Cross Infinite World has announced the license acquisitions of three new isekai light novel series, centered around the theme of reincarnation in strange fantasy worlds.
The new licenses include Dinners with My Darling: How the Former Monster King Ate Her Way to Happiness, Love & Magic Academy: Who Cares about the Heroine and Villainess? I Want to Be the Strongest in this Otome Game World, and This Alluring Dark Elf Has the Heart of a Middle-aged Man!
All three series are expected to be released digitally from January 2025 to March 2025, with the exception of This Alluring Dark Elf Has the Heart of a Middle-aged Man!, which will also receive a print release sometime in the future.
Here are the details for the new light novels being released by Cross Infinite World:
Dinners with My Darling: How the Former Monster King Ate Her Way to Happiness
Story: Mugi Mameta
Illustrations: Nagisa Hanazome
The first volume of the series will be available digitally worldwide on January 31, 2025.
Synopsis:
“I’ll never love you.”
Unused to humans, Abigail panics when her new husband declares that he’ll never love her on the first night of their political marriage. Does that mean she’s not allowed to eat?!
A new twist on the food-based romance tale, starring an earl’s daughter who was the Monster King in her previous life! After years of neglect by her old family, Abigail will charm her sincere military husband and his household one bite at a time and find her happy ending!
Love & Magic Academy: Who Cares about the Heroine and Villainess? I Want to Be the Strongest in this Otome Game World
Story: Toyozo Okamura
Illustrations: Parum
The first volume of the series will be available digitally worldwide on February 14, 2025.
Synopsis:
Here I am, reincarnated into the world of Love & Magic Academy, an otome game with RPG elements, and I’m one of the love interests: cool, bespectacled Arius. Wait. Which means…I’m going to get dragged into the romantic scenes just like in the game?! But I have zero interest in romance. And this world isn’t just about romance scenes. It has magic and monsters, and you can raise your stats through dungeon diving. Since I have no interest in romance, I’m going to start off by training and increasing my stats with sword and magic, then I’ll head deep into the dungeons, smashing countless monsters along the way. Here I go, ignoring the romance scenes as I dive into dungeons in order to get stronger!
This Alluring Dark Elf Has the Heart of a Middle-aged Man!
Story: Yuhi Shimano
Illustrations: NAJI Yanagida
The first volume will be available digitally worldwide on March 31, 2025. It will receive a print release at a later date.
Synopsis:
Haruka Yamagishi, a 43-year-old, lonely salaryman without friends, family, or love. Never very good at expressing himself, he’s avoided building relationships with people and finds himself a withered old man before his time. Then one day, he wakes up in another world, only to discover he’s a dark elf, and a beautiful woman at that! Despite having a body as tough as steel and a vast reserve of magical power, the timid Haruka still goes through life indecisively. Yet she (he) forms a party with fellow adventurers twice her (his) age and steadily adapts to this new world. The middle-aged man who once gave up on bonding with others opens his heart and strives to grow as his new self in another world. So the curtain rises on a twisted but classic story of adventure!
Source: press release
