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PRE ORDER FOC DATE January 4, 2027 / ON SALE DATE March 2, 2027
In this moving Boys’ Love manga, a merman far from home, stuck working in a mansion, meets a young man who could change his life for the better. But the first step to freeing the merman? They need to fall in love! From the author of City Lights Birthday and Setagaya Synchronicity. Van is a mermaid who has lost everything—his voice, his family, his very place in the world. Forced to work as a slave in a mansion located in town by the sea, he dreams of the day when he can return to the water. One day he meets Jens, the sole inhabitant of the cursed island of Fiska, a young man who proves to be kinder than any human Van has ever met. As the two grow closer, Jens is determined to buy Van’s freedom and bring him to his island home. But in order for this to happen, Van and Jens need to become more than just good friends...they need to fall in love. Witness the beginning of their romance in volume one of this moving Boys’ Love fantasy!
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