Jason DeAngelis

Jason DeAngelis heads Seven Seas Entertainment, the Los Angeles publisher of manga and light novels, and is named as its founder in the company infobox. The company's English Wikipedia article says that he coined the term world manga with the October 2004 launch of the company's website. The firm he leads was originally dedicated to publishing original English-language manga but now publishes licensed manga and light novels from Japan, together with select webcomics. During his tenure it began new editions of the children's fantasy series Avalon: Web of Magic in 2008, launched the free ad-supported webcomic portal Zoom Comics in August 2012, started licensing Danmei novels from China in August 2021, began printing Korean webtoons in January 2022 and began licensing Chinese manhua in May 2022.