New Manga Shout Out: 2/22/10 - 2/28/10

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. Not really much "new" manga, but a bunch of older mangas have been uploaded. 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: Shounen
Status: 4 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Sakaki Ayaka is a freshman girl with the ability to break things by using resonant vibrations. She's mostly been able to carry on with a normal high school life, though occasionally things happen around her that make people think she's kind of weird. Lately, though, she's started hearing voices!

The voice in her head, belonging to a legendary giant tuning fork that wants to aid her, tells her of the incredibly powerful Keymaster, and that with some practice she could be very powerful herself! In some way, her new teacher appears to be mixed up this as well. What kind of situation has Ayaka been dragged into? And with all this going on, will she be able to keep her classmates from deciding that she's completely insane?

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

Satsuki Kakeru lost his sister by suicide and has been living a dull life ever since then. One day, he is transported into a bizarre world "Red Night" along with his friend Minase Yuka. In order to survive and escape from Red Night, he fights against Dark Spirits (Ralva) and Black Nights.

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

A collection of 6 Western-style science fiction stories. The topics range from space travel, to aliens, to cave men, to danger under the sea.　For example, the first story, Aphrodite Inferno, features a team of astronauts going to find out what went wrong with a manned mining operation on Venus that has gone mysteriously silent.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Mochidzuki Renta is an aspiring college student, trying to support himself while studying for the entrance exam of his preferred school. He's started renting the spare room in the Hanano bath house. What this means is that he's living with the sweet, hardworking, innocent, and quite beautiful Bandai Sakurako, who runs the bathhouse.

They are growing to like each other more and more, but one thing could potentially sabotage their budding romance. Every other woman Renta meets, even his college entrance cram school teacher, seems desperate to get in his pants. And Renta meets a fair amount of women, since the girls from the dorm of the nearby nursing school often come to the bathhouse. Will Renta be able to deflect the unwanted attentions of all those women in order to pursue a relationship with Sakurako?

Warning: graphic sexual content

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.


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

A 10 page one-shot from the Houkago Play author. A sensual encounter involving two people, ice cream, and a blindfold.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 2 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1 | Volume 2
Translations: None
Scanlations: Not on MH (chapter 01 Scanlated on 06/12/07)

After establishing contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, it was found that humans were the only race to develop various sports. The number of alien sports fans grew dramatically, and the most fanatic of them regularly harass stadiums by taking part in a game, or by demanding a good show, etc. Finally, a treaty was settled, ruling all interferences towards other planets' cultures illegal. Rabbit Force, a group of rabbit-themed henshin girls, became responsible for enforcing the treaty and capturing any offenders.

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

Based on a popular otome game, Hakuouki follows Chizuru and the Shinsengumi in an alternate reality. Chizuru travels to Kyoto in search of her missing father but after being involved in an incident, ended up being taken in by the Shinsengumi where she meets the members including the famous Hijikata Toshizou and Okita Souji. Chizuru’s father was conducting government research for strengthening the Shinsengumi and developed the ochimizu. The ochimizu is a formula that gives demon like strength and regeneration effects but once taken, the user experiences extreme pain and eventually turns into a blood hungry monster.

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

In order to combat a deadly virus, an implant was made that is transplanted into a human being's nervous system. Unfortunately, this implant technology was also used by the less scrupulous to create human weapons, blood-red eyed creatures referred to as "Roido". To cope with this threat the defense agency has created the Karakuri unit, an elite unit whose human members are monitored by small talking animals. As Kiru the karakuri goes to visit his friends Koten and Koron while on leave, he's going to learn that there are no days off against the Roido!

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

Serialization of the one-shot Kiben Gakuha, Yotsuya Sensei no Kaidan.

In the midst of a female-kidnapping serial killer incident, Makoto's best friend Hinano has vanished completely. Desperate to find her before it's too late, Makoto will try anything-- even invoking the resident phantom student of her middle school, Yotsuya-sempai!

Surprisingly, Yotsuya-sempai appears to be an actual person. He's obsessed with creating the scariest stories ever, using the people and situations in Makoto's middle school to stage them. Though Yotsuya is mostly just interested making scary stories, Makoto finds that his stories tend to contain a kernel of truth and that they can reveal their terrible truth in the telling. But as Makoto helps Yotsuya stage his tales, can she convince him to tell the story of the whereabouts of her best friend?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Deronga Five Alpha is a dying unstable planet which according to studies, used to be a very lush planet with all kinds of different species. The current state of the planet is a horrifying place where viscous carnivorous creatures fight in the “survival of the fittest.”

Captain Bagures, the leader of the research spacecraft is a cold and cruel woman who despite the warnings, unnecessarily send a military team down to the planet for research. The end result was a catastrophe with the team being slaughtered by the creatures on the planet. The leader of the team named Cannon, vows vengeance on Bagures before seemingly dying.

Jump to 20 years later, a spaceship comes near Deronga Five Alpha to see the last of the planet. As the planet explodes, a foreign object attaches itself onto the spaceship. As nothing can survive a planetary explosion, the crew investigates the object only to find out it is one of the creatures from the planet Deronga. As the story progresses, the creature goes into a rage after seeing Bagures, now an extremely important person in the military, on the monitor screen. Could this creature be Cannon and how do you stop something that can withstand a planetary explosion?

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

What exactly is love? Or to put it another way, what causes someone to decide that they prefer one person over everyone else? Mishima Rika, a curious high school girl, just doesn't understand the concept, and her boy-crazy big sister is little help.

The boy who sits next to her at school, Kagawa Michiya, is wildly popular with the ladies, so Rika decides to ask him about it. Shockingly, he's also never really liked someone romantically! Together, they begin to hang out more and more, talking about love and other questions that weigh down the introspective Rika's mind. But what exactly does it signify when they suddenly feel awkward around each other, or fall into a blushing silence? Will these two love-blind teenagers be able to finally figure themselves out?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Join the exciting high school life of Kunika, Ryoko, and Yuki! These three girls sit next to each other in school and have become inseparable friends, despite how different they all are. Kunika is a melodramatic, overly idealistic romantic who wants to fall in love and have a boyfriend more than anything! In constrast, boy-hating Ryoko brings her tough, realistic and level-headed attitude to the friendship. Last of all, Yuki is the heart of the group, and tries hard both to be liked by everyone and to help everyone get along. Will their friendship stay strong through all the misunderstandings and troubles that arise as Kunika chases after her countless Mr. Not-Quite-Rights?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Josei
Status: 6 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

The beautiful and strong 19-year-old Ginko (銀子） was the leader of the Gubijin Yokohama ladie's motorcycle gang. Now she's given all that up to get married to the man she loves and have a child. It's going to be hard, going from being a violent gang leader to a gentle and retiring housewife. Will Ginko be able to resist the temptations to go back to her old ways, even if she hears Gubijin needs her? For that matter, will she be able to meet the very different kinds of challenges she will face in her new life as a wife and mother?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

A young high school couple out on a date saw what looked like a falling meteorite, and inside, they discovered a little baby girl! The two of them married and adopted the girl, who they named Morumo, as their own. The only problem with this feel-good story is that now, as a high school freshman, Morumo is 16.4 meters tall!

Morumo still has a pretty happy life. She's popular with locals and tourists alike, and she goes to school everyday with her childhood friend Miharu. Then one day, a mad scientist, who specializes in experimenting on young ladies, injects Morumo with a serum that reduces her to 1/10 of her normal size. Her weight remains the same, so she is super-dense and tough like a superhero. Suddenly, it seems like all the joys of an ordinary life are within her grasp!! Sadly, the serum's effects are temporary and soon Morumo returns to her giant state.

But now that she knows a normal life is possible, Morumo is not going to give up! Even if it means she and Miharu have to allow a mad scientist to experiment on her, surely the ends will be worth the means!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 7 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1-7
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Munakata is an anthropology professor that studies the relationship between folklore or fairytales and real historical events. He believes that many of these stories that people believed to be made up, are actually based on real events that happened. This manga tells the story of Professor Munakata as he follows the clues left from both the imaginary world of fairytales and the real world historical evidence.

This manga is highly educational and entertaining at the same time. The connections between the history of the land and the implications it has on the fairytales are extremely intriguing. It is a breath of fresh air if all you read are the typical genres and want some diversity.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

A retelling of the story of Mai-Hime. Tokiha Mai is entering a new school, and getting a part-time job to pay for her sick little brother Takumi's medical care. But what she doesn't know is that girls called HIME are gathered here, and that she is one of them. HIMEs fight alongside their summoned "Child", but as they fight, they risk the person that matters to them the most. If a "Child" is defeated, that most important person will also be lost.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Rising water levels have destroyed the entire world, except for a single remaining living country, 大日本帝国, the Great Japanese Empire. This country exists due to a new and terrible type of power, Ishiryoku, which costs human lives. This country, and therefore the world, is dominated by the resulting powerful, mass-murdering, self-styled Gods. When the young girl Himorogi Mana becomes targeted by these Gods, her father uses the final moments of his life to acquire for her a powerful protector named "Oboro". Will Oboro, and the other companions the two of them will find along the way, be able to preserve Mana's life?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Josei
Status: One-shot (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: One-shot
Translations: One-shot (lucifell)
Scanlations: One-shot (Paranoiac Scanlations)

A 12 page one-shot from the author of Houkago Play. A male homosexual couple cuddles and fools around in bed, while talking about their relationship.

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: None
Scanlations: None

Kumagaya Koji recently moved alone to Tokyo to study for the entrance exam to one of the most prestigious high schools. However, Koji is neither smart nor stupid, just an average teenager. As the exam date approaches, he gets frustrated and has no confidence that he will pass the exam. Then, a beautiful woman, Sasakura Sakura, who claims to be a tutor hired by his mother, comes to his apartment and Koji is instantly attracted to her. After cramming for the test with Sakura, Koji goes to the exam location only to find out the teacher is Sakura. Koji passes the exam and is accepted to the high school. How will the hormone raging Koji deal with Sakura who is not only his teacher but his personal tutor? Will he be able to get “1 on 1” time with Sakura?

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Shoujo
Status: 8 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1-8
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Best friends Shinjou Masaki and Kusakabe Junya are about to become entangled in a story that is rooted in an ancient forgotten civilization. Junya has not been acting like himself since his parents disappeared half a year ago. He's started spending more and more time with an upperclassman, Tachibana, and he has not confided in Masaki at all. What could have happened that night that so changed Junya, and why is he pulling away from Masaki?

Masaki does not have a lot of time to worry about Junya, since he has problems of his own. During a blizzard, on their school's ski trip, Masaki is pulled by a monstrous woman named Medusa into a mysterious cave he has often visited in dreams. Here she tells him that his soul is required to resurrect the Demon Lord Dante. Will Masaki become the demon lord, or are his human feelings and memories strong enough for him to remain Masaki?

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: None
Scanlations: None

Stardust Memories is a short story compilation of human beings in the distant future where we have traveled deep into space. Each story describes a moral dilemma that people traveling in space may experience which is something that we have yet to determine in the current world.

Stardust Memories talk about such problems as the implications of having people travel for years, even decades, in the cold, quiet and endless universe. A different story tells on how human presence in a foreign galaxy will affect the environment. The topics the author decides to write about are interesting and makes you wonder of the future.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

The Temple of El Alamein is a compilation of World War II short stories from the perspective of the German military personnel. As the saying goes, the winner writes history and these stories are untold, unwritten part of history of WWII. Taking place between 1940 and 1945, when the war was at its most violent peak, each story takes place in a different part of the world where Germans were fighting.

One story takes place in Egypt where soldiers find an ancient ruin that prove the existence of dinosaurs that helped build the Great Pyramids. Another story tells how one German fighter jet was able to take down the B47 Stratojet 40,000 ft. in the air, way above what a fighter jet could achieve at the time.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Urushiba Rinka was a fairly normal high school girl, though she was a bit poor and her only family was her father. Then one day, she saw a penguin and some glowing fish swimming through the sky. Rinka might have thought it was a hallucination if there hadn't been another witness with her, a boy from her school with a strangely scratched-up face.

Contact with a fish caused her to pass out, and when she awoke, she had developed the power to move through inanimate objects... such as the floor of her apartment! Later, a call from her father showed her that she was not the only one the flying fish bestowed with hard-to-control superpowers! What exactly is going on here? And does Rinka's classmate know more about this situation than he's letting on?

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

After rescuing a small town from bandits, the expert swordsman Rai finds himself wanting to stay in one place for the first time in his life. He remains as the town's protector, teaching swordplay to a kid named Saramu and being cared for by Saramu's pretty older sister, Rimu. But with the town constantly under threat, will Rai be able to preserve this peaceful life he has found? Or, will he find himself falling back to being a swordsman who thinks of nothing but killing his enemies?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
There were lots of mangas this week, and they're all really different from one another. These are a few that stood out to me. I think Tokyo ESP could turn out to be really good, it was probably my favorite, story-wise, out of this set. Oboro stood out by having the weirdest art/formatting/writing style. Also, I think it has some Lovecraftian influences, though I could be wrong. Morumo 1/10 was a pretty cute story, sort of superman-esque but with a teenage girl. Yotsuya-sempai was entertaining, and I would be curious to find out what happened to her best friend. Mama wa MotoSouchou felt kind of like the female version of those mangas with a yakuza/gangster guy who turns into a family man ( like Salaryman Kintaro, I think it was called). Finally, Shin Maou Dante started off really slow, but it got pretty exciting by the end of the first volume (and to warn yaoi fans, as far as I have read the 'mature' tag is for violence, not sexual content.)

I know Karukuri is going to be scanlated the fastest due to the fact that it's from the mangaka of Naruto. As for the rest, 11eyes has really nice art. I'll check out another Shinsengumi manga, Hakuouki. I'll probably check out Kiben Gakuha, Yotsuya Sempai no Kaidan since it's from Jump and it looks a bit horror-ish. Tokyo ESP is also another manga on my 'to watch' list. The premise sounds interesting and the art is nothing to sneeze at. I also think the tribute manga Trigun Tribute - Raijin (Rising) will also get scanlated quickly due to the popularity of the manga Trigun...


Translated items that need some love/scanlation:
Wolsok - Baka to Test to Shoukanjyuu Dya: Chapter 1 (Needs TLC/PR)
xdeathcat - Cloth Weaver: Chapter 1 (Needs TLC/PR)
neocarbunkle - Gu-Pan!: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 (Needs TLC/PR)
fevrier - Smargs won't Sing: One-shot (Needs TLC/PR)
maccha - Anne-chan Tarou: One-shot (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: comedy sci-fi one-shot HACO, school life comedy Lock On!, fantasy God Seeker, and gender bender comedy The Idolmaster Dearly Stars: Neue Green.