Seven Seas Entertainment is excited to announce the license acquisition of the manga series Yonoi Tsukihiko’s Happy Hell by Hina Sakurada. In this josei romantic comedy manga, marriage comes before love for a pair of total opposites! About Yonoi Tsukihiko’s Happy Hell For the sake of her family’s farm, Hanabata Mikan has…
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