Seven Seas Entertainment

Seven Seas Entertainment is an American publishing company located in Los Angeles, California. It was originally dedicated to publishing original English-language manga, but it now publishes licensed manga and light novels from Japan as well as select webcomics. The company is headed by Jason DeAngelis, who coined the term world manga with the October 2004 launch of the company website. In March 2008 it began publishing new editions of Rachel Roberts's children's fantasy series Avalon: Web of Magic together with Red Sky Entertainment. On 1 August 2012 it launched Zoom Comics, an ad-supported free webcomic portal, in partnership with Pixie Trix Comix. In August 2021 it began licensing Danmei novels from China, in January 2022 it began releasing Korean webtoons in print, and in May 2022 it began licensing Chinese manhua, starting with the manhua adaptation of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.