New Manga Shout Out: 9/28/09 - 10/11/09

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. This "week" there's not much, but 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 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Himeno's chest will hurt if any boy touches her because she has the diamond of the heart. However, when she was young, she befriended two boys -- the gentle Mamoru and the blunt Keigo -- who are able to touch her without harming her. Without knowing about the diamond of the heart, both Mamoru and Keigo promised to protect Himeno. When some people threaten to take Himeno's heart, who else will protect her but her knights?

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

This chapter of the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni series, called the "Mahjong" chapter, is related to a "dramatic mahjong" game being released for the PSP in November 2009. This time, Keiichi (a boy who moved to the small village of Hinamizawa), finds himself drawn into a special mahjong course at his school.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Roots of A is essentially a manga short featuring Akiyama during his senior year of college. In it, Akiyama and four of his classmates are taking a criminal psychology course and given an assignment where they must construct a profile of a person based on a letter they sent. This outcome of the assignment, plus what the professor says afterwards, is what prompts Akiyama to enter grad-school and continue to study psychology.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 1 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1
Translations: Chapter 1 (cnet128) | Chapter 1 (lucifell)
Scanlations: Chapter 1 (imangascans)

Not particularly good at sports, not very popular, and not very good at school, Naoki's middle school years are filled with video games and erotic books. But one day, a cute girl called Iroha appears, claiming to be his daughter from 20 years in the future. Apparently, in the future magic has been discovered, and she has come back in time by magic to protect her beloved papa from a dark future.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Set in a fictitious land during a medieval-like era of magic and fantasy, Tears to Tiara unfolds with the Divine Empire’s rise to power as it conquers and rules lands far and wide. On the island of Erin, still ruled by the Ancient Kingdom, the Goidelic people are attempting to sacrifice priestess Riannon to revive protagonist and demon king Arawn to lead the resistance against the Empire. Although the ritual fails and Riannon survives, the seal imprisoning the demon king is broken and Arawn is resurrected. Armed with mysterious and devastating powers and a human’s demeanour, Arawn joins Riannon, her brother and battalion commander, Arthur, as well as their team of fighters comprising a swordsman, an archer and a quintet of magical pixies, in the epic struggle against the Divine Empire.

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Another slow 2 weeks. However, I would really love love LOVE if someone would translate/scanlate Mahou no Iroha, which is done by the mangaka of Ai Kora and Midori no Hibi. I'm also going to check out Liar Game - Roots of A since I like Liar Game. Check it out if you like a nice psychological series, although you might be turned off a bit by the art. If you like shoujo, be sure to check out Diamond of Heart.

In scanlation news, once again 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. Why is it not getting any love? >_< Two stories of Boku wa Onna no Ko which was translated by boke have yet to scanlated, and the first chapter of Jio to Ougon to Kinjirareta Mahou was translated by Elkin in hopes of a translator picking up this series. Previous shout-out, Sanjin Sadou has been translated by new translator livyatan and prolific new translator Lucifell has caught up and translated the first 4 chapters of Upotte!. Check out the scanlation of Love Zero, which was also translated by him and which just had its first chapter scanlated.