New Manga Series for the Year 2004
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, Gender Bender, Romance, School Life, Shoujo
Naka is an aspiring young model with a problem: her face tenses up into a terrifying spectacle whenever she gets nervous on photo shoots! Naka's rival is Umi, the hottest model at their agency. But Naka soon discovers Umi's secret--and hilarity ensues behind the cameras! [TokyoPop]
Rating: 8.31 (651 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2709 
(+263)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Shounen
The demon queen subdued enormous and powerful monsters and slaughtered over half of the world's population. Surviving members of the human race elected a hero to slay the demon queen, beseeching release from her oppressive rule. However, he questions his mission to eradicate the monsters: in his opinion, they too are conscious and alive, and so he anguishes over that fact. Sheila the Demon Queen became interested in him and decides to join his journey, hiding her identity and planning to kill him after she has gained his trust. Immediately, however, she realizes that she's fallen in love with the hero, and hence their journey begins...
Rating: 8.27 (1846 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1648 (+286)
Genre: Action, Adult, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mature, Seinen
When the black blade roars, all who stand in its path shall be torn asunder…! What is it that Koinzell, the mysterious young boy who wields the sword with such exceptional skill, desires? The fight against the “Lances of Betrayal,” who were thought to have been defeated by the Seven Heroes, begins--And at battle’s end, only the shocking truth will remain amid the pools of blood.
Rating: 8.26 (1641 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #886 
(-21)
Genre: Comedy, Harem, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life
Hayate Ayasaki, 16, the world's unluckiest boy. Working hard as a child for food and school fees, his unemployed and indebted parents sold him to the yakuza for his internal organs. After temporarily escaping the criminals and contemplating the benefits of a life of crime, he was saved by a wealthy young girl; who now employs him as a live-in butler.
Rating: 8.25 (1178 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2121 (+286)
Genre: Drama, Gender Bender, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Supernatural, Tragedy
From Go! Comi:
Like most teenagers, Mashiro Ichijo has a secret. But Mashiro's secret is that he’s neither fully male nor female! So far, Mashiro's been able to live his life as a boy, but all this changes when he's informed of a new class he must take in order to graduate from his elite prep school. To pass, he must find the “Key”…and the only way to find it is to enter into a nightmare world where his body and soul are put at the mercy of the worst kind of enemies: his classmates!
Rating: 8.24 (970 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2471 (+220)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mature, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life
Satoshi Yanagawa is working part-time controlling traffic at work sites and works with a beautiful girl that he likes at first sight. But she has a pretty bad character. Are there any prospects for romance? Read on to find out, the story is hilarious at certain moments, and touching at others.
Note: Won the 48th Chiba Tetsuya Grand Prize Award in the Seinen category.
Rating: 8.23 (210 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #821 (-44)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, School Life, Seinen
At the Tristain Magic Academy, her classmates call bumbling witch-in-training Louise Francoise le Blanc de la Valliere "Louise the Zero." During an important coming-of-age ritual, when each student must summon their own witch’s familiar, Louise confirms her classmates’ opinion by accidentally conjuring up a normal teenage boy from Japan. Whether the two of them like it or not, the laws of magic bind them as master and servant forever! A hilarious novel with romance interwined.
Rating: 8.23 (214 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2914 (+323)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Historical, Mature, Mystery, Seinen, Supernatural
Legend has it that if you take your guitar and stand at a crossroads at the witching hour, the devil will appear. He'll grab your instrument, play a song, and hand it back to you. You'll walk away an expert bluesman, but you'll have to pay the price: your immortal soul.
Won the 2009 Glyph Comics Awards in the Best Reprint Publication category.
Rating: 8.22 (204 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2753 (+295)
Genre: Smut, Yaoi
Yamane Ayano's Artbook.
WARNING: contains a few shotacon illustrations.
Rating: 8.21 (118 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2293 (+1126)
Genre: Comedy, Gender Bender, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life
This is a story about the love and hardships of a 29-year-old guy named Makoto Suda. Makoto is an ordinary office worker in every sense but one. In front of Takashi, his stepchild, he disguises himself as a woman and plays the role of a beautiful mother. While leading this “fatherless family” life, he falls in love with a woman. One morning he sees her on a crowded train, but she’s being molested?
Rating: 8.18 (254 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2630 (+121)
Genre: Drama, Seinen, Slice of Life
The story of the Sasakura Ryu and Eden Hall, a small cocktail bar in the Chiba area of Tokyo, where troubled customers come for the "glass of the gods," which with Ryu's assistance helps them to resolve their often highly emotional problems.
Rating: 8.17 (420 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2384 (+520)
Genre: Adult, Drama, Gender Bender, Psychological, Slice of Life, Yaoi
Even though J no Subete is three volumes long, each volume is a dynamic story in itself covering a particular stage of J's life. Her life is a dark story and it's a very psychological manga.
Book one is about all of J's trials and tribulations throughout childhood, during high school as he tries to find his place in the world and when he meets the somber honor student Paul...
Timeline (from Oriolidae & Sparviero):
1. Barairo no Hoo no Koro (v01 ch1~5)
2. J no Subete (v01 ch1~5)
3. 2 Shuukan no Adventure (v01 ch5~6)
4. J no Subete (v02~03)
5. Barairo no Hoo no Koro (v01 Extra)
Rating: 8.15 (222 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2590 (+268)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Josei, Romance
An Na mentions to her mother that she wants to go and find her dad, her mom soon decides to leave and go volunteer in South Africa. An Na's mom leaves their store to her half brother Aaron who she feels some resentment for. Now when she finally finds information on the wearabouts of her dad what will happen when the only clue is a kid who won't talk?
Update: After a long hiatus the author finally picked up the series again.
Rating: 8.14 (83 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2275 (+1120)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shoujo, Slice of Life
Ageha's older sister is getting married. But Ageha, who suffers from an enormous sister complex won't accept it. One day, in order to get Ageha more involved in the wedding preparations, her sister takes her to Velvet Blue Rose, a shop run by Yukari and Mitsu, a two-man team that design and make wedding dresses. Ageha, who's favorite activity is making exquisite purses for her friends, falls in love with the shop immediately. Will Ageha get over her sister complex and lend her support to the wedding? If Yukari has anything to say about it she will!!
Rating: 8.13 (318 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3340 (No change)
Genre: Mature, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Tragedy
From Kotonoha:
Ayu, a 17-year-old high-school student, believes neither in a future nor the happiness it could bring her. By selling herself, she tries to justify her existence, which is as bleak as her heart - it’s devoid of joy, sorrow, love. Not until her encounter with a kind-hearted old lady does Ayu begin to realize the true meaning of happiness…
Rating: 8.13 (762 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2724 (+268)
Genre: Drama, Historical, Romance, Shotacon, Yaoi
From Bliss:
This is manga version of the popular Heian period novel focuses on Senjumaru, a chigo at the Nyoirin temple of Saga. Young and beautiful, Senju has to withstand constant abuse of conceited monks. However, his teacher and head patriarch of the temple helps Senju escape from their clutches, leaving him with a letter of release. When a government official, Fujiwara Moroe, saves Senju from the temple henchmen pursuing him, Senju vows to serve him in return for his kindess...
Rating: 8.12 (311 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2190 (+1483)
Genre: Drama, Historical, Seinen, Slice of Life, Tragedy
Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever.
A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age.
Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing.
The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo Kôno examines this question in her outstanding book- an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece.
Note: Won the 2004 Japan Media Arts Festival's Grand Prize for manga and the Tezuka Osamu Creative Award in 2005.
Rating: 8.12 (309 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2886 (+329)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Supernatural
Apathetic schoolboy Miharu Rokujou is content to meander through life in the sleepy village of Banten. But his quiet existence is shattered when the Grey Wolves of Iga, a powerful ninja clan, attempt to kidnap him in broad daylight. Only then does Miharu discover that the ultimate power of the hidden ninja realm — a power that can do both great good and great harm — is sealed within his body. As battles erupt among rival ninja clans seeking to control him, Miharu must overcome his apathy and learn the ways of the ninja if he wants any shot at survival!
Rating: 8.11 (625 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2690 (+277)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life
Peace seemed to have finally found its way into the Obinata household, but through an unexpected turn of events, Shuu and his adopted son, Yuuta, are faced with a disagreement that might change their forever. When their respective lovers, the eldest Obinata brother Taiga and Mayumi, the youngest, are dragged into their conflict, and Yuuta runs away from home, the whole family's living arrangement gets off balance. Will the peaceful days ever return?
Mainichi Seiten series:
Vol 1-2 Mainichi Seiten
Vol 3-4 Kodomo wa Tomaranai
Vol 5 Children's Time
Vol 6-7 Kodomo no Iibun
----Aki-chan no Iibun
Vol 8 Isoganaide
Vol 9-10 Hanaya no Nikai de
Rating: 8.09 (131 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2301 (+1117)
Genre: Adult, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Smut, Yaoi
From DramaQueen:
Momoki Asuka and Momoki Yui are two step brothers who were the best of friends until an unfortunate incident one summer's day. Ever since then, Yui has avoided Asuka at all costs, even going so far as America to study.
A super tennis star, Yui no longer needs a big brother, so where does that leave poor Asuka? What happens when brotherly love transforms into something more?
Volume 1 - Brother
Volume 2 - Brother 2
Rating: 8.09 (486 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2898 (+360)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural
"Dear ladies and gentlemen of Japan! I apologize for asking such a mundane question, but do you all believe in vampires?"
"I beg your pardon. It seems I'm a bit tardy in identifying myself. My name is Gerhardt von Waldstein. I am a vampire, entrusted with the Island of Growerth and bestowed with the title of 'viscount.' Instead of introducing myself, I thought I might recount the story of a disturbance that occurred on my island. Or might I say, please allow me to tell you since I have some time on my hands."
"Whether you believe my story or not, I'm sure it is as clear as daylight that I am not a person. At any rate, my body is."
A comedic dark fantasy about vampire clans, a vampire princess, and the man who hunts them!
Rating: 8.08 (35 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2297 (+1129)
Genre: Comedy, Seinen, Sports
The day after he finds himself dumped by his girlfriend, Sorayama Shun recieves a letter... from himself? The letter was from Shun 25 years later for his future self. The letter reminds him of the time when he dreamed of owning a Countach and being a successful professional racer. With loads of luck and his ambition to make his childhood dream come true, he finds himself as a new owner of an LP400 Countach.
Rating: 8.07 (123 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2259 (+335)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo
Chiaki is a massage crazy girl who only thinks of massages and on the bus to school she always sees a guy with a really stiff back. She really wants to massage that back but doesn't dare to look at the guy's face. When she coincidentally meets the guy in school, she immediately recognizes the back. And of course begs him to let her massage him (in a very hilarious way) but of course like every good looking, slightly evil guy he has conditions....
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Massage Research Society's high expected star Chiaki is a normal, quiet high schooler. She immediately wants to massage the guy with the beautiful back who she sees on her bus, then coincidentally she also sees him at her school. But he just happens to be the school's number one good looking guy Yousuke, who doesn't want anybody to massage him. When Yousuke and Chiaki make a bet, what will happen to them!?
Vol. 1 contains the side story: Teach Me, Prince
Rating: 8.06 (222 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3561 (No change)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Supernatural
Official English: INKR, Azuki
One day, a strange transfer student appears before Tsubaki. Urabe Mikoto is an antisocial girl, whose hobby is just sleeping during class-breaks. One day, Tsubaki goes to wake her up and accidentally tastes her drool... and gets hooked on that!
After that, he starts going out with her and gets to know her better. Her second hobby, as it turns out, is carrying around scissors in her panties and cutting paper into flowers...
Rating: 8.06 (1245 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1860 (+221)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Shoujo, Tragedy
From Midnight Scans:
1) Rakuen
Nana, a 16-year-old girl, has had a happy relationship for 1 year with a University student named Shugo. Though, it all comes to a halt, when a doctor tells her that in 6 months, she will become completely blind. While her condition worsens everyday, she decides not to tell Shugo anything because she fears she will be pitied. Will their love be able to survive this tragedy or will it go all downhill?
2) Summer Rain (Natsu no Ame Furufuru)
A girl and her mother move to the countryside where her father had been raised up in, the lonely girl finds herself in a friendship with somebody new...
3) The Smiling Doll (Warau Ningyou)
''We'll always be together,'' her friend had said to her before she died...
Rating: 8.06 (218 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2264 (+1111)
