All of Yen Press's 2023 New Series and One-shot Releases

Updated: Dec 9, 2023

All of the brand new series, one-shots, and editions Yen Press has put out in 2023!

*This doesn't include artbooks or boxsets. The volume count is its status in its country of origin.

Yen Press 2023 Shoujo & Josei New Releases

Honey Lemon Soda, a shoujo bestseller in Japan with over twenty volumes and 10+ million copies in circulation, started its English release this year.

Cheeky Brat must be selling well enough for Yen Press to decide to license the creator's other series, Stray Cat & Wolf this year.

Tokyo Babylon by CLAMP returns to the English market for the third time with this new Premium Collection with a new translation from Yen Press! Previous editions were seven volumes by Tokyopop, followed by two omnibus volumes released by Dark Horse. This series also functions as a prequel to X/1999, which is licensed by Viz Media.
The Agents of the Four Seasons novel series by Kana Akatsuki, who is best known for Violet Evergarden, was also released this year! If this release does well, I think it's possible the new manga adaptation may follow in the future.

Phantom Red is part of Yen Press's expansion into middle grade chapter books under their JY imprint. This includes three other novels that released this year: Online! The Unbeatable Game, Canine Detective Chris, and Horror Collector.
The extremely popular Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint will release in print this month! Yen Press's imprint Ize Press posted that they brought "hundreds of copies [of volume one] to Anime NYC" and they "sold out on day 1!" The official English translation of the novel will follow hopefully in 2024, as Ize Press announced the license for both the print version of the webtoon and the novel at the same time. A post that now has over a whopping 1.1 million impressions on Twitter.

The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor's manga adaptation was licensed by Yen Press this year. Note that Cross Infinite World is publishing the light novel version of the series.
Surprise-hit anime Bocchi the Rock!'s manga was licensed on the heels of its release. (I say surprise in the sense that I hadn't heard of the series at all before the anime released, not because it wasn't a fantastic show.)
Both the Deer King novel and manga released this year. An animated film by the same name came out in 2021.

Oshi no Ko's manga became very well-received after the anime dropped this year.

The Sugar Apple Fairy Tale manga adaptation also came out not long after the anime aired.

The Summar Hikaru Died was a very hyped license for this year! I probably should have included it in the Seinen section instead since it is tagged as "LGBT Character in Non-BL/Yuri Manga" on mangaupdates, but I had already completed these layouts by the time I saw. I had only heard about the romance mixed with body horror in the series beforehand. I am not sure whether fans consider it a BL series or not.

The Suzume release wasn't surprising after the movie came out this year, and it being by the same director of the well-loved Your Name, Makoto Shinkai.