New Manga Shout Out: 1/18/10 - 1/24/10

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. Not much new manga have been added. but quite a few 'oldies' have been, but regardless of that I hope you like at least one of them~ 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: One-shot (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Jose has moved from his job catching maguro on the sea, to a job mining for a hot spring inside a mountain. Both of them are harsh jobs, with violent masked overseers ready to punish any wrong. Will Jose be able to endure with the other workers in the hope for happiness after striking it big?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 4 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Christie is Sherlock Holmes' precocious niece. She lives in a beautiful home with her maids and her giant dog Nelson, who look after her in the absence of her parents. Her maids include the proper Annemarie and the unrefined, uneducated Nora, whose skill with her "Snake Tongue" whip occasionally comes in handy. Though Christie hates studying, she loves using logic to solve mysteries, and so she often ends up helping her uncle and Dr. Watson solve their cases!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 7 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volumes 1-7
Translations: None
Scanlations: Scanlated up to v02 c16 (Not on MH)

Teacher Hisoka wakes up to find that he has died and is now inhabiting the body of the student he tried to save. This is due to the interference of a monk, who informs him that he cannot tell anyone who he really is or the bond between him and his "new" body will break and he will die for real. Hisoka chooses to retain his memories despite the monk's warning that it will cause trouble....No doubt it will, since Hisoka is the type who cannot pass someone in trouble without trying to help!

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

On Kimura Yuusuke's first day of high school, he finds himself run over by a cute girl on a bike named Yukari. In the handkerchief she gives him in apology, he finds a spare 10-yen coin. As he's carelessly wishing he could get to know Yukari better, a magical 10-yen coin fairy able to grant his wishes suddenly appears from the coin! At least, she claims that she can... but will her 10-yen magic do more harm than good? Chaos ensues in this eccentric comedy of love and magic.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

The main character is a scientific genius boy named Kiteretsu, who has built a companion robot named Korosuke. He frequently travels in time with his friends and Korosuke in the time machine he built. Miyoko is a girl in his neighborhood who is basically his girlfriend. Tongari is his rival, who happen to share some similar traits of Honekawa Suneo. Buta Gorilla (Kumada Kaoru) is a typical neighborhood bully, who also share similar traits of Gian (Takeshi Goda) except that he often antagonizes Korosuke (though they are in grade school).

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 24 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Oohara Mantarou is a low-paid office worker who is also a connoisseur of food. While running low on money one day, he decides to try his hand at being a "gourmet fighter". He takes a challenge to eat a certain number of bowls of food in a set time limit, where, if he succeeds, he'll get the food for free in addition to a cash prize. In the process, he manages to catch the eye of a professional food fighting scout. Does Mantarou have what it takes to become a professional gourmet fighter?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 1 Volume (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapters 1-17
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

The three worlds in this universe are Genjitsukai, the Human World, Mugenkai, the Dream World ruled by Valia, and Ankokukai, the Dark World ruled by Rogles. Rogles and his 5 dark lords are trying to take over the other two worlds, and have stolen a source of "light" power from Valia. Valia has responded by summoning a "Valis Warrior", who uses the power of the light within her, from the human world.

This Valis warrior is Yuko, who was an ordinary high school girl until she was pulled into Mugenkai. It's up to her to find a way to defeat the evil Rogles and retrieve the stolen power sources. But she has more than Rogles and his underlings to deal with, because Rogles has acquired a warrior of his own. This "Vecanta Warrior", who wields power by the darkness within her, is Reiko, Yuko's friend from the human world. But Reiko is not acting like herself, and seems to view Yuko as only an enemy. Will Yuko be able to both stop Rogles and find a way to return Reiko to the way she was before? Or will she have to seriously fight her friend?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Kooru and her parents are moving from Tokyo to a carefully restricted, mysterious island called Mugen. Lots of things are different in Mugen, from the language the people speak (luckily Kooru has a translating machine), to the copious amounts of natural wildlife. Kooru is an outsider in school, as well, as all of the other children were born on the island. Will Kooru be able to adapt to her new lifestyle on Mugen?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 7 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volumes 1-7
Translations: None
Scanlations: Scanlated up to v3 c21 (Not on MH)

It's about a guy named Yuuji, who loves to play rugby. One day he just up and dies, in the middle of a Rugby match. His spirit is unable to rest because his team has never gotten a try. So what does he do? Take over someone else's body to accomplish this goal. But... the body turns out to be a girl's!

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Demographics: Seinen
Status:2 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1 | Volume 2
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Hayakawa Seitarou, fresh out of college, is approaching his first teaching job with great enthusiasm. He's working at an all girls high school, teaching a special class that only has 8 students. To his surprise, they're all older than him! His class consists of women who, for various reasons, dropped out of high school and are now trying to get their diplomas.

With his inexperience at life and at teaching, it's might be difficult to get them to take him seriously. But how can he successfully guide these old "high schoolers" to finally graduate, if he lacks the confidence to establish his credibility as their teacher? He's going to have to find a way to do both, or his employment won't last past the year!

Thanks go to tethysdust 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

Though she may seem to be a normal middle school girl, after classes Rabuka is the assistant to the excitable zoologist Seaton. The childlike Seaton is often either enthusiastically searching for rare or new species, or creating new species himself! It's up to Rabuka to keep things from getting out of hand!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Josei
Status: 4 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

This is a 4-koma manga about the everyday lives of the students and teachers involved with the Todoroki High School Book Committee, which takes care of the school's library. There are many quirky students in the committee, including the gamer girl Rin, an honor student who's a closet yaoi otaku, Chouko, and the taciturn, scary Kuniya, who's actually an incredibly kind boy with a strange sword-wielding servant. The staff has it's share of abnormality as well, with the mysterious English teacher Mr. Kudo, and the beautiful librarian from a life of passion, Aoi.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Behind a moving staircase in an old Tokyo book shop lies the secret room of the City Jackers. This elite band of Tokyo detectives, backed by the powerful Oudou group, includes three remarkable kids. There's Jacky, a bishounen with a tongue like a chameleon, the pretty, but money-loving Maureen, and the fat Popeye, who loves writing haikus. The three of them work together to solve mysteries assigned to them by "Queen", a girl who contacts them via a video screen.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 8 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1-8
Translations: None
Scanlations: Chapter 1 (Red Hawk Scanlations)

In the nooks and crannies of the city, in the forgotten corners of rooms, insects are posing a growing threat! Where there are bugs, there is one girl!! Her name is Inaho, and when it comes to bugs, this high school girl can solve any problem.

Thanks go to hermux for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
I like Otona no Seito Techou. It's actually not a harem/ecchi type story, despite the set-up. There are 2 detective mangas, Tokyo Detectives and Christie High Tension. I enjoyed Tokyo Detectives more, of the two. Christie seemed sort of like a Mary-Sue insertion into Sherlock Holmes. Baibow was pretty cool, very strange art. Of the ones I haven't read, Vector Case File - Inaho no Konchuuki looks the most interesting, mostly because that seems like such a weird premise for a manga.
None of the mangas really seemed to pique my interest, although the art for Mugen-tou looks nice. I just hope that No Side and Hisoka Returns gets picked up for scanlation seeing that both projects are no longer being scanlated. I enjoyed reading what has been scanlated, but seeing that they both look older I highly doubt anyone will pick them up. -__-

Translated items that need some love/scanlation:
Katatonia - Kinnikuman Nisei: Kyūkyoku no Chōjin Tag Hen: Chapter 1 (Need TLC/Proofread)
Katatonia - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Chapter 1 (c1-6 done) (Need Proofreading)
Mr. Prince - Oumagadoki Doubutsuen: One-shot
Wolsok - Baka to Test to Shoukanjyuu Dya: Chapter 1 (Needs TLC/PR)

If you haven't done so already, check out the scanlations of the mangas from previous shout outs which have been recently scanlated: ecchi action series GODEATH, romantic shoujo Uta No Prince-sama and the ecchi, romantic, supernatural series Loose Relation between Wizard & Apprentice.