New Manga Shout Out: 10/4/10 - 10/10/10

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. With the no-raws/scans rule on MH, you have to work a bit to find these mangas. All shounen shout out this week featuring a soccer player, a horny beetle and a sword swinging tomboy. Remember, if you like any of the series, favorite them. Don't forget to also thank the various people 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: One-shot (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None on MH
Translations: One-shot (saladesu)
Scanlations: None

Examurai is a cross between Exile, the popular group in Japan, and samurai. The year is 2718 and the world war has turned Japan into a feudal government. An old group of comrades join forces to take on Hell Castle. Based on the members of Exile, Makidai, Matsu, Usa, Akira, Takahiro, Hiro and Atsushi.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

In the future, the world is managed by a network called the Fractale System. A boy named Crane is living an aimless life with his parents, who are actually computer-generated "Doppels". One day, he runs into a pretty girl named Furyune, who is being pursued by someone. When he rescues her and helps to keep her hidden from her pursuers, he is pulled into her troubles as well. After meeting her, his life will never be the same!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

When Sora was little, he loved playing soccer. He had a friend named Tsuyoshi, who wasn't as good as he was, who told him he should become a pro one day! Cherishing that dream in his heart, Sora trained hard up through middle school. Then, however, he hit some physical barriers that left him convinced that he just didn't have the god-given capability of being a pro soccer player. He decided to quit soccer after graduating from middle school and focus on his studies.

Before starting high school, however, he went out to practice soccer once again. On his way out, he ran into the Japanese representative soccer player, Wakamiya Shiki! She echoed his childhood friend's sentiments, that he should be a pro soccer player. But why is Shiki in this small town, and why is she so interested in Sora's soccer career? Also, will she be able to turn him back towards his dream of turning pro?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Daigoro is a teenage horned beetle trying to be smooth with the female insects, just like his dad, and find a mate. His oblivious and perverted personality keeps getting in his way and it's a struggle to even keep a girl around him. Accompanied by his grasshopper butler, Daigoro tries to find a partner through his misguided ways.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Yoshika and Yukina are best friends at school. Yukina is both physically beautiful and possesses a kind and gentle personality that charms everyone who knows her, including her wonderful boyfriend. Yoshika is less traditionally beautiful and has a less alluringly feminine personality. In addition, she desperately likes Yukina's boyfriend. While Yoshika does care for her friend, she is also deeply envious of her. One day, a demon in the form of a house cat appears to Yoshika and offers her the supernatural power to take whatever she wants from her friend. How far will Yoshika let her jealousy of her best friend take her?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

For political reasons, the first child of the Toudou household, Sakuyamaru Shigemasa, was raised and presented as a boy for 16 years. When her little brother is finally born, her father tells her that she can be a woman now. But what kind of woman can she be, with her boyish attitude and her hands calloused from swordplay? Regardless of that, she's determined to protect the people of her family's land from the violent neighboring Nishibori family!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Three sisters, Artel, Kuroe, and Liz, and their little brother Satz together form the treasure hunter team, Fairy Honey. Their latest target is the oldest known panty known in history said to be worth $300,000. However, it is said that the treasure is guarded by an ancient evil spirit…

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Asakura is a high school student on the swim team who can’t swim to save his life so he gets kicked off the team until he learns how to swim. Out of nowhere, he finds a 15 year old girl named Minamiya Minami in his school bag who claims to be a hermit crab.

According to Minami, Asakura and Minami met 5 summers ago and had an amazing time, but because Asakura almost drowned that summer, his memory of everything that happened during that time is gone. Minami is from the ocean and her race is allowed to live on land when they turn 15 given that her lower body is always hidden. She offers to help him learn how to swim hoping that spending time together will help him remember the forgotten summer they spent together.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
My favorite this week was probably Juuichi Bun no Ichi. It had a very interesting story with some plot twists that I didn't see coming. Second place would probably go to Rokuyoku. The art was an interesting style, and I liked the atmosphere of it. It was definitely the darkest one of this week's manga.
Here's a note from vyc:
Just a handful of series this week, mainly from Jump SQ.
Most of them were one shots but the one that was the most interesting was Examurai. Produced by the band Exile, the characters are directly based off the current members of the group. Set in the future but has the historical feel to it. Seems to have potential and with the name Exile behind it, bound to get some traction.
My opinion:
I'm most interested in seeing Rokuyoku (to see what Yoshika will choose to do) and Sakuyamaru (to see a girl kick butt) get scanlated.


Translated items that need some love/scanlation:
xdeathcat - Cloth Weaver: Chapter 1 (Needs TLC/PR)
mikeythebest - Baki Scarface: Chapter 1 (Needs TLC/PR)
sonsofloki - Young Shima Kousaku: Chapter 1



If you haven't done so already, check out the scanlations of the mangas from previous shout outs which have been recently scanlated: ecchi romance To Love-Ru Darkness (MH link), action comedy fantasy Binbougami ga! (MH link).