Featured New Manga Shout Out: 1/24/11 – 2/6/11
Welcome to the next weekly article on the featured new manga that have been recently uploaded on the irc-distro bots this past week. This week features a call girl, maids, and zoo keepers. If you're one of those people that are looking for newly started manga in Japan or are looking for something new to read or scanlate, then come check these series out. On with the manga~
17sai. Joshikousei Kankin Satsujin (17歳。 女子高生監禁殺人)
By: FUJII Seiji x KAMATA Youji
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 4 Volumes (Complete)
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This is the story of a terrible crime committed against a 17-old-girl, committed, in part, by 17-year-old boys. Why did such a thing happen? Why was no one able to prevent it?
In the beginning, high school boys Hiroki and his friend Takashi are rescued from bullying by a notorious gangster, Miyamoto. At first, they are thrilled to be under his protection, and cheerfully run off anyone who threatens them with the mere mention of Miyamoto's name. Soon, they learn that there is a lot more to being in Miyamoto's gang than just being protected. In return, they're expected to offer loyalty and obedience, or face possibly deadly consequences. This becomes harder as the violence and the crimes they find themselves committing begins to escalate.
One night, they kidnap a high school girl, Sachiko. Now Hiroki has two battles to face. Internally, he faces the dissonance between his sense of self-preservation and his conscience. Externally, Sachiko's twin sister Miki, who goes to Hiroki's high school, her parents and the police are searching for the missing girl. Will Sachiko ever return home? What kind of person--or monster--will Hiroki become?
Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.
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Dashi Master (ダシマスター)
By: HAYAKAWA Hikaru x MATSUEDA Naotsugu
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 4 Volumes (Ongoing) / 3 Volumes Available
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Takahara Shouko's life changes forever one day when she goes to get some curry for lunch. In an ordinary-seeming curry shop, she eats the most delicious chicken curry she's ever had in her life. It is so delicious that it outshines the food cooked by a posh European-trained chef she meets later that evening.
When she attempts to discover the maker of the curry, she finds that it was a mysterious chef who was filling in for the ordinary staff. He's commonly known as the "Dashi Master." Will Shouko be able to track down the Dashi Master and discover his true identity?
Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.
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Enma Gavel (エンマ・ガベル)
By: SHIBATA Yuusaku
Demographics: Shounen
Status: One-shot (Complete)
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Sousuke is the class president, and is a stickler for the rules. Lately, he's had lots of problems. First of all, he's got to deal with his cute, but unruly, childhood friend Miroku. Secondly, they have a new transfer student, Enma, who claims to be from hell. Enma refuses to follow any rules but his own. Lastly, there's the giant, mysterious claw marks that have been appearing all over school buildings. With all this trouble going on, will Sousuke follow the rules or learn that sometimes there are more important things?
Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.
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Hanjuku Tantei Aoyuzu (はんじゅく探偵 あおゆずっ)
By: AWABAKO
Demographics: Seinen
Status: One-shot (Complete)
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An incredibly crude detective is searching for his lost, perverted brother. He soon finds himself with a bossy new assistant, a high school girl named Aoyagi Yuzu. Yuzu wants to be a novelist, and she's hoping that working as a detective will give her great material for her novels. Their first case comes from a cute girl who believes that her apartment is haunted by an evil spirit. Will they be able to solve the case, and will the detective be able to find his brother?
Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.
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Hinata Cafe e Youkoso (ひなたCafeへようこそ)
By: KADOI Aya
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 3 Chapters (Ongoing)
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Freshman Sato Anzu has always been praised by both students and teachers at Wakabayama High School and has always had an active school life. When she was having one of those days where everything goes wrong, she stumbles upon Hinata Café, owned and operated by Hinata Kaede, a strange girl around her age. Mysteriously drawn inside the shop, Anzu opens up to Hinata about her best friend stealing her boyfriend and her teachers denying her wishes of becoming a voice actor. Suddenly feeling like a weight was lifted off her shoulders, Anzu becomes really interested in Hinata and they come to be very good friends.
Thanks go to vyc for the summary.
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Jun to Ai (純と愛)
By: KURASHINA Ryou x KISHI Mikio
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 2 Volumes (Complete) / 1 Volume Available
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Ai is a fifteen-year-old girl who is living in the bad part of town, with her drunken, promiscuous mother. Her delinquent friends, Kana and Miki, regularly use Ai as bait to extort money from middle-aged men trying to buy sex. Ai feels horribly alone and trapped in a life she does not want.
Jun is a fifteen-year-old boy living in an elegant mansion. He has a teacher to give him lessons at home, and he studies the violin. He never leaves his home, though, due to his severe congenital heart disease. When any overexertion might lead to his death, playing it safe has always taken priority over interacting with other people.
Jun and Ai, both feeling confined and lonely, find each other through an internet social network on their cell phones. Soon, they have formed a deep friendship and possibly more. But will their affection for each other be able to overcome the extreme differences in their lives and upbringing?
Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.
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Kaizou Ningen Rogii (改造人間ロギイ)
By: MIKI Yuu
Demographics: Shounen
Status: One-shot (Complete)
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In the near future, the human race has cured most illnesses in the world by inserting a machine into everyone's body that automatically fixes the defects in the system. However, as a side effect, people will gain different kinds of abilities when the body tries to reject the machine and the black market will do anything to get their hands on these special people.
Rogii is one of these altered humans, who fight against those who want to capture and use others like him for crime and evil. Rogii’s incredible combat abilities help him crush his opposition as he tries to take down the black market.
Thanks go to vyc for the summary.
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Katsuko Otsukae Shimasu! (かつ子お仕えします！)
By: OKAZAKI Takeshi
Demographics: Shounen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
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Katsuko is a servant to the Ootori family. In fact, her whole family has traditionally been a butler for the incredibly wealthy family. The recent fallout between a son and a father in the Ootori family has forced Katsuko to act as a maid outside of the mansion and personally follow her new master around. He is an uncompassionate and bossy man who also is the new head of the academy Katsuko attends. Not only has her secret life as a maid to the family been revealed, she's also been having a hard time with her classmates and she has to deal with an overly demanding master. Little does Katsuko realize that the more time she spends with him, the more she sees the good in him.
Thanks go to vyc for the summary.
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Kaze Yori Hayaku (魔人戦記 破軍)
By: KAWASUMI Hiroshi
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
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Kumazawa Ryuuko was a top-ranked kendo athlete in the Kanto region of Japan during middle school. However, in her first year of high school, she loses a match to a girl called Namihira Kazune. Their approaches to kendo, which reflect their general personalities, could not be more different. Ryuuko is cheerful, childish, and treats kendo more like a game than a dangerous martial art. She sees Japanese swords as objects of beauty. To Kazune, on the other hand, kendo is all about seriousness and aggression. For her, a Japanese sword is a frightening weapon designed to kill people. How will these two girls' differences affect each other in the coming high school years?
Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.
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Kushiyaki P (串やきP)
By: SABE
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 2 Volumes (Complete) / 1 Volume Available
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Dozuru is a great auk, the first bird ever to be referred to as a "penguin." He leaves his few remaining family members to search for a better place for all of them. Unfortunately, he is first picked up by the sadistic Yoshie Tanaka. She tells him that his species is extinct, and, to keep from ending up a lab rat, he'll have to pass as a weird penguin. After some cruel surgical alterations, Dozuru is on his own once again.
This time, he is picked up by the siblings Hareru and Harema Haruno. Harema, the older brother, adores pets and eagerly takes in the ailing penguin. His little sister is more reluctant, but gives Dozuru his new name "Kushi P" (a name based on the assumption that they'll eat him eventually). It seems like everything is going well for the little "penguin." However, Kushi P has started a habit of slaughtering the other animals around him, and Yoshie is still lurking in the shadows. Will Dozuru/Kushi P ever be able to rejoin his family!?
Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.
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Like a Bitch! (らいく あ びっち！)
By: HAGIO Nobuto
Demographics: Seinen
Status: One-shot (Complete)
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Hikari is a high school student who has yet to lose his virginity. He has a girlfriend but doesn’t know how to bring it up. Out of options, he goes to his older sister, who's in college, for advice thinking she would have lots of experience. Little does Hikari know, she's also a virgin and has no idea what she is talking about. Flustered and panicked, his sister offers Hiakri to “teach” him how to have sex and so the weird relationship between two siblings who have no idea how to do it starts to manifest.
Thanks go to vyc for the summary.
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Maji Bra!? (まじブラ！？)
By: UTAMARO
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 1 Chapter (Ongoing)
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Hasuno Miu, a high school teenage girl, loves her big brother, Keiichiro, and believes he is the gentlest and kindest person ever. Miu learns that there is a suspicious pervert lurking around the community and, to her surprise, stumbles upon a couple that matches that description. Miu escapes back to her house only to find that the man and the woman is none other than her brother Keiichiro and his summoned demon sex slave Manimani. It turns out that Keiichiro is a magician that was able to summon Manimani from the depths of hell. With everything she thought of her brother shattered into oblivion, Miu has no idea what to do.
Thanks go to vyc for the summary.
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My Pure Lady (お願いサプリマン)
By: HAZUKI Kaoru x TOMISAWA Chinatsu
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 9 Volumes (Ongoing)
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Tagami is a 40 year old single guy that just quit his job and has been trying to figure out his life. During one of his midlife crisis days, he goes on a drive and meets a beautiful women named Ueno Aiko. One thing leads to another and they get themselves involved in one crazy night of passion. She leaves Tagami with a phone number and, soon after, Aiko has Tagami working as a driver for hire. The clients he works for all seem to be women and, one way or another, he always gets in a physical relationship with them. However, Tagami can’t forget Aiko and wants to get past just talking on the phone with her, but he never gets any closer. In the meantime, however, he finds the youthful flame he used to have with the beautiful women around him.
Thanks go to vyc for the summary.
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Nagisa-chan no Kareshi (なぎさちゃんのカレシ)
By: Mikage
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 8 Chapters (Ongoing)
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Nagisa is excited about her first boyfriend ever, who she met in college, Chihiro. He is cool, good looking and everything she can hope for except for one thing: he is an otaku. You wouldn’t be able to tell by just looking at Chihiro as he doesn’t fit the stereotype but don’t be fooled by his appearance as he is just as hardcore as the others. But Nagisa is so in love with him that she accepts him as a whole, good and bad. She tries to understand his likes so that they can grow closer and little by little, Nagisa starts to change.
Thanks go to vyc for the summary.
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Paradise→Paradox (パラダイス→パラドックス)
By: SUDA Yuriko
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
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When Toujou Rui was little, she used to wonder why the prince and princess in fairy tales couldn't both be women. Now, Rui's all grown up and starting college. She's moving into her own apartment, eager to meet her own princess and fall in love! The manager of her new apartment building, Suou Hina, is absolutely adorable and Rui can't wait to get to know her better!
However, her new apartment building hides a secret. Portals to the land of fairy tales open through the closets, and Hina is one of the people tasked with managing these portals and the fairytale denizens that travel through them. Hina also seems to have a secret of her own... Will Rui be able to navigate this strange, new world, and also find some way to win Hina's heart?
Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.
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Rairaiden (電電伝)
By: KODAMA Yuuki
Demographics: Seinen
Status: One-shot (Complete)
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A young, large-breasted ninja girl is captured while trying to steal a legendary sword. In the prison cell, she meets the true owner of the sword, Raikoumaru! Working together, maybe they can break out and reclaim the sword from the powerful collector, Asano!
Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.
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Syura no Mon-Iden Hudekage (修羅の門異伝 ふでかげ)
By: KAWAHARA Masatoshi x TOBINAGA Hiroyuki
Demographics: Shounen
Status: 2 Chapters (Ongoing)
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Ignacio DaSilva is a world famous Brazilian karate expert turned soccer player who has been making headlines. His giant body and unusual speed has made him the number one player in the world by far. During his post game interview, he stated that there was someone with more talent than him and that he was coming back from Brazil any time soon. This left the media in a frenzy to find who this player was that was better than the great Ignacio.
Kensho is the son of a karate master who grew up with his next door neighbor, Satsuka, who was the daughter of a soccer coach. As fate may have it, Kensho became a great soccer player and moved to Brazil for 3 years while Satsuka stayed in Japan and became the scholastic champion in her division. Kensho comes back to Japan and attends the same high school as Satsuka. Little does the world know about the tornado that was about to hit the soccer community with the return of Kensho.
Thanks go to vyc for the summary.
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Tiny Prinius (タイニープリニウス)
By: OISHI Masaru
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 4 Chapters (Ongoing)
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Purinosuke is a 30 year old man trapped in a toy body and is the last remaining member of the human race. When the Moon crashed into Earth and destroyed humanity, he was in space aboard the Prinius working as the apprentice galaxy museum curator. He cryogenically froze his body and transferred his memories into a toy so that he could continue his search for any survivors other than him. Accompanied by his robot maid, Shehera, and a random ghost, Purinosuke has to wander the cold deep space without giving up hope that there is someone out there somewhere.
Thanks go to vyc for the summary.
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Tonari no Masami-chan (となりのマサミちゃん)
By: KUROSE Naoto
Demographics: Shounen
Status: One-shot (Complete)
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Tachibana Nobu has absolutely no friends because of Masami, a ghost that has been haunting him for the longest time. Apparently, in his previous life, Nobu was Masami’s lover and she has been waiting for him to be reincarnated. Masami’s presence scares everyone away from Nobu, including every single one of his classmates. He hasn’t had a conversation with them in years let alone be friends with him. Masami is already driving Nobu crazy and if he doesn’t get rid of her fast some how, he might literally go insane from solitude even if he is in the city.
Thanks go to vyc for the summary.
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Uchuu Kyoudai (宇宙兄弟)
By: KOYAMA Chuuya
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 12 Volumes (Ongoing) / 11 Volumes Available
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One night in 2006, when they were young, the two brothers Mutta (born 1993) and Hibito (born 1996) saw what appeared to be a UFO heading for the moon. They decided that night to both become astronauts and travel out into space.
In 2025, Hibito has become an astronaut, and he's going to go to the moon. Mutta ended up following a more traditional career path with an auto development company. However, Mutta just ruined his career through a violent altercation with his boss. Now, not only has he lost his job, he appears to be blacklisted in the entire industry. Maybe this is a rare opportunity for Mutta to once again chase his childhood dream and become an astronaut like his little brother!
Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.
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Yarechau Seerusuman (ヤレちゃう せぇるすまん)
By: SAKURA
Demographics: Seinen
Status: 2 Volumes (Ongoing)
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Shiniri Hideto is a 21 year old brand new worker at his small company. He goes door-to-door to sell the ridiculous items the company manufactures. It’s a stressful but boring job except for one thing: everywhere Hideto goes, he gets into sexual adventures with the hot women and wives that he visits. They all seem to be starving for attention and somehow drawn to Hideto. Sometimes it is a hard sell, but he always gets the job done.
Thanks go to vyc for the summary.
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Opinions for the manga:
From tethysdust:
There were some pretty intense manga this week. The weirdest, by far, was Kushiyaki P. If small animals being dismembered bothers you, you should probably give this one a pass. 17sai is actually pretty engrossing, but, from the title, I'm guessing the ending is going to be horrifically sad. It's interesting to see a crime story from the point of view of an unwilling perpetrator. Jun to Ai was sort of like a teen romance novel (but with a couple of scenes of fairly explicit sex). A lot more time is spent on talking about feelings and "will they-won't they" end up together than on any sexual content, though. Paradise Paradox mixes some common tropes. There's the over-enthusiastic lesbian girl looking for her soulmate, and the whole idea of fairy-tale land portals. It came together into an entertaining story, though. Enma Gavel was the most generic one I read this week. It was pretty standard demon-fighting shounen.
Uchuu Kyoudai looked like a very well-written story. I've read that it won the Shogakukan Manga Award. Kaze Yori Hayaku was less action-packed than one might expect from a kendo manga. So far, it seems like there is going to be a lot more focus on the characters and the story itself than on actual kendo fighting.
From vyc:
Great series this week. Check them out Tiny Prinius - comedy where the last human alive is trapped in a toy body. Travels through space with his crew consisting of a robot maid and a random ghost. How cool is that. Nagisa chan no kareshi - romantic comedy. it's actually more comedy than love than you might think. well worth giving a try. Syura no mon - loved reading the chapters. the storyline was solid, the characters were very developed and just a great series. Wouldnt expect anything less from such a great and famous author. Definitely pick this up.
Kaizou Ningen Rogii - android super humans fighting against each other. cant get any better than that. Sorta has that Trigun feel to it. Like a Bitch - sexy forbidden relationship between siblings. Katsuko Otsukae Shimasu - maid for a powerful man who goes on special missions related to the school. Sexy action scenes will keep you reading. My Pure Lady - definitely for the mature crowd. Lots of relationship and sex topics in this.
As for me:
17sai. Joshikousei Kankin Satsujin sounds good, although tragic like tethy said... Jun to Ai sounds like an interesting romance story. Nagisa-chan no Kareshi sounds like a cute fluffy manga that'd make you go d'aww~ I'd check out Uchuu Kyoudai since people rarely ever get to follow their childhood dreams and get to do what they dreamed of doing when they were children...
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