Media Do Acquires Seven Seas Entertainment

#news March 01, 2026

by Tamara Lazic

The Seven Seas Entertainment manga publisher has been acquired by the Japanese company Media Do. Media Do is a digital publisher and a distributor of e-books, perhaps best known to manga fans overseas as the parent company of MyAnimeList from 2019 to 2025.

The report published by Nikkei states that the cost is expected to be around 12.4 billion yen (~$80 million USD). This is the first English publisher they have acquired. Seven Seas hasn't commented yet.

The publisher participated in Citrus Con 2026 earlier today, where it announced three new licenses:

A Western BL by Hayate Kuku
Marchen by Hayate Kuku
Wolfhound by IROHA MEGU

Seven Seas Entertainment was founded in 2004 by Jason DeAngelis. The company is known for titles such as Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, Classroom of the Elite, and more. Seven Seas has a couple of imprints dedicated to different things, such as Airship (light novels), Ghost Ship (mature readers), Steamship (shojo), and Siren (audiobooks). In addition to Japanese manga and light novels, the publisher also licenses manhua, webtoons, and danmei novels.

Source: Manga Alerts (BlueSky), Behind the Manga