Q1 2018 Anime & Manga Licenses [Update 3/24]

In this thread, you'll find a comprehensive list of anime and manga licensed in the first quarter (Jan-Mar) of 2018. Winter 2018 anime which were licensed before the quarter began will also be carried over for convenience. Please note that the anime licenses are for home video release; simulcast acquisitions for Winter 2018 can be found here. Digital releases are noted with an asterisk (*).

This post will be continuously updated as more licenses are announced. If you have a license that we are missing, please feel free to post it in this thread.

Anime Licenses

Aniplex USA (United States)

[1/2]　Grancrest Senki (Record of Grancrest War)
[1/2]　Slow Start
[1/20]　Hataraku Saibou (TV) (Cells at Work)

Discotek Media (North America)

[1/14]　Great Mazinger
[1/14]　Konjiki no Gash Bell!!: 101 Banme no Mamono (Gash Bell The 1st Movie: Unlisted Demon)
[1/14]　Konjiki no Gash Bell!!: Mecha Vulkan no Raishuu (Zatch Bell Movie 2)
[1/14]　Toriko Movie: Bishokushin no Special Menu
[3/1]　Ayakashi
[3/1]　Hare Tokidoki Buta (Fair, then Partly Piggy)
[3/1]　Uchuu Senshi Baldios (Movie)
[3/24]　Kumo no You ni Kaze no You ni
[3/24]　Star Ocean EX
[3/24]　Tokyo Underground

FUNimation (North America)

[1/16]　Free! Movie 1: Timeless Medley - Kizuna
[1/16]　Free! Movie 2: Timeless Medley - Yakusoku
[1/16]　Free!: Take Your Marks
[1/16]　High☆Speed!: Free! Starting Days (Free! Starting Days)
[2/18]　Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World)

GKIDS (North America)

[1/2]　Yoake Tsugeru Lu no Uta (Lu Over the Wall)
[1/2]　Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome (The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl)
[2/18]　Mirai no Mirai (Mirai of the Future)

Maiden Japan (North America)

[1/25]　Yona Yona Penguin
[3/22]　Tibet Inu Monogatari (The Tibetan Dog)

Sentai Filmworks (North America)

[12/23]　Mitsuboshi Colors
[12/27]　Hakumei to Mikochi
[12/27]　Takunomi.
[12/28]　Nanatsu no Bitoku (The Seven Heavenly Virtues)
[1/2]　Poputepipikku (Pop Team Epic)
[1/18]　Mahou Sensei Negima! (Negima!)
[1/18]　Negima!? (Negima!? Magister Negi Magi)

Manga Licenses

J-Novel Club

[12/28]　Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou Zero*
[1/13]　Nidome no Jinsei wo Isekai de* ([New Life+] Young Again in Another World)
[1/27]　Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria* (The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar)
[2/16]　Isekai ni Tensei shitan dakedo Ore, Tensai tte Kanchigaisaretenai?* (Me, a Genius? I Was Reborn into Another World and I Think They've Got the Wrong Idea!)
[2/27]　Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha* (The Unwanted Undead Adventurer)
[2/27]　Infinite Stratos*
[3/16]　Isekai Mahou wa Okureteru!* (The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind!)

Kodansha Comics (North America)

[1/27]　Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii (Otakoi: Otaku Can't Fall in Love?!)
[2/28]　Shokuryou Jinrui: Starving Anonymous* (Starving Anonymous)
[2/28]　Liar x Liar*
[2/28]　Perfect World*

One Peace Books (North America)

[3/11]　Yari no Yuusha no Yarinaoshi (The Reprise of the Spear Hero)

Seven Seas (North America)

[2/2]　Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko! (Tomo-chan Is a Girl!)
[3/12]　Now Loading...!
[3/13]　Machigatta Ko wo Mahou Shoujo ni Shiteshimatta (Oops! I Messed Up and Made the Wrong Person a Magical Girl!)
[3/14]　Gesshoku Kitan (Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart)
[3/14]　Risou no Himo Seikatsu (The Ideal Sponger Life)
[3/15]　Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai (I Want to Eat Your Pancreas)
[3/15]　Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai
[3/15]　Bocchi Kaibutsu to Moumoku Shoujo (Beauty and the Beast Girl)
[3/16]　Satoko to Nada (Satoko and Nada)
[3/16]　Boogiepop Series (first six volumes)

Tokyopop

[1/23]　Konohana Kitan
[1/23]　Hanger: Shikkounin
[1/23]　Futaribeya

VIZ Media (North America)

[1/25]　RWBY Anthology Series

Yen Press (North America)

[2/2]　Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka? (Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?)

Sources:

• Aniplex USA
  
• Discotek Media
  
• FUNimation: 1, 2
  
• GKIDS: 1, 2
  
• J-Novel Club: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  
• Kodansha Comics: 1, 2
  
• Maiden Japan: 1, 2
  
• One Peace Books: 1
  
• Sentai Filmworks
  
• Seven Seas
  
• Tokyopop: 1
  
• Yen Press

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