Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce, through its Airship light novel imprint, the license acquisition of the novel Ripping Someone Open Only Makes Them Bleed from award-winning author Yoru Sumino. Experience a brand-new, tender coming-of-age story about the tangled lives of teenage girls.

Seventeen-year-old Akane has everything she could ever want: friends, a boyfriend, and an all-round perfect life. No one knows that her every move is a calculated performance dictated by a compulsive need to be liked. Her flawless act is disrupted when she meets a man named Ai, who looks and sounds exactly like the protagonist of Akane’s favorite novel. Can this be a coincidence? And if not, what does it mean?

This ensemble drama of fragile hearts and intersecting fates comes from Yoru Sumino, bestselling author of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas and I Had That Same Dream Again—also available from Seven Seas.