New Manga Shout Out: 5/17/10 - 5/23/10

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. There's a nice range of mangas with only Josei and yuri missing so check them out~ 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: Boys Love
Status: 1 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Set in a world of gods, humans, and other magical creatures, the unsociable head guardian of the Kingdom of Light, Touwa, met an injured black cat demon from the Kingdom of Darkness, called Meizu. By law, Touwa was supposed to kill Meizu, but he was charmed by the adorable and mischievous little demon. As they fell in love, they opened both their hearts and bodies to one another. This is the story of their forbidden love. This volume is also full of other erotic stories of love and lust, set in modern day places such as schools and businesses.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Vampire Bund is the world’s only island metropolis for vampires that boasts a huge population of 100k plus. Teenager Akira Garcia Fujisaki follows his friend Masaki, who chooses to become a vampire, to Vampire Bund. Akira gets caught in a complication and gets bitten by vampires along with his friend. Akira soon finds himself captured and forced to complete a mission to steal some products and where he finds a teenage girl named Ruli who was also bitten and has been sold to human trafficking. Free from their captors, Akira and Ruli soon learn that humans are transformed into vampires through a virus that rewrites the human gene into a vampire gene during a 48 hour process. However, there is a vaccine to the transformation process which ironically was the product that Akira was forced to steal earlier. With 30 hours left before the transformation is complete, will Akira and Ruli be able to retrieve the vaccine before they permanently turn into vampires?

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

On the first day of high school, Kunie Hokuto has accidentally reflexively injured the universally feared public morals officer, Yachigusa Shissa. He promised to do whatever Shissa asked in reparation, and now he's been ordered to follow Shissa around as a sort of subordinate.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 27 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Random raws
Translations: None
Scanlations: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 (Hobby Japan Scans)

Sho and his friend, Tetsuro, stumble upon a strange orb-like mechanism, the Guyver Unit, in the woods. It physically bonds with Sho and turns him into the alien soldier, Guyver. His mission is to protect the Guyver Unit from the Japanese corporation known as Chronos. They are after it and two other units just like it. To retrieve the object, they send out vicious monsters known as Zoanoids. So no one is safe in Sho's life; not even himself.

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

Nostradamus’s prediction that the world would end on July of 1999 never happened. However, the lord of doom, Harumagedon has been on Earth since then and doing a countdown for the end of humanity. Following a point based system, Harumagedon has been taking away points for humanity’s wrong doings and awarding points for each good behavior, with the values determined by the almighty Harumagedon himself. When humanity reaches 0 points, Earth will be destroyed. It has been 19 months since Harumagedon arrived on Earth and the only reason humanity has not been eliminated is because of a girl named Noa. She has shown true purity and goodness of humanity to Harumagedon and every time the points are about to hit 0, Noa touches his heart and saves Earth. Will Earth ever be destroyed or will Noa unwittingly save the entire human race?

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

Hizashi features short stories of the sexual exploits of young women and men, which often contain supernatural elements. Stories involve topics such as a boy with a girl growing out of his crotch, a girl's erotic encounter with a strange creature in a forest, and an encounter between a young female swimmer and a cold creature that lives beneath the water.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shoujo
Status: 1 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None on MH (Scanlated up to v01 c02 on 7/4/09)

Set in the last years of the Keio era (1867-1868), this tells the tale of the remainder of the Shinsengumi after the restoration of the Imperial government. It tells of the final years of Nomura Risaburou, Souma Kazue and Hijikata Toshizou as they fight in the Boshin War, attempt to hold the band of the Shinsengumi together, and try to find what their place is in this rapidly changing world.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Boys love
Status: One-shot (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None
Translations: None
Scanlations: One-shot (AnimeAddict1068 Project Scan)

After bumping into Fuumai, Ise finds himself in quite an interesting situation: sex for money. Yes, it really is just sex, or can feelings change over time? And what happens when one falls in love with the person buying them? Ise is about to discover what it feels like to be in love with a person who only thinks of him as a mere toy.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: One-shot (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None
Translations: None
Scanlations: One-shot (AnimeAddict1068 Project Scan)

Natsuo recently got a hot private tutor for his upcoming entrance exams. But there's something funny about Miss Hibiya that he just can't put his finger on. Miss Hibiya helps Natsuo on both his exam and his love life at school.

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Demographics: Shoujo
Status: 1 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None on MH (Scanlated up to v01 c01 by Saigo no Shou on 5/10/08)

Kootetsu no Hana follows the story of the Shinsengumi and is focused mainly around two historically famous characters, Okita Souji and his superior Hijikata Toshizou. As the second in charge of the Shinsengumi, Hijikata is known throughout Japan as “the demon,” for his brutal tactics. Okita Souji looks up to Hijikata but there is something hidden deep inside Okita’s conscious. There is a monster growing inside him that wants to murder his mentor, Hijikata.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None
Translations: Chapter 1 (Ju-da-su)
Scanlations: Chapter 1 (otakami)

In a world where rare metals drive the economy, "Minea", the people who seek out these metals at the risk of their own life, are highly respected. A strange boy called Ruka has wandered destructively into the failing town of Elza, declaring that his goal is to be a Minea! He ends up under the surveillance of a village girl, Shella, whose little brother is sick from a poison gas accident in the town's now-closed mine. But there may be more to this situation than meets the eye! Will Ruka be able to help his new friends, and maybe one day become a legendary Minea?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 3 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3
Translations: Chapter 1 (uruner)
Scanlations: Chapter 1 (Death Toll)

A group of students finds themselves on a sinking capsized ship. Together with some zombies. What happened to the ship and why are there zombies aboard? It's a battle against time and the zombies, to save themselves.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 4 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Set during the late Heian era eight centuries ago, when the Taira samurai clan held power and just before the rise of the shogunate in Japan. In the struggle between the Taira (Heike) and Minamoto (Genji) clans, the Taira appeared to have won. Most of the Minamoto family has been killed, and the Taira clan leader Kiyomori is horribly oppressing the people under his rule.

However, after the deaths of his family members, the young Minamoto Yoshitsune was hidden and trained at Kurama temple in the mountains near Kyoto. He is not satisfied with hiding in the temple all his life; it will not be long before he goes out into the world and the last chapter of the struggle between the two clans commences. This historical fantasy re-imagines the adventures of the real-life samurai leader Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Ushiwaka) and his loyal warrior monk Musashibou Benkei (Oniwaka).

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
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

When her parents were suddenly transferred to Brazil for work (for about 4 years), Sakura was left to live in her aunt Tamako's house in order to prepare for her entrance exam. However, her aunt travels a lot for her career as well, so soon Sakura will be left all alone.

To help after her aunt leaves, the neighborhood Uesakura sisters, Ichiko and Futako, come to live with her! Curiously, though Ichiko appears to be the youngest, she is actually a high school student, while Futako attends middle school with Sakura. Now Sakura's cohabitating life with Ichiko, the domestically talented Futako, who is also Sakura's school class president, and her aunt's ten cats, is beginning!

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: Chapter 1 (cmertb)
Scanlations: None

Mizutani Minato, a high school girl, has not fit in at her new school ever since she started attending a different school from her middle school friends. Her shy personality has kept her from making friends and engaging with her classmates. Through an unexpected turn of events, she joins the astronomy club in school, consisting of three students considered to be the weirdest and seen as outcasts in the entire campus. The club consists of Aida Souji, the smartest student in the entire freshman class, Kousaka Ranko, the second most brilliant and ridiculously strong, and Yakigawa Yoichi. They all have dreams of becoming members of NASA and studying the fascinating universe. The four kids of the astronomy club rename themselves “Soramiyo” a name made by taking the first letter from each of the members' name. Minato slowly learns through the Soramiyo club how to become confident in who she really is and the importance of having great friends.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

After her brother died protecting her from a local serial killer who tears his victims apart, Aiba Ichiko is determined to bring the killer to justice. However, the only clue she has to his identity is a tattoo on his hand. One day she runs into a strange sort of traveling tattoo artist, an anemic boy whose father appears to be a rat. But he doesn't draw ordinary tattoos, his tattoos are the kind that grant abilities to their bearers. Will he be able to help her finally avenge her brother's death?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shoujo
Status: 1 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: Volume 1
Translations: None
Scanlations: None on MH (Scanlated up to v01 c02 by Dangerous Pleasure on 7/2/06)

In the year 20XX, 5 years after the third World War (called the Third Division), Japan and the former capital Tokyo are divided into east and west sections, and drugs and violence are running rampant. In the district of Toshima, a crime organization called Vischio is running the battle game of "Igura". Akira has been accused of a murder he has no memory of committing and is given a life sentence. The only way out is to fight in this "Igura" battle game. Will Akira be able to realize his hopes in Toshima, or will he find only despair?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shoujo
Status: 6 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None
Translations: None
Scanlations: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 (peachbutts)

Amano Ichigo is a 14 year old girl, who longs to be a pâtissier. She is spotted at a department store and admitted to a pâtissier school.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
The only ones I really enjoyed this time were the pretty standard shounen ones, Togari and Metallica-Metalluca. Both of those are basically about some special kid who has essentially magic powers and rescues people, but they were pretty entertaining.
We also have a note from vyc:
Soramiyo seems very interesting with the whole explaining the universe and heart warming at the same time but unfortunately it was not serialized. Dive in the Vampire Bund might become very popular with the whole vampire craze going on. The storyline is pretty cool with the vampire society, the characters have lots of room to develop and the drawings are nice. Reminds me a lot of the Blade/Underworld movies.
I'd be really interested in seeing Dive in the Vampire Bund scanlated, especially since the prequel, Dance in the Vampire Bund has an anime... Harumagedon sounds kind of cute and Oniwaka to Ushiwaka Edge of the World looks intriguing... Soramiyo sounds like a cute story to read, and the art in Togainu no Chi looks good~

Translated items that need some love/scanlation:
xdeathcat - Cloth Weaver: Chapter 1 (Needs TLC/PR)
fevrier - Straight No Chaser: One-shot (Needs TLC/PR)
mikeythebest - Baki Scarface: Chapter 1 (Needs TLC/PR)
StruckByLightning - Kanpachi: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 (Needs TLC/PR)
kawaiiusagichan - Vampire Princess Yui: Chapter 1 (Needs PR)



If you haven't done so already, check out the scanlations of the mangas from previous shout outs which have been recently scanlated: school life one-shot My Idol.