Dallas-based localization company Local Manga announced on Monday that it is no longer able to release a localization of ri-ru-‘s Prince Noir manga due to “legal barriers” beyond their control.
Local Manga announced Prince Noir alongside ru-ri-‘s The Perfect Son as its first two licenses, both originally slated for an early 2021 release.
Hepburn previously confirmed with ANN that Local Manga was founded in Texas in summer 2018 “as a boutique localization company specializing in Boys’ Love manga.”
Local Manga representative Christopher Hepburn cited that the company is “not able to justify” localizing the manga, citing U.S. federal obscenity law, specifically 18 U.S. Code § 1466A.