New Manga Shout Out: 1/24/11 - 1/30/11

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 mysterious chef, kendo, and astronauts. 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: Seinen
Status: 4 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None on MH
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Takahara Shouko's life changes forever one day when she goes to get some curry for lunch. In an ordinary-seeming curry shop, she eats the most delicious chicken curry she's ever had in her life. It is so delicious that it outshines the food cooked by a posh European-trained chef she meets later that evening.

When she attempts to discover the maker of the curry, she finds that it was a mysterious chef who was filling in for the ordinary staff. He's commonly known as the "Dashi Master." Will Shouko be able to track down the Dashi Master and discover his true identity?　

Thanks go to tethysdust 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

An incredibly crude detective is searching for his lost, perverted brother. He soon finds himself with a bossy new assistant, a high school girl named Aoyagi Yuzu. Yuzu wants to be a novelist, and she's hoping that working as a detective will give her great material for her novels. Their first case comes from a cute girl who believes that her apartment is haunted by an evil spirit. Will they be able to solve the case, and will the detective be able to find his brother?

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

In the near future, the human race has cured most illnesses in the world by inserting a machine into everyone's body that automatically fixes the defects in the system. However, as a side effect, people will gain different kinds of abilities when the body tries to reject the machine and the black market will do anything to get their hands on these special people.

Rogii is one of these altered humans, who fight against those who want to capture and use others like him for crime and evil. Rogii’s incredible combat abilities help him crush his opposition as he tries to take down the black market.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None on MH
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Katsuko is a servant to the Ootori family. In fact, her whole family has traditionally been a butler for the incredibly wealthy family. The recent fallout between a son and a father in the Ootori family has forced Katsuko to act as a maid outside of the mansion and personally follow her new master around. He is an uncompassionate and bossy man who also is the new head of the academy Katsuko attends. Not only has her secret life as a maid to the family been revealed, she's also been having a hard time with her classmates and she has to deal with an overly demanding master. Little does Katsuko realize that the more time she spends with him, the more she sees the good in him.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details: Here
Raws: None on MH
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Kumazawa Ryuuko was a top-ranked kendo athlete in the Kanto region of Japan during middle school. However, in her first year of high school, she loses a match to a girl called Namihira Kazune. Their approaches to kendo, which reflect their general personalities, could not be more different. Ryuuko is cheerful, childish, and treats kendo more like a game than a dangerous martial art. She sees Japanese swords as objects of beauty. To Kazune, on the other hand, kendo is all about seriousness and aggression. For her, a Japanese sword is a frightening weapon designed to kill people. How will these two girls' differences affect each other in the coming high school years?

Thanks go to tethysdust 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

Hikari is a high school student who has yet to lose his virginity. He has a girlfriend but doesn’t know how to bring it up. Out of options, he goes to his older sister, who's in college, for advice thinking she would have lots of experience. Little does Hikari know, she's also a virgin and has no idea what she is talking about. Flustered and panicked, his sister offers Hiakri to “teach” him how to have sex and so the weird relationship between two siblings who have no idea how to do it starts to manifest.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 9 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None on MH
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Tagami is a 40 year old single guy that just quit his job and has been trying to figure out his life. During one of his midlife crisis days, he goes on a drive and meets a beautiful women named Ueno Aiko. One thing leads to another and they get themselves involved in one crazy night of passion. She leaves Tagami with a phone number and, soon after, Aiko has Tagami working as a driver for hire. The clients he works for all seem to be women and, one way or another, he always gets in a physical relationship with them. However, Tagami can’t forget Aiko and wants to get past just talking on the phone with her, but he never gets any closer. In the meantime, however, he finds the youthful flame he used to have with the beautiful women around him.

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 young, large-breasted ninja girl is captured while trying to steal a legendary sword. In the prison cell, she meets the true owner of the sword, Raikoumaru! Working together, maybe they can break out and reclaim the sword from the powerful collector, Asano!

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

Tachibana Nobu has absolutely no friends because of Masami, a ghost that has been haunting him for the longest time. Apparently, in his previous life, Nobu was Masami’s lover and she has been waiting for him to be reincarnated. Masami’s presence scares everyone away from Nobu, including every single one of his classmates. He hasn’t had a conversation with them in years let alone be friends with him. Masami is already driving Nobu crazy and if he doesn’t get rid of her fast some how, he might literally go insane from solitude even if he is in the city.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 12 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None on MH
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

One night in 2006, when they were young, the two brothers Mutta (born 1993) and Hibito (born 1996) saw what appeared to be a UFO heading for the moon. They decided that night to both become astronauts and travel out into space.

In 2025, Hibito has become an astronaut, and he's going to go to the moon. Mutta ended up following a more traditional career path with an auto development company. However, Mutta just ruined his career through a violent altercation with his boss. Now, not only has he lost his job, he appears to be blacklisted in the entire industry. Maybe this is a rare opportunity for Mutta to once again chase his childhood dream and become an astronaut like his little brother!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 2 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None on MH
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Shiniri Hideto is a 21 year old brand new worker at his small company. He goes door-to-door to sell the ridiculous items the company manufactures. It’s a stressful but boring job except for one thing: everywhere Hideto goes, he gets into sexual adventures with the hot women and wives that he visits. They all seem to be starving for attention and somehow drawn to Hideto. Sometimes it is a hard sell, but he always gets the job done.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
There were some pretty good ones this week. Uchuu Kyoudai looked like a very well-written story. I've read that it won the Shogakukan Manga Award. Kaze Yori Hayaku was less action-packed than one might expect from a kendo manga. So far, it seems like there is going to be a lot more focus on the characters and the story itself than on actual kendo fighting.
Here's a note from vyc:
Great series this week once again.
Kaizou Ningen Rogii - android super humans fighting against each other. cant get any better than that. Sorta has that Trigun feel to it. Like a Bitch - sexy forbidden relationship between siblings. Katsuko Otsukae Shimasu - maid for a powerful man who goes on special missions related to the school. Sexy action scenes will keep you reading. My Pure Lady - definitely for the mature crowd. Lots of relationship and sex topics in this.
My opinion:
None of the series this week really interested me. Out of all of them, Uchuu Kyoudai sounded the most interesting. Rarely do people ever get to follow their childhood dreams and get to do what they dreamed of doing when they were children...



Translated items that need some love/scanlation:
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: sci-fi action comedy Infinite Stratos (MH link).