New Manga Shout Out: 3/7/11 - 3/13/11

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 religious group, a devil who survives on secrets, and a sheltered girl venturing out. 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: 3 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

The Momonoki siblings, Sakura and Haru, have not seen each other in 10 years due to their parent’s divorce. Sakura has a really strong personality and is sometimes violent while Haru is an otaku and sometimes a little weird. Their meeting was supposed to be this ideal situation but when reality didn't fulfill what they imagined how their sibling would be, things got a little freaky. Not only that, they now have to live together under the same roof and the huge age gap along with their extremely clashing personalities cause chaos between long lost siblings.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Shoujo
Status: 5 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Tatewaki Ayaka is being hunted down by a mysterious religious group after her father Keigo resigned from his high rank position after he found out what the group was really doing. As punishment, Ayaka is being attacked by curses on a constant basis and as a precaution, Tomiyama Yu, a family friend to the Tatewaki family, is asked to step in as a body guard. Little does Yu know how powerless he is in a supernatural fight and that Ayaka is actually a master of mirror magic who ends up protecting Yu. He has to get stronger and learn about a world he never knew about if he wants to truly be Ayaka’s body guard. What is this religious group and what are their true intentions?

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

This manga contains primarily two stories:

1) Wan is in a band with his childhood friend, and their first live performance is coming soon. However, they're missing a talented vocalist. When Wan hears a girl singing in her car one day, he instantly falls in love with her voice. But when he finally finds her, he learns that she is a grief-stricken, orphaned 17-year-old girl living with her grandmother. Will he be able to convince her to join his band?

2) Hina is in love with a performer, Yukihiko. She thinks he's in love with her, too, but it's hard to tell. Which Yukihiko is the real one? Is it the one who looks at her lovingly when they're alone? Or is it the one that graces tv dramas, commercials, and scandalous photos?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 2 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Alice Rose is in her third year at the Lane Field Girls Academy and she is finally getting used to the extremely strict lifestyles of the school. The academy focuses on everything a girl should know, including a proper diet which is like torture to Alice because she is a big food lover. Unable to satisfy her hunger pains, she sneaks out of the dorms after hours, a highly restricted thing to do, to take some food from the kitchen. There she wanders into a small room she has not seen before and sees a little boy there.

He claims to be the devil and can give Alice any wish she desires. Jokingly, she accepts and wishes for food, but realizes that everything he says is true. Lord, as the devil introduces himself, needs people’s secret in order to survive and Alice must gather her classmate’s secrets using a special ring. Regretting that her big appetite has brought the devil into her life, Alice must find a way to gather secrets or face the consequences.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 2 Chapters + One-shot (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

One-shot:
The year is 1590, during the turbulent Sengoku era of Japan. A girl who calls herself Izumi, the sole survivor of the destruction of her village, has come into possession of a set of very powerful keys. These keys can give their wielder access to powerful weapons that could change the course of the era.

In her flight from those who want to kill her and take them, she has washed up in a buddhist monastery, where she has met the monk Tenkai. Tenkai, who takes an interest in her troubles, may be more than he appears!

Serialization:
10 years after the killing of Oda Nobunaga, allegedly through the betrayal of his follower Akechi Mitsuhide, Nobunaga's 16-year-old daughter is being sent to the current ruler of Japan, the cruel Toyotomi Hideyoshi. En route, she is rescued by two mysterious, powerful monks. Her mistrust of their intentions only deepens when she learns that one of them, who calls himself Tenkai, possesses one of the powerful weapons known as "Sodomu." Tenkai's plans will only become clear when his secrets are revealed! Hopefully, he can show Nobunaga's daughter that the power of "Sodomu" can be used for good as well as evil!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Josei
Status: 2 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Rikako is an extremely sheltered 18-year-old girl. Her parents have always sent her to all-girls schools, and she has a daily curfew of 7 PM. Despite this, she's managed to get a boyfriend, Youji, a moody boy who's a few years older than her. Youji tries to work with her ridiculous curfew, and Rikako is determined to make her entrance into the world of romance and sex. Taking the next natural step, she starts skipping school to have sex with her boyfriend.

However, relationships are much more confusing than Rikako could have imagined. Among other things, her relationship is threatened by arguments, the painful memories of a dead friend, and Rikako's male hairdressser Kakizaki, who takes a little too much of an interest in her boyfriend. How will Rikako navigate this labyrinth of misunderstanding, lust, and betrayal?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 10 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Suzuki Sensei is a junior high teacher who cares very much for his students. He spends a lot of time and effort trying to resolve the problems that arise in his classroom. Instead of sensationalized issues, this manga tends to deal with the sorts of things that might actually happen in an average, real-life classroom.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Machiko has a very special job; she's maguro bait! Everyday, she goes out with the burly maguro fisherman Nakamura on the Tairyoumaru boat, puts a fishhook in her mouth, and dives into the water to be eaten by a giant maguro fish. One day, she and Nakamura encounter Ogawa, an ex-salaryman who abandoned his old life for the simpler and happier one of a fisherman. Ogawa takes an instant interest in Machiko, and starts trying to find a way to improve her life...

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 2 Volumes (Finished)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Moroto Akira is a college student who has been confessing his love to girls and has become notorious for being rejected time after time. His childhood friend, Chikubano Tomo, watches his misfortune constantly, but never seems to show any reaction towards it. But one day, Akira’s luck changes as girl after girl suddenly start coming into his life and state that they were romantically involved in their past life and that they were meant to be. The only thing holding them back are the things his former self accomplished that Akira must now perform in order to be with those women, like run a marathon or recite the number π during intercourse.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 5 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Raws: None on MH
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

The Yoshida household is all male except for Takako, who married into the family. Surrounded by her husband Akihiko, son-in-law Takeshi, father-in-law Heihachi and grandfather-in-law Heihachi, it is a very testosterone heavy family. Being the only female in the house, she has been receiving unwanted male attention and it is getting awkward. Even though they are family, they are not related by blood.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
My favorite this week would be Tairyou! Machikobune. It's kind of disgusting at points, but its a very quirky, cute, romance. I also enjoyed Sengoku Armors. I think that the first chapter of the serialization is a much stronger manga than the one-shot.
Here's a note from vyc:
A few series that caught my attention this week. Yomigae-Rinne - a little ecchi series with a some comedy in it. The characters are pretty funny in it. Some people might enjoy it. Ane-tic sensation - 4 koma style comedy with siblings with a pretty big age gap living under the same roof. Raspberry field no majo - A shoujo manga but the plot line is well structured and a mixture of both comedy and seriousness makes it interesting.
My opinion:
Nothing really piqued my interest... ^^;;



Translated items that need some love/scanlation:
sonsofloki - Young Shima Kousaku: Chapter 1