Four Fresh Licenses Bloom with Ize Press

Sakura-Con 2026 brought plenty of excitement for readers and anime fans, but one of the standout moments was the announcement of four new manhwa titles joining Ize Press's growing catalog. We’re excited to introduce this wonderful variety of comics and can’t wait for you to experience them in print!

Special Civil Servant

Art by ch
Original Story by Sora Kwon and Jaewon Seo
 
Maru Han is your typical twenty-nine-year-old guy—socially anxious, broke, and desperate for a stable job. Things aren’t looking up, though, considering he just failed the civil service exam for the fifth time! But fate has a funny way of giving us what we want... When a trip to the mountains turns into an encounter with some strange, human-eating creature, Maru finds himself recruited into the “Special Civil Service.” His lucky break, right? Wrong! So, so, wrong! Everything is a mess—this secret task force is threatening the very safety he longed for, the monsters they fight are weirdly drawn to him, and the people on his team are total nutjobs! Will Maru be able to adjust to his new life as a public defender, or will he crash and burn alongside the earth itself?

Read if you like: mystery thrillers, comedic characters, and beautifully detailed art with some fan service for muscle lovers.
 

On the Way to Meet Mom

By GOMYANG
 
After he is found in an abandoned building, a strange feral child named Mori is taken to an orphanage where he finds friends, shelter, and even a patron. He has all he needs to be happy and content in his little corner of the world—or so he thinks, until one day, his best friend’s mother returns to bring her home. Watching their reunion, Mori begins to wonder if he, too, has one somewhere out there... Surely, he must, right? So begins one little boy’s perilous journey across the lands to find his mother!

Read if you like: found-family fantasy adventures, short reads with an imaginative setting, and an absolutely adorable protagonist.
 

Reunion

Art by Deulsum
Original Story by 2coin
 
Seven years ago, Hakyung Lee accepted an offer to impersonate a dead girl. The plan was simple—he would pose as his childhood friend, Jiyoung Han, and convince a rich grandpa on his deathbed he wasn’t a fraud. It’d only be for one summer, and once it was over, Hakyung would walk away with the funds to pay for his mother’s hospital care and medication. And everything seemed to be smooth sailing—until Yoonsung Jang rushed to his grandfather’s side, determined to expose Hakyung as a fake. Except he doesn’t…and as the two spend more time together, the carefully placed walls between them begin to crumble. Now, in the present day, Yoonsung steps into the very bar where Hakyung works.

Read if you like: emotional slow-burn BL, second-chance reunion romance, and themes of cross-dressing.
  

Merry Marbling

By PENGKI
 
Ian Ha has been in the spotlight since he was a child, heralded as an angel after an act of kindness makes local headlines. He’s perfected his public persona as the ever-popular impeccable model student, and high school seems to be no different—that is, until the arrival of a boy unlike anybody he’s ever met before. Not only is Yugun Baek unmoved by Ian’s kind and friendly gestures, but his prickly and brash nature seems to draw out all the worst sides of him! The two are like oil and water…so why do they keep getting mixed up with each other?! 

Read if you like: wholesome green-flag BL, fluffy romance between high schoolers, and stories about pushing past societal limitations. 
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Be sure to secure your copies early by pre-ordering, and join us in welcoming these standout manhwa series to the Ize Press lineup!