North American publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
confirmed with ANN on Wednesday that it has licensed
Noboru Yamaguchi
and
Nana Mochizuki
's
Zero's Familiar
(
Zero no Tsukaima
)
manga.
Seven Seas
describes the manga as follows:
In a world where sorcery reigns supreme, bumbling witch-in-training Louise Francoise le Blanc is known by her classmates at the Tristain Academy of Magic as "Louise the Zero." During an important coming-of-age ritual, when each student must summon a lifelong familiar, Louise proves herself inept when she mistakenly conjures a teenage boy from earth. Now, whether she likes it or not, Louise "the Zero" and Saito, the ever-whining earth boy from Japan, are bound by the laws of magic as master and servant forever!
Mochizuki adapted Yamaguchi's light novel series in
Monthly
Comic Alive
from 2006-2009.
Seven Seas
will release the seven-volume manga in three omnibus editions. The first omnibus edition, containing volumes 1-3, will retail for US$19.99.
Yamaguchi's light novels inspired four television anime series.
Geneon Entertainment
(USA)
Inc.
released
the first anime series on DVD in North America. Later,
Funimation
acquired
the rights after
Geneon
stopped distributing anime in North America.
Sentai Filmworks
will
release
the final season,
Familiar of Zero F
, in North America.