{"site":"Yomimono","license":"CC BY 4.0 (citation required)","generated_at":"2026-05-22T19:39:55.540Z","story":{"id":"r_081d89a2903847f687cced03","slug":"yen-press-launches-avocado-house-imprint-for-international-novels","url":"https://yomimono.id/yen-press-launches-avocado-house-imprint-for-international-novels","headline":"Yen Press Launches Avocado House Imprint for International Novels","summary":"Yen Press announced a new imprint called Avocado House, focused on international novels that fall outside its Japanese light novel line. The launch list includes Keigo Higashino's Laplace's Witch and Aya Saito's The Curse Called Mother, the Prison Called Daughter. The publisher also revealed several new manga licenses at its Sakuracon panel, including Ryoko Kui's The Dragon School Is Atop the Mountain and a Fate/Prototype manga adaptation. The imprint gives Yen Press a dedicated label for non-Japanese fiction, kept separate from the Yen On brand that remains focused on translated Japanese light novels. The split means a reader can tell at a glance which line a title belongs to: Avocado House for international fiction, Yen On for Japanese light novels. The Sakuracon panel paired the imprint news with the new manga licenses, so the company laid out both its novel direction and its manga pipeline in the same session.","why_it_matters":"The imprint creates a clear shelf distinction between Yen Press's translated Japanese light novels and its growing catalog of international fiction.","published_at":"2026-05-16T04:37:14.000Z","source_count":1,"sources":["TheOASG"],"citations":[{"source":"TheOASG","title":"TheOASG Podcast Episode 241: Why Was The Winter Anime Season So Packed Edition","url":"https://www.theoasg.com/podcasts/its-not-my-fault-the-oasg-podcast-is-not-popular/episode-241-why-was-the-winter-anime-season-so-packed-edition/33630"}],"license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Justin","Helen"],"type":"news","domain":"industry","is_roundup":false}}}