New Manga Shout Out: 9/21/09 - 9/27/09

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. If you like any of the series, remember to favorite them. Don't forget to also thank the various translators, raw uploaders/scanners and scanlators who feed your manga addiction. ^_^ Translators and Scanlators, please check out these series and see if you can spread some more manga love~

We're still looking for people who know Japanese and want to help write summaries for our manga database and for the shout out. Please PM me if you want to help out. Now onto the series~


Demographics: Shoujo
Status: 1 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

The world is becoming warped and overrun by demons. Standing against this tide are the natural enemy of the demons, the 'Onmyoukidou'. Abe is a hard-working, good-natured onmyoukidou of the under-staffed second division defense against the demons. He's relieved to hear that new staff have been assigned to his team, but less so when he meets the rude and violent Yomi and her silent ninja-like partner. Together they must find a way to defend the city from the demons, and to show up the vastly more popular and highly supported first division team.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 1 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1
Translations: Story 1 | Story 7 (boke)
Scanlations: None

A collection of one shot stories from Takako Shimura, the author of Hourou Musuko and Sweet Blue Flowers. These stories deal with issues relating to gender, romance, ideals of beauty, and relationships with parents.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: One-shot (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Do you have some shameful experience that you wish you could get rid of? That's what the Hajikeshi store can do for its clients. Shinzou is thrilled when his friend Ryouko shows him the new store, since he's been humiliating himself in front of the girl he likes for ages! Maybe, with the help of Hajikeshi, he can erase all those shameful memories from the earth and finally get the girl. But then again, maybe his life is not quite as simple as he thinks.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 1 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Joey wants to be a hero, but he's just an orphan who works day and night to take care of himself and his grandmother. After seeing a commercial for a toy robot, he desperately wants one, thinking the robot will give him the strength to change. The only one he can afford, though, is a broken one a rich school bully threw in the trash. When Rina, a pretty cheerleader who's always been nice to him, is kidnapped, will Joey and his toy robot be able to become heros and rescue her?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 1 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Tokyo has been reduced to rubble, and the paralyzed government is slowly reforming elsewhere. Unable to cope with the disaster during its reformation, the government simply put up a blockade around Tokyo and left the survivors to cope with the violent and lawless society forming within the borders. These are the stories of those survivors. Some of them want to cross the border and find their way back to civilization, but some simply want to live as they like within the anarchy of the ruins of Tokyo.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 1 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1
Translations: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 (boke)
Scanlations: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 (Stupid Group Name)

Sadashima fell in love with a handsome sempai while she was in high school, but didn't have the guts to tell him before he graduated and moved away. When Sadashima graduates the next year, she follows her sempai, Shirahai, to Tokyo and manages to move in next door. She totally believes that the two of them can now hook up, and can't wait to knock on his door to 'coincidentally" find themselves neighbors.

She's flabbergasted to find a woman answering Shirahai's door, and then blown away to find out the woman is Shirahai! He's had a sex change!

Typical apartment love-comedy, with the standard assortment of perverted and batshit neighbors.

Thanks go to boke for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 1 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

This manga tells the stories of a group of college-age friends. These stories include their school problems, such as an art student who has issues with his work or a researcher who clashes with faculty, in addition to their successes and failures in romantic relationships.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Another slow week. I don't have much to say about this week's batch of manga, so here's some comments from tethysdust:
There seems to be a lot that were more like short stories this week... Kyoukai Sensen and Yume no Atogaki were basically a collection of stories about a group of people. (And of course Boku wa Onna no Ko was just a collection of completely unrelated stories).
Kyoukai Sensen was actually not really a fighting manga, despite the fact I've often seen that kind of premise most often used for fighting mangas. It was a lot more of a drama piece.
Heroman seemed like it was written for elementary school boys.
Aratama Tribe was interesting, and had lots of action. It seemed more like a shounen than a shoujo to me.
Yume no Atogaki: very realistic, just everyday life stories.
Anyway, if you're looking for something to scanlate, new translator brianma has translated the shoujo manga Ai Kara Hajimaru from last week so give them a warm welcome. Also, no one has scanlated the Rico one-shot despite it being translated by 2 translators so check out the translations from AyameForPresident and Meriken and give them a nice thanks for their translations.