest licenses and releases: 

Manhwa 

Lady Devil

Art: FUKI Choco

Adaptation: hanheun

Original Story: B.Cenci

The historical romance manhwa webcomic has been completed in 140 episodes and has been serialized on both Tappytoon and Manta Comics. 

Synopsis: 

Giovinetta Valdemar, Lady Devil herself, was branded as such after her first husband’s heart was ripped out on their wedding night. Years later, she is betrothed once more to a much older nobleman, and in her desperation, makes a wish to the devil of Ducommun for help—a plea that is answered by transforming her twin brother, Johannes, the exalted hero of Valdemar, into a devil! Will this creature be her salvation or lead her down an even more treacherous and forbidden path?

Murderous Lewellyn’s Candlelit Dinner

Art: MUK_BU

Adaptation: 0L

Original Story: Sumnagi

The historical murder-mystery Boys’ Love manhwa was serialized on Lezhin and completed in 90 episodes.. 

Synopsis: 

A string of murders has left the residents of Ira Street feeling uneasy….although that’s none of Shavonne’s business. The penniless author is too busy trying to secure his next paycheck to pay much attention to such matters—well, that and figuring out what the deal is with his strange new neighbor, Lewellyn, a young and handsome man who spends his days peeling onions on the stairs right outside Shavonne’s apartment. Shavonne tries not to concern himself, but when he makes a gruesome discovery during a candlelit dinner at Lewellyn’s place, both his neighbor’s eccentricities and the murders plaguing the community become harder to ignore…

Lover Boy

Story and Art: ZEC

A Boys’ Love manhwa webcomic from the artist of The New Recruit. The series features black-and-white artwork and is complete with 87 episodes and serialized on Tapas. 

Synopsis: 

For Eunho Jung, there has always been one constant in life—his feelings for the boy next door, Jaeha Yoo. From a proposal at the age of three to a confession in his teenage years, the torch Eunho carries for the older man has never died out…not even when Jaeha got married. Now in college, a chance meeting leads Eunho to reconnect with the recently divorced Jaeha—and he’ll do everything in his power to make his crush see him for the potential lover he is, not the cute kid he was. Will this finally be the right time, right place for these two? Or will Jaeha’s inability to let love in lead them to crash and burn? 

Radio Storm

Story and Art: Team S&S

A supernatural Boys’ Love manhwa webcomic that features beautiful black-and-white artwork with spot color sprinkled throughout the pages. The webcomic was serialized on Tapas and is complete in 80 episodes. 

Synopsis: 

Are love and salvation possible at the end of the world? For core-user Sak, such a dream is unthinkable. Bullied by his peers at the war academy for his seemingly useless abilities, Sak spends every day focused only on survival.  But when a deadly plague compromises the haven of his school, fantasy suddenly starts looking a whole lot more like reality. Now Sak must find his Caller—a person who amplifies his powers and who he’ll feel an innate, deep sense of affection for. The only problem? When he finally meets his stranger, he thinks Sak has lost his mind! In the face of unreciprocated feelings, weaponized distrust, and life-or-death stakes, can Sak and his Caller meet on the same wavelength? Or will their journey lead them to a hell of regret…?

Novels  

Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint 

Story: singNsong

The novel series is inspiring a TV anime adaptation from Crunchyroll. 

Synopsis: 

Struggling office worker Dokja Kim’s sole joy in life is an online novel so obscure that he’s its only reader. Then one day the story comes to an end…and so does the world. Horrific monsters, ordinary people forced to kill or be killed, and goblins gleefully streaming the carnage to a celestial audience—with the apocalypse straight out of his favorite novel unfolding around him, Dokja is the only one who can see this story to the finale! 

Semantic Error

Story: J. Soori

The Boys’ Love novel that inspired a popular webcomic and a 2022 live-action South Korean drama series. 

Synopsis: 

Computer science major Sangwoo Choo lives by the following tenets: reason, routine, and rules. So when the rest of his groupmates flake on their class presentation, he deletes their names from the project without hesitation—inadvertently destroying one groupmate’s plans to graduate and study abroad. That’s got nothing to do with Sangwoo, though…or so he thinks, until he realizes that Jaeyoung Jang, the talented design major he was hoping to hire for his video game, is not only that very same classmate, but eager to get some payback! Will Sangwoo be able to debug this semantic error before it upends his entire life? 

Villains Are Destined to Die 

Story: Gwon Gyeoeul

Ize Press also releases the manhwa webcomic adaptation in print.

Synopsis: 

When a college student with a tragic past picks up reverse harem video game Daughter of the Duke’s Super Love Project, she immediately sees herself in one of the characters. Not the adored heroine of easy mode, Ivonne, no—but the protagonist of hard mode, misunderstood villain Penelope. Little did she know that she’d go to sleep playing the story…and wake up in Penelope’s body! The only way to escape the game world? Charm one of the love interests and reach his good ending. But with affection meters starting in the negative and the inability to speak without choosing from preselected dialogue, it quickly becomes clear that a single wrong move means her demise—and this villain might just be destined to die!

Source: press release