New Manga Shout Out: 8/1/11 - 8/7/11

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 jury system, psychiatrists, and girls who have to survive a trip to the distant past. 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: Josei
Status: 1 Volume (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Sumi has hopelessly loved Natsuki since she was 18. Now she's 28 years old, works at a cosmetics company, and has managed to miss out on most of her prime dating years by pining after one boy. One day, an interesting new cafeteria opens at Sumi's company, a 'garçon' style restaurant staffed by pretty young men. One of those men is Natsuki's younger brother, Satsuki! Satsuki knows about her long-standing crush, and teases her mercilessly. However, when she is crushed by the news of Natsuki's impending marriage, Satsuki helps her save face. Could there be something between Sumi and Satsuki, or is he just messing with her?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Fate brings two people who live in the same condo together on a typical afternoon. Ozawa (26) has just broken up with her boyfriend of five years and was in the process of trying to rebuild her life when she meets Oyamada who lives a couple floors below her. He is somewhat of a loner although he does have a few friends and his room is cluttered with all the random stuff that his impulse shopper brother sends him. Ozawa takes an interest with all the things in his room and the two start a friendship that slowly turns into something more.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 3 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Astraia no Tenbin features the relatively new jury trial system in Japan, where a number of ordinary citizens are chosen as lay judges. It begins with Fueta Shinsuke, a stage director whose success is on the wane. He's chosen as a lay judge, and his first case is a murder...

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

When her mother passed away at a young age, Saeki Makoto was given the power to see Gintaro, one of the gods’ agents that have been protecting the small Inari temple since the Edo era. As only one person of the family can see the fox spirit, Gintaro, naturally as the only blood relative, when her mother passed on, Makoto inherited the sole power to talk to and see him. Although they have their differences, Makoto, with the help of Gintaro’s power, help the people of their community deal and solve their problems.

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

Takamizawa Shinichi has just transferred schools and is staying at the male dorm with his new friend Kato Masaya who is showing him around. He tells Takamizawa that he needs to pay his respects to Intel who oversees the male dorm housing. It turns out that Intel is a person who looks to be a pretty girl who seems almost machine-like. She's able to use her hair to fly, defeat a group of bank robbers and read the contents of a game just by scanning the CD. Although Intel has some human aspects, Takamizawa is puzzled by the truth behind Intel and, whether he wants to or not, he's about to find out more.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Tokita Goshi has a lot of experience working at an insurance company, and he uses his experience to brave the highly litigious society of America. In New York, he founds a risk management company, Office North Star, and takes on cases as a risk consultant.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 3 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

This gag manga follows the humorous stories of the quirky doctors in the psychiatry department of a medical college. Each short joke story lasts about 1-2 pages. Interspersed with the short stories are funny psychological quizzes with explanations for each answer.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Josei
Status: 7 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Nishimi Kaoru has moved from city to city and school to school because of his father’s job. So the first day at his new school was just routine for him. Being intellectual and the new transfer student, he has always been seen as an outcast and all Kaoru had to do was bare it until the next time he moved. But things were slightly different this time. First, he started to get close to the class president, Mukae Ritsuko, and, secondly, unlikely as it seemed, grew closer to Kawabuchi Sentaro. Sentaro was infamous for getting into fights, skipping class and was an overall bad boy. Strangely enough, the three of them find common ground in music, namely jazz, and Kaoru finds himself actually enjoying the new town.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

It was supposed to be just a regular daily bus drive to their high school for Watanabe Sheena and her friend Yuk, but when the bus enters a thick fog, the unexpected happens and the bus gets transported to another world that seems prehistoric. With the bus driver gone, the only other passengers on the bus in this mysterious world are all high school girls: Izumi, Ayu, Kyoka, Anna and Jessica. With no cell phone or internet signal, they are completely cutoff from their world. To make things worse, they see hundreds of glowing eyes of predators at night waiting for the girls to make a mistake. How will seven high school girls survive in this treacherous place and get back safely to the real world.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Shoujo
Status: 3 Volumes (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

When Mao was young, she was often left home alone while her parents worked long hours at work. She wandered over to the Nakamura home, where a family lived with three children, and found herself accepted into their lively household. One day, she learned that her parents were going to divorce. She chose to live with her nearby father, who she didn't really know very well. After that, the parents of the Nakamura household died in an accident. The eldest child, Hiro, remained in their family home, but his younger siblings were sent away to other relatives.

Years later, when Mao is 17 and Hiro is 23, Mao's father remarries a woman who had a child from a previous marriage. Mao feels as if she's lost the place she once belonged to, and so she accepts Hiro's offer to let her move in with him, into the home where they'd both had so many happy memories. Will they renew the sibling-closeness they shared as children, or will their relationship grow into something more?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

The Myoga family has been fighting demons and evil spirits for generations. The newest members of the family are the twins Kaoru and Chiharu. Chiharu, the older sister, is skilled in spell casting while the brother, Kaoru, has yet to make it his own. Although they have sibling quarrels, they work well together but they need more than team work if they want to eliminate all the dangerous supernatural threats that are sprouting around the city.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
Nothing really interested me this week. There's stuff for anyone interested in judicial systems. The most interesting was Taiyou no Ie, which seemed like it would be a cute little romance.
Here's a note from vyc:
Tokumei Koukousei - Twins that fight demons using spells. I like the premise, characters and the little bit of comedy mixed in. I think it will get better in time as the two siblings gain more power. Bonnouji - feel good romance series. not too girly and easy to read for any age or gender. Gingitsune - the plot is original and the drawings are really great. I wish there was something more to the plot though. Has potential so willing to see where it goes.
My opinion:
The manga that really piqued my interest is Soukai no Eve, whose art looks really beautiful, and the concept sounds really interesting - I'm always up for survival manga~ If anyone recognizes the artwork, the mangaka also wrote 'Asatte no Houkou.' Bonnouji sounds like a cute slice of life romance that I'd check out~ :3

Translated items that need some love/scanlation:
myao - Circle Game: 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: comedy All Around Type-Moon - Ahnenerbe no Nichijou (MH link), martial arts comedy Haru Polish (MH link), golf manga King Golf (MH link), drama 87Clockers (MH link), fantasy oneshot of the serializtion of the same name Kikai Tonchibanashi - Hanasaka Ikkyuu (MH link).