New Manga Shout Out: 6/11/12 - 6/17/12

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 torture club, a magic school and a polo team. 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 (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

In life, you might wish to offer a love letter to someone that you want to have a relation with, whether it's with your first love, someone you admire, or even someone you want to have an illicit relationship with. Follow 9 heart-warming stories of love, passion and sex between men and women, where their “love letters” were received well. Containing stories featuring co-workers, childhood friends, and even colleagues, there might be a story that you can relate to.

Thanks go to Midori-Mori for the summary.

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

When an enemy explosion leaves private military soldier Terawaki Ryo nearly dead, a secret organization rebuilds his body using the research they have done in human revivals. Unfortunately for him, the technology only allows him to come back in the form of a teenage girl. His new identity, Shibahara Kyoko, leaves him distraught as his frail body doesn’t allow for the combat skills he used to have or even pick up heavy artillery he used in the combat field. Kyoko is assigned to protect a prestigious academy where daughters of powerful leaders attend since the girls’ presence makes it a hotspot for terrorists to attack and blackmail the people in power. Lead by his former commander and mentor, Major Honjo who has also been reborn as Ryo, was a beautiful teenage girl named Chujo Shizuko, and the pair work together as anti-terrorist teenage school girls.

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

Muto Yuzuki was ready for a whole new life and a different self when she got to middle school but she didn't expect it to be literally torturous. Yuzuki is “persuaded” by an upper classman named Funaki Aoi to join the Torture Club on campus which has been secretly training students to enter the field of military and police organizations as interrogation experts. Aoi sees something inside Yuzuki and thinks she might be a prodigy in torture methods. Naturally, Yuzuki wants nothing to do with such vulgar conduct but the more she spends time with the club, the more she starts to realize her own dark potential.

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

Hori may seem like a normal teenage girl, but she's a completely different person after school. In her workaholic parents' absence, Hori has been like a parent for her little brother since she was young herself. Between taking care of her brother, feeding them both, and housework, she doesn't have much time for a usual teenage social life. One day, she meets someone else who does not present his true self at school: a quiet, glasses-wearing boy called Miyamura. She'd assumed he was bookish, and possibly an otaku, but Hori couldn't have been more wrong. Outside of school, Miyamura is a friendly guy with many piercings, and he's not very good at academics. Now the two of them have someone with whom they can share both halves of their lives!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Ryouta falls in love with a girl named Yuri. She's a rather hesitant, timid, and somewhat sad girl, which is the opposite of what Ryouta thought he wanted in a woman, but he falls in love with her all the same. Then, one day, Yuri takes her own life. Now Ryouta has to find a way to deal with the grief of losing the one he loves. Yuri had once said that up in Hokkaido, there was a girl who looked exactly like her. Who is this twin of Yuri's and how will her life intersect with the grief-stricken Ryouta's?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Kitahara Shin is a student at Griladorse Magic School and is running late for class. He's helped by an unknown beauty who's flying on a broom. After reaching the school on time somehow, he's told that this student could be the new transfer student and he gets even more hyped up when he hears that this student might be one of those “magical girls.” But the transfer student is nothing but a cute, innocent-looking girl by the name of Nyui, who seems to have a thing for Shin. Is this girl really not the broom-flying beauty Shin was expecting? And what will she do with the school idol Shisune who Shin idolizes? Will Nyui’s Succubus-like devil friend, Yasuda, make the situation any better?

Thanks go to Midori-Mori for the summary.

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

The water polo team at Kamakurahama High School has a new ace player, Torii Ushio, who you wouldn’t expect to be a star athlete if you knew her in the classroom. Nakaoka Riku always took her as a shy person but after seeing what she can do in the water and how fast she can swim, he couldn’t deny that she deserved to lead the team. But late one day after practice, Riku finds out that Ushio has some secrets she has been keeping from everyone. Her family runs a temple and Ushio is the priestess to the dragon god. The descendent of the original dragon god is Sango who is a teenage girl who is the same age as Ushio. She lives in a secret underwater cave and her only friend is Ushio whose role is protector and companion. Through a series of events, Sango joins the water polo team to be close to Ushio and amazes the team with her out of this world swimming ability.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 7 Chapters (Ongoing)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

The magic kingdom of Yugudora has thrived on its people that could harness magical spells and was prosperous and peaceful. But with the invasion of the machine kingdom, Savi Shan City, all that is being threatened. Their advances seem impossible and they have finally reached the capital of Yugudora. The guardians of the city, the Messiah Knights, and Wolfe, a newly appointed member, are its last hope. Wolfe and his childhood friend Ceres, a member of the royal family, must put an end to the attacks or watch their country fall.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 4 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Tanaka Ichirou's life is shaping up to be pretty horrible. Despite his hard work, he's not very good at his company job. In exchange for keeping his job, he is coerced into marrying an unwilling girl. The girl was impregnated by her lover, a man who was already engaged, and the company wanted to avoid a scandal. Now everyone abuses Tanaka at work, and he goes home to take out his frustration on his unhappy wife. To top it all off, some people are planning to put an end to the whole situation by having him killed.

It is this last problem that brings him to the attention of a highly skilled ninja hitman, Shadow. Shadow is fleeing his criminal organization in search of a peaceful, normal, happy life. When he witnesses Tanaka's final moments, he decides to take the unfortunate man's life as his own. Will Shadow be able to find some kind of happiness in Tanaka's life, and will he be able to avoid his own past?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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Demographics: Seinen
Status: 4 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

Many dangerous women are going to fight in the World Ladies Martial Arts Championship. One of the contestants is Anna, a girl who is much more dangerous than she appears. Anna was pressured into joining the tournament by her friends, and they costumed her in a school gym uniform in order to play up her childish appearance. Anna and her friends are going to be up against all kinds of impressive female contenders!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
Hiromiya was the most interesting this week. I only had 1 chapter to read, but it seemed like it might be a neat story about how people portray themselves. Kaze no Iro seemed pretty interesting, too, at least from the first chapter.
Here's what vyc had to say:
Chotto Kawaii Iron Maiden - 4 koma series about a teenage girl who joins the school's torture club. I think it's funny and I thought the jokes were pretty good.
Now for Midori-Mori's take on his manga:
Another week of manga summaries, and some good series I have read. This week, I found some point of interest in the two series I read. But if I had to give an opinion, Majoma was quite nice to read. It may have some cliche elements, but I can say that there's something that will catch your eyes. Try it out. The same for 9 love letters; a bit for the mature eyes, but there's indeed love in the story...

My opinion:
Reading about leading a double life in Horimiya appeals to my interest, but the one that really piqued my interest was Kaze no Iro due to its drama and sadness. I feel sorry for the ninja that chose the wrong life to take over in Saranin Man, although it may be interesting to see how he may change his life around.


Translated items that need some love/scanlation:
myao - Circle Game: Chapter 1
persona_1 - Mahou Shoujo Pretty Bell: Chapter 1
Ju-da-su - Boukoku no Siegfried ~Das Nibelungenlied~: 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 drama Hito Hitori Futari (MH link), supernatural mystery Jigokudou Reikai Tsuushin (MH link), supernatural comedy Ashita no Kyouko-san (MH link), fantasy adventure Wizardry ZEO (MH link).