New Manga Series for the Year 2012
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: Slice of Life
Will manga still exist ten years from now?
A publishing recession with no end in sight... combined with new technology and media that is changing everything. In Japan, manga artists find themselves constantly in debt even working hard week after week. What does this spell for the manga industry in the long run?
For the sake of the future of manga, Sato Shuho decided to ask himself this very question.
"Manga Poverty" is a frightening word. Manga artists work hard during their first week of a new serialization, but no matter how hard they work, they may get their manga canceled halfway through, leaving them with a mountain of debt. This is what causes many manga artists to fade into the shadows, regardless of their talent. Follow as Sato Shuho stands up to the corrupt system of the Japanese manga industry, and find out where his struggle leads him. Anyone interested in manga or publishing must read this book!
from Manga Reborn
Rating: 6.42 (1 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1926 
(+1150)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mature, Mystery, Seinen, Supernatural, Tragedy
From Kodansha:
For high schooler Kei and for at least forty-six others immortality comes as the nastiest surprise ever.
Sadly for Kei, but refreshingly for the reader, such a feat doesn't make him a superhero. In the eyes of both the general public and governments, he's a rare specimen who needs to be hunted down and handed over to scientists to be experimented on for life. A demi-human who must die a thousand deaths for the benefit of humanity.
Only the first volume is credited to MIURA Tsuina.
Official English: Azuki, INKR
Note: Nominated for the 7th annual Manga Taishou Award, the Readers Award in the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, the 38th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards in the Seinen category and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016 in the General category.
Rating: 8.22 (684 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1947 
(-15)
Genre: Action, Drama, Seinen
From MangaHelpers:
Ever since his father passed away, Ikki Kai feels bored by everything and yearns for a change of pace. While on a run through the woods, he meets a man who changes his life forever: this man is part of the Japan Self-Defence Forces. Now the only thing Ikki wants to do is join the JSDF himself. But will he able to survive the harsh trials that await him?
Rating: 6.09 (2 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1959 (+847)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural, Tragedy
After a mission gone awry, the doubtful main character, Rood, is sent to a famous magic school, Helios. Here, he must protect an important person's son who has a very bad time at the school.
Original Webcomic
Rating: 8.51 (719 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1965 (+78)
Genre: Adult, Comedy, School Life, Smut, Yaoi
Licensed by SuBLime
Freshmen Toono moves to Tokyo in order to transfer to an all-male-academy, surrounded by the mountains [Private Academy Mori-Mori]. Our friendly character Yaguchi is the first one to befriend him, but the lack of interest in sports coming from Toono, force him to join the photography club instead of the soccer club with Yaguchi. Not only is it called the photography club, but also “The Yarichin Bitch club”, whose members are outstanding senpai’s. Besides Toono, there’s also a new member in the club: Kashima senpai, they both started the same day, and they don’t seem to have any problem at all, even when Toono gets confessed in the club! Toono thinks that Yaguchi is adorable, but he always ends up blushing whenever Kashima is near. But above anything else, there are feelings found between the senpai’s…
Rating: 7.65 (163 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1974 (+31)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Supernatural
A strange phenomenon where one is transferred back to the moment right before something life-threatening occurs. This continues to happen until the cause of the threat is erased. It is as if somebody is forcing Satoru to stop it from happening. Then one day, everything is changed. What truths are revealed when Satoru comes face to face with his own past? How will they affect his future?
Boku dake ga Inai Machi: Re (Gaiden volume) is considered volume 9 of the series
Note: Was nominated for the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Reader Award in 2014 and for the 7th, 8th and 9th Manga Taisho Award between 2014 and 2016. Also nominated for the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.
Rating: 8.52 (808 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1999 (-13)
Genre: Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo
Shizuka Naoto doesn't have the intention to be the main actress. Everyone was so weird. Then a boy caught her attention... And together they started feeded a wild cat. But what will happen to them...??
Rating: 6.6 (10 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2014 (+1143)
Genre: Action, Drama, Martial Arts, Mature, Shounen
From Comikey:
Since the Edo periods of Japan, gladiator arenas exist in certain areas. In these arenas, wealthy business owners and merchants hire gladiators to fight in unarmed combat where winner takes all. Tokita Ohma, nicknamed "Ashura", joins these arenas and devastates his opponents. His spectacular ability to crush his enemies catches the attention of the big business owners, including the Nogi Group chairman, Nogi Hideki.
Original Web Manga
Official English: English
Rating: 7.88 (218 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2015 (+716)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Psychological, Romance, Sci-fi, Seinen, Supernatural
From Seven Seas:
Fuuta Okeya can see dead people. Other than that, you might assume he’s a perfectly normal junior high school student. When new transfer student Kouko Ishigami comes to school, Fuuta falls head over heels in love with her. But while she wants nothing to do with him, the ghost that trails behind her is another story. Just when Fuuta thinks he may have won Kouko over, she catches a glimpse of the strange birthmark beneath the bandage on his cheek and denounces him as her mortal enemy.
Official English Translation
Rating: 8.73 (969 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2054 (-1)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Sci-fi, Shounen, Supernatural
High school student Kaname Sudou receives an invitation from a classmate to play Darwin’s Game, a mobile game he has never heard of. However, as soon as he opens the application, a green snake suddenly pops out from his phone screen and bites his neck, leaving him unconscious. Waking up in the infirmary without any signs of a snake bite, he is told by the school to take the rest of the day off. Although he is puzzled by what has happened, he dismisses the surreal experience as a hallucination and boards the train home.
Unfortunately, his curiosity gets the better of him and he uses the application once again. As the application appears to be just like any other battle game, Kaname breathes out a sigh of relief and decides to start his first match. However, the pleasant surprise is short-lived, as his in-game opponent unexpectedly appears right in front of him and attempts to hunt him down with a knife.
As he desperately runs for his life, Kaname puts two and two together and realizes that Darwin’s Game is not an ordinary game, but rather, it’s a brutal fight for survival.
Rating: 7.86 (333 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2064 (-129)
Genre: Historical, Mystery, Seinen, Supernatural
In the Meiji restoration period of Japan, the government bans ghost stories and tales about demons. Despite this, a rental book shop called “the Reflected Rabbit” lends out books about ghouls and ghosts to its patrons.
Rating: 6.7 (6 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2074 (+1074)
Genre: Action, Historical, Seinen
Oneshot that came with Keyman volume 2.
Rating: 6.43 (14 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2082 (+1127)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
From Kodansha:
When they were accused of trying to overthrow the monarchy, the feared warriors the Seven Deadly Sins were sent into exile. Princess Elizabeth discovers the truth - the Sins were framed by the king's guard, the Holy Knights - too late to prevent them from assassinating her father and seizing the throne! Now the princess is on the run, seeking the Sins to help her reclaim the kingdom. But the first Sin she meets, Meliodas, is a little innkeeper with a talking pig. He doesn't even have a real sword. Have the legends of the Sins' strength been exaggerated?
Official English: INKR
Note: Nominated for the 7th annual Manga Taishou Award. Won the Kodansha Manga Award for Shounen in 2015 (tied with Yowamushi Pedal).
Rating: 7.66 (926 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2085 (-46)
Genre: Harem, Historical, Romance, Shoujo
Based on the otome game "Hanayaka Nari, Waga Ichizoku" (華ヤカ哉、我ガ一族)".
The story is about Miyanomori's palace maid Asagi Haru, and the love story between Miyanomori's six sons.
One day, Miyanomori published retirement and said that he would give the property to one of his six sons.
Which son will get the huge property?
In the story, Asagi Haru has become a maid of the Miyanomori family. She was involved in the battle between the family, and among them she started to know how they felt.
What fate will Asagi Haru and the six Miyanomori brothers meet?
Activity: Stats Pos #2092 (+1075)
Genre: Adult, Comedy, Harem, Romance, School Life, Seinen
A world where cute girls fight as cards. What's more terrifying (or pleasant?) it is a battle is to make the other girl undress. Win by making full use of your intellect and physical strength with the girls who have materialized from cards! If you win, the opponent's girl card will also be yours! ? A harem of 100 people (people?) isn't just a dream.
A slightly sexy card battle comedy, the long-awaited comic!
Rating: 6.3 (17 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2112 (-266)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Gender Bender, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural
From Kodansha:
Class troublemaker Ryu Yamada is already having a bad day when he stumbles down a staircase along with star student Urara Shiraishi. When he wakes up, he realizes they have switched bodies and that Ryu has the power to trade places with anyone just by kissing them! After figuring out the workings behind this new and amazing ability, Ryu and Urara take full advantage of the situation to improve their lives. But with such oddly amazing power, just how long will Ryu and Urara be able to keep their secret under wraps?
Official English: Azuki, INKR
Rating: 8.25 (1289 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2122 (+145)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
A mysterious man suddenly appears in the desert separating the East and West Continents. A young boy, Yulian Provoke from the Pareia tribe finds this man, and brings him to his village. Turns out the man is an incredibly strong and amazing individual, and he begins to teach the young boy fighting skills.
Original Webtoon:
Daum, KakaoPage
Official Translations:
German
Rating: 8.06 (367 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2123 (+108)
Genre: Horror, Mature, Psychological, Seinen, Tragedy
A butcher with a dark secret finds a little girl.
Oneshot that was included in Afternoon’s 2012 Four Seasons Award anthology (v28).
Rating: 7.36 (129 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2123 (+901)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Supernatural
Saya is an average school girl in every way but one: she's got a HUGE crush on her older brother! She's never been able to raise any flags with him (mostly due to her habit of beating him to a pulp whenever she sees him), but one day, she wakes up in the body of a cat that he brought home! Could this be her chance to make her beloved older brother fall for her?
Rating: 6.75 (87 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2127 (+963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Harem, Martial Arts, Romance, Supernatural
Lingyun’s body takeover fails and the Earth’s ending draws near. From a city he cultivates, one step at a time to rise against heaven.
Cultivating both the Buddhist and the Demon’s path! Dantian holding true dragons! Having the ancient Dragon God’s bloodline, along with the ancient legacy of the 3 emperors! Lingyun battles both heaven and earth, executing demons and killing devils, cultivating against heaven’s will!
He comes from the world of cultivation.
He crushes the martial way and throws it off into the abyss!
From the first chapter is my synopsis:
Lingyun, a fierce and savage cultivation genius takes over a dead teenager’s body. Coincidentally, they are both named Lingyun. Set in a alternate version of the 21st century, teenager Lingyun has been killed by someone with a grudge.
Original Novel
Activity: Stats Pos #2127 (+1151)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Mature, Shounen
Rating: 5.97 (3 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2130 (+980)
Genre: Doujinshi, Shounen Ai
Pairing: Kuroko x Kise
Original work on Pixiv
Activity: Stats Pos #2131 (+1181)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Mature, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Slice of Life
Amaguri Senko is a high school girl with a cool personality (as in, kuudere) and a big pervert. She openly reads porn and masturbates, and isn't perturbed in the slightest at the sight of penises and such. The story centers around Senko's daily life with two male handymen who works for her father's company which she also helps out with, Takamura Ryou and Sugita Kouhei. Takamura ends up being constantly sexually harassed by Senko, partially due to his phimosis dick that caught her interest, but little did he know, she wasn't joking when she bluntly said "I like you"...
Rating: 7.23 (162 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2137 (-76)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Shounen
Popular for being filled with bugs, the virtual-reality game New Communicate Online (a.k.a. Nekomimi Neko Offline).
A die-hard fan of the game, Sagara Souma, is sent to the game world from the power of a mysterious device.
Though surprised by the sudden turn of events, Souma conveniently knows the laws of the world.
Mastering every bug, using the game's logic against it, he is soon known as "Maverick Swordsman Souma."
Original Web Novel
Rating: 7.04 (40 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2144 (+1070)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Harem, Martial Arts, Mystery, Romance
From Bluefire Translations:
A human warrior cultivating the Ancient Strengthening Technique has transcended dimensions and arrived on Kyushu. Together with twelve ravishing beauties with looks that were unmatched in their generation, will he be able to stand on the summit of this world?
Official English
Rating: 6.06 (43 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2145 (+944)
