Anime NYC has a habit of dropping bombs when you least expect them, and this year Seven Seas Entertainment decided the loudest fandom in the room deserved the loudest announcement. If you’ve spent any time in The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You corners of the internet, you already know the demand for a proper physical collection has been borderline deafening. Well, congratulations, chaos gremlins — you got your wish.
I’ll be honest, my first reaction wasn’t ‘finally,’ it was ‘took them long enough.’ This series has been running wild since the anime adaptation kicked things into overdrive, and Rikito Nakamura and Yukiko Nozawa’s absurdly tender, absurdly horny, absurdly sincere harem comedy earned its cult following the hard way — one increasingly ridiculous confession arc at a time. A box set was inevitable. What matters now is whether it lands the way fans actually wanted.
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What’s Actually in the Box
Here’s the breakdown as it stands right now:
- Contents: Volumes 1–6
- Release window: February 2027
- Anime tie-in: Covers material corresponding to Seasons 1–2
- Bonus items: Expected collectibles, though specifics haven’t been locked down yet
That timing isn’t accidental. Season 3 just dropped Chiyo Iin and Naddy into the mix, and if you’ve been anywhere near social media lately, you know those two have practically hijacked the fandom’s group chats. Riding that wave into a physical release for the earlier volumes is a smart move — new viewers who fell in love with the show mid-season are exactly the audience who’ll want to go back and read where Aijo Rentaro’s increasingly unmanageable love life actually started.
And let’s not pretend this franchise needs the extra push, but it’s getting one anyway: the anime already holds a Guinness World Record for the longest monologue in a Japanese-language series. Say what you want about the premise being unhinged — and it absolutely is — but you don’t accidentally end up in the record books. There’s craft under the chaos.
The Real Sleeper News: Seven Seas’ Mid-2027 Slate
Here’s the thing nobody’s talking about enough — the box set stole the spotlight, but Seven Seas quietly dropped a genuinely interesting batch of new licenses alongside it.
| Title | Creator(s) | Release |
|---|---|---|
| My Lips are Being Targeted | Karin Anzai | June 2027 |
| Enslaved By My Cats | Hasegawa Roku | July 2027 |
| Goetia Shock | Dokuzu Kento & Kobayashi Tetsuya | June 2027 |
| I Wish it Had Just Been Love | Rui Obata | July 2027 |
| The Ghost’s Nocturne | ANANAS & C.R Jade | June 2027 |
| Whispering Tiger: Jangsanbeom | Teriyaki (II) | July 2027 |
Enslaved By My Cats is already living rent-free in my head purely on title alone, and Goetia Shock sounds exactly like the kind of dark-fantasy swing I want more Western publishers taking risks on. Localization companies picking up niche, genre-flexible titles like this instead of chasing the same three shonen archetypes is honestly the healthiest thing happening in the manga market right now.
Siren Audiobooks and Novels Aren’t Sleeping Either
Seven Seas’ Siren imprint is also expanding its audio catalog, which is quietly one of the smartest plays in the industry — light novel fans who commute or multitask are an underserved audience, and audiobooks fill that gap perfectly.
Coming to audio:
- A Tale of the Secret Saint ZERO — October 2026
- Dinghai Fusheng Records — November 2026
- There’s Something Wrong with the Chief — November 2026
And on the print/novel side, the 2027 lineup includes Till the End of the Moon in August, Welcome to the Nightmare Game in March, and First-Class Lawyer in July — a solid spread across fantasy, horror-adjacent thriller, and courtroom drama, which tells me Seven Seas is deliberately avoiding a one-genre identity.
My Honest Take
None of this is revolutionary in isolation, but stacked together it paints a publisher that understands its audience wants two things at once: comfort content they already love in a nicer format, and fresh, weird, genre-hopping titles to obsess over next. The 100 Girlfriends box set is the safe, guaranteed win. The new licenses are the gamble that keeps things interesting. Both are necessary, and honestly? Seven Seas is playing this one right.
If you’ve been putting off starting the series, February 2027 is your sign. If you’re already a die-hard, this is basically permission to justify buying volumes you already own digitally — again — for the collectible factor alone. We’ve all been there.
