New Manga Shout Out: 11/9/09 - 11/15/09

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. Check out this week's manga, and remember, if you like any of the series, 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: Seinen
Status: 1 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Tasuke is a novice artist who's gotten himself into a bit of trouble with debt. When it looks like that trouble is going to cost him his life, he cries out to the gods to save him! In response, he acquires a supernatural paintbrush/girl in a sailor outfit. Will Tasuke be able to handle the bizarre turn his life has taken?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Ill-at-ease from moving to the countryside village of Sakura for his father's job, high school student Mikatsuki Nakaba happens to encounter a small buddha statue at the roadside during a storm. As he takes the chance to give a small prayer that he'll be allowed to return to the city soon, the boulder above the buddha's shrine comes loose. Suddenly, a tiny little girl comes out of nowhere and kicks the rocks away. Her name is Sakura Amane, and she turns out to be his senior at the high school he attends. There is something not quite human about little Sakura Amane. Will meeting her change his new life in the countryside?

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

This is the continuing story of Kenichi, a high school boy who uses the alchemical power of "Brocken Blood" to transform into a magical heroine and fight against evil alchemy. Kenichi's female persona is the hot idol Sakurako Neuschwanstein, a member of the Kash Mash Trio (the other two "girls" are also gender-bending magic heroines). The three of them are filming a movie as a cover for checking out a mysterious situation that could call for alchemical assistance.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shoujo
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None
Translations: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
Scanlations: Chapter 1 (Ashitaka x Taiyou)

Kashima Ryuuichi and his baby brother Kotarou lose their parents in a plane accident. A mysterious benefactor who lost her son and his wife in the same accident offers to take them in, but after arriving at the school where this benefactor is chairman, Ryuuichi is dropped into the school's day care and told to form a babysitters club to look after the children of the school's teachers.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: One-shot (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: One-shot
Translations: One-shot (shadow-skill)
Scanlations: None on MH

"..gokko" (make-believe) is about a brother and sister in a taboo sexual relationship... or is it? Children aren't the only ones who play "let's pretend"!

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

In a small village, there is a legend about a person born from a sakura tree one thousand years ago. Though she appeared human in form, she could not understand love, and was therefore cruel. She was eventually destroyed. Now, the mythical Sakura tree is going to attempt to create human life once again. This time it is up to two high school students, the incredibly handsome Tasuku and the love-allergic girl Honomi, to teach the Sakura Child about love.

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

Mitsuya is a third year high school student who's studying for his exams. Noko, a girl two years younger than him, is his childhood friend. "Nomino" (Know Me Now) shows their relationship as they go about their everyday lives.

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

The year is 1560 -- the Sengoku Era. The boy Asahi, who makes a living by hunting samurai deserters with his unnaturally strong hearing, strives to one day serve as a shinobi under the "War God" Nagao Kagetora, whose words moved him as a child. A tale of life during wartime ...

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 3 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

The "Time Loss Phenomenon," causes all living beings on Earth to be temporarily turned into statues. During Time Loss, only certain humans -- "Recievers" -- can remain active, and they witness the terrible reality of what's happening: otherworldly monsters are attempting to breach the human dimension.

First year middle school student Futaba Sorano and her friend are in the middle of a tennis match when all of a sudden a fish-like monster appears out of the sky. At the same time, everyone around Sorano turns into stone, and then are transformed into monsters. While being chased by these monsters, a mysterious boy named Riu appears, and explains that it is up to her, and the other "Receivers", to use their strange new powers to save the earth from these intruders. Sorano and her fellow Receivers' epic battle to save the earth has begun!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

The story of Steins;Gate takes place in Akihabara and is about a group of friends who have managed to customize their microwave into a device that can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 1 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1
Translations: Chapter 1 (shadow-skill || Chapter 1 (boke)
Scanlations: Chapter 1 (Teaparty)

In recent years, more and more girls are experiencing the development of "tertiary sexual characteristics" during the later years of their puberty -- that is, the rapid masculinization of a certain part of their external genitalia. Ooi Haruka is one such girl, who has until now kept the changes in her body a secret from everyone but her family. However, after an embarassing incident involving the guy she's been crushing on in a crowded train, she wakes up to discover herself at school, surrounded by a group of students calling themselves the "Bra Girls (Swing Girls)." And they know her secret!?

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

Taki Kanon and Nakamori Ryou met through a piano in their first year of high school. Nakamori played video game songs beautifully, while Taki's talent lay in piano tuning. They were in the same class, and they spent a lot of time together at a piano. But shyness and misunderstanding plagued the formation of a more serious relationship. Over the years, will they be able to find a way to make the paths of their lives finally converge?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Here's what Tethysdust says about this week:
I liked Zettai Donkan, it was a really sweet love story. A lot of the other stories (like Ama no Nadeshiko, Sora no Kanata no, 99, Love Allergen...) were significantly more high-energy and chaotic than I've seen in recent weeks. Nokizaru stands out for (unless something else is added) being the only samurai/fighting type manga of this set, and for, in my opinion, having pretty terrific art.
Since Tethysdust says that Zettai Donkon is a love story, I'd definitely want to read that. As for the other manga, Nokizaru looks interesting as well as Stein;Gate, but Tethysdust said that it hasn't yet actually explained anything in the summary within the first chapter. Be wary of content questionable to some in Bra Girl/Swing Girl (futanari/hermaphrodite), and 99 is from the mangaka that brought you Amaenaideyo and Amaenaideyo MS so expect lots of fanservice.

Translated items that need some love/scanlation:
Elkin - Jio to Ougon to Kinjirareta Mahou: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
ChibiAkaii - Tokyo Toy Box: Chapter 1 (ask permission) Scanlated by imangascans
ChibiAkaii - Mission School: Chapter 1 (ask permission)

If you haven't done so already, check out the new scanlations for Negative Twin Tower, Yu-Yuru Executive Office and horror manga Ibitsu, which came out this past week.