New Manga Shout Out: 2/13/12 - 2/19/12

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 world filled with severe underage crime, a girl using a boy for free food, and a lonely mall guard. 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

In the early 19th century, an archipelago was discovered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Its biggest island was named Rizoslug and it became an independent nation after the second world war. Kazuno is a transporter on Rizoslug. She delivers sensitive or dangerous items to clients safely and has built up a reputation as a reckless but effective transporter. Her most recent job has her escorting a girl named Sheffard from Rizoslug to Japan, but they are immediately attacked by an unnamed group. Although they escape, they learn that Sheffard is somehow so critical that countries are willing to do anything to get their hands on her.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Natsu was grandpa’s girl and she loved every minute they spent together. He was the one who taught her to love motorcycles and showed her how to ride them. It devastated her when he passed away, but she knows he will always be somewhere in her heart. As she goes through his possessions, Natsu finds out that in his younger days, grandpa and his group of 7 motorcycle friends made the dream bike, the CB72, that was the fastest hog at the time. When the group eventually disbanded, they broke the bike up into 7 pieces as a reminder to their younger years. As a tribute to her late grandpa, Natsu decides to go on a trip around the country to find his friends, retrieve the parts, and recreate the CB72.

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 the beginning of the 21st century, the occurrence and severity of underage crimes were increasing exponentially. Ranging from assault, robbery, rape to murder, and spiraling out of control, the adults made drastic changes to the law regarding underage criminals, but no one could change their underlying dangerous nature. The A-Dogs were created to fight back and hunt down the dangerous teenagers who threatened to bring society into chaos. Lead by Captain Inukai, Tetsuro and Jackal are A-Dogs’ elite warriors who have been trained to eliminate the danger to society.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Noda Haruko has hatched a plot to get tasty lunches; she's put a love letter in a paper airplane and tossed it out into the world. By chance, it ends up in the hands of a lonely boy named Katou Seiji. Haruko confesses her "love" for him, and her hope that he'll become her husband and make her delicious lunches. Surprisingly, Seiji agrees, and becomes her boyfriend-chef. Seiji allows himself to be swept away by her childish enthusiasm, but he keeps trying to find ways to make their relationship more 'real'-- by holding hands, kissing, or simply being alone together. Haruko and Seiji navigate their unusual relationship among their friends and classmates, who all have their share of comedic troubles!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

The weapons of the future, Metal Vessels, are being developed by different companies. One company, Sigma, has created a vessel that is controlled by two people-- a telepath and an anti-telepath. These two people are the teenage girl telepath, Yuiri, and her friend Io, an anti-telepath. They use their vessel mostly in demonstrations, such as competitive exhibitions with rival company Ciel's newest model.

While these vessels may seem to be the way of the future, the technology can also be very dangerous. A serial murderer is on the loose, who chooses targets through a website, and the police are beginning to suspect that the killer is actually using a Metal Vessel...

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 2 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: Chapter 1

In ancient Japan, the Shogun established the Ooku, a harem of beautiful females, to give birth to and raise the heir to the throne. But 400 years later in a timeline slightly different from ours where the military empire still exists and Japan is still closed off from the rest of the world, the Ooku is in chaos. What used to be full of gracious and refined ladies, the girls now are violent and rude. They do as they please, get themselves into shenanigans and wreck havoc around the castle!

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

Vampires now coexist with humans, by the terms of their contract with the former anti-vampire organization "Abraham." This contract determines that vampires are to be human's pets, and keeping a pet vampire has become very popular. Their pet collar distinguishes pet vampires from wild vampires, and the wild ones are still quite dangerous.

A teenage boy named Daichi really wants a pet vampire, but his older sister won't hear of it. One night, a wild vampire named Iko breaks into his house! The vampires found that Daichi's sister has the extremely rare blood of Czernobog, which she believes will make her powerful enough to destroy the demeaning "Abraham" organization. However, the blood doesn't work exactly as Iko expected, and the proud vampire soon finds herself forced to become the pet of Daichi and his older sister...

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

Tomioka Yuji is a 32-year-old night-shift guard for a mall. He works completely alone, so he often slacks off, exercising and hanging out on the roof. In some ways, the job is perfect for him, as he's always been terrible with people. However, he can't help feeling incredibly lonely and wishing he had friends.

One night, he makes a wish for friendship on a falling star. Shortly after, he finds a strange note left at the door of the mall. It says, "within a year, you'll go mad and die." After this, his solitary life begins to change--some ways for the better, and some for the worse. At work, he notices an ominous silhouette in a nearby apartment building, watching him neglect his job. Who is the mysterious figure? Who sent him the creepy note, and why?

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

Just married and deeply in love, Ishibashi Naoto’s life could not be more perfect. His wife who he just met a year ago, is the perfect woman: elegant, classy, beautiful, but sexy. But when he comes home one day, he finds her missing and when he goes looking for her, he finds out that she had lied about everything. Her identity was completely false and it turns out that he fell in love with a woman that he knew nothing about. But unable to forget the passion that they had together, Naoto goes looking for Saki only to find out that the deeper he looks into her identity, the more he learns about his own past.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
Wanitokagegisu was my favorite this week. It's not a style of art that I'm fond of, but the story is really original. Mortal Metal Shibagane seems like a good one for mecha fans. Boku wa Hajikko ga Suki was very cute and funny.
Here's what vyc had to say:
Xenos - mystery, thriller series that really caught my attention. The plot twists definitely keep you interested.

A-Dogs - action type story with teenagers that have special powers. Really easy and fun read.
My opinion:
Boku wa Hajikko ga Suki sounds like a cute read. Wanitokagegisu piqued my interest. I'd be interested in reading how he deals with his loneliness. Xenos's storyline interested me as well. This makes me think that you'd better do a background check on your future spouse before getting married.


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: slice of life drama Viking (MH link), slice of life romance Hana Michi Otome (MH link), slice of life comedy Honeycomb (MH link), adult romance Double Marriage (MH link), adult romance Koisuru Heart de Taihoshite (MH link), adult action ecchi Kurogane Hime (MH link), ecchi romance Comic Studio (MH link), school life romance Again!! (MH link).