New Manga Shout Out: 11/29/10 - 12/5/10

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. This week features a teen with billions of yen, a girl adept at playing video games and a salesman assassin. 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: 1 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None on MH
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Characters from various Type-Moon franchises, such as Fate, Tsukihime, and Kara no Kyoukai are able to hang out at the strange cafe called Ahnen Erbe. They chat together and deal with various curiosities such as a nosy talking cat or a "pot of happiness," which expels a gas that causes people to laugh.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Takato Kei is just an ordinary college student, training for an ordinary life, when he falls into a strange and appealing part-time job. He's been hired to tutor a teenage girl at home for 10,000 yen an hour! The girl in question, Fujioka Yukari, is not a high school student, but a highly successful day trader who has already amassed 17 billion yen!

Despite her money and her beautiful apartment, Kei can't help feeling like there's a certain loneliness about the cute teenage girl. She even seems embarrassed of her career, as if her obsession with the stock market and the vast amount of time she spends moving stocks makes her an otaku. Kei may be just the person she needs to help her break out of her isolated lifestyle and acquire the one thing money can't buy-- happiness.

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: Chapter 1 (molokidan)
Scanlations: Chapter 1

A "super-deformed," shorter reinvention of the Dragon Ball story supervised by Toriyama Akira.

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

The year is 1991 and 6th grader Yaguchi Haruo only has video games to live for. He's not popular in school and he's neither handsome, funny, nice nor even friendly. The only thing he has going for him is that he is good at video games. One day at the local arcade, he plays Oono Akira, a fellow classmate but who's popular, smart, pretty and a rich girl that absolutely destroys him at Street Fighter II. Not only does he lose to her 30 times in a row, he can’t beat her at any game. Haruo can’t seem to shake Akira off as she follows him from arcade to arcade everyday after school and beats him every time. As weird as it sounds, the odd couple begins a strange bond and friendship.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Suzuki Yuusuke had a crush on a girl in his class, Abekawa Sadako. She seemed like a cute, desirable girl, but when the full moon came, she started acting truly bizarre. When he gets a little too close to her, Yuusuke finds himself pulled into her lunatic troubles!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 13 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None on MH
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Inaba Toukichi is a regular 34-year-old white collar worker who just got married to Misako six months ago. He was living a normal life until he gets involved in the death of a world famous assassin nicknamed “Dual Gun.” In order to save his normal life, Toukichi has no choice but to assume the role as the second generation Dual Gun. Although severely inexperienced, with the help of a powerful organization that can acquire him anything and the original Dual Gun’s girlfriend, Chinatsu, Toukichi becomes an assassin. As his normal life would be destroyed if anyone, including if his wife found out about his involvement with the dark side of society, Toukichi has to deal with his regular life as a salesman and more importantly, not be killed at each of his missions.

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

The author of the series Sanagi San, Shikawa Yuuki, has not developed a series in over 2 years. The impatient editors at Champion magazine ask him to develop a 4koma manga for the web version of their magazine. Not knowing what subject to draw about, Shikawa sensei decides to start a series about starting a series. A meta comedy written about writing a 4koma manga in a 4koma manga style.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Just after he bought a new guitar, Hatosaburou finds out that his Jazz Club is being shut down! The club is supposedly being merged with the Popular Music Club, but all the other Jazz Club members would rather quit music altogether than deal with the Pop Music Club's president. She's the headmaster's granddaughter, and so her club gets far more than its share of the school budget. Furthermore, she's a violent, bad-tempered girl who refuses to allow any boys to join her club. Will the tenacious Hatosaburou be able to weather all the pointless pain and humiliation and finally join the only club where he can play the guitar? Or will he be forced to lose his masculinity in the process?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None on MH
Translations: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 (molokidan)
Scanlations: Chapter 1-2

A humorous take on Rock Lee's training in his younger years.

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

The apartment that college student Takano Yosuke was living in burned down to the ground and the real estate agent was only able to offer one place that fit his budget: a room to rent out from a hot sexy widow, Ms. Sakurada. As awkward as it was, Yosuke was starting to get used to living with Ms. Sakurada. That is, until he started to dream about her gorgeous body. The connection that both Yosuke and Ms. Sakurada were feeling was unmistakable and things start to get really romantic in the house.

WARNING!!!: Contains adult content. Continue at your own discretion.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

A couple of curious aliens encounter a human space probe sent to investigate an asteroid. It appears to be from the Japanese Hayabusa asteroid probe, which returned samples to Earth during June 2010. The friendly space probe explains how it functions and what its goals are to the aliens.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Seriu Ichiro has always been in the shadow of his older sister, Rei, who did great things as the student body president in her high school. Although he was the student body president at his middle school, he was sick of the responsibility and wanted to live free. That’s when Ichiro decides to attend Yashio Academy, literally a brand new school, where his class would be the first ever class of the school which meant a fresh start for Ichiro. He meets a fellow school mate, Hatsuse Sakuno, on the way to Yashio and as soon as the two walk through the school gate, it's announced that he is the new student body president. As much as he tries to fight fate, he soon accepts the position of student body president on one condition: that Sakuno acts as co-president.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
The only one that interested me this time was Billionaire Girl. The characters seemed very believable and sympathetic to me. I get the feeling that a romance might develop somewhere down the road.
Here's a note from vyc:
Had lots of fun reading through the series this week. Sakurada-San - erotic series. sorta like a forbidden love thing going on. very sexy. High Score Girl - Author focuses on very specific games and makes them funny. Loved it when the author was talking about being really cheesy and low-life when using specific characters in Street Fighter II. Kyou Kara Hitman - best series this week. Started in 2005 and has multiple volumes and for a good reason. Great storyline with adult violence and sexiness. Yashikoh Shodai Seitokai - romantic comedy with surprisingly great artwork. I really liked how the characters looked in this one. Hopefully the storyline progresses just as good.
My opinion:
I'd like to read Billionaire Girl - the art looks pretty decent and the storyline sounds nothing like anything out there. I'm sure if you're into video games from the 90's and beyond, then High Score Girl would be the manga for you. Kyou Kara Hitman sounds like a fun gag manga. If you're looking for a gender bender, then P-Ken might be for you.


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: action adventure Examurai (MH link).