Crossed Heartsannounced the license acquisition of multiple manga, manhwa, and Korean-language novels during its industry panel at Anime NYC 2026, includingThe Two of Them Can’t Stay Mobs.
Three of Crossed Hearts’ manga licenses were originally published in Japan by COMISMA.
The newly licensed titles will also be released under several of Crossed Hearts’ imprints such as its Creator Original,Glam Beatfor Girls’ Love titles, and Blush Club for Boys’ Love titles.
Here are the details on the publisher’s newest licenses:
Manga
Two Of Us Can’t Stay Mobs
Release Date:February 16, 2027
All they want is to be forgettable. The universe has other plans. Every time they try to fade into the crowd, fate drags them right back into the spotlight together.
Himejima is the school’s impossibly handsome heartthrob. Onimaru is a striking beauty with the unmistakable presence of an oni. They share one simple dream: to be completely ordinary. No attention. No popularity. No standing out. Just a quiet high school life as background characters.
There’s just one problem. When you’re this unforgettable… being a mob is impossible.
As fate keeps bringing the two reluctant scene-stealers together, every attempt to fade into the background only thrusts them further into the spotlight, sparking heart-fluttering moments, hilarious misunderstandings, and a romance neither of them saw coming.
Love Beyond the Final Boss: The Hero’s Party’s Quest for Love
Story and Art:Hadajuban Yamada
Release Date:February 16, 2027
Buildings crumble. Chaos erupts in the streets. And in the middle of it all, the strongest hero throws himself into the line of fire bracing an attack meant for someone else, close enough to feel their heartbeat. Some heroes fight for glory. This one keeps ending up in someone’s arms instead.
The world has already been saved… perhaps a little too well. Thanks to the strongest Hero Party in history, not only has the Demon King been defeated, but wars have ended, racial conflicts have vanished, cities have made peace, medicine has advanced, education has flourished… and just about every problem imaginable has already been solved.
Unfortunately, that leaves one group with nothing left to do: the other heroes summoned from another world.
Robbed of their destiny, these aimless heroes have gone completely off the rails. From hopeless romantics with impossible dreams to eccentric oddballs with the strangest obsessions, they’re less “heroes” and more walking disasters.
Strongest Hero, please save the world… from its own saviors!
Emma and the Eyes that Bid Farewell
Release Date:February 16, 2027
A girl who can’t use magic. A partner who never wanted her. And a killer who’s already chosen their target.
Emma has dreamed of attending the prestigious Royal Academy of Magic her entire life. There’s just one problem. She can’t use magic.
On the day of the entrance ceremony, Emma’s dreams seem destined to shatter… until a chance encounter with the aloof and sharp-tongued Phyllis changes everything. After the two unexpectedly take the entrance exam together, they’re assigned as a provisional pair, much to their mutual dismay.
But surviving academy life soon becomes the least of Emma’s concerns. As she struggles to awaken the mysterious power sleeping within her, a deadly conspiracy begins to unfold. Someone is lurking in the shadows… and they’ll stop at nothing to assassinate her.
Where Sea Meets Shore
The work will be published under Crossed Hearts’ Creator Original imprint.
A young photographer finds himself captivated by the mermaid displayed behind the glass of an aquarium, and longs to speak to her despite the barrier between them.
Unable to do so, he returns day after day with his sketchbook, filling its pages with words that he shows her in the hope of reaching her.
While he is free to come and go, she remains imprisoned behind the glass, forever separated from the sea she longs to return to.
As their quiet bond deepens beyond words, he begins to wonder whether he can simply leave her behind… or if some encounters are destined to change lives forever.
Addicted to You
Release Date:November 16, 2027
At the boundary between angels and humans, 11 has one problem he cannot make sense of: his own heart.
His complicated bond with 3 has already left him tangled in feelings he would rather not name. Then a chance encounter with a human girl introduces an entirely new complication, teaching him that liking someone and loving them may be far more troublesome than he imagined.
Humans, however, are not meant to last forever.
When 11 meets the girl again after her reincarnation, memories of her former life collide with the person she has become, rekindling a connection that should have ended with death. Yet the closer he grows to her, the harder it becomes to ignore the feelings that have always drawn him back to 3.
With one love transcending lifetimes and another refusing to be neatly defined, 11 must finally unravel the desires of his own heart.
Between 3 and the girl fate returned to him, whom does 11 truly love?
Manhwa
Welcome to the Rose Manor
After her father’s death, Richelle Howard’s life crumbles overnight. Cornered by her mother’s reckless extravagance and debts that multiply faster than they can be repaid, she has nowhere left to turn when an offer arrives from the kingdom’s wealthiest and most revered family: the illustrious House of Otis. The position seems simple. Live at the Manor of Roses for one year. Teach the children. Follow the rules.
Never ignore the bells after midnight. Never enter certain rooms. Never question what you see. Rules that must be obeyed without exception. Rules that offer no explanation. Rules that seem like warnings.
Surrounded by a sprawling estate covered in roses and a family as beautiful as they are unsettling, Richelle soon finds herself entangled in a series of increasingly bizarre incidents. Doors open where none existed before. Whispers drift through empty halls. Faces appear where they should not.
“Welcome to the most fragrant grave in the world, Miss Richelle Howard. Let us become good corpses together.”
One year. One manor. One question: will Richelle survive?
Flirting with the Villain’s Dad
What happens when you wake up inside a novel you once read… twenty years before the story even begins?
Princess Yerenica knows exactly how this tale ends. In blood.
Her sister dies. Her brother-in-law dies. She dies. Even King Euredian , the father of the future villain, dies at the hands of his own son. One by one, everyone in her generation is erased to make way for the story she remembers.
Determined to rewrite fate, Yerenica throws herself into changing the events that set the tragedy in motion. But fate has other plans. After saving her sister, Yerenica ends up captured in her place… by none other than King Euredian himself.
There’s just one tiny problem. He’s nothing like the ruthless man the novel described. He’s kind. Handsome. Charming. And unfortunately, exactly her type. If the villain is never born, the future she remembers can never happen… right?
Armed with nothing but unwavering confidence and utter disregard for subtlety, Yerenica embarks on the most ridiculous mission imaginable:
Seduce the villain’s father before the original story can begin! “
Korean Novels
Fairy Trap
Joo Yigyeol spends twenty-two hours of every day asleep, imprisoned by the incurable Rostov Syndrome. But when he discovers that his consciousness can leave his sleeping body, the endless hours he once cursed become the key to a world beyond his own.
Drawn onward by a golden butterfly, Yigyeol crosses into another dimension and encounters Seth, the enigmatic fourth prince of a kingdom on the brink of ruin. After saving Seth’s life time and again, Yigyeol becomes more than an inexplicable visitor from another world. He becomes the one person Seth cannot bear to lose.
What begins as gratitude soon darkens into something far more possessive. The deeper Yigyeol is drawn into Seth’s world, the more fiercely the prince clings to him, until even the distance between dimensions no longer feels enough to keep them apart.
“Who said you could die as you please?”
Caught between the life he left behind and a prince determined to claim a place in his future, Yigyeol must decide whether to keep running… or surrender to a fate he never thought he could come to love.
Ink Soaked into Ashen Paper
After seven years of devastating war, an uneasy peace is finally brokered between the Kingdom of Vierna in the West and the Daehyeon Empire in the East. As the price of peace, Queen Karmi van Vierna, the formidable ruler known throughout the continent as the Iron-Crowned Queen, demands a royal spouse from the defeated empire: the Emperor’s own Crown Prince.
But the Daehyeon Empire has no heir to offer.
Instead, Princess Seo Hwahwi is sent in his place, becoming the first princess in history to enter a royal same-sex marriage with the queen who was once her kingdom’s greatest enemy.
Though their union succeeds in ending the war, it marks the beginning of another. Surrounded by ruthless nobles, hidden agendas, and enemies lurking within the palace walls, Karmi and Hwahwi must navigate a royal court where every smile conceals a blade, every alliance hides an ulterior motive, and trust may prove deadlier than betrayal.
Crossed Hearts also announced earlier this week that it established the “A Novel Press” imprint for the release of its light novels, novels, and anthologies. The publisher’s previous novel licenses ofWhy Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s MansionandThe Abandoned Villainess Became a Zombiewill be published under the new imprint.
Additionally, the publisher announced plans for an in-house imprint for original works titled Studio Hearts, which will launch with four series:Doomsday Requiem With You,Chiaroscuro, andSoul Guiders, andA Kiss Before the Gunshot.
