New Manga Shout Out: 3/1/10 - 3/7/10

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. Only two really new mangas started, 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: 14 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1-8
Translations: None
Scanlations: Not on MH - Scanlated up to v01 c15 on 2/12/04

Umihara Keita (18) works as a temp at a gaming magazine with his friends Takadono Yuuei and Sakura Mayuri, writing articles about the latest news in gaming. One day on his way to work, a little girl who looks to be 12 years old falls from the sky onto Keita. Finding it odd but brushing it off, he gets to work but finds out the little girl, who calls herself Torte is there waiting for him, calling him master. Torte is apparently a witch in training and as all witches do, they travel to the human world to complete their training to become a full fledged witch. No one believes Torte but when she performs comedic but none the less, real magic on the people at the office, Keita and his friends have no choice but to accept that she is a witch.

After finding out that Torte is really 3009 years old, the group of friends is introduced to Pudding, a witch friend of Torte who is also in training. She almost immediately accepts Keita’s best friend, Yuuei, as her new master. Suddenly with two witches in their lives, the group of friends has their lives turned upside down. Follow Carat Torte and the mess the witches get into in the human world.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Shoujo
Status: 7 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1-7
Translations: Volume 1 (maccha)
Scanlations: Chapter 1.1 (Monochrome Dreams)

At 12 years old, Kawai Youko is not yet an adult but no longer a child but too young to be called an adolescent yet. Aqua Age is a story about Youko in her “in between” stages of life. Through her many changes in life, including a new school, meeting new people, evolving relationship with friends, physical and emotional changes, Youko learns what it means to be a women.

Everyone was 12 at one point in their life and can relate to a lot of the obstacles Youko encounters, like how you start noticing the opposite sex even though you have known them for a long time or self realization and the need to fit in. Aqua Age is a great way to nostalgically look back at your own past and find the younger you.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

A manga based on the life of the notorious American outlaw Belle Starr (who lived from 1848-1889).　After a series of troubles have left her a "wanted" woman, she finds herself with a Cherokee protector called Sam Starr. Will she and Sam be able to survive as outlaws in the wild west?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 3 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

With her father being laid off recently, Maeda Sato recently moved to the country from Tokyo with her family. She witnesses a murder scene where a teenage boy takes the soul of another person. The police arrive to investigate but after learning “Gokurakumaru,” was behind it, the police quickly dismiss it. Still confused about the situation, Sato goes to her new school where she learns that the teenage boy who she thought was a murderer is her classmate.

She quickly learns that the boy Gokurakumaru Makoto is the 16th generation in a long family line of Gokurakumaru that travel between the living world and the dead world. People commit suicide because their soul is heavy with waste. The Gokurakumaru family helps those people by cleaning and wiping the slate on their soul clean. Gokurakumaru Makoto is now in training and must open a series of gates on the spirit side by completing missions. Now Sato must help Makoto become the new Gokurakumaru and help people in need!

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 5 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

An elite military unit conducts its duties alongside sabertooth tigers trained to assist their human masters.

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

A Byouma is a medical weapon created by ancient sorcerers to kill the infected or those around the infected and make it look like an illness. Even centuries after the sorcerers have died, these weapons still wander the world, infecting and killing people. Narutaki Soutaro and Izumo Momo are Shadow Doctors, trained to combat these Byouma through unorthodox means. Using magically created anti-Byouma medical equipment, they perform “operations” on the medical weapons to separate them from their hosts and destroy them. Will their special weapons and brilliant teamwork be enough to get rid of all the Byouma in the world?

Thanks go to vyc 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

Meguri comes from a poor family with many children. She longed for a place where she can call her own. Her meeting with Shingen, a heir monk of a temple who's being urged by his mother to get married soon, probably gave that chance. Falling for Shingen's charisma, the two got married, so it's probably happy ever after...

...except that Shingen dies in a traffic accident not long after that. Now with a dilemma involving the temple's inheritance arising, how will Meguri and those around her deal with the new circumstance? Will Meguri get to stay in her new home?

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

Kudou Yuusuke has to deal with the most annoying childhood friend in the world. She's Miyauchi Misao, and she wakes him up every morning, hangs all over him all the time, and generally follows him around like a loyal puppy. It's started to get a bit awkward now that they're in high school, and she's a bit more... womanly... than she was when they were children. Everyone at school just assumes they're dating, so it's killing Yuusuke's chances with the ladies.

One day Yuusuke has a shock waiting for him; Misao has gotten engaged! She says that she's set to be married in spring, but she seems comfortable hanging all over Yuusuke in the meantime. The unfamiliar jealousy that the news has awoken in Yuusuke has spurred him on to making his own plans. He's going to try to become popular, and get a girlfriend, before Misao gets married in the spring!

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 new one-shot from NINOMIYA Hikaru, the author of Honeymood Salad. Izumi Taeko is a strange high school girl. Rumor has it that she eats human flesh, her arms grow and her eyes glow in the dark. However the most troubling to the main character, the class representative, is the rumor that she sleeps with anyone for just 500 yen. In an attempt to find the truth, the class representative gets closer to Taeko, nick named “one coin” because of what she would do for one 500 yen coin. Are the rumors true about this high school girl?

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 4 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1-24
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Through middle school, best friends Miho Shirokawa and Miho Yoshii bowled together. But since Miho Yoshii has moved to a high school in Hokkaido, Miho Shirokawa just hasn't enjoyed bowling like she used to.

One day Yoshii calls to talk about her interest in a new sport-- curling! Yoshii's high school curling team has decided to try to make it into the next olympic winter games! Shirokawa thinks about quitting bowling and joining a curling team as well, but unfortunately, there isn't one at her high school. At least, there isn't until Shirokawa accidentally sells the idea to a former figure skater, Rin, and her friend Endou.

Before she realizes what's happening, Shirokawa's has become the founding leader of her school's Curling Club! How will she face all the difficulties of starting up the team, when she only has the vaguest idea of what the sport of curling is even about?!

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

New one-shot from the author of Houkago Play. Two female friends talk together about their sexual preferences and problems with their respective boyfriends.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Sanpei’s wife, Otsuu recently passed away and his son, Shirou, offers Sanpei to live at his place with his daughter-in-law, Reika, and granddaughter, Nona. Ever since Sanpei married Otsuu, she has taken care of him and Sanpei has never learned how to cook, clean and other household chores. After going through his late wife’s belongings, Sanpei finds a book that she was writing that records all the things she was doing for him. Things from recipes and how to do household chores to dealing with the family that he has never really connected with. Now with the help of the late Otsuu’s book, Sanpei learns how to do all the things she did for him and start making connections with the closest family members he has.

Most readers might not be able to directly understand Sanpei’s struggles of losing a wife after so many decades. However, you may have a grandparent that experienced that kind of tragedy and Sansanroku will help you put yourself in their shoes. A very heartwarming manga that I recommend you to give it a try.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

NAGAI Junpei, a high school freshman, wakes up one day to find all of humanity in a deep sleep. In a free world, overflowing with desires, his strange survival days begin.

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

Imagine living in a town where supernatural beings stalk the night for their next prey. Toukei Ibun takes place 29 years since Tokyo was established as the capital of Japan. Manzou is the owner of an inn in the town of Asakusa. His friend, Hirakawa is a journalist who is investigating the bizarre crimes occurring at night in Asakusa.

One mystery revolves around a beautiful women slasher who stalks and murders lone people in the night. Witnesses describe a black fox near every crime scene. Another mystery involves a figure engulfed in flames murdering people, only leaving traces of ashes on the victim. Hirakawa enlists the help of Manzou to investigate the bizarre cases. The only connection between all the occurrences is that it takes place at night and that it is not stopping. How will these two men be able to find the truth and stop these supernatural events?

Thanks go to vyc 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

Meet Ririko and her talking cat – for whom every single little thing is an action-adventure!

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 5 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Son Goku and Usagi Kozou were the two of the most feared creatures in the Underworld for their strength and ruthlessness. They ruled all the creatures in the Underworld through brute force and magic, wrecking havoc on the Surface World. The Heavens banished them forever by trapping them inside a boulder and it has been 500 years since they were heard from again.

A women monk, on a mission to warn the king of the Surface World of a grave danger approaching enlists the help of Son Goku and destroys the boulder binding him. Similarly, a passing “martial artist in training” girl named Eilin unintentionally frees Usagi Kozou from the boulder as well. Eilin has a dark secret: she was born from a dragon god impregnating a human woman and because of that, Eilin has a dragon tattoo on her body. Through a turn of events, Son Goku, Usagi Kozou and Eilin are required to deliver the monk’s message to the Surface World’s capital, Tenjiku, where there is now a dark aura surrounding the city that not even the mighty Heavens can see through. What is this dark energy that not even the powerful Heavens can break and how is Eilin’s relationship with a dragon god going to affect the adventure?

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
Not really much to comment on this week. Orange Delivery, the curling one, was pretty fun.
Not much interested me this time. Only Imperial Guards (saber-tooth tigers?), Kaitaishinsho ZERO (pretty art), Only One (curious what'll happen), and Sansanroku (poor grandpa ;_;)... I'm guessing Mote ne!? will probably be picked up since it's by Amazume Ryuta and he's pretty popular...

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 | Chapter 3 (Needs TLC/PR)
fevrier - Smargs won't Sing: 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, shoujo romantic drama Kare no Ondo, romantic comedy one-shot Anne-chan Tarou, shounen fantasy Mousou Kikou - Adolescence Avatar, boys love one-shot On, and ecchi fantasy Death/Communication.