Crossed Hearts announced that it has licensed the All-Rounder Maid Connie Ville josei comedy-drama manga series, as well as the manhua comic series Borrowing Your Textbook 175160 earlier this month.
All-Rounder Maid Connie Ville is a manga adaptation of author Monaka Tei’s fantasy light novel series, which is drawn by Kuro Komari. It was first serialized on Julian Publishing’s FK Comics on October 15, 2021 and has released three tankobon volumes.
© 2026 MONAKA TEI, KURO KOMARI/JPUBLISHING 2026
The light novels included illustrations by krage and was first published by Julian Publishing’s Fairy Kiss imprint in 2019.
Crossed Hearts describes the main synopsis of the All-Rounder Maid Connie Ville manga as:
Connie Ville is the ultimate all-rounder maid of Halvion Castle, blessed with cheat-level abilities and burdened by a single wish to live quietly and out of the spotlight.
That dream shatters the day she learns the empire’s most notorious flirt and devastatingly handsome knight, Reinhardt, is now her stepbrother.
Caught between a shamelessly meddlesome stepbrother who refuses to stay out of her affairs, a capable charismatic superior she admires, a dangerously alluring prince she deeply respects, and a mother, who is the cause of her dilemma, Connie is swept into a whirlwind of palace intrigue, covert missions, and heartaches she never planned for.
Borrowing Your Textbook 175160 will be published under Crossed Hearts’ Glam Beat imprint and released sometime in April 2026. It is a Chinese Girls’ Love manhua comic series by TaaRO that was first published on pixiv in 2020.
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Crossed Hearts describes the main synopsis of Borrowing Your Textbook 175160 as:
Su Yao is 175 cm tall and painfully aware of it. Liu Xi is 160 cm tall, close enough that Su Yao never quite knows where to place her hands, her gaze, or her heart. It begins with an excuse too small to question. “Can I borrow your textbook?”
One excuse becomes another. A shared desk. A sleeve gently tugged. A smile warm enough to linger. Su Yao tells herself she’s only being thoughtful. Only being kind. But every time Liu Xi tilts her head and looks up, something inside her falters.
Between after-school corridors and stolen glances, the distance between them tightens until breathing feels dangerous and standing still feels worse. What if she reaches out? What if she doesn’t?
Glam Beat! is an imprint from Crossed Hearts focused on publishing yuri, Girls’ Love, and baihe manga, manhwa, manhua, and novel titles. It was first launched at the end of last December and Crossed Hearts’ official Twitter/X account describes the imprint as having “women-driven stories” that are “intimate, bold, and unapologetically romantic.” A total of 12 new licenses will be announced throughout 2026.
The publisher teased that its next Glam Beat! announcement will reveal a new baihe title that will be released both digitally and in print.
Crossed Hearts also announced on its Twitter/X account earlier this month that it had launched the Blush Club imprint, specializing in Boys’ Love manga and danmei titles. The imprint will reveal 12 titles throughout the year and unveil its first license at a later date.
Sources: Crossed Hearts Official Twitter (2), Anime News Network
