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: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life, Tragedy
Anthology of one-shots:
1. Kanojo no Namida ga Yuki da Toshitara
After an intended confession turns into a grave accident, Tougo wakes up 4 years later with the failed attempt clearly etched in his memory. He sets out to confess again, but just how much has changed in those 4 years?
2. Maware Kazaguruma (Spinning Pinwheel)
Akiyoshi has always had a hard time expressing his feelings towards his childhood friend, Mitsu. No matter how much he tries, only insults come out of his mouth. He loses all his chances when Mitsu meets her untimely end in an accident, but a year later, he finds Mitsu's ghost in his house! What's more, he's the only one who can see her! Can this be his chance to express how he really feels?
(Source: Shoujo Crusade)
3. Kyoukaisen (Boundary Line)
4. Natsu ga Saku Koro (When Summer Blossoms)
Rating: 8.42 (359 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2199 
(+1073)
Genre: Adult, Doujinshi, Hentai, Lolicon
Rating: 6.03 (13 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2199 (+1085)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, Shounen
Average, everyday Japanese gameaholic gets sucked into an alternate world where he has summoner powers and life keeps turning out to be like one big video game.
Rating: 7.41 (170 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2200 (+1065)
Genre: Drama, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Sports
From MangaHelpers:
Second baseman Kaizu Chiaki is a normal senior high schooler who aims to reach the Koshien with his teammates and worries about his future career. One day, a new teacher arrives at his school. Her name is Takamine Touko. Crossing the boundaries between teacher and student, Chiaki and Touko find themselves gradually attracted to each other.
Rating: 7.44 (75 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2202 (+1047)
Genre: Adult, Hentai, School Life
From SMDC Translations:
Well, it's a full tank made of 10 independent chapters so there's quite a collection of material in there. There's some vanilla, some torture, some BDSM with black-mailing, some anal, hints of lesbianism and even shota.
1. Omae to Atashi no Escape
2. Omae ni wa Atashi ga Oniai da♥
3. Finder Goshi no Kimi
4. Benkyou suru yori Baka ni Naru
5. SEXYSTREAM
6. Shikaeshi Kiss
7. Bishoujo Tantei Chouraku no Kiki
8. Kochira koso Yoroshiku
9. Shiryou ja Shikatanai ne?
10. Meitei☆Free Time
Rating: 7 (42 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2204 (+1052)
Genre: Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Sports
Since middle school, An has been devoted to archery for six years. However, the last tournament of high school is ending without those results being preserved. Despite having mixed feelings, An has decided to retire, and she is passing the club president title to her kohai, Mikami Youta, who has great ability; however, Mikami swings An around with suggestive behavior...?
Rating: 6.81 (82 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2205 (+1022)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Supernatural
Japan is being invaded by parasitic gods. The only one left to stop them is Nakua, the spider god. She enlists the help of Taromaru, an otherwise normal boy who has the Nakua's spider familiar resting inside him. Together they free Japan's gods from the control of the parasites.
Rating: 7.61 (81 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2205 (+1052)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Shoujo
In the only neutral country surrounded by many other countries, Kourozen, also known as God's country the princess, Matsurika, is troubled by a proposal from Prince Orland of Cantabria, a major power. One night, Matsurika is suddenly kidnapped by an intruder and brought to the open sea.
The man, Raju, who calls himself a pirate, says he will sacrifice Matsurika on the legendary altar, to attain his wish. The princess of God's country, the pirate surrounded by mystery.
A pirate tale about an ancient lore and the legendary altar. Let the battle begin.
Rating: 7.01 (250 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2207 (+1062)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Seinen, Supernatural
Tachibana Tsukumo, a girl who cannot feel pain. Yao, an immortal boy whose only wish is to die. What will happen when these two meet...?
Rating: 7.04 (142 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2207 (+1094)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Mature, Seinen
From MangaHelpers:
Known as the gargoyle of Inogashira Park police station because of his scary face, Saejima Toshiyuki was a loser. He's pretty much a virgin for all intent and purposes, aside from the companions that he pays for. He wasn’t always a loser though. During his high school days, he was feared as a badass, but now he is just a person people feel sorry for. He then meets Arimori Shizuka, a beautiful girl that seems comfortable in her sexuality. Toshiyuki learns that she was a high class escort that has been with over 1000 men. She was doing it out of love for her abusive boyfriend but, realizing her mistake, quits. Shizuka is now being harassed and Toshiyuki reverts back to his aggressive personality to protect the love of his life.
Rating: 6.24 (53 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2208 (+1076)
Genre: Action, Drama, Ecchi, Mature, Romance, Seinen, Supernatural
From Seven Seas:
Dance in the Vampire Bund: The Memories of Sledge Hammer is a two-volume interlude between Dance in the Vampire Bund’s first fourteen volume story arc and the upcoming second part of the series, which will launch in 2014. The Memories of Sledge Hammer delves into the past to look at the doomed love affair of one of the Vampire Bund’s most deadly operatives.
Three months have passed since Princess Mina, queen of all vampires, has recaptured the Bund. The damage inflicted to vampire/human relations runs deep, but a peaceful postwar restoration is now underway. Yet appearances can be deceiving. Somebody is trying to kill government liaison Reiko Gotoh, but her lycanthrope bodyguard, Seiji Hama, is nowhere to be found. The mystery of Hama’s whereabouts can only be solved by examining the past, when the ill-fated couple first met. The past may be the key to saving Gotoh in the present and to the future of the Vampire Bund itself.
Rating: 7.26 (85 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2208 (+1061)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Martial Arts, Romance, Shounen
This story is about two childhood friends, Sayaka and Mushin, who have both practiced kendo for a long time. Sayaka is fairly strong and Mushin is not, but he dreams of protecting her anyway. Even though he doesn't realizes it, it's Sayaka the one that always protects him whenever he is in danger, without him being aware of it.... however Mujin has a strong weapon of his own, which is something that has conquered even Sayaka : his earnest honesty and unfazed good will.
Due to rivals popping up constantly, "evil organizations" trying to destroy Sayaka's and Mushin's Dojo and even several love rivals who want to destroy their closeness; who are simply attracted by either Sayaka's charisma or Mushin's kindness.... Thus both Sayaka and Mushin have their own battles and at times they may need to cooperate to surpass the impossible hurdles, of which being step-siblings is the very first one.
Rating: 6.67 (26 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2208 (+1040)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo
From Autumn Scans:
Nanami, a first-year high-school student, has a history of failed relationships. When she finally meets her ideal guy is he really who she thinks he is?
Rating: 7.29 (268 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2209 (+1045)
Genre: Adult, Drama, Ecchi, Romance, Seinen
A guy who is satisfied with his 2D wife and anime and games. One night he ended up nursing a girl. Unexpectedly, the girl’s crush is another girl.
With this going on, what’s going to happen to Midori?
Rating: 6 (85 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2210 (+1021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Shounen, Supernatural
From MangaHelpers:
Sagara Masamune is a manga author who isn't very successful, and it's looking like it's time to end his battle manga. To go for an unexpected ending, he plans to kill off the main heroine, Nina, in a dramatic way. As he works on his manga, he is mysteriously sucked into the pages. Now he's trapped in the world of his own creation, with his protagonists, exorcists Haru and Nina. He doesn't really get what's happening, but he thinks concluding the manga, which involves orchestrating Nina's death, might get him back home. [tethysdust]
Rating: 7.46 (246 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2210 (+1035)
Genre: Drama, Historical, Romance, Tragedy, Yaoi
Ten years have passed since my brother's dead body was discovered in the bottom of a cliff. Rumour said, he was escaping his engagement and supposed to meet his lover there... But that person never came.
After searching for years, I've finally reunited with him again.
"Did you really betray my brother...?"
He trembles like a child. But he is still as beautiful as the first time he smiled at me. Kai, the owner of my brother's heart, and the man who had stolen my first love... Who does your heart belong to?
"Tempest of Cage" is your ideal Taisho-era BL that involves tragedy, family drama, and a love triangle. Follow Yoshihisa and Kai on the journey to make peace with their past...
Official English Releases:
Manga.Club, Manga Planet, Renta
Rating: 6.52 (23 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2211 (+1113)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, School Life, Sci-fi, Seinen, Supernatural
A prequel to Freezing detailing the background and origins of Kazuha Aoi, Kazuya's older sister, Arnett McMillian and many other girls of Pandora.
Rating: 6.71 (130 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2212 (+1061)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Supernatural
An anthology collection revolving around a school where Tezuka's characters are the students and faculty members.
Rating: 6.32 (1 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2212 (+1073)
Genre: Historical, Josei, Romance, Smut
Sakura is a popular high school girl who doesn't feel any romantic interest in any of the boys in her school. She travels back in time to 1864 and encounters the Shinsengumi, heroes of numerous romantic television dramas. The Shinsengumi were a group of samurai (all young and good-looking) who fought crime and upheld the rule of the Shogun in per-restoration Kyoto.
Activity: Stats Pos #2212 (+1065)
Genre: Adult, Harem, Hentai, School Life, Sci-fi
A boy enters an all-girl school in an effort to see the real world, but the school has hidden secrets that are meant to not be found.
Rating: 7.66 (76 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2213 (+1029)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Shounen
One day while playing videogames, a strange creature called Didi approaches Yu Yong Gi and claims he has a chance of becoming a Hero of 0.05%. And as such she has to aid him in becoming one.
She starts showing him the evils of being a Hero, and after a while Yu Yong Gi realizes she is actually attempting to deter him from that path rather than aid him. With the cat out of the bag, she confesses she is a minion of the Dark Lord, meant to make sure he never wishes to become a Hero.
Does the average Yu Yong Gi actually pose such a threat to the Devil Lords plans?
Rating: 7.67 (126 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2213 (+1067)
Genre: Adult, Hentai
Rating: 6.26 (1 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2214 (+1059)
Genre: Adult, Fantasy, Hentai, Supernatural
Volume 1
Cover Illustration: Mogudan
1. Noukou-kei Idol Bekko-chan (農耕系アイドルべっこちゃん) [Mutsutake]
2. Sainyuuki (最乳記) [Umetarou]
3. Bakunyuu de Aishite! (爆乳で愛して！)
4. One-shota Love Potion (おねショタ♥ラブポーション) [Tsukasawa]
Volume 2
Cover Illustration: shuz
1. Nekomimi Oneesan no Oppai Ongaeshi! (猫耳お姉さんのおっぱい恩返し！) [shuz]
2. Kagami no Naka no Rondo (鏡の中の輪舞曲（ロンド）)
3. Shiro ni Shizumu Omoi (白に沈む思い, Mind Going Blank) [Supika]
4. Slime Seisakuki (すらいむ制作記) [Kaiduka]
5. Shibatte Maji-milk (搾ってマジミルク)
Rating: 6.13 (8 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2214 (+1073)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Sports, Yaoi
Sugiki, a standard ballroom dancer, offers to teach Suzuki, a Latin American dancer, ballroom in exchange for Suzuki's teaching him in return.
Their names are similar, but their personalities are complete opposites, just like their schools of dance. When these two meet, something's bound to happen!
Renta
Rating: 8.65 (276 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2214 (+136)
Genre: Adult, Comedy, Ecchi
Rating: 6 (9 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2214 (+1086)
