Back in March I went searching within the giant bookstore at our native Aeon shopping center. As I typically do I drifted into the manga part and there I seen one thing for the very first time.
Their manga part options a whole shelf devoted solely to BL, or boys’ love comics.
This might be not a shock to manga readers who’re usually extremely educated concerning the titles and genres. However I dwell virtually totally encased inside a bubble of my very own little thought-creation and the surface world solely not often permeates its pores and skin. So it felt like a type of “Eureka!” moments and out of the blue issues made good sense. For a minute or two.
So BL. Creator 945/gusao’s The Dangerous Convenience Store began life as a BL webtoon, but it surely’s from Korea as a substitute. This makes it manhwa. Popular sufficient to encourage little stuffed toys of its predominant characters, the collection noticed bodily format print in Korea in November 2022 but it surely had already been accessible on-line in English since February of that 12 months. This October BL followers in North America can maintain it of their arms when Seven Seas Entertainment prints it on actual paper. Or they will view it on their e-book readers.
In Japan you could find comfort shops far and wide. I’ve heard there are extra of them than there are dentist places of work. Most of them are open 24 hours and you should buy not solely sweet and delicate drinks there however some even carry family items and scorching ready-made meals. But since I dwell in Japan and never Korea I can think about Korean comfort shops to be largely the identical. I do know they’ve a few of the identical chains, equivalent to 7-Eleven and Family Mart. And wherever you reside it’s in all probability for one of the best you keep away from the harmful ones. Here’s what Seven Seas Entertainment has to say a few younger man discovering love in aisles of a comfort retailer, presumably close to the present playing cards rack or the shelf with all of the salty potato chip varieties:
(May 17, 2023) – Seven Seas Entertainment is thrilled to announce the license acquisition of the manhwa webtoon collection The Dangerous Convenience Store by 945/gusao. This hit Boys’ Love comedian is coming to print in English for the primary time: a full-color and Mature-rated romantic comedy a few comfort retailer part-timer and a good-looking gangster!
Yeo Eui-joon wants money, so he works part-time at a comfort retailer–the place the clientele contains hoodlums and mobsters. He’s bored with being yelled at whereas ringing up booze and making an attempt to speak his means out of extortion, however he’s not bored with seeing a sure handsome gangster stroll within the door. Gunwoo is large, gruff, and intimidating at first…however he appears to care about Eui-joon’s well-being, and is fast to knock apart anybody giving Eui-joon a tough time. After Eui-joon will get a peek on the huge condom measurement Gunwoo buys, somewhat spark of attraction may simply develop into an enormous, fiery love story!
The Dangerous Convenience Store Vol. 1 can be launched for the primary time in print in North America in October 2023 for $21.99 USA / $28.99 CAN, with the collection accessible in single large-trim editions. Ebook editions will even be accessible on digital platforms.
About Seven Seas Entertainment
Established in 2004, Seven Seas Entertainment is an award-winning writer that focuses on bringing one of the best of Japanese manga and light-weight novels to English language audiences alongside the most well liked hand-picked books from across the globe, in addition to producing authentic comics, graphic novels, and youth literature. All of Seven Seas’ guide imprints are distributed all through the world by Penguin Random House Publisher Services. For extra info, go to sevenseasentertainment.com
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