Hanashi Media has announced the license acquisition of six new light novel series this past week, including Living the Slow Life as a Demon Lord and The Sage of the Forbidden Library.

Here are the details on the publisher’s latest licenses: 

The Hated Prince’s Do-Over: Can Good Deeds Save Me from All These Execution Flags?!

Story: Kei Takano

Illustrations: Shoa Takashima

Synopsis: 

After years of crushing taxes and rampant corruption among the nobility, the people rise up in revolution—and Arthur Pendragon, the second prince of Britain, is sent straight to the guillotine.

But when Arthur opens his eyes, he finds himself five years in the past!

Desperate to avoid the execution awaiting him, Arthur racks his brain for a way to change his fate. Then, after casually showing a little kindness to a maid, a mysterious voice echoes inside his head:

“Good Deed Points have been awarded. The future has shifted slightly.”

Realizing that this mysterious voice may be his only hope for survival, Arthur resolves to start treating everyone with kindness. Not because he has suddenly become a better person, of course—but because he desperately wants to stay alive!

And so begins the do-over of a cowardly, petty, slightly overconfident, and utterly hopeless prince. To save his own neck, he’ll do everything he can to win over the people—and even the entire world!

His only goal is survival—so how does everyone mistake him for history’s wisest king?!

Living the Slow Life as a Demon Lord: The Hero Says My Tomato Field Is an Unconquerable Dungeon!

Story: Ichiro Katawara

Illustrations: Noy

Synopsis: 

Cero, a priest of light, shields the Hero from the Sixth Demon Lord’s curse—only to be transformed into a demon himself. As his reward, he is cast out of the Hero’s party and forcibly teleported far away.

At his destination, Cero encounters Lucy, the Sixth Demon Lord’s daughter, who recognizes in him the potential to become a Demon Lord. Together with the demons now serving under him, Cero sets out to develop his new territory.

Then, one day, the Hero’s party arrives to eliminate him. But when they venture into the tomato field outside Cero’s castle, they discover monsters lurking among the crops—each one enhanced by Cero’s abilities!

What was supposed to be a simple field of tomatoes may prove to be the most unconquerable dungeon of all!

Shimotsuki-san Has a Thing for a Background Character

Story: Kagami Yagami 

Illustrations: Roha 

Synopsis:

To everyone else, he’s just a background character. To her, he’s the only one who matters.

“You’re the only one who’s special to me.”

When Koutaro Nakayama returns to school after classes to retrieve something he forgot, he finds Shiho Shimotsuki fast asleep in an empty classroom.

Rumor has it that Shiho is the girl Ryoma Ryuzaki truly has his sights set on. Popular with seemingly every girl in class, Ryoma is already well on his way to forming a harem. Yet Shiho remains as expressionless as ever-not a single person has ever seen her smile.

So why are her pale fingers wrapped around Koutaro’s hand?! And so begins a secret relationship between the heroine and the background character she was never supposed to notice!

The Sage of the Forbidden Library: A Genius Apprentice Librarian Unlocks the Secrets of Magical Civilization

Story: Takeru Uchida 

Illustrations: Emuke 

Synopsis: 

All she wanted was to lose herself in books and magic-so how did she end up shaking the entire world?!

Thanks to her extraordinary talent and remarkable achievements, Elysia is the only apprentice librarian permitted to enter the Forbidden Library alone, where countless mysterious and dangerous magical tomes are kept. She believes this will allow her to continue her magical research in peace.

But on the day she turns fifteen and officially comes of age, a divine oracle unexpectedly declares her a Sage.

The birth of the first Sage in centuries throws the entire kingdom into an uproar, but Elysia couldn’t be less thrilled. With the Royal Ministry of Magic firmly on her side, she retreats into the unexplored depths of the Forbidden Library-only to discover a girl frozen in ice! An unparalleled talent is about to rewrite history. A grand fantasy of magical discovery starring a brilliant young prodigy begins!

Welcome to Your New Workplace: The Hellish Front Lines! Lina, Strategist, Age Eight 

Story: Kaguya

Illustrations: Kodama

Synopsis: 

After a long and grueling war against the Kingdom of Arcadia, the Galleria Empire stands on the brink of collapse. On the hellish front lines of its most brutal battlefield, a young girl’s scream rings out:

“This isn’t what you promised! This isn’t what you promised! This isn’t what you promised at all!”

The voice belongs to Lina, an eight-year-old girl who enlisted in the military to save the orphanage that raised her. She can’t wield a sword or use magic. All she has is the unassuming skill Multilingual Comprehension-and memories of a past life spent enduring endless overtime at an exploitative company and playing strategy simulation games!

Lina was promised a well-paid desk job at a safe command post. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of the battlefield, forced into the role of a mysterious military strategist.

No one yet realizes that the commands issued by her tiny hands will overturn every convention and completely transform the course of the war-not even Lina herself.

As for Lina, she has only one desperate request: a slice of deliciously sweet cake.

The Breeding Man Takes On the Sengoku Era

Story: Hayashi Hoshino

Illustrations: Shunsuke Himuro

Synopsis:

Matabei is a man reincarnated in Japan’s Sengoku era. Having always dreamed of living like the male stud in an erotic manga, he finds himself granted a very special skill.

Its name? “Breeding Man”!

Getting women in the mood and guaranteeing pregnancy after sleeping with them is only the beginning. He’s an exceptional rider—and no, not in that sense. He can expertly wield spears—the weapons—and rods—the fishing kind—and can even tame wild animals—literally—and turn them into livestock!

Through increasingly ridiculous interpretations of his ability, Matabei begins rising through the ranks as a samurai and developing his own territory.

An unprecedented tale of reincarnation, conquest, and unrivaled “spear work” in the Sengoku era begins!

And countless challengers will fall before him in his battles after dark: a shrine maiden, a samurai’s daughter, an Iga kunoichi, and even Nobunaga of the Oda clan…

Wait, what?!

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