New Manga Shout Out: 4/4/11 - 4/10/11

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 girl boxer, a detective agency, and a cross dressing police officer. 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 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Imamura Kinichiro reluctantly wakes up one day to attend his high school graduation. He'd made no friends in high school and joined no clubs. Everyone was afraid of him, due to his long blond hair and surly attitude. Reflecting on his awful high school years, he remembers a girl from the Japanese cheering squad that he saw in the welcome ceremony three years ago. Searching for the old cheering squad's clubroom, he accidentally startles a classmate, causing them both to fall down a flight of stairs...

When he wakes up, it's the morning of his first day of high school, three years ago. As he confusedly goes through his day, he's able to correct a lot of the mistakes he made the first time around, such as actually interacting with the cheering squad girl, Usami Yoshiko! But did he really travel in time, or is this all just a dream he's having while his body is lying unconscious somewhere? Could he really have the chance to go through his high school years again?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Take Isamu is an elitist 6th grader who looks down at his peers because he is the best at everything he does at school, from looks and smarts, to his luck with girls and his abilities as an athlete. He considers himself to be in the top percent of his age group and is incredibly bored with interacting with the so called normal people. A new student, Kaname Moka, transfers into his school and as she is fairly pretty, Isamu asks her out.

Moka mishears what he says and thinks he wants to challenge her, as she grew up boxing. In fact, Moka is an amazing fighter and can even take down 5 middle school boys at once. Although Isamu can’t stand her violent personality and she can’t stand him for having so much pride, they start to grow attracted to each other. But then Isamu finds out that not only is Moka more athletic than him from all her years of boxing, she's also much smarter than him. Will he able to get over his overly sensitive pride and dive into a romantic relationship?

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Momoko is a shy girl who spends all her time reading girly novels. She longs to fall in love like the heroines in the stories she reads, and one day her dream seems to come true! After a fateful encounter worthy of a novel, Momoko decides she's in love with Oshima, her school's ace baseball player. But how can she get closer to him?

After consulting her precious books, she eventually ends up helping to revive the unpopular traditional Japanese cheering club to cheer at the school's baseball games. However, they've only got just enough members to keep it from being abolished, and none of them seem to know exactly what they're doing. Their first performance is so dreadful that people even blame them for the baseball team's defeat! Their ragtag cheer squad will have to get its act together if Momoko is to have any chance of realizing her fiction-worthy romance!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 4 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Kokindaichi Kotaro just recently got accepted to work at the Hanasaki Detective Agency and can’t wait to get real work experience as a Private Investigator. Headed by a young beautiful woman named Hanasaki, her crew of detectives is nothing you would expect. They spend a majority of their times doing nothing and fooling around with no real case to work on. Kotaro tries to learn as much as he can, but the unprofessional work atmosphere makes it really hard. Just when he's about to give up, he sees what amazing potential each member of the agency has.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 4 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Nishimoto Haruki is a 21 year old male and a newly recruited police officer. However, all his past assignments involved him dressing up as a girl in order to solve the crime. It seems that he has the feminine features that make him the only one suitable for the position. However, things get even crazier when he is assigned to be in the all female police squad surrounded by gorgeous women. He has to protect his secret that he’s actually a man but Haruki is already having a hard time controlling his urges.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Ichikawa Etsuko used to be a regular high school girl and lived a poor but normal life, but her no good dad accumulated so many loans that he sold her in order to get rid of his debt. Typically, this story wouldn’t end well with the girl being sold into prostitution, but, luckily for Etsuko, she's forced to become a maid to a rich family. Her job is to attend to the every need of the Kurofuji siblings, the brother Arei and the little sister Erika who are French and Japanese. Etsuko seems to never get anything right, but she better or the alternative won't be pretty.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Nagase Nodoka is a young female architect who has a reputation for designing amazing onsen (bathhouses). She and her assistant, a cheerful, energetic girl nicknamed Mike, travel around Japan together. While they enjoy the natural hot springs and get to know the people at each locale, Nodoka designs beautiful baths to fit each of their clients' needs.

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

Sugano Ikkei is a typical teenager at his high school and lives with his older brother Hyakkei who is an editor at a publishing company. Hyakkei is in charge of several artists and writers and his job is to support them in anyway possible. However, he broke his leg and is unable to leave the hospital for a week and he has a very important meeting with a very shy writer named Tokito Aona which has taken months to get a face to face meeting.

As they look really alike, he asks Ikkei to dress up as him and go as Hyakkei. The meeting goes well without her knowing the truth, but Ikkei is forced to go to another meeting with Fujimaki Misuzu, an artist moving to Tokyo in order to continue working. To his surprise, both girls, Tokito and Fujimaki, are in the same class as he. Now he has to juggle being Hyakkei as an editor to the two girls as well as be their classmates as Ikkei, and do all this without letting out the secret that he is the same person.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Nishizawa Kazuya is in middle school and is known as the fastest runner in school. Because he's on the track team, he runs everyday and works hard at everything. Rika, his sister, is the complete opposite: she's lazy, very clumsy and always spaces out in her own world. Rika feels that with the way she is, Kazuya will always have to be there to protect her and because of that, she tells him that she will do anything he wants. However, Kazuya feels guilty because he isn’t a noble and respectable brother and he doesn’t deserve these kinds of feelings from his sister because he actually peeks at her changing everyday...

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Josei
Status: 1 Chapter (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

This is the story of a small cafe called Saudade, the Portuguese word for nostalgia. Tatsue, Yoshino, and Ryou, the employees, interact with their various customers.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Hachiken left his home in Sapporo in order to go to an agricultural high school out in the Hokkaido countryside. His plan involved leaving home to live in a dorm, acing the simple courses, and easily surpassing all of his inferior classmates. However, his new school turns out to be not quite like he expected. All of the other students have distinct areas of expertise and chosen future careers as veterinarians, dairy farmers, and so on. They don't understand why Hachiken would even come to their school without a similar dream. Also, the un-athletic Hachiken is horrified to discover that clubs are mandatory, and they're all activity-based. He had thought that he would leave his agricultural classmates in the dust, but will he even be able to keep up?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
The one that stuck out this week was 'Again'. It was actually a very interesting, well-written story. I hope he has a real second chance, and it is not just a dream. Silver Spoon also seemed like it could be interesting. It looked like it was going to be about how people who hold a non-academic specializations are not necessarily dumb at all.
Here's a note from vyc:
All the series this week were good. All comedy and romantic comedy series. Buyuden - all I need to say is everyone needs to read at least the first few chapters. Go Go Kochira...Jimusho - comedy about a very odd and lazy detective agency. Super funny.
My opinion:
Again!! sounds interesting - correcting the mistakes you made in high school. Yay for a strong girl protaganist in Buyuden~ I will definitely be checking out Silver Spoon for the sole purpose because it's from the mangaka of FMA~~~



Translated items that need some love/scanlation:
sonsofloki - Young Shima Kousaku: Chapter 1
sonsofloki - Countach: Chapter 1 | Chatper 2


If you haven't done so already, check out the scanlations of the mangas from previous shout outs which have been recently scanlated: historical drama Agrippa (MH link).