New Manga Shout Out: 8/27/12 - 9/2/12

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 resurrecting people from the dead, gymnastics and an erotic comedy manga author. 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

In the future, magic is recognized as a legitimate part of the scientific community. The small number of people gifted with magical potential are trained and then placed into a special government agency as a magic enforcer. Technology has allowed us to bring back the dead if another life is sacrificed. If the court deems it appropriate, a murderer’s life would be sacrificed to revive the victim. However, during this resurrection process, the revived person, called the Returner, comes back with a psychological problem called the Bug where negative emotions such as jealousy, revenge or anger become amplified. If left alone, the Returner becomes consumed in this emotion and, eventually, it will physically manifest itself in the form of a dangerous monster. The true role of the magic enforcer is to eliminate that Bug.

Nagumo Kento, codenamed Deep Searcher, is a seasoned magic enforcer whose role is "Searcher" in where he draws out the evil using his unique power. His brand new partner, Amagi Yoko, codenamed Evil Eater, is a rookie who recently graduated from the academy as a prodigy, even by magic user’s standards. Her job as "Debugger" is to use her power to dispose of the evil that Kento brings out and even the experienced members of the magic enforcers are shocked by Yoko’s power. Together, Kento and Yoko work against the seeds of evil to allow Returners to enjoy their second chance at life.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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Demographics: Shounen
Status: 34 Volumes (Complete)
Manga Details Page: Here
Translations: None
Scanlations: None

The boy’s gymnastics team at Heisei Middle School is an eye sore compared to the nationally renowned girls team. But Fujimake Shun, a first year, has big dreams: to win a gold at the Olympics. Unfortunately for Shun, having no experience in gymnastics and low athletic ability puts him behind even his teammates, let alone the world. But where he lacks in technical skills, he more than makes it up through determination and incredible fighting spirit that doesn’t seem to break no matter how big the obstacle.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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

Karan is a 16-year-old girl, who's pretty popular with the boys at her school. However, she hasn't got any time for them-- she's more into (literally) 2-dimensional guys. Specifically, she's had a crush on one hot, dangerous male character for quite a long time. One day, Karan finds an odd pen lying on the ground, and she uses it to draw a sexual picture of her precious character. To her surprise, the drawing springs to life, and now he is fully 3-dimensional in her world. How will Karan deal with this unexpected addition to her life?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Each chapter features a summer love story at a school in Kyuushuu. The first chapter focuses on Nao and Umi, who were friends as children. As they grew into teenagers, Nao became good-looking and popular with the girls, and Umi started to awkwardly avoid him as she began to feel her feelings towards him change. When they end up accidentally going on an excursion together, what confessions will come out? In the second chapter, a student develops a crush on her attractive new teacher, but struggles to deal with the fact that the feelings might not be mutual. In the third, Nana has a friendly and competitive relationship with the 1st-year Hikaru, who she plays basketball with. When they go to the summer festival together, will their friendly relationship become something more?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Kida Akane had her life planned out. Her plan was to graduate college, work at an elite company and then have a marriage that everyone was envious of. But all that blew up when her parents passed away with an enormous loan and left her picking up the pieces. She was just about to take her own life when she miraculously meets Tojo Reika who looks almost identical to her. Unlike Akane, Reika lives gorgeously with a loving but over protective husband. But the grass is always greener on the other side and Reika believes that all the money in the world is useless without personal freedom. Akane and Reika agree to swap lives and enjoy the life they have only dreamed of.

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

Kamijou Saki is living alone and attending school. He spends a lot of time with his female friends, Kagura Aya, a girl from a wealthy family, and his childhood friend Kawamura Yuu. He passes his days with the two of them, and his other friends at school-- Shouta, Mai, Izumi and others. Together, they enjoy the usual experiences, both the fun and the stressful, of the school days of teenagers.

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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

Soumatou Kabushikigaisha is a company that offers a very peculiar service. Customers, after giving their name and birthdate, are led to a room with a single television. A woman then brings them a DVD that they may watch as they desire. This DVD is the record of their entire life, from birth to the present moment. These customers may gain new insight into the events of their lives, and discover truths about the people they encounter that they might never have guessed. The first customer is 43-year-old Sugiura Katsumi, whose daughter and wife have died relatively recently. In reviewing his life, all the happiness, sadness, and terrible mistakes come back to him, and the cause of the series of recent tragic events in his life will become painfully clear.

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

For the entirety of his life, Yokoda Takashi has been drawing erotic drawings and it has been his way of expressing his sexuality. And now, he has managed to become a successful erotic comedy manga author for a monthly magazine. His series stars a character named Aimi who is actually based loosely on his niece with the same name. He keeps his job a secret, especially from his family from the fear that using Aimi’s name in such a perverted way would cause hatred from everyone. But his manga’s popularity rises and gets moved to a weekly magazine where there are vastly more readers and it seems like only a matter of time until the truth comes out. Takashi has to struggle between protecting his secret while keeping up with the production and erotic creativeness that comes with a weekly magazine series.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:
The most interesting this week was Soumatou Kabushikigaisha. The customers histories had interesting twists, and I think the writer is really good at telling a story.
Here's what vyc had to say:
Gamba Fly High - already a famous series so I dont think I have to explain how much it's a great story. Boys/Mens gymnastics story about a talented and determined main character. You can't go wrong picking up this series.

Evil Eater - My summary got kind of long due to the intensive back story of the entire setting, plot but I really enjoyed reading the first couple chapters and it was a shame I couldnt read more of it. If I had to compare, it would along the lines of Soul Eater. Artwork is first to none and the plot, characters, are all great and the author seems to be building up to a really epic series.

My opinion:
Evil Eater sounds pretty interesting - the idea to resurrect someone by sacrificing the life of the murderer. Soumatou Kabushikigaisha also piqued my interest. I wonder how I'd feel if I saw a DVD about my life...


Translated items that need some love/scanlation:
myao - Circle Game: Chapter 1
persona_1 - Mahou Shoujo Pretty Bell: 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: ecchi adventure Blade Play (MH link), ecchi comedy Sexual Hunter Riot (MH link), supernatural action comedy Kai Pilgrim (MH link).