Seven Seas Entertainment has announced a new division, Seven Seas Games, which will produce board and card games.

Seven Seas is a manga publisher whose most popular titles include the various Alice in the Country of Hearts-related releases, Monster Musume,  and  A Certain Scientific Railgun, which all appear on the Summer 2014 best-selling manga franchise chart (see "Top 25 Manga Franchises--Summer 2014").  Dance in the Vampire Bund has also proved to be a long-standing best seller (see "Top 25 Manga Properties--Fall/Holidays 2013").

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even Seas plans to offer a wide variety of games based on both popular anime properties and original intellectual property.  The releases will include deck-building card games, strategic board games and miniature figure board games.  The first releases will arrive in late 2015.

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he first game will be announced tomorrow, with Seven Seas teasing it is based on a hit anime property, and production will be funded via a Kickstarter campaign.  Additional titles based on other anime are scheduled to be announced in the coming months.