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: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, School Life, Supernatural
From Yen Press:
Nightschool answers the age-old question—Where do demons get their diplomas? Schools may close for the night and the lights may be off, but class is still in session. At the Nightschool, werewolves, vampires, and witches gather to learn everything from spell casting to calculus. Alex, a young weirn (a particular kind of witch) has always been homeschooled, but dark forces seem to be drawing her closer to the Nightschool and the mysteries within.
[The series is finished for now. But the author hints at a possible sequel.]
Rating: 7.22 (28 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2298 
(+1122)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural
From Del Ray:
“I cannot die. But I cannot live. Let me go.
Remove this curse of eternal life!”
Handsome, wealthy, respected, Giancarlo has lived for hundreds of years, surrounded by splendor, shrouded in darkness, and enslaved by the insatiable hunger lurking inside him. In the glittering ballrooms where the privileged gather, he moves with cool elegance. But in the desolate alleys where the undead feed, he preys with murderous intent. Immortality is his, but love never will be–only an eternity of loneliness, filled with the blood of innocent victims.
But Jenny won’t be one of them. Something about this beautiful young woman stirs feelings in Giancarlo that he hasn’t known for centuries. For her, he will defy his dark brethren and fight to be mortal again. But he is a marked man. Ghoulish murders plaguing the city have made him the target of a relentless homicide cop. And a far more dangerous enemy–one of unspeakable brutality and bloodlust–hovers even closer . . . determined to annihilate Giancarlo and his last chance for salvation.
Rating: 6.77 (8 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2330 (+1161)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Martial Arts, Mystery, Shounen
From CMX:
Manga superstar Natsume (creator of Togari) debuted his unique vision of the Dark Knight with the miniseries collected in this compact, manga-sized edition! There's a new serial killer in Gotham, who may have ties to the young Bruce Wayne's training in Japan. But does the murderer know Bruce Wayne is the Batman? Did his past experience somehow lead to a killer's rampage through the Gotham underworld today?
Rating: 6.65 (12 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2314 (+1149)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Shounen, Supernatural
From Del Rey:
Most people fear Yokai - Japanese spirits - but young Hamachi wants to befriend them. He sees them as mischievous creatures that could coexist peacefully with humans if only given a chance. But when his grandmother dies under mysterious circumstances, Hamachi journeys into the Yokai realm to search for her killer. Will he succeed in his quest, or will he be lost forever in a strange new world?
Rating: 6.62 (7 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2340 (+1158)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-fi, Shoujo, Shounen Ai
Official English: INKR
Alien refugees have come to Earth. They call themselves 9-Lives. Humans call them cat-boys, and force them to live as collared pets. Conri, a rebellious young 9-Life, ran away to escape this fate. But when a human named Adrian saves him from capture, Conri is torn between his desire for freedom and another desire he can't quite admit, even to himself... Can two people meet as equals in a world divided between masters and slaves?
Rating: 6.6 (15 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2324 (+1148)
Genre: Drama, School Life, Shoujo, Shounen Ai, Tragedy
In the End centers on sulky teen, Kaito Niikura. He swears that no one understands him – not his dad, classmates, or friends. Then, Kaito has a chance encounter on a subway platform with a man who not only becomes infatuated with him, but is also one of Kaito’s high school teachers. Kaito begins to see Ren Ando as the first teacher who ever cared about him, and believes that Ren may know him better than he knows himself. But Kaito’s father and Ren’s wife, Megumi, have something to say about that.
Rating: 6.56 (31 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2324 (+1138)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Supernatural
The daughter of the tribal chief, Luuna is getting ready for her initiation night, a traditional right of passage during which she'll enter the forest alone to find her totem. But the night chosen for her ceremony is unlucky, and so although Luuna finds her spirits - one black wolf, one white - she must pay with a curse that will change her life forever.
-info from Amazon.com
Rating: 6.55 (4 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3707 (No change)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
From Tokyopop:
Hot on the heels of the bestselling Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy comes a stunning and truly awesome collection of original adventures set in the Warcraft universe.
Rating: 6.54 (3 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2346 (+1148)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Supernatural
From Del Rey:
From the infinite imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes the suspenseful graphic-novel debut of a natural-born hero with a super-natural twist.
Odd Thomas is a regular nineteen-year-old with an unusual gift: the ability to see the lingering spirits of the dead. To Odd, it's not such a big deal. And most folks in sleepy Pico Mundo, California, are much more interested in the irresistible pancakes Odd whips up at the local dinner. Still, communing with the dead can be useful. Because while some spirits only want a little company... others want justice.
When the sad specter of a very frightened boy finds its way to him, Odd vows to root out the evil suddenly infecting the sunny streets of Pico Mundo. But even with his exceptional ability-plus the local police and his pistol-packing girlfriend, Stormy, backing him-is Odd any match for a faceless stalker who's always a step ahead... and determined to kill again?
Rating: 6.52 (3 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2344 (+1173)
Genre: Drama, Sci-fi, Yaoi
In a steam-punk futuristic world the beautiful dancer Danya seems too perfect and pure. He's unlucky to have an obsessed fan who's also a cynical journalist. The reporter Patrick has good reason to hate the world, and all the people in it. He only trusts his emotionless android Ed. He'll stalk Danya under the pretext of article research. The truth is, although Danya is the only man to ever fascinate him, Patrick can't accept that even this beautiful dancer is not without sin and vice. Will he love him? Or expose the one secret that could destroy him?
Rating: 6.5 (4 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2349 (+1165)
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Shoujo
Official English: INKR
A year has passed since Princess Ai returned to troubled and war-torn Ai-Land. When the Prism of Midnight Dawn is stolen from Ai-Land, Ai returns to Earth to retrieve it. But when she gets there, she discovers that Kent is not the man she remembers, and that a new drug has taken her place. [Tokyopop]
Rating: 6.45 (7 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2277 (+1112)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Psychological, Supernatural
Goths Cage is an enchanting manga-esque picture book series of three short stories with a malicious twist of love and romance. It is based on Yasushi Suzuki's art series that was previously released online in Japan under the name Phantoms KADAN. Suzuki-san re-adapts his art series and transforms it into a bewitching picture book with entrancing grace and charm. Each of his gothic tales is exquisitely crafted with elegant detailed illustrations that transport readers into an enchanted world of gothic glory.
In his first story, Glass Magic, Suzuki-san does a twisted take on the classic Cinderella tale. An ugly corpse-like servant girl wishes to fall in love with a prince and become a beautiful princess. Then a sinister old witch offers her a magic potion that can grant her heart's desires, but in order for the magic to work, she must abandon her soul. She gets rid of her memories, her face, and her master to become a cruelly beautiful glass princess.
In another of Suzuki's splendidly dark tales, the shop keeper of an enchanted barbershop attends to his beautiful victim under the moonlight. He snips away at her thoughts and memories, mystically cutting away all her painful memories that scar her heart. However, because she is sapped of her thoughts and memories, all that is left is her pitiful vacuous body.
Prepare to be mesmerized by Yasushi Suzuki's spine-chilling tales of love and entrancement this fall 2008, because this enchanting collection of spellbinding illustrations and twisted tales is a must-have!
Note: 32 page hardcover volume, all in color.
Rating: 6.44 (25 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2333 (+1158)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Sci-fi, Slice of Life, Supernatural, Tragedy
From the Back:
In Rising Stars of Manga: United Kingdom and Ireland, Tokyopop has awarded 9 aspiring artists and writers a unique opportunity to be published and receive a well-deserved jump start on their creative careers. This talented assortment of brilliant, ingenious, and unpredictable creators was chosen from hundreds of entries during the international talent competitions. So what is the secret to becoming the world's next top manga-ka? The answer is in your hands!
Rating: 6.44 (9 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2328 (+1164)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
From Seven Seas:
His name is Bernard Black, also known as the Black Rose, and he’s one of the best cat burglars in the world. His one weakness? Bernie may be the best there is at what he does, but he’s also a virgin, and whenever he gets near a beautiful woman, he turns into a bumbling fool.
Bernie has stolen a priceless necklace from billionaire John Maiden during the Cannes Film Festival, only to have it swiped right from under him by his rival and secret love interest, the cunning Lily Frost.
In turn, John Maiden contracts out to an elite female service known as M.A.D.A.M. (Mistresses of Assasination, Destruction, and Mayhem). Their mission: to retrieve the necklace at all costs and to bring back Bernie’s head on a silver platter. To accomplish this, M.A.D.A.M dispatches their ten deadliest and most beautiful assassins after Bernie, on a hilarious and action-packed romp through all the really cool places in Europe, from Cannes and Monaco to Paris, London, and Edinburgh.
Rating: 6.36 (5 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2330 (+1157)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-fi, Shounen
Official English: INKR
A partnership between Spacedog Entertainment and TokyoPop, comes a manga called eV.
From TokyoPop (based on volume 1):
Twenty minutes from now, visitors from a far-off world will fall into Earth's orbit and issue a most unexpected request... These "Emissaries" invite a single human being to be selected as a representative for all of Earth in an intergalactic parliament. Mankind is given five years in which to prepare this volunteer for the rigors of space travel and the intricacies of alien diplomacy. Scientist Dr. Richard Wymond devises the ZETTA serum—a nano-biological cocktail that will augment its recipient with nearly superhuman abilities. But when Wymond's daughter Evie is mortally injured in a freak accident, he makes a fateful decision, and rather than let her die, injects Evie with the ZETTA serum. Now the fate of the world rests upon the shoulders of one 17-year-old girl. How will Evie cope with this awesome responsibility? Will she survive the strange political intrigues of the parliament? And more importantly, are the Emissaries' intentions as honorable as they have led us to believe...?
Rating: 6.32 (2 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2340 (+1173)
Genre: Fantasy, Shoujo
From the back cover of volume 1:
When the Blackthorn group learns that the evil Simon Blankenship is trying to track down one of the ancient Mithrian artifacts in Japan, Rachel and the gang get on the next flight to Tokyo to beat him to it. But will the fate of mankind get overshadowed by the weird tension growing between Alex and Rachel, or how Pilar--Rachel's best friend and Alex's girlfriend--is going to deal with it? And when Rachel's mysterious powers begin popping up, will she finally face the fact that she is indeed the reincarnation of the Goddess Etherea? Packed with deception, adventure and--of course--shopping, the first Spy Goddess manga will make any teen girl want to go into international espionage.
Rating: 6.28 (2 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2348 (+1168)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
From Seven Seas:
He was the world's greatest ninja... or so they tell him.
The Shadow Clan is a US-based ninja clan hidden in small-town middle America. Their newest grandmaster, the 18-year-old "Inazuma," was destined for greatness. But on an important mission, he was ambushed and fell to his death. Or so everyone thinks. Because oddly enough, five years later, he reemerges in Hollywood as a struggling actor.
The new Grandmaster of the clan dispatches his beautiful daughter, Anna Pearson, a full-fledged ninja herself, to Los Angeles to track down their lost ninja. But Anna has never been outside the clan, and she’s in for quite a shock when her traditional ninja values collide with LA life, not to mention when she meets the deadbeat actor in person, with no memory of his former life as a ninja.
Rating: 6.26 (1 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2345 (+1163)
Hellgate: London is the prequel to the video game of the same name, an RPG in which London is taken over by hordes of demons and humanity must fight for survival.
“On October 31st, 2020, man stood against an invasion of demonkind at the battle of All Hallows’ Eve. In the weeks leading up to this decisive clash, as the barrier between our world the underworld dissolved…many people discovered in themselves a calling…”
John Fowler, a college Rugby champ, wakes up from a terrible nightmare filled with demons only to discover he’s late for class. At school his archeology class is uncovering some remains on the grounds of the college. Mostly they find broken pots and household items, but amongst the debris is a skeleton buried face down. The teacher explains that in earlier centuries those believed to worship Satan were buried face down and on unhallowed ground. Near the remains John finds a strange talisman.
The body and the talisman are only the beginning. John and Lindsey, his cricket-bat-wielding sister, learn that their family are members of the Templar Knights and sworn to fight evil. Not only that but evil is one the rise again and they can’t just sit quietly on the sidelines hoping it will go away. Soon the two are on a quest, hoping to discover more about the talisman and their family.
Rating: 6.2 (1 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2348 (+1172)
Genre: Comedy, Gender Bender, School Life, Shoujo, Shounen Ai
Originally in German
Yanik is new at his school and doesn't want to be an outsider again. When he meets Alan he also wants to be as popular as him with the girls. But when Alan kissed Yanik to get rid of the girls, the admiration turns into disgust. But at a party where Yanik had to disguise himself as a girl Alan falls in love with the "girl" at first sight...
Rating: 5.81 (47 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2341 (+1156)
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Official English: INKR
- Princess Ai was a famous singer who has wings on her back because of her Dougen blood
- Each chapter features side stories about Ai, her friends, and her allies told as if they're rumors
- Princess Ai Anthology created by fans of the manga in various art styles with lots of creativity!
Genre: Sci-fi
Official English: INKR
From the back cover of volume 1:
In the post-meteor age, humans and human-like reptile descendents have struck a delicate peace accord based on a dark new religion called Sacrosanct. So when a psychotic general escapes prison and plots a military coup, the government hires saucy racer girl Sepulveda Ramos and her dysfunctional crew of mercenaries to do everything it takes to prevent global scale carnage. But first, Sepulveda needs a drink! From global manga-ka Ryu Blackman comes a far-out space odyssey that gives the battle between good and evil a whole new sense of style!
Activity: Stats Pos #2349 (+1163)
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Seinen
Official English: INKR
From TokyoPop (based on volume 1):
My name is Vox. I am the last surviving member of an underground resistance. Our mission: Expose and destroy a vast and sinister plot to take over planet Earth. Aliens have infiltrated the Earth's entire political, industrial, military, and socio-industrial complex. They are determined to extinguish life on our planet. Since birth, the five of you were fated to receive this message. You are possessed of extraordinary abilities... Logan, you have superior strength and superhuman intuition. Leelee, no Olympian has ever had your level of agility. Jenna and Jamie, your parents knew of your telekinesis and ESP when you were still children. Tony, your intellect is off the charts. The entire world needs you. You must use your talents to join together and stop this invasion...And in doing so, the five of you will become...The Mysterians!
Activity: Stats Pos #2349 (+1171)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Shoujo, Shounen Ai, Sports
From Tokyopop:
High school senior Herman is out to prove to his old teammates that he's responsible enough to lead a rowing crew to victory in this year's eagerly anticipated inter-school regatta. However, Herman's attraction to hunky teammate Mar may throw his well-laid plans out the window. And it doesn't help that Mar is in a relationship with his best friend's sister. Can Herman keep his feelings in check until after the regatta? Or will this doom his crew before they even get a chance to hit the water?
Note: Unavailable to due Tokyopop being dead in the USA and the artist has not released it herself online or as a sidestory.
Activity: Stats Pos #2340 (+1167)
