New Manga Series for the Year 2008
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, Historical, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life
From Yen Press:
Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk Road to lavish life, chronicling the story of Amir Halgal, a young woman from a nomadic tribe betrothed to a twelve-year-old boy eight years her junior. Coping with cultural differences, blossoming feelings for her new husband, and expectations from both her adoptive and birth families, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into a new life and a new home in a society quick to define that role for her.
Note: Nominated for the 4th and 6th Manga Taisho. Won the 7th annual Manga Taishou Award in 2014 and the intergénérations prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2012.
Rating: 8.76 (1696 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #184 
(-51)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Mature, Seinen, Slice of Life
The series follows Kyouko Okita, a buxom housewife who's just recently moved into a new neighborhood with her husband. There she tries to adjust to her new neighborhood, make new friends, and deal with the quirkiness of her everyday life.
Rating: 7.51 (187 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #561 (-43)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Yaoi
Tomoharu Ueda is content being a police officer in his neighborhood. He likes helping people, and in return, people like him. One night, he gets visited by a yakuza who turned to be the victim of the underwear thief he caught the previous night. The yakuza is Aki Gotouda, the heir of the Gotouda group, who thanked him for catching the thief. To Tomoharu's surprise, Aki confesses that he has feelings for him. Thus starts a forbidden relationship between a police officer and a yakuza.
Official Korean Translation
🔗 Manga Planet
Rating: 8.71 (783 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #883 (-67)
Genre: Adult, Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Seinen
Kaoru is a 17-year-old virgin who has an SM fetish. He secretly dreams about an SM relationship with his childhood friend Nana. One day Kaoru's mom asks Nana to hide all his SM toys so he'll study for a change. However, Nana finds the leather one-piece that Kaoru bought and tries it on, but she accidentally locks it and doesn't have the key! The beginning of their super strange relationship.
Note: The chapter numbers were reset after moving from Young Animal Arashi to Young Animal.
Original Manga:
Young Animal, Manga Park
Official Translations:
English (Denpa, Fakku)
Rating: 8.36 (1743 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1041 (-211)
Genre: Comedy, School Life, Seinen, Slice of Life
It's a 4-panel style manga that follows the comedic life of a typical school girl Yasuna and her assassin classmate Sonya. Sonya's attempt to fit in often fails when her natural assassin instincts kick in and the attempts Yasuna does to be more friendly with Sonya often gets her hurt or intimidated.
Rating: 7.55 (146 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1115 (-98)
Genre: Drama, Mature, Psychological, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life, Tragedy
From Psycho Pandas:
"I have something I don't want to lose. So much so that these terrible feelings have grown."
A pianist who attempted suicide 3 times, Juri, is taken to help her aunt at a prison where murderers who killed indiscriminately are sentenced to death. There, she meets a man named Yuu who took the lives of 3 people. A mother's antagonism--a brother's death. Together they embrace the violent rebellion in their hearts caused by the large, deep scars they carry. However, before long, they both embrace an earnest hope in their hearts. "I want to live."
An adaptation of a novel by South Korea's most popular female novelist, Gong Ji-Young.
Rating: 8.77 (2376 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1432 (-10)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life
From Easy Going Scans:
Fate brings two people who live in the same condo together on a typical afternoon. Ozawa (26) has just broken up with her boyfriend of five years and was in the process of trying to rebuild her life when she meets Oyamada who lives a couple floors below her. He is somewhat of a loner although he does have a few friends and his room is cluttered with all the random stuff that his impulse shopper brother sends him. Ozawa takes an interest with all the things in his room and the two start a friendship that slowly turns into something more.
Rating: 8.35 (1350 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1447 
(+199)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo
From Azuki:
Mizutani is a self-absorbed overachiever, concerned only with maintaining the highest grades in school. Haru is an impulsive short tempered brute, who scares everyone with his explosive bursts of violence. Haru gets suspended on the first day of school when he encounters some bullies harassing a student and dispatches the bullies with great bloody violence. Mizutani is tasked with delivering school materials to Haru who interprets this as an act of friendship and latches on to Mizutani, much to her dismay. And so begins a strange and potentially combustible relationship.
Official English: Azuki, INKR
Rating: 8.45 (1284 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1504 (+442)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Supernatural
From Viz:
Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity. But it turns out that his place is a shrine, and Nanami has unwittingly taken over his job as a local deity.
Nanami has all kinds of new responsibilities she doesn't understand, dangers she's unaware of, and a cranky ex-familiar who's actually pretty hot. What's a new-fledged godling to do?
Rating: 8.65 (1480 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1516 (+89)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural
From Inkr:
The world is divided into two factions: humans and monsters called katawara. Despite being a katawara, Tama loves humans and vows to protect them from evil, even if it means fighting her own kind. Her brother Jinka, however, hates humans, despite mostly being one. The siblings are joined by a cowardly swordsman named Shinsuke, who wants to learn how to become strong. When the group uncovers a plot to experiment on humans and transform them into monsters, they vow to defeat whoever is behind it. Even if it means battling an entire army of warriors. The people they meet, places they see, and creatures they battle will be legendary.
English Translation: INKR Comics
Rating: 8.48 (562 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1522 (-74)
Genre: Comedy, Harem, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural
Katsuragi Keima is known on the net as the god of getting the girls while in real life he’s known as otamegane and he hates all real girls. However he is approached by Elsie, a devil from hell, to help her in catching runaway spirits that hide in people. Apparently the spirits only hide in the hearts of girls and the only way to get the souls out is by making the girl fall in love so the spirit gets forced out. And he’s not allowed to fail or he will lose his head.
Rating: 8.57 (2404 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1576 (+550)
Genre: Comedy, Harem, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Slice of Life
Kazama Kenji likes to believe he is something of a delinquent. Moreover, others seem to like to agree that he is. Of course, Kenji's gang finds their way to a group of four not-so-normal girls - Chitose, Sakura, Minami and Roka - and all at once, whatever reputation he may have, is nothing compared to the outrageous behavior of the girls. Shanghaied into joining their club, what will happen to his everyday life from that point on?
Rating: 8.07 (418 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1629 (+237)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Gender Bender, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life
Kurosaki Mafuyu was a juvenile delinquent and head of her gang before her subsequent arrest got her expelled from high school. Now that she’s transferred to a new high school, she’s determined to become an “ultra-shiny, super feminine high-school student.” But with a new friend like Hayasaka-kun and a homeroom teacher like Saeki Takaomi (who may be more than he seems), will Mafuyu really be able to live a girly-girl high-school life!?
Rating: 8.65 (1292 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1674 (+204)
Genre: Adult, Drama, Ecchi, Harem, Mature, Romance, School Life, Seinen
Aki Sora revolves around Aki Aoi and Sora Aoi, a pair of close siblings who have shared an intimate bond since childhood. During their coming of age, they each come to realize the true depth of the love they feel for each other and consummate that love in secret. They keep their younger sister, Nami, Sora’s twin in the dark about their new relationship. Nami, clueless of what is happening in her household aims to set her brother up with her best friend, Kana Sumiya. Despite these relationships Nami seems to have feelings for someone near to her too but keeps them secret.
Note: The first and third volumes will no longer be printed following July 2011 due to the Tokyo Youth Development Ordinance bill due to its depictions of incest.
Rating: 6.4 (836 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1674 (+225)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mature, Yaoi
In a city where the law has been rendered non-existent, Yuki and his best friend Tetsu break into the offices of the Seidoukai to steal in a desperate attempt to finance his ailing brother's hospital bills. They ultimately fail but instead spark the interest of the mob's young leader, Kazutaka Hyodo, who offers Yuki a deal he can't refuse: pay him a visit at his office once a week and all hospital bills will be taken care of. Yuki accepts without hesitation and in order to keep his end of the deal, starts paying Hyodo the visits he asked for...
Official Translations:
English (Tokyopop, INKR, French, German
Rating: 8.57 (507 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1674 (+90)
Genre: Adult, Drama, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Slice of Life
Tetsuo Aoki is a 4th year oil painter at a fine arts school. While working in an art supplies store, he meets an older woman named Akira Aizawa, who is the manager of an art gallery. Akira becomes interested in Tetsuo and she begins to pursue him when she catches him painting on the riverside. After such, their relationship begins to develop romantically. Will it develop smoothly? Or will there be unforeseen events?
Rating: 8.22 (686 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1735 (+146)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life, Supernatural
From Storm in Heaven:
Meet the Urumas, a slightly dysfunctional family of four sorcerers. Mom, being the most powerful sorceress around, works away from home keeping the world safe. Dad picks up the slack and takes care of the family. Except when he's out, which is when the older brother Jin finds himself in the unenviable position of keeping tabs on his sister Ran. Ran, the youngest, is a willful girl with too much power and too little wisdom. Let's take a look at Ran's everyday misadventures, shall we?
Rating: 8.52 (819 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1745 (+276)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Josei, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Supernatural
From a young age, Minami Harusumi has had recurring dreams of Veronica, a princess whose kingdom is on the verge of destruction. He believes them to be recollections of his past life, and that he is her reincarnation. Because of this, he is ridiculed by his classmates. One day, when the mockery escalates into bullying, he rediscovers magic - something Veronica had studied and used. Reassured his past life is not merely a fantasy, Minami tries to learn more about his past memories and the reason behind them...
Rating: 8.55 (450 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1758 (-18)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural
Seikyou Private Academy, built on the intrigue of traditional occult myths, bears a dark past—for 60 years, it has been haunted by a ghost known as Yuuko, a young woman who mysteriously died in the basement of the old school building. With no memory of her life or death, Yuuko discreetly founds and heads the Paranormal Investigations Club in search of answers.
After a chance meeting leads Yuuko to cling to diligent freshman Teiichi Niiya, who can see the quirky ghost, they quickly grow close, and he decides to help her. Along with Kirie Kanoe, Yuuko's relative, and the oblivious second year Momoe Okonogi, they delve deep into the infamous Seven Mysteries of the storied school.
Rating: 8.54 (1155 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1837 (+208)
Genre: Adult, Drama, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Seinen
Akiyoshi Wataru is your average student. He attends cram school, hangs out with his friends and does what boys his age do: Go after girls. One day a particular girl, Iwashita Ayane, catches his attention in cram school, because of her red fingernail. Later in town he sees a familiar girl and follows her. But the girl enters an image club. A brothel that specializes on cosplay. What's more, one of the girls working there goes by the name of "Ayane". What does that mean? And what will Wataru do?
Rating: 6.84 (256 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1903 (+120)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Shounen, Tragedy
Sequel to Immortal Regis.
Original Webcomic
Rating: 7.72 (536 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1906 (+181)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mature, Romance, School Life, Shoujo
From Kodansha:
Mei Tachibana has no friends and she doesn't need them. Ever since her "friends" betrayed her in elementary school, she's sworn off friendship entirely. All it leads to is betrayal and heartbreak, and she's well enough on her own. But everything changes when she accidentally roundhouse kicks the most popular boy in school. However, Yamato Kurosawa isn't angry in the slightest. In fact, he thinks his ordinary life could use an unusual girl like Mei. He won't take no for an answer, and soon Mei and Yamato embark on an unwanted friendship that will change both of them forever.
Official English: Azuki, INKR
Rating: 8.26 (1320 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1918 (+322)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life
Awkward Yoshida is hated by all the girls in school for his perceived closeness with hot guy Sato, who uses hanging out with Yoshida as an excuse to turn them all down. If Yoshida is merely an excuse, why does Sato taunt him in private about “his favorite”? Is it possible Sato’s feelings run deeper than friendship? And what could he possibly see in the funny-looking Yoshida? Watch Yoshida’s life turn upside down with hilarious results!
Included Oneshots:
- Volume 1: "Kimi wa Happoubijin" ( 君は八方美人 ); Magazine Be x Boy 2006-09
- Volume 2: "Kame no Koi wa Mannen" ( 亀の恋は万年 ); Magazine Be x Boy 2005-12
"Koi wa Marunomi" ( 恋は丸呑み ); Magazine Be x Boy 2006-03
Note:
SuBLime put out a digital extra of this series called "His Notebook." It takes place at the end of Volume 6 and discusses what happened between Yoshida and Sato on the beach.
Official English
Rating: 8.46 (447 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1943 (+293)
Genre: Adult, Harem, Romance, School Life, Seinen
A new teacher enters an all-girls high school and as he tours around he sees a female student sleeping in a classroom. When she wakes up, however, she suddenly kisses him.
Rating: 7.01 (229 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1968 (+119)
Genre: Adult, Hentai, Shotacon
Collection of short stories, some with incest:
1-7. Mamama
8. Home Teacher
9. Hypnotism. Your friend sells you a banned DVD that puts anyone watching it into a deep trance. You trick your adorable younger sister into watching it as a "Diet DVD." It works! So the first thing you do is order her to act like a dog...
10. Home Tutor Takumi-kun excels under the tutelage of Sana-sensei, a lovely college girl. But when she tells Takumi she's going out for her first date with a college senior, he suggests they role-play being on a date "so you'll know what to expect."
11. Home Tutor 2 (Put Into Practice Chapter). Takumi-kun goes on a first date with his new girlfriend, Sana-sensi. But the appearance of Sana's roommate, Mayumi, may spoil everything--but Takumi-kun has other plans!
Rating: 6.95 (54 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1982 (+644)
