New Manga Shout Out: 4/11/11 - 4/17/11

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 talking cat, demon possessed girl, and a girl obsessed with a girl group. 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
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Middle-schooler Akuru's childhood friend Shinto (whom she has a crush on) has given her a carefully constructed Aquarian Age deck for her birthday. Now Shinto will teach her to play Aquarian Age, and Akuru will become an ever stronger card player! This is the story of their daily school life as they play Aquarian Age with their friends!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

This is the continuing story of Akuru, her childhood friend Shinto, and all the other friends they've made through the card game Aquarian Age. Together, they all enjoy holidays, school life, and Aquarian Age, but will Shinto ever notice that Akuru wishes she were something more than his friend?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Natsuno Inama just recently moved to a new condo with her dad and meets her new next door neighbors, Shiroyanagi Yukikage and her younger sister Kanon. They immediately hit it off when they learn they attend the same school. With her new rival(?) Kazain Ibuki in her life, Inama’s life is full of surprises and fun.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

On a visit to a friend's school's festival, high-schooler Yoshikawa Yoshio meets a cute girl, Miyazaki Tomo, whose glasses make her even cuter. Yoshio, a quiet, glasses-wearing guy who's never had much luck with girls, is surprised when she seems just as taken with him!

The reason quickly becomes apparent. Apparently, Yoshio looks just like Tomo and her manga otaku friend's favorite character from the manga series that they obsess over. He uses his newfound "coolness" to convince Tomo to be his girlfriend, but how real can their relationship be if she spends every second they're together comparing him to a manga character?

Thanks go to tethydust for the summary.

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

Sonoda Haru is a 16 year old teenager who has a crush on his classmate Honda Chikako, who is not only popular but athletic, smart and incredibly hot whereas Haru is just an average joe. He has been dealing with this feeling for months without making any progress until one day he is forced to purchase a welcoming cat off of a random person on the street. It turns out that as the 10,000th user of the welcoming cat, a real life walking, talking, and breathing welcoming cat named Maneki Nekotaro appears from his world. Nekotaro has come into Haru’s life to grant him any wish and the only thing he has in mind is being with Chikako. But Nekotaro’s expertise is in financial related issues and has no experience in romantic problems so he has to make it up as they go. Will Haru ever be able to be with Chikako?

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

On her 16th birthday, Shinigami Momoe mistakenly receives an ancient relic that holds the body of a demon and by opening it, she allowed the demon to take over her. Now, Momoe has the body of a devil but the head of her former teenage self. Momoe’s new body radiates a strong demonic aura that attracts other dangerous demons and she has to protect herself from them. If that wasn’t enough, she has to continue being a teenage girl and go to high school even with her transformation!

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 6 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Teranouchi Bon is an average teenager except for one thing: his imagination. As a virgin, he uses his wild and vivid imagination and envisions himself in a sexual relationship with Ichihara Ibuki, one of the heroines from one of his favorite TV shows from when he was a child. Bon finds out that one of his new schoolmates is the beautiful Mitsuba Touko, who he used to be childhood friends with, and his life soon becomes chaotic. But just when Bon thought life could not get crazier, his world is turned upside down when he learns that the new school nurse is none other than Mitsuba Touko, the actress who played Ichihara Ibuki, his imaginary lover.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

After little Tama's mother died, she went to live with her cousins. They accepted her with warmth and love, particularly Nonoko, a 14-year-old girl who was delighted to accept Tama as a younger sister. Nonoko is a cheerful girl with an odd habit of drifting suddenly off to sleep at odd times.

Eventually, Tama wanted to go back and live with her Dad. Nonoko accompanies Tama back to her father's house, although they are both uncertain how welcome they would be. Tama's dad is a very quiet man who is difficult to read. Nonoko realizes that she doesn't really know very much about him at all, and she's not exactly sure how much he loves his daughter. She is determined to stay with her little cousin until she knows Tama will be okay. And thus their daily life together begins...

Thanks go to tethydust for the summary.

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

Naoya and Tomoko have been friends since preschool, and they've gone to all the same schools up through college. During their time in college, they still spend lots of time together and are members of the same club. Naoya has always thought that their friendship is like a friendship between two boys. As a result, he's always told her everything, even about the imaginary girl, named "Sayuri" by Tomoko, that he imagined about while masturbating, since adolescence . Although Tomoko secretly loves Naoya, she is painfully aware that she does not compare to the imaginary Sayuri.

But now, a new student named Yuki has joined their university club, and she looks exactly like Naoya's Sayuri! Now Naoya has a chance to date a girl that seems to be the girl of his dreams! Will Tomoko lose her best friend and all chance of a romance with him to a masturbatory fantasy made flesh?

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

Suzuoki Tsubura is an ordinary high school girl who has an obsession with the girl idol group Caramel Angel. She's a little embarrassed of the extent of her fascination, particularly because she doesn't seem like the kind of girl who would fawn over idols. In the privacy of her own home, though, she blissfully hangs out in her Caramel Angel postered room and never misses their music performance on tv.

Then, on one unlucky day, she accidentally breaks her family's TV. Her mother is in no rush to replace it, and Tsubura doesn't have the money to do it herself. How will she overcome this terrible crisis and get her fix of Caramel Angel?!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 7 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Sumida Go has finally arrived at his new college as a freshman with one thing on his mind and that is to get a girlfriend. And when he finds out that the dorms are actually co-ed and his two roommates, Tsuru Meiko, the residential director, and Toguchi Nase, another freshman like him, are beautiful women, he thinks he is dreaming. The male and female students not only share rooms but showers, and Go gets to see all of his female classmates naked. It is everything any guy dreams about but what Go doesn’t know yet is that there is a zero tolerance policy against intimate relationships between students.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
Not much stood out to me this week. I suppose my favorite would be Iwasetemitee Monda. It was a cute romantic comedy. Sayuri Ichigou was kind of neat if you want a love-triangle type romance (between the main character, his childhood friend, and the dream girl look-alike).
Here's a note from vyc:
Mostly romantic comedy series for the ones I did this week. Manekoi - a high school romantic comedy with a little twist to it. The storyline is great to follow and the unexpected twists in the plot keeps it really fresh. Uhha Harem Gakuseiryo - a little ecchi series about college students male and female living under the same roof, seeing each other naked on a constant basis. Enough said.
My opinion:
Not much interested me although I'd be willing to check out Iwasetemitee Monda since it's interesting to see a girl otaku deal with a real life boyfriend. Manekoi sounds a little funny. I have no idea how a talking cat can help with romance though.



Translated items that need some love/scanlation:
sonsofloki - Young Shima Kousaku: Chapter 1
el_maltese_burger - 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: school life slice of life Silver Spoon (MH link), mature romance Ore x Yome Kupido no Itazura (MH link), ecchi romance Rika (MH link), romantic comedy Ranobe no Hen! (MH link), ecchi comedy Kangoku Gakuen (MH link), boxing drama RRR (MH link).