Seven Seas has added four licenses to its 2018 lineup.
Forty years after it's initial publication, Leiji Matsumoto's original Captain Harlock series is finally getting a North American release. The revered space opera about the invasion of the Mazone, an alien species of plant women, will be released in two large-trim hardcover omnibus volumes. Captain Harlock: The Classic Collection volume 1 will be available April 24, 2018. MSRP is $24.99. Fauna and the Dragonewts’ Seven Kingdoms by Kiyohisa Tanaka posits a future in which dragons -- not humans -- have become the rulers of the planet. A dragon archeologist discovers a young human girl, whom he adopts on takes on his explorations of the world. The fantasy series will release on January 16, 2018. The first volume has an MSRP of $12.99. An all-women team protects their goddess Athena in an intergalactic civil war in Saint Seiya: Saintia Sho by Chimaki Kuori (Gundam Seed, Persona). The manga is part of the popular Saint Seiya series (also known as Knights of the Zodiac) that launched in the 1980s and spawned a popular anime, novels, films, and more. The first volume will release on February 6 for an MSRP of $12.99. Monstrous kaiju are reimagined as adorable high school monster girls in Shun Kazakami’s Ultra Kaiju Anthropomorphic Project. The series features character designs by POP, who previously illustrated the POP Wonderland fairytale series from Dark Horse. Volume 1 will be in stores February 20 for an MSRP of $12.99.These titles join Devilman and several other titles in Seven Seas’ 2018 lineup (see “'Devilman' Dominates Seven Seas' Early 2018 Releases”)