New Manga Shout Out: 9/19/11 - 9/25/11

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 a girl who wants to play baseball, a teenage assassin, and glasses that can see through clothes! 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: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Society is divided into those that rule and those that are ruled. For his entire life, Kamitani Naoya has been the latter and has been attempting to claw his way up with little to no success. He catches the attention of a strange man named Tsukui and learns that there are real spirits in this world. In fact, the college that he attends is full of spirits that go back to the ancient Japan era. However, the spirits are not looking for friends, but a delicious meal. And Naoya is the main course!

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

A collection of brief stories. Most of them feature girls attending school, but there are several supernatural stories in the collection as well. Some stories are about clubs. One girl has no friends, due to her frightening appearance and demeanor, until she meets a Norwegian exchange student with an interest in Hanafuda (Japanese cards). One girl joins a newspaper club that may be more (or less) than meets the eye. Other stories feature small difficulties in the girls's lives, such as a girl in a large family who wants to wear a pretty dress, or a strange change in school uniforms.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

A sequel to Gunparade March. About fifty years ago, an alien race, known as the "Phantom Beasts," appeared on Earth and began to kill all humans. A student draft was declared, and high school students were recruited to become mecha pilots to fight these aliens. Gunparade Orchestra features the teenage mecha pilot soldiers of the 108th Guard Squad, a weak unit stationed in Aomori. Ishida Sara has arrived to be their new company commander, and she's determined to get their team in shape! If she can handle the frigid Aomori weather and the resistance of the 108th squad pilots, maybe they can survive the ongoing war against the Phantom Beasts...

Thanks go to tethydust for the summary.

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

Satomi Azusa is a popular teenage gravure idol. She's also a highly talented baseball player, but, as a girl, she can't play on her school's team. Her father happens to be the coach of the team, and he concocts a scheme to allow her to play. His scheme involves Hirayama Keita, Azusa's childhood friend, a teenager of no particular talent. Keita's redeeming feature is that he looks a lot like Azusa. In fact, after putting Keita in a wig and girl's clothes, not even their parents can tell the two of them apart. To help Azusa's (and her father's) dream come true, Keita agrees to trade places with her during the baseball games. Soon "Hirayama Keita" becomes a popular player, and "he" begins to move towards a career in pro baseball. How long can Keita and Azusa keep up the act? What will happen when people find out?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

When a friend asks Natsuki what high school club she's going to join, she cheerfully responds "the go-home club" (meaning, she's not going to join any of them). However, she soon realizes that this club actually exists at her high school, and she's just expressed interest in joining it! Before she knows it, she ends up as one of the two new members of "the go-home club," which is a small group of eccentric school girls. One of the girls likes fighting bears, while another is ridiculously rich. But what exactly constitutes the activities of "the go-home club"?

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

Eruna was entrusted with ruling a country at a very young age when her father, the king of a small kingdom, fell very ill. With such a heavy burden placed upon a mere teenager, the king gave Eruna an important piece of advice about how he made his time of rule a success: find your shadow. By finding her double, she will find the will to live and be brave even in the most dire situations. Eruna does find a person who looks identical to her but it turns out fate loves to play games. Teshio used to be a simple rancher who had a problem of always being mistaken for a girl but he is about to go from rags to riches because he becomes the new shadow for princess Eruna.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Imagine what you could do if you had glasses that could see through the clothes of that cute classmate you’ve had a crush on. Or that young teacher that you daydreamed about the entire time during class. Maybe your long time female friend that you never had the courage to ask out. If you could see their beautiful body without them having a clue, what would you do? This is every guy’s fantasy played out.

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

Suginoha Tsukushi has worked too hard her entire life to be denied job after job after graduating college. But reality is brutal and the last hope for an occupation was at Yumeneko Projects. She learns that she is competing for the position with Himezaki Fubuki, an art student who has won several awards for her design work. Both girls are shocked when the interview somehow gets them to participate in a “Cat Fight” where amateur girls fight each other in skimpy clothing for male entertainment. Tsukushi, being an uptight rule follower, has major hesitations but with her rival Fubuki so willing, what choice does she have?

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

The private Voltstein Academy is commonly known as the Occult Academy, due to its dean's fascination with the occult and the constant string of supernatural events that seem to happen there. After the dean appears to have died of a heart attack, his daughter Maya comes to visit and is pulled back into the crazy world of Occult Academy. Although she had a lot of interest in the occult as a child, she now completely despises anything having to do with it.

While on campus, she witnesses the arrival of a former-spoon-bending "time agent" from the future, Uchida Fumiaki. He claims that the world is going to be destroyed on July 21st, 1999, and something at the Occult Academy is going to trigger it. To find that trigger, he comes armed with a cell phone that shows a simulation of the future given the immediate destruction of the object photographed. While looking for the trigger, Maya and Fumiaki deal with various supernatural problems, and the deadline for saving the world creeps ever closer.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Without doing much research on the school or surrounding areas, Hibino Ryuichiro picks an art school in Hokkaido. Tricked by the school adversisements, he goes to the campus only to find out it is a desolate and cold campus. The only glimmer of happiness for Ryuichiro are the girls on campus. Just hours after meeting Kisaragi Riho, the cute girl on campus, she seduces him only to find himself outside naked after she is done with him. Feeling heartbroken and used, he finds comfort in Aso Tomoe, who lives on the floor below at the dorms. Although it is freezing outside, it is hot underneath the sheets for Ryuichiro.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

A nameless high school dropout teenager turns into an assassin for hire. He is a complete loner who uses his knife to kill his targets without any emotion or hesitation. He kills anyone who gets in his way whether they be a complete stranger or even the client that hired him in the first place. He meets a man named Iwanishi after one of his jobs goes bad. Iwanishi nicknames him Semi (Cicada) because he apparently talks too much and offers to become his manager, handling the business side of assassination. But it seems like Iwanishi has some secret agenda Semi isn’t aware of.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
My favorite this week was Gunparade Orchestra. It's not a particularly new idea (teenage mecha pilots fighting aliens), but it was still kind of interesting. Occult Academy starts out pretty good. I watched the anime, and enjoyed it up until the last few episodes. The whole ending kind of ruined my opinion of the entire story in general, though, because it was so ridiculous and out of left field. Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku is a gag manga, it's pretty funny. Idol-A wasn't too bad, but I had a really hard time believing that a popular high-school-age gravure model could pass flawlessly as a boy by cutting her hair and binding her chest (and vice versa).
Here's what vyc had to say:
Baketeriya - really liked the idea of the spirits being unfriendly and hungry for the main character. Splash of comedy mixed with the typical Shounen manga. Waltz - a bit on the graphic side with blood splattering everywhere but pretty interesting in my opinion
My opinion:
I'm interested to see how a gravure model can also be a baseball player in Idol A. Adachi is supposed to be a really good mangaka so maybe someone will pick this manga up. Waltz also looks action packed and like a good mystery.


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: school life comedy Manken. (MH link), sci-fi comedy Meteor-san Strike desu! (MH link), supernatural action Kurogane (MH link).