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Another heaping helping of announcements came from Seven Seas Entertainment this week, from manga and light novels to a new audiobook and beyond. Among the announcements are Wataru Mitogawa's My Girlfriend is 8 Meters Tall manga, Softcoral's Korean novel series Be a Light in the Dark Sea and an audiobook version of Daemi's KinnPorsche . Check out the full slate below. God of Seduction in the Bedroom by Fumi Tsuyuhisa October 2025 Synopsis: Satoru's love life has hit rock bottom. As "The World's Worst Lover," he's been dumped time and again due to his terrible skills in bed. Just when he thinks all hope is lost, the God of Seduction, affectionately nicknamed Ecchan, suddenly appears to turn his fortunes around! Ecchan reveals that the only way to make things right is to find Satoru’s perfect partner—a match so ideal that sparks are guaranteed to fly. Enter Shinya Hoshina, a...

Seven Seas Entertainment has issued an official statement on Oct 24, 2024, in response to recent reports of harassment directed at employees and contractors involved in their projects.

The publisher stressed its zero-tolerance stance toward bullying.

While the publisher did not specify any particular incident, the statement comes on the back of cover artist Billy Balibally becoming targets of online abuse.

The harassment stems from Balibally’s involvement as the cover artist for the Taiwanese edition of KinnPorsche, a project tainted by controversy involving the novel’s authors, Poi and Yok, collectively known as Daemi.

Several fans had targeted Balibally for their association with the book, despite the artist reiterating they had no direct connection to the disputes surrounding the series.

Seven Seas’ Statement on Harassment

In its statement, Seven Seas explained that those working on their projects are often unfairly blamed for controversies surrounding other parties associated with a title.

“Whether...

“Delivery Man,” the next film project for hit-making Thai director Kongkiat Komesiri has been picked up by Los Angeles- and Bangkok-based Est N8. The company is launching it at the Cannes Market, adjacent to the Cannes Film Festival.

Komesiri, known for his hit “Khun Pan” film trilogy, popular Bl series “KinnPorsche” and horror films including “Slice” and “Art of the Devil II.”

The new film, which he also wrote, is pitched as “a spine-chilling horror experience [.. ] that evokes the suspenseful style of Korean cinema, mixed with the renowned Thai style of storytelling.” Production is set to get under way in September, with delivery of the completed picture in the first quarter of 2025.

“Delivery Man” will star ‘Yada’ Narilya Gulmongkolpech, who broke through in Gdh’s “The Medium” in 2021. She “brings a unique blend of intensity and authenticity to her roles, enhancing the film’s appeal to both national and international audiences,...

“My Stand-In,” an action drama that starts shooting imminently, is a new Thai-language original series for Chinese streaming platform iQiyi.

Fitting the booming ‘Boys Love’ genre, the series is a screen adaptation of a hit Chinese-language web novel “Stand-In Ship” written by Shui Qiancheng. The underlying novel has garnered over a billion readers on platforms including Weibo and iQiyi Novels.

The streamer also reports that “My Stand-In” is the first Chinese web novel to be adapted into a Thai drama.

The story follows a passionate stunt double, who falls in love with Yan Mingxiu, the young scion of the Yan family. He gives his all for this relationship, only to shockingly discover that he is merely a stand-in for a famous star, both on and off the screen. Even after the stunt man undergoes a two-year rebirth and comes to accept his position, the two men remain connected.

Production is...

Cannes – Looking at the multiple stages of audience ratings from overnights to pre-broadcast, to live, then plus-seven days and plus-28 days, launching a TV show these days is like a multistage rocket getting to the moon,” said Frédéric Vaulpré, vice president at Paris-based research firm Global Audience & Content Evolution (Glance).

He was talking just before his Monday presentation on Global TV Trends at Mipcom, made with Glance head of content insight Avril Blondelot. Images created for the presentation include a rocket with plus-28-days and pre-broadcast for wings, and live forming the spaceship’s body.

“You need reliable data. That’s where we come in. We see the complexity of these ratings,” he said.

At the Monday session, Vaulpré addressed trends in ratings, broadcasting, platforms and streaming before Blondelot looked at the content side of things: Genres that work; upcoming highlights to track.

A decline in TV viewing time, after...

Chinese-owned video streamer iQiyi has confirmed that it has blocked access in Singapore to ten gay-themed TV series. But it says that the move is temporary.

“The content was temporarily removed in compliance with the Infocomm Media Development Authority’s guidance towards R21 content,” a company spokesman told Variety by email. R21 restricts viewing to people aged over 21.

The shows blocked include iQiyi’s Thai-language original “KinnPorsche and “Until We Met Again” that fall into the ‘Boys Love’ or Bl genre. Soft-core romances between (mostly young and handsome) men have become hugely popular in Southeast Asia. And much of the audience for them is adult and female.

The Singapore government recently said that it will continue to restrict and classify media content with LGBTQ themes, even after its planned decriminalization of same-sex relationships.

The move to repeal a colonial-era law that criminalized sex between men was announced in August by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Exclusive: Bangkok-based Night Edge Pictures, a new distributor and production outfit focused on horror and thriller titles, is launching this week with its first release, Kate Dolan’s You Are Not My Mother, which is opening in Thailand on August 11.

Headed by former T&b Media Global executive Hans Audric Estialbo in the role of chief operating officer, the company has also acquired Nocebo, directed by Lorcan Finnegan and starring Eva Green and Mark Strong, from XYZ Films.

Night Edge’s upcoming slate also includes TrustNordisk’s thriller Speak No Evil, directed by Danish filmmaker Christian Tafdrup, which won best director at this year’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival; as well as Moloch, from Dutch filmmaker Nico van den Brink.

You Are Not My Mother, which marks Irish filmmaker Dolan’s feature debut, played in the Midnight Madness section at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, and won...