New Manga Series for the Year 2005
All new manga series reported for this year can be found here. You can sort them by the date they were reported to us, the rating, or based on how active the series was over the past month.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shoujo, Slice of Life
Official English: INKR
From TokyoPop:
Things just keep getting hotter for Christie as she faces up against her first ever fan convention. She's got a boyfriend, but suddenly she's not sure if he's really the one for her, and the events of the con keep throwing her in Matt's path. Matt's somewhat of a mystery, too. He's always got those wacky sunglasses on, and he can't seem to decide if he wants to be nice to Christie or just be a sarcastic jerk. Throw in an encounter with Lida Zeff, manga-ka extraordinaire, and Christie's dealing with one surprise after another. Of course, convention weekends tend to end all too quickly, and what will happen when suddenly distance is added to all of the factors keeping Christie and Matt apart?
Dramacon tied with Fred Gallagher's Megatokyo for the Best Continuing OEL Manga. It was also nominated for a 2006 Harvey Award, and a 2007 Will Eisner Award, but did not win either.
Rating: 7.67 (123 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2285 
(+1124)
Genre: Adventure, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life
Tory Blake is an average-looking 15-year-old boy, who possesses an uncanny sense of time and photographic memory. A self-proclaimed genius; he is spoiled, anti-social and cynical. His boredom is cured when a beautiful but secretive boy his own age, moves across the street from his apartment. From transferring schools, taking detailed notes in a journal, and raiding the guidance office, Tory is determined to find out who--or what--his curious neighbor really is!
[Tokyopop]
Rating: 7.07 (12 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2343 (+1170)
Genre: Drama, Historical, Horror, Mystery, School Life, Shoujo, Supernatural
Official English: INKR
Identical twins Jeanie and Amber are new students at Greenwich Private College, that lies on the edge of virgin bushlands. The school is run by its vice-principal, who has a prejudice against twins - in fact she rejects all twins' applications.The girls are only able to get in by saying that they are just regular sisters,born 11 months apart.
Rating: 6.73 (27 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2326 (+1153)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Shoujo, Supernatural
Official English: INKR
From Tokypop:
Meet Dinah, a disturbed young girl who has been sent to the small town of Bizenghast to live with her aunt following the tragic death of her parents. She is thought by her aunt to have some sort of mental illness, as Dinah believes the house to be haunted. Only Dinah is aware of the restless spirits, which only feeds the doctor's and her aunt's suspicions about Dinah's well-being. The house was a mental hospital, then a school for juvenile delinquents. The ghosts know Dinah can see them and they won't leave her alone. A recluse, she sneaks out with her only friend, Vincent, and together they discover a lost graveyard. There they find a sunken mausoleum, where Dinah reads from a stone engraving. This act binds her to a contract requiring Dinah to release spirits stuck somewhere between an unhappy life and a peaceful afterlife. If she refuses, she will face an eternity of hell. So Dinah begins her quest of "cleaning" the vaults, crypts, and graves of lost souls, all the while struggling with the haunts at home and suspicions of her growing mental illness.
Rating: 6.71 (43 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2288 (+1127)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
From Tokyopop:
In the era after the Battle of Mount Hyjal, the world attempts to recollect itself from the onslaught left in the wake of the Burning Legion.
The world thought it finally would be at peace. However, when an immense power emanates throughout the land all eyes turn in search of its source. Kalecgyos, a member of a decimate race of blue dragons quests towards the elven kingdom of Quel'Thalas in search of answers but he will have to deal with a vengeful dwarf... the army of the Undead Scourge... and the unveil the mystery behind a peasant girl with an enchanting mystery before he can finally obtain what he seeks.
Rating: 6.68 (35 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2340 (+1141)
Genre: Comedy, School Life, Shoujo
Official English: INKR
From Tokyopop:
Lonely nine-year-old Amanda Keller has persuaded her mother to let her buy a pet! But instead of a dog or cat, Amanda makes a daring decision and comes home with a sleepy little ferret she names Peach.
The arrival of Peach throws a monkey wrench into the previously ordered existence of the Keller household. Peach believes herself to be royalty, since she was worshipped by the ferrets at the pet store. But now Peach lives in fear of Amanda's hands—or as she sees them, the dreaded Handra monster! And her only means of defending herself is to bite!
Nevertheless, when we last left Peach and Amanda, they were able to put aside their differences and call a truce. But Peach is about to discover the world of terror known as Show and Tell...and meet a ferret even more bossy and conceited than she is! Will Princess Peach finally be put in her place?
Rating: 6.65 (14 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2332 (+1150)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-fi
Handsome and mysterious transfer student Hiroto Nakadai arrives at Maunaloa Academy, but he holds a secret far deeper than anyone can guess. Hiroto is actually a prince from another world, on the run from the evil Lord Kumagai and his dimension-hopping foot soldiers. Together with his newfound friends, Hiroto must journey through space and time, into the realms of the imagination, and beyond death itself in order to escape.
But first he’ll have to make it out of high school alive.
Rating: 6.58 (3 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2335 (+1165)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, School Life
From Tokyopop:
Maeve, a succubus-in-training, is sent to the human world by her mentor, Veril, to learn how to blend in and hone her skills of seduction. However, things get a little complicated after she meets Aiden, a smart, but unmotivated student at her new high school. Unfortunately for her, Sylne, the head succubus of the Demon World has sent a spy to catch any missteps her former protege. Between Aiden's witchy girlfriend, his nutty best friend, biology class, and Demon World conspiracies, Maeve is going to be lucky to make it out of high school alive!
Note: Finalists in Tokyopop's national Rising Stars of Manga competition.
Rating: 6.54 (20 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2319 (+1144)
Genre: Adult, Yuri
Stories from artists and writers around the world that deal with all aspects of lesbian relationships. From science fiction and realistic looks at long-term relationships to humorous fantasies and poetic angst, Yuri Monogatari has something for everyone who has ever been in love.
Rating: 6.49 (3 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2314 (+1141)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-fi, Shounen, Supernatural
Official English: INKR
From TokyoPop (based on volume 1):
Believing that the apples they received at their first house of the night are the cause of the bad candy they've been receiving, the kids plot deadly revenge on the old lady who handed out the cursed fruit.
Rating: 6.48 (10 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2341 (+1170)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Originally created by Neil Gaiman.
About couple of dead kids who end up running a detective agency.
From the American Library Association:
Ghosts Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland, introduced in Neil Gaiman's fourth Sandman opus, Season of Mists (1994), and featured in Thompson's At Death's Door (2003), are still avoiding Death and still finding time to run their own detective agency. Their latest case brings them stateside to a girls' boarding school in Chicago. While undercover, they work their way through the clues to find an absent classmate. They and their new friends at the school suspect the worst, and the teachers' mysterious attitude about the missing girl isn't helping. Thompson's cute art, distinctive while remaining within traditional manga-anime conventions, fits a story full of well-written over-the-top screwball comedy and featuring cameo appearances by Death and the Sandman. Sandman series fans may be a little disappointed (it's too cute), but manga mavens will be in heaven.
Rating: 6.47 (2 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2336 (+1170)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy
Official English: INKR
Kana thought her life couldn't get any worse--she was consistently behind on her schoolwork, she had no luck with the boys, and she was the only one of her friends who hadn't "blossomed" yet. However, when the new boy in class conjures up a portal in the girl's shower, she is transported to the magical world of Sokora--wearing nothing but a small cotton robe... Now, on top of landing at the center of a giant battle between good and evil, she finds that her body is beginning to go through some tremendous changes.
Unlikely to continue due to a "conflict of interest" with the writer. The webcomic version is no longer online (dead domain).
Rating: 6.47 (7 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2344 (+1170)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Shounen, Slice of Life
Official English: INKR
From TokyoPop (based on volume 1):
MBQ is about life. It's about people. It's about the extraordinary in the everyday. Some of it's going to thrill you, some of it's going to make you cry, some of it's going to make you cringe, and some of it is going to make you die laughing.
Omario is a struggling comic book artist who doesn't want to draw what everyone else is drawing. He doesn't want to draw super heroes, or cutesy little monsters, or zombies, or werewolves. But he also needs to get his rent paid. What's a guy to do?
But this story is not a diatribe on the state of the comics industry. This particular rant is the whirlwind that is occurring in Omario alone. It seems like everyone else around him is buckling down and serving their time in the hard life while they work toward their dream.
Jeff is grinding away at the MBQ while he's writing his screenplay. Brian is slaving at the karaoke place while he's mixing his beats. But not that everyone's dream is exactly glowing. Dee is looking to squeeze cash out of all the little underworld pukes in the Westside, and Officer Adian O'Malley has nothing to prove to anyone but himself.
There are all sorts of people cruising through MBQ looking for the thing that makes their life complete. Some find it, some don't. You just got to read it to find out.
Rating: 6.44 (2 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2338 (+1164)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shoujo, Yuri
Official English: INKR
From TokyoPop:
"Love Jessica"—That's what Leah finds on the back of a love letter to her sister—but who is this Jessica? When more letters, flowers and gifts start popping up, Leah goes undercover to discover her sister's secret. What she doesn't expect is to find is love of her own, and in some very unexpected places!
Rating: 6.32 (5 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2342 (+1168)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, School Life, Shounen
Amazing Agent Luna is the story of Luna, the perfect secret agent. A girl grown in a lab from the finest genetic material, she has been trained since her birth fifteen years ago to be the U.S. government's ultimate espionage weapon. But now she is given an assignment that will test her abilities to the utmost--high school.
In order to uncover an evil plot, the government sends Luna to a prominent high school to pose as a student. But the one thing Luna has not been trained to handle is her own feelings. They are powerful and out of control, like your average teen, but without parents or the usual interaction with her peers to guide her. Putting her in high school is lighting the fuse on an emotional bomb of adolescent confusion. Especially when she starts making friends, creating rivals, and having her first big crush on bad boy Jonah, the son of her arch-nemesis, Count Von Brucken!
Rating: 6.3 (13 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2313 (+1141)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Shounen, Supernatural
John Parker had it all. A decorated sharpshooter in the Civil War, he had a promising career ahead of him, a beautiful wife, and a newborn son. But after becoming embroiled in a dark and demonic conspiracy engineered by the Bakerton Detective Agency, he lost everything.
Fleeing to the West, a broken man, Parker reinvents himself as "No Man," a heartless gun-for-hire whose only solace comes from hunting and killing the demons who he helped set loose. With Buntline Special in hand, a deadly revolver with a sixteen inch barrel, he blasts his way through a different kind of Old West, where strange and evil beings lurk.
Rating: 6.3 (3 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3297 (No change)
Genre: Action, Sci-fi
Official English: INKR
From Tokyopop:
In the not-too-distant future, sovereign nations have been replaced by corporate city-states. War is entertainment--scheduled, televised, and rated. It is the new opiate of the masses and its stars are the elite Psychic Commandos, known as "Psy-Comms." Trained from an early age, these gifted soldiers have honed their various abilities to lethal perfection.
Rating: 6.29 (1 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2337 (+1169)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-fi
One of the only manga publications Tokyopop has released specifically for the Japanese market, this is a two volume anthology series based on Star Wars, featuring stories from eight different manga authors.
Contents are as follows:
Star Wars x Manga [Black] -
- "Perfect Evil - Part 1" by Hiromoto SIN-ichi
- "Tantive IV" by Formalin
- "Evil Eyes" by Nao
- "Dear Anakin" by Furi Furi Company
- two fold-out Darth Vader illustrations by TAKAHASHI Tsutomu and ASAMIYA Kia
Star Wars x Manga Silver -
- "Perfect Evil - Part 2" by Hiromoto SIN-ichi
- "Oh!! Jawajawa" by ARIGA Hitoshi
- "Star Wars -Phantasmagoria-" by UEDA Baron
- "Vader vs. R2 & 3PO" by NAKATSUKA Makomo
- "Dark Jedi" by NIRASAWA Yasushi
- two fold-out Darth Vader illustrations by KAIDA Yuji and ASAMIYA Kia
Both volumes were released in Japan simultaneously, on December 22, 2005.
They were later translated to English and saw a release in the United Kingdom on October 2006.
Rating: 6.29 (1 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2293 (+1136)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Mature, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural, Tragedy
Official English: INKR
From Tokyopop:
For nearly a millennium, undead creatures have blended into a Europe heavy with religious dogma and intolerance. These beasts of the night allied themselves with factions of mortal men who aimed at shaking the foundations of the Catholic Church and freeing society from its strangling grip. But always were their true natures hidden, often even from even each other. The world was unable and unwilling to accept the existence of extra-mortal beings.
A Midnight Opera is the story of two undead brothers Ein and Leroux DeLaLune, who are divided in this epic struggle and who are forced to reconcile their differences in the modern day to stop an open assault on mankind by the dissatisfied elements among the rest of the undead.
Original Comic (INKR)
Rating: 6.27 (13 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2321 (+1149)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Shoujo
From Dark Horse:
When first-year high school student Miharu Ogawa gets a call from her parents, telling her to come straight home from school, she prepares herself for the worst. After all, the last time her quirky restaurateur parents told her to come straight home she ended up as a contestant on a kiddy game show! But nothing she could ever have imagined could have prepared her for their "great news". . . Miharu is getting married! How's a spirited and independent teenager who has never even kissed a boy supposed to deal with suddenly having a fiancé she's never even met? And how will her feelings change when she finds out that there are other boys out there vying for her affection, and other girls ready and willing to take away the man she's not even sure she's ready for? With her family, friends, (and enemies!) to cope with, will Miharu even have the time to find out if the handsome, devoted Kazuo Fujiwara is really the man she is meant to be with, the man connected to her by the red string of destiny?
Rating: 6.23 (9 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2316 (+1144)
Genre: Action, Horror
From Tokyopop:
In the deep South, an ancient voodoo curse unleashes the "War on Flesh"--a hellish plague of voracious "Ew Chott" hornets that raise an army of the walking dead. This undead army spreads the plague by ripping the heart out of living creature to make room for a "Black Heart Hive" of more Ew Chott hornets. Souls collected bestow energy to the one who set free the curse, giving them limitless power. An unlikely group of five, salty individuals have to put their differences aside and combine their powers to destroy the onslaught of evil before it's too late.
Rating: 6.2 (1 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2341 (+1171)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Shoujo
From Yen Press:
Yoshitaka Kogirei isn’t very successful with girls, which wears him out a lot. His new classmate, Yagate, on the contrary, seems to attract the ladies with ease. Frustrated to no end, Yoshitaka asks Yagate for his recipe for success — and the master agrees to give him a few tips! When Yoshitaka learns that Yagate is a judge in the school’s upcoming beauty contest, his new friend proposes that Yoshitaka should stand in for a sick member of the judging committee. But when his dream girl steps on stage, Yoshitaka can no longer keep his macho temperament in check — and everything goes downhill from there!
Rating: 6.17 (15 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2337 (+1165)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Yaoi
Tatsuki must fight a beautiful demon shogun to avenge his uncle and reclaim his kingdom. He's joined by the young circus acrobat Keo who quickly becomes more than a friend. Tatsuki must raise an army against the demon shogun by proving he's worthy of the spirit mark of the tiger. He's tested not only by the spirit mark clans, but by the demon shogun himself, who would rather have the gorgeous Tatsuki as a lover than as his enemy. Also in this book, a science fiction yaoi story about a clock-maker and a beautiful android.
Rating: 6.12 (3 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2339 (+1175)
Genre: Drama, Romance
From TokyoPop:
Meet Plastic Chew, an up-and-coming rock band, desperately in need of a lead singer. Enter Sayuri, a young musician with dreams of rock stardom and a vocal style perfectly suited for PC's sound. Problem is, she's a girl and according to the group's credo--the band that plays together, stays together--living in the same house! Jun, the introverted lead guitarist, isn't at all comfortable with this situation, especially when he finds out Sayuri is a runaway! With a big rock competition fast approaching, will Plastic Chew catch its big break, or break up?
Rating: 6.1 (9 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2343 (+1161)
