#Seven Seas Licenses Mature-Rated DARLING in the FRANXX Manga

More licenses have been revealed for Seven Seas Entertainment, which has a ton of manga and light novels to look forward to this year and the next. One of the latest is the DARLING in the FRANXX manga, which is on the way to the publisher’s mature-rated Ghost Ship imprint in two-in-one omnibus editions, with the first set for March 2022.

The manga comes from Code:000 and Kentaro Yabuki, the artist behind Black Cat and To Love Ru!. This one depicts the events of the anime with a divergent storyline, so even if you’ve seen the full series there’s something new in store here.

Synopsis:

In a devastated post-apocalyptic future, Earth is a ruinous wasteland. Humanity’s only remaining strongholds are mobile fortress cities called Plantations. Massive beasts known as klaxosaurs, the planet’s new apex predators, have pushed mankind to the edge of extinction, and within the walls of the Plantations, things are no less dire. Humans no longer love or reproduce–adults live on in sterile immortality while children are regarded as nothing more than parasites, artificially created to pair up and pilot the Plantations’ giant defense robots known as Franxx. Former child whiz kid Hiro fails out of the piloting program after falling out of sync with his co-pilot, and a fateful decision to skip his group’s graduation ceremony puts him on a collision course with a horned girl known as Zero Two, whose co-pilots always end up dead. She claims Hiro as her “darling,” but what can that word even mean in such a loveless world?

Here are a few of the other upcoming titles on the way from Seven Seas:

Correspondence from the End of the Universe (manga) 

It’s Just Not My Night: Tale of a Fallen Vampire Queen (manga, Ghost Ship)

Monologue Woven for You (yuri manga)

The Weakest Contestant in All Space and Time (manga)

My Deer Friend Nokotan (manga)

Witches: The Complete Collection (manga)

The Muscle Girl Next Door (manga)

Sheeply Horned Witch Romi (manga)

2.5 Dimensional Seduction (manga, Ghost Ship)

The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior (manga/light novel)

Gunbured x Sisters (yuri manga, Ghost Ship)

Source: Press release

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