New Manga Shout Out: 5/9/11 - 5/15/11

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 motorcycle club, telepathic teenager, and a demon detective agency. 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: 1 Volume (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Aizawa Umi is a good-natured girl who is the youngest of three sisters that live together. Her oldest sister, 21-year-old Sora, is kind of pushy and intimidating, but it's clear that she loves her sisters. The middle sister, Riku, is cheerfully clumsy and enthusiastic about life. Riku and Umi attend high school together, where they both hang out with their friends and Umi tries to handle her crush on a male classmate. This 4-koma tells comedic stories about their everyday home and school life.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Sakura Hane has to ride her bicycle up several steep hills just to get to her new high school. As she is desperately pedaling, she sees and hears a motorcycle zoom past her and instantly falls in love with it. It turns out that bike was driven by her new classmate Amano Onsa, one badass girl who decided to attend this school because of one reason, there is no policy against motorcycles. Not only that, there is apparently a motorcycle club on campus. Hane and Onsa instantly become friends and she is able to convince Hane to start riding a bike. Now the only thing Hane has to do is get a licsense...

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: One-shot (Complete)
Manga Details: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Saiki Kusuo has a wide array of superpowers at his command, including telepathy and telekinesis. This might sound awesome, but, in Kusuo's experience, superpowers are not all they're cracked up to be. He tries to live a normal life, despite his annoying abilities.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

The people of Earth live in a society where vampires aren’t just real but dangerous. Although humanity has been able to keep them under control and even take the night away as the vampire’s natural habitat, some of them have adapted. Hesperides, a relatively new breed of vampires, have adapted over hundreds of years in order to be able to go outside during dusk when the sunlight is at its weakest and feast on humans.

Aburaya Shiro, a high school kid, lives in a town where there has not been a vampire attack in years, but adults keep warning them of going outside at dusk. Shiro and his classmates take this warning lightly and head out at dusk only to find out one of their classmates who they thought they knew well turnz out to be a Hesperides. With all his classmates violently murdered, the only way Shiro was able to survive was with the help of a different classmate, Ichijoji Eruka, who doesn’t seem to be human herself!

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

In the near future, a large meteor strikes Japan on what is now being called "Dark Sunday" and completely destroys the country. With the help of the US and China, Japan was able to construct New Tokyo, which has 50m walls built around it to protect the city from the contamination outside. With crime rates rocketing, the New Tokyo Police Squad was formed to bring peace to the new city. Rachael is the top field operative who has solved, captured or killed countless cases and criminals. However, she refuses to take a partner after her old partner was murdered. But Rachael soon finds herself working with Mizutani Asuka, a young girl newly recruited by the police squad, and, to her surprise, Asuka is a better marksman and has superior combat skills to Rachael. That’s a given though since her new partner is an android.

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

Yuuki Hitoshi landed a job as a graphics designer for a game company. He has everything to learn and no time to spare as the company is on a constant schedule to meet deadlines. Each employee has a unique personality but they are great at what they do and Hitoshi has so much he can take away from working besides them. But meeting project deadlines means working long hours into the night, which takes away from his personal life such as finding love. Or does it...?

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

Asuma Eiji has the gift of psychometric power, meaning he can touch people or objects and see their history in images and words. Most of the time, Eiji is just a delinquent high school kid who hangs out with his friends and neglects his schoolwork. However, his psychic abilities have brought him to the attention of police inspector Shima Ryoko, who often calls him in to help out with difficult cases.

Currently, there's a serial killer loose in the city who has just claimed his sixth victim. He kills young women, contorts their bodies into odd shapes, and uses spray paint on them. With Eiji's psychic help, will Ryoko be able to catch the murderer?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

In 2015, strange beams of light are appearing with no explanation all over the earth. The antisocial teenage girl Takizawa has a "Planetary Seed" theory as to their origins and purpose. Takizawa's classmate Tsubura is more concerned with her everyday life and figuring out why her heart pounds so hard around her childhood friend, Koujirou. Soon, the two girls' world will collide, when Tsubura's love causes a "Planetary Seed" to rise up from beneath the Earth... carrying Tsubura, Koujirou, Takizawa and their entire school building with it!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Thanks to deviant sexuality (lolicon, obsession with 2D girls, etc.), the human birth rate has declined, and humanity is headed for extinction. A cute loli girl from outer space, called Muumo, has come to earth on a mission to correct this problem. She's going to save humanity by stomping on men with her magic galaxy shoes to eliminate their lolicon preferences! She has even met another human girl who can guide her to the places where she might find these deviant men. What could possibly go wrong with this plan?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 6 Volume (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Sakuma is a college student who works part time at the Akutabe detective agency. There she does regular office work for private investigator Akutabe. However, Sakuma soon learns that Akutabe is no ordinary detective, but in fact a demon detective. He is able to summon demons through the use of a grimoire and use each of their special abilities by providing an offering. He uses their magical powers to solve the case he is working on and he wants Sakuma to start learning demon summoning. As Sakuma begins her journey to be a demon detective, little does she know the repercussions of using demons.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
Psychometrer was my favorite this week. It seems like it could be an interesting psychic crime investigation story, with a lot more comedy than those usually have. I also kind of liked how they visually represented his psychic visions with fragmented pictures/text in the manga. Tsubura na Wakusei looks like it could be pretty interesting too, though I wonder if it will be more SF or more school life drama.
Here's a note from vyc:
Crimezone looks damn good. A bit on the violent side but the characters are awesome, the plot is crazy interesting with insane plot twists. The drawings are super well done and I hope to read more chapters. Double Heroin - An interesting story where there are 2 main characters. A future cop story that sorta reminds of Ghosts in a Shell. I think it really needs to be picked up. Yondemasu yo Azazel-san - A new kind of comedy based on detectives summoning demons. the demons are sorta stupid though and ends up creating pretty funny situations.
My opinion:
Crimezone sounds pretty interesting and action packed~ If it's as good as vyc describes, then I hope someone picks up this manga. Psychometrer's idea of seeing an object's past is unique and since it's a sequel, I might go check out the prequel.



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: romantic sports comedy Asaoka Koukou Yakyuubu Nisshi - Over Fence (MH link), historical action Date Ningen (MH link), sci-fi romantic shoujo Sheryl - Kiss in the Galaxy (MH link), mature action Cry Eye (MH link).