Again in March I went looking within the giant bookstore at our native Aeon shopping center. As I typically do I drifted into the manga part and there I observed one thing for the very first time.
Their manga part options a complete shelf devoted solely to BL, or boys’ love comics.
That is most likely not a shock to manga readers who’re typically extremely educated concerning the titles and genres. Nonetheless I reside virtually totally encased inside a bubble of my very own little thought-creation and the surface world solely hardly ever permeates its pores and skin. So it felt like a kind of “Eureka!” moments and abruptly issues made excellent sense. For a minute or two.
So BL. Creator 945/gusao’s The Harmful Comfort Retailer began life as a BL webtoon, nevertheless it’s from Korea as an alternative. This makes it manhwa. In style sufficient to encourage little stuffed toys of its fundamental characters, the sequence noticed bodily format print in Korea in November 2022 nevertheless it had already been obtainable on-line in English since February of that yr. This October BL followers in North America can maintain it of their fingers when Seven Seas Leisure prints it on actual paper. Or they’ll view it on their e-book readers.
In Japan you will discover comfort shops far and wide. I’ve heard there are extra of them than there are dentist workplaces. Most of them are open 24 hours and you should purchase not solely sweet and mushy drinks there however some even carry family items and scorching ready-made meals. However since I reside in Japan and never Korea I can think about Korean comfort shops to be largely the identical. I do know they’ve among the similar chains, comparable to 7-Eleven and Household Mart. And wherever you reside it’s most likely for the perfect you keep away from the damaging ones. Right here’s what Seven Seas Leisure has to say a few younger man discovering love in aisles of a comfort retailer, presumably close to the reward playing cards rack or the shelf with all of the salty potato chip varieties:
(Could 17, 2023) – Seven Seas Leisure is thrilled to announce the license acquisition of the manhwa webtoon sequence The Harmful Comfort Retailer 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 consists of hoodlums and mobsters. He’s bored with being yelled at whereas ringing up booze and attempting to speak his manner 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 monumental condom measurement Gunwoo buys, a bit of spark of attraction would possibly simply develop into a giant, fiery love story! The Harmful Comfort Retailer Vol. 1 shall be launched for the primary time in print in North America in October 2023 for $21.99 USA / $28.99 CAN, with the sequence obtainable in single large-trim editions. E-book editions may even be obtainable on digital platforms.
About Seven Seas EntertainmentEstablished in 2004, Seven Seas Leisure is an award-winning writer that focuses on bringing the perfect of Japanese manga and light-weight novels to English language audiences alongside the most popular hand-picked books from across the globe, in addition to producing authentic comics, graphic novels, and youth literature. All of Seven Seas’ e book imprints are distributed all through the world by Penguin Random Home Writer Companies. For extra info, go to sevenseasentertainment.com
