New Manga Shout Out: 5/3/09 - 5/12/09

If you haven't already checked out the previous article describing some newly started series, then please do so. Anyway, here's the next batch of newly started series that are all hosted on Mangahelpers. If you like any of them, remember to favorite them. Don't forget to also thank the various translators and raw uploaders/scanners. Translators and Scanlators, please check out these series and see if you can spread some more manga love~


Demographics: Seinen
Status: 1 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1
Translations: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 (Expel) | Chapter 1 (waxaph)
Scanlations: Chapter 1 (Eos Scans) | Chapter 1 (imangascans) | Chapter 2 (Crap Scans)

From the mangaka that brought you Hitohira comes a new romantic school comedy. Akira Azuma is a tall, attractive, but aloof Kusunoki High School freshman girl and all-around athlete. Hiyori Motohashi is a short Kusunoki freshman girl in the school's broadcasting club. While trying to set up coverage on Akira, Hiyori finds herself attracted to Akira's mysterious charm.

Girls love, anyone?

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
Translations: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 (shirokuro) | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 (cnet128)
Scanlations: Chapter 1 (Franky House) | Chapter 1 (OC Scans)

This world consists of two dimensions joined as one, like a mirror. The first is the world in which the humans live, Assiah. The other is the world of demons, Gehenna. Ordinarily, travel between the two, and indeed any kind of contact between the two, is impossible. However the demons can pass over into this world by possessing anything that exists within it.

Satan is the god of demons, but there's one thing that he doesn't have and that's a container in the human world that is powerful enough to hold him!!
For that purpose, he created Rin, his son from a human woman, but will his son agree to his plans, or will he become something else...? An exorcist?

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 1 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1
Translations: Chapter 1 (squirrellord)
Scanlations: Chapter 1 (Megchan's Scanlations)

New art and chapters for the revamped 10th anniversary edition of Azumanga Daioh.

(If you want to help write a summary for this, please PM me.)

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: One-shot (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: One-shot
Translations: One-shot (Expel)
Scanlations: One-shot (DBR)

A one-shot by the mangaka of Kekkaishi.

(If you know Japanese and want to help write a summary for this, please PM me.)

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

By the mangaka of Captain Tsubasa comes more soccer and Tsubasa. While most of the Golden Age struggled to win their ticket for the Madrid Olympics in the Asian preliminaries, a few of them playing overseas had their own fights... Find out what happens to the "giocatori" from the "land of the rising sun" in Italy, and most of all, the victory in the Serie C1, the promotion to the Serie B, the kick off of the direct confrontation between Hyuga Kojiro of AC Reggiana, and Aoi Shingo of FC Albese!!

~Thanks go to Shinji for the summary~

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 1 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1
Translations: Chapter 1 (shirokuro)
Scanlations: Chapter 1 (DBR)

Anyone care for some moe manga?

Sick of living with other people, Shishirou moves to a new place, but what does he find when he opens the door to his new apartment? A cute girl dressed in a slutty maid outfit chained up calling him master! What is he going to do with this weird girl?!

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Anyone care for some ecchi, school life comedy?

(If you know Japanese and want to help write a summary for this, please PM me.)

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
Translations: Chapter 1 (shrimpy)
Scanlations: Chapter 1 (Kakashi Guy)

From the mangaka of Ressentiment and Boys on the Run comes a new seinen manga series.

Some people live on the breaking edge of society. "Normal enough" to get by (mostly), and "weird enough" to not be able to live what most of us would consider a "normal" life. I am a Hero follows someone exactly in that situation.

Paranoia, obsessions and delusion are all tightly knit into a running monologue that snakes through the protagonist's life. This is what is must be like to live with a mental illness. Yet the story somehow manages to be compelling, because even as the "Hero" repels us with his delusions and the uncomfortable contents of his thoughts, it's logical and consistent in it's own fashion. It's that very logic and consistency that makes it both tragic and heroic.

And yet, the "Hero" continues on, giving us a uncomfortable, yet gripping look into his head as he tries to go about life, go to work, have some sex with his girlfriend.

The art work is a real bonus here - just as detailed and obsessive as the Hero himself. It has a very cinematic feel, as if the panels are more like stills from a movie interrupting slow tracking shots or hyper close ups.

Recommended for those of you interested in psychological stories and human drama.

Thanks go to Boke for the summary.
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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

An ecchi school comedy.
(If you know Japanese and want to help write a summary for this, please PM me.)

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 3 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

(If you know Japanese and want to help write a summary for this, please PM me.)

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: One-shot + 1 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: One-shot | Chapter 1
Translations: Chapter 1 (jamegg)
Scanlations: One-shot (CXC Scans) | Chapter 1 (imangascans)
Discuss: Here

Kurokami Medaka, a first year, is elected as Student Council President, and the first thing she does is establish a suggestion box. Since she was just elected as Student Council President, she's holding all the Student Council's responsibilities, and wearing their armbands. So she asks her childhood friend, Hitoyoshi Zenkichi, for help.

After filtering through the suggestions, which were mostly ridiculous complaints or congratulations on becoming president, they find out the Judo Club needs one more member to participate. So, Medaka volunteers her and Zenkichi, who have both been practicing Judo for years, to help train the club and borrow Zenkichi for the match.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 1 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1
Translations: Chapter 1 (Meriken)
Scanlations: Chapter 1 (Kakashi Guy)

From the mangaka of Cross Game, Katsu!, Touch and countless other manga, comes a new shounen sports series.
(If you want to help write a summary for this, please PM me.)

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Demographics: Josei
Status: 1 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1
Transcriptions: Chapter 1 (NymphStealer)
Translations: Chapter 1 (Himemo)
Scanlations: None

A fantasy series.
(If you know Japanese and want to help write a summary for this, please PM me.)

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

A 4koma (4 panel) manga.
(If you know Japanese and want to help write a summary for this, please PM me.)

Baka to Test to Shoukanjyuu, Kindaichi Case Files: The Murder of Inspector Kenmochi, Mana Biya, and O-Oku Cha-Ka-Pon! still don't have a translation and scan here on MH so please check out these series. ~