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

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 the Roman Empire, aliens seeing if humans are worthy of being saved, and horse betting. 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

It's 217 AD, several decades after the end of the "Pax Romana," and the Roman Empire is still the most powerful empire in the world. However, between corruption in the government, increasing attacks from savage hordes, and continuing resource-draining foreign campaigns, the power of Rome is on the decline. With the recent assassination of the emperor Caracalla, many things are about to change...

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Kizakura Suika is a middle school student who, due to tragic circumstances, lives alone. Every day, she goes by an old shrine, which is watched after by Yorozu, a boy who has been her friend since she was very little. One evening, during an encounter with the god of death, Suika discovers Yorozu's true nature as the god of the old shrine! Now that Suika knows the truth, she will either have to marry Yorozu or lose him forever!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Everyone lies when they are young but the lie Kobayashi Hiro told when he was just six haunts him daily to this day. He claimed that he was abducted by aliens and even though it was quickly discovered it was a hoax, thanks to national attention, the town became a hotspot and tourist stop for UFO fanatics. So when the beautiful Yamada Meteor transfers to Hiro’s school, claims that she is an alien and Hiro is the only one that can save the planet from destruction, he thinks that it’s a prank. He quickly learns that she isn’t joking and Meteor is here to test if humanity is worth saving from the monstrous asteroids headed toward Earth. To prove humanity’s worth to the universe, Hiro must complete the assigned missions, except that the missions are a little perverted.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 3 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

In a world where gigantic, ferocious monsters and humans live together, monster hunters exist to protect humanity from becoming extinct. Raiga is a hot headed but passionate warrior that relies on his brute strength to cut through monsters. Keres uses his long range attacks to asses the situation calmly and calculate the ideal next move. Tolche is timid and shy but her deadly traps are anything but cute. These three hunters decide to form a team to hunt the deadliest of monsters hundreds of times their size and impossible to kill alone.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: One-shot (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: One-shot (lynxian)
Scanlations: One-shot

Crimes committed by "Kaijin," superhumans produced by technology, are on the rise in Tokyo. Shibasaki Ken and Momoyama Reiji are assigned to work together to solve a recent serial killer case. In some ways they complement each other nicely: Shibasaki is an expert tracker, and Reiji is an expert at combat. Their personalities, however, do not mesh at all. Shibasaki would rather skip work to flirt with girls, while Reiji is violently overzealous about his job. Will they be able to work together to solve the crime before more lives are claimed?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: One-shot (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: One-shot
Scanlations: One-shot

Sara Tanjuro just recently transferred to Mikagami Eruma’s elementary school and have caused a major stir among the students. Tanjuro, knicknamed Satan, has been proposing his love to the girls left and right, something the shy Eruma would never think of doing. But Satan has a secret identity. He is a member of Michaela, a group of people who combine technology and exorcism to rid the world of angels that wreak havoc in society. As member number 666, Satan is an anti-angel specialist who has disguised the school supplies as weapons. He defeats supernatural beings with ease. Now if getting girls were that easy...

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

One day, Miwa's little brother came home late from playing by the Tama River with one of his friends and an adult man. He convinced Miwa to come meet the man, claiming he looked like Johnny Depp. Miwa and her friend Aya come to meet him after school and discover that was a total lie.

However, Miwa finds herself drawn to the goofy young man, whose name is Haruo. To Aya's annoyance, Miwa develops a major crush on him and talks about him constantly. But could anything come of this crush, since Miwa is a first year high school student and Haruo is an adult? Miwa starts to get to know Haruo, meeting him day after day, there by the Tama River.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 5 Volume (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Tsuji Keita gets a request from his teacher to help his classmate out who has been skipping school for months. Kunimi Satoshi has locked himself in his house ever since his dad’s restaurant got shut down after there were false claims of food poisoning. Satoshi has always loved cooking and has always been extraordinary at it, but the trauma has left him an introvert. Keita finally gets Satoshi to go outside, after weeks of spending time with him and slowly getting him to open up. Even though Satoshi is smart enough to attend the best high schools, he decides to start at the lowest level of the food chain at the Teito Hotel’s restaurant, arguably one of the best in the country. Although the world of cooking is gruesome, Satoshi’s never ending optimism, solid determination and curiosity will guide him, he hopes.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

“I wanted to see you” are the words Kasugai Tenka wants to hear from a girl more than anything. And when the high school student hears it from Tsukimi, a girl literally out of this world, his life is about to get crazy. Tsukimi was a war general on the Moon, but she was exiled for the destruction she caused and her memory is wiped clean and she's changed into a bunny. She reminds Tenka that years ago, he fed her soba from his dad’s soba shop and that now that she's gained human form and her powers back, she wants him to be hers.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 3 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Half a year ago, a giant spiderweb appeared across the sky. For a while, it got a lot of media attention. Eventually, when nothing seemed to be happening, people carried on with their normal lives, ignoring the spiderweb. Amedome Tsutsuji lives his daily life under the spiderweb. At school, people have nicknamed him "Ninja," since it's so easy not to notice he's there. Even automatic doors won't acknowledge his presence by opening for him. But he can see what others can't: aliens are coming down from the spiderweb, taking humans bodies as hosts, and eating people.

For that reason, he uses his ninja-like ability to carefully guard his crush, Mizuno, as she goes home from school. In other words, he stalks her, but with the best of intentions. He's determined to be there to protect her when the spider-aliens attack. To that end, he teams up with another, friendlier alien named Tsuda, who gives him a powerful weapon: a faucet. Will Tsutsuji be able to protect Mizuno from the parasitic spider-aliens with his trusty faucet?

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

Being a manga author has always been Yamakawa Nanao’s dream. He even postponed college for two years so that he could pursue it, but when his work that he put everything he has into it is rejected by every publisher, he loses hope. At a below average college and no real direction in life, Nanao meets a fortune teller that leads him to the horse tracks. There, he meets a group of college students, Beniko, Midori, Shun and Soukichi, who form their own winner's circle, a group of people who bet on horses not for entertainment but as a form of income. Nanao has no knowledge of horse betting but his ability to see the smallest of details in the horses shocks the members and he is allowed to join the club. If he plays it right, he could make an extremely comfortable living off of this new found talent.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
Not much to say this time. Kami Yome and Tama Riba seem to fill this week's cute requirement. Vanilla Spider was interesting, but it has kind of a weird combination of serious and absurd.
Here's what vyc had to say:
Loved the series this week. Great new series waiting to be picked up. Winners Circle - college kid who has no direction goes into horse gambling and is really good at it. I like the idea, the comedy is good, the romance part doesnt interfere with anything and I feel like I will learn about horse racing from reading this.

Tsukimi Soba - plays on the idea that the moon is inhabited by bunnies. Romance comedy. Isnt too mushy so everyone can read it.

Sins - new series of elementary school kid fighting supernatural beings. I hope it gets picked up as a series and not just a one shot. The drawings are well done, comedy is good and overall plotline has a lot of room to expand.

Monster Hunter - imagine your old school RPG characters coming to life in a manga. This is exactly what that is with dragons, warriors, weapons and action. Loved it.

Tenshi no Frypan - cooking series about a genius kid and the harshness of the cooking world. I feel I will learn a lot about cooking from this. Informative and interesting. What better combo?
My opinion:
I'd check out Hishintan since there are so few european historical manga. The idea behind Meteor-san Strike desu! sounds interesting, although I'm less inclined to check it out due to it featuring pervy tests... Tamariba sounds like a cute romance, and we can always use more of those manga being scanlated. :p Probably the manga I most want scanlated is Winner's Circle e Youkoso due solely on the fact that it's from the mangaka of Liar Game. I hope it's as interesting as Liar Game, though, since it's currently on hiatus...


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: supernatural school life Crime Zone (MH link).