New Manga Series for the Year 2005
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, Drama, Mystery, Shounen, Supernatural
From Seven Seas:
Sumire Takahana is a seemingly normal school girl cursed with the ability to see malevolent ghosts known as Viruses. Her life hits a crossroads after a run-in with a gothic lolita-clad monster killer for hire, Lucia Nahashia. Not content to stay on the sidelines while these Viruses prey on the weak, Sumire reluctantly decides to join forces with the mysterious, eye patch-wearing Lucia to hunt down these Viruses before they can hurt anyone else.
Rating: 7.11 (125 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2257 
(+1099)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Gender Bender, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Sports
Satomi Azusa is a popular teenage gravure idol. She's also a highly talented baseball player, but, as a girl, she can't play on her school's team. Her father happens to be the coach of the team, and he concocts a scheme to allow her to play. His scheme involves Hirayama Keita, Azusa's childhood friend, a teenager of no particular talent. Keita's redeeming feature is that he looks a lot like Azusa. In fact, after putting Keita in a wig and girl's clothes, not even their parents can tell the two of them apart. To help Azusa's (and her father's) dream come true, Keita agrees to trade places with her during the baseball games. Soon "Hirayama Keita" becomes a popular player, and "he" begins to move towards a career in pro baseball. How long can Keita and Azusa keep up the act? What will happen when people find out?
Volume 1 also contains My Sweet Sunday.
Rating: 6.88 (81 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2257 (+1082)
Genre: Adult, Drama, Historical, Romance, Smut, Yaoi
1-2) Oda Haine went to the palace to return a key with the royal symbol and accidentally entered the harem. It's a death penalty, but the sheikh, Ashraf, took a liking to him and decided to make him a slave...
3) Ashraf's servant, Q (former name: Al Sha) is reunited with former lover - Ashraf's older brother, Faisal. Will he again win one-hand-man's heart?
4) Cute short stories of Haine, Ashraf, Q, and Faisal including Haine's vacation and a look at everyone's diaries.
5-6) A short story called The Singer. A beautiful singer in the emperor's court is about to be castrated in order to preserve his youthful voice and looks.
Rating: 6.93 (271 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2257 (+1074)
Genre: Yaoi
In the summer of his high school's second year, Hayakawa ichii became supplementary lessons fellow with Tateboyashi Tsutomu, who was called T2 due to his initials, and the two quickly got close. Then one day, when suddenly pinned down and confessed by T2, Ichii's mind went blank. But when he was kissed gently and repeatedly told "I love you", he couldn't reject that devoting affection. Later on, T2 became Ichii's tutor without being asked, and Ichii was at loss on how to treat T2, while trying to figure out his own feelings...
Rating: 6.37 (9 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2257 (+906)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Seinen
From Girls' Generation Scanlations:
Katsuragi Shiho casually handed her house key to Shikibu before leaving her hometown. After not returning on the third day as she had promised, Shikibu probes around and finds a lead that brings him to "Yasha Island".
However, the strange rituals being held on the island, Shikibu's investigation records getting stolen, and finding Katsuragi's name in the house of blood among other mysterious occurences all point to Katsuragi having vanished into thin air! Shikibu is bent on finding out the truth, but the islanders all seem to have been silenced by somebody...?!
Rating: 7 (26 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2258 (+1069)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Yaoi
From Forever More:
Tired after working all day long, the divorced (with kids?!) salary man, Saeki Ryouji was taken in by the incredibly rich high school student, Mibu Ryuunosuke, after having collapsed in the middle of the street. When he awoke, he was kissed by Mibu who said, “I like you,” at which point he realized he had been brought to a glamorous and luxurious mansion…!!! Even despite this astoundingly shocking development, the guilt he felt the second he rejected Mibu, who was on the verge of tears, brought Ryouji to…? Differences in age, differences in social standing, they are nothing but a bother. Are there simply too many obstacles to the love that has blossomed between a sheltered young Master and a pure and cultured oyaji? At the same time, the sense of duty an obstinate butler feels towards a forceful senior high school student, who is in a position of superiority, brings to mind the question, “Do you like butlers?”
Rating: 7.57 (291 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2258 (+1114)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Harem, Martial Arts, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural
The day a young boy was born was the day that the legendary thief died. The many battles that revolve around the treasure left behind by him. Here, the curtains are pulled and the story starts.
Rating: 7.26 (205 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2258 (+1080)
Genre: Doujinshi, Fantasy, Romance, Slice of Life, Tragedy, Yaoi
1) Kuma (Bear/ Morinaga) wishes he could get to know Ookami-san (Wolf/ Tatsumi) better, but Ookami-san doesn't seem interested. Until, one day, Kuma finds Ookami-san badly injured and takes him in...
2) It's spring! Bear (Morinaga) is awake. Wolf's (Tatsumi) obligation to feed the starving Bear is now over. But Bear is lonely...
3-8) Bear and Wolf's story continues.
Rating: 8.3 (203 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2259 (+1089)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Shoujo
From Snow Kiss Scanlations:
Once there was a legend of a sword. It is said that the sword of a rune god was sealed up in "Jagara-Mogara". When the spirits of Light, Water, and Earth come together, the seal will break, then the sword will be immortalised. That is the sword of Susanoh.
Izumo, Kumaso, and Oguna, upon pursuing the sword of Susanoh, came to the nation of Jagara ruled by an Empress and her army of women. They got involved in the wars between Jagara and Amamikado, but what awaits them isn't the clash between two nations, but the darkness involved with the sword of Susanoh that everyone is seeking.
Rating: 7.87 (109 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2259 (+1104)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mecha, Romance, Sci-fi, Shounen
In the mid 21st century, the human race is facing a test.
Genetic engineering has changed the world, and with huge profits, research had accelerated accordingly. An “immortality” gene no longer seemed like a mere dream. However, a lab sample containing this gene escaped, creating a new life-form that took in genetic material from the natural world, evolving into an enemy that began to invade the human world.
The “Shaher” are now a force capable of defeating human military forces, and both North and South American continents have fallen under their control. In Japan, the government has created a “Samurai” unit to oppose the Shaher, utilizing soldiers enhanced with nano-machines to connect with an armored exoskeleton.
It is at this point that Tsukahara Takemichi is assigned to the first platoon of the “Samurai Force”.
Official English
Rating: 7.71 (39 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2259 (+1096)
Genre: Action, Historical, Romance, Seinen, Supernatural, Tragedy
The tale begins on January 1965, Vietnam. Hikaru Minami, a newbie reporter, lands in Saigon to begin photographing the war. Thus does his story of war, growth, life, and a tragic love begin.
Drawn in a simple and light style that belies its subject matter, complementing the writing very well.
Rating: 6.73 (34 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2260 (+1097)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
An autobiographical work in which Hideo Azuma tells the story of his inability to cope with the pressures of his job as a mangaka and of his exeriences with alcoholism. The work is split into three sections, each of which details one of Azuma's breakdowns. The first section (Walking At Night) is set in 1989 when Azuma suddenly walked out on both his job and his family and became homeless for the first time. Much of this section is given over to describing the practicalities of eating, sleeping, and killing time whilst homeless. The second section (Walking Around Town) covers a similar set of events in 1992 but this time Azuma managed to find labouring work as a gas pipe layer after a period of living rough. This section also looks back over Azuma's career and describes the pressures he worked under in the 1970s and 80s. The third section (Alcoholic Ward) covers the author's descent into full-blown alcoholism and his experiences of being committed to a hospital rehab programme in 1998.
Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Grand Prize in 1997. Won the Seiun Award for Best Non-fiction in 2006.
Shissou Nikki 2 was published in 2013. It was not released in English by Ponent Mon.
Rating: 7.47 (55 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2260 (+1098)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Gender Bender, Romance, Shotacon, Supernatural, Yaoi
1) Shiki is Koto's master, and he makes cosplaying costumes for his maid Koto. Though Koto doesn't like it, he still pleases his master.
2) Shiki's brother, the young master, Shuka who falls in love with the gardener of the house. But it seems the gardener doesn't want to be much with Shuka because he is the master of the house, but in the end...
3) Story about Shiki and Koto.
4) Sakura-sensei, and his special patient Chigaya. Though Chigaya always tries to seduced sensei and asks him to make love to him and that he always loved him, yet sensei doesn't want to do anything because he's worried about Chigaya's body, but when Master Chiki sends him a cosplaying outfit for Chigaya, it seems that it takes effect on the doctor.
5) Continues the story of the doctor and his special patient.
6-7) Story about a tiger and his master. Thought the tiger becomes human, still with the ears and tail, the master is sad because he turned the tiger into a human, but the tiger doesn't think like that at all. He's happy to be able to talk to his master and hug him like a human being would.
Rating: 7.36 (229 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2261 (+1094)
Genre: Drama, Historical, Mature, Seinen, Slice of Life, Supernatural
A collection of short stories telling the tales of peasant farmers in rural pre-modern Japan, and the lives they live.
Rating: 6.55 (21 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2261 (+1093)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Shounen, Supernatural, Tragedy
From Yen Press:
You’ve already met Keiichi Maebara and his mischievous friends in the Abducted by Demons Arc. But Oyashiro-sama’s curse is poised to strike anew in Hinamizawa village. When Keiichi spots tomboy Mion working at a maid café, he can hardly believe his eyes! But it’s not Mion after all — it’s her identical twin sister, Shion. Keiichi’s never heard of this “twin sister” before and suspects it’s just another one of Mion’s pranks. But through Shion, Keiichi is able to see a quieter, more feminine side of his best friend, even if it is all an act. As Keiichi spends more time with Shion, however, Rena grows more accusatory…
The story of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is divided into a total of eight chapters: four "Question" arcs and four "Answer" arcs. Each chapter keeps the same main characters, but ends in a different way. However, each chapter gives valuable answers, hints, and clues to the previous one, while at the same time bringing forth even more mysteries.
The question arcs are:
1. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Onikakushi Hen
2. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Watanagashi Hen
3. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Tatarigoroshi Hen
4. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Himatsubushi Hen
The answer arcs are:
5. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Meakashi Hen
6. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Tsumihoroboshi Hen
7. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Minagoroshi Hen
8. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Matsuribayashi Hen
The side story arcs are:
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Onisarashi Hen
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Yoigoshi Hen
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Kataribanashi Hen
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Utsutsukowashi Hen
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Kokoro Iyashi Hen
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Hirukowashi Hen
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jan - Tsubamegaeshi Hen
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei - Saikoroshi Hen
Rating: 7.47 (149 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2261 (+1100)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life
Choco and Mimi are two friends, who has very many adventures with their friends. Konami Sonoda draws them in Chibi and that's not a 'normal' manga!
Rating: 6.85 (8 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2261 (+1107)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, School Life, Shoujo, Supernatural, Tragedy
From HMR:
The main character, Rui, is a hardworking and happy girl. One day, her neighbor moves away and leaves behind a stuffed panda bear. Rui decided to take it home, since she's always loved panda bears. She goes to sleep with it one night, and discovers herself in bed with a stranger (who also happens to look like her ideal man) the next morning. He introduces himself as Peter, and that is how she ends up meeting three other guys...
Rating: 7.85 (185 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2261 (+1095)
Genre: Mature, Yaoi
A collection of one-shot stories...
1) Fix
The colleague who Mikami, a salesman for an advertising firm, normally collaborates with for work collapsed due to a sudden illness. As a result, Mikami had to take his kouhai, Nojima, along with him while entertainig a favored customer. However, thanks to Nojima's low alcohol tolerance, Mikami had to handle the business dealings himself. After drinking heavily, Mikami acted on impulse while on their way home; on the whim of the moment, he roughly kissed Nojima...!
2) 27 Ji ni Koi wo Sasayaite
Continuation of Mikami's and Nojima's story.
3) Campari ni Koishite!
A college student stumbles upon a dark, empty bar and is lured in by the bartender's seductive cocktails.
4) Daiichi Tsugi Yokkyu
Toyoda, an apprentice designer, admires his boss Aizawa greatly even though the object of his affection works him to the bone. How can he get the renowned designer to look at him?
5) Koi ga Todoku Sono Mae ni
The frustrated office worker Eiji is reunited with his old rival, the acclaimed designer Kishitani through his job at a publishing company.
6) Soshite Emono wa Omou no datta
Businessman Uehara dreams of his attractive older collegue Sawatari. What if his dreams came true ...?
7) Dakara Karyudo wa Kunou Suru
A glimpse into Sawatari's view on his and Uehara's relationship.
8) Atogaki
Rating: 6.71 (128 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2262 (+1105)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo
When Jin Shihyun is told by her father to pick up a guest from America at the airport, she rips down a poster of her enemy,(who is also her cousin) Seo Yu Jin's poster, she argues with a mysterious boy. To make things worse, the boy steps and break Shi-Hyun's new and expensive cell phone and runs away! Shi-Hyun chases the boy only to find out that he is the guest from America....
Rating: 6.43 (22 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2262 (+1107)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo
Yurim Han has just been accepted to the exclusive Yusung High School, known for its high standards. Expecting that, she is still shocked by the level of excellence. Every student around her is a freakishly gifted genius! It's high school life on cognitive enhancement drugs. Can Yurim survive in such an environment?
Rating: 7.92 (100 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2263 (+1003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Yaoi
From Nakama:
One day, Katsuragi Megumi, a café manager, came across a deeply wounded patissier, Honda Yuuji. Since then, Honda has helped out at Megumi's café. Even though Megumi is much older and a bit clumsy, his cuteness truly touched Honda. One night, Honda sees Megumi screaming some man's name while masturbating. Seeing such an obscene Megumi, Honda realizes that he actually loves Megumi.
* Note about the chronology: "Bittersweet Cafe" was written before "Love or pride" but the events in "Love or pride" took place years before those in "Bittersweet Cafe".
Rating: 7.66 (288 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2263 (+1132)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Yaoi
Takayama is gay. While at work he begins to take note of successful and peerless Ishikawa, whom he eyes hungrily. Ishikawa finds out that Takayama is gay when he sees him in a compromising position with a hook-up, but surprisingly he does not out him at work. When a deal of Ishikawa's goes bad, he is infuriated. In a fit of rage, Ishikawa forces himself on Takayama. Takayama decides that he can forgive him for this one-time incident, but can this sordid physical relationship continue?
Rating: 7.57 (281 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2263 (+1094)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, School Life, Shounen
There are some days when it'd be better to just stay in bed... so says Kazuma, an apprentice demon-hunter, on the day when he finds a strange creature in the forest. It's not a bloodthirsty monster, but a young half-human, half-dog girl. Just what type of creature is she? And why does Kazuma sees her at his school right after escaping from the encounter?
Rating: 7.43 (93 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2264 (+1106)
Genre: Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Supernatural
Twelve-year-old junior high school girl Hasumi Kohaku moved into town in search of her mother. She is gifted with ESP and the ability to fly-- well, only when the sun is down. Otherwise the sun could make her power fade away. Kohaku soon uses her powers in front of her classmates, in order to save her friend Yuuro from falling out a window... but during the day!
Rating: 7.84 (289 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2264 (+1104)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Josei, Romance
Nozomi, who visited Shirou, an attorney-at-law in the old man to clear his father's false accusation, touches the lie with his lips ...!? Tsukasa picked up a "stray lady" who wasn't a stray cat ...!? Surprisingly, the partner who fell in love with Kimiko, who has the nickname "beer" or "banquet manager" … !? “BI · YA · KU ~ Last Note ~” Yui, who met Kishi, the devil boss at a joint party, is drunk and is ...!? Miki, whose fiancée fled, had a fake wedding with her brother to keep her body ...!? And finally at the university entrance ceremony ...!? "I love you" The work is fun, but I'm lonely ... With the boy whom Meg met ...!?
Series of romantic oneshots from Enjoji Maki, Ohmi Tomu and other mangaka.
Activity: Stats Pos #2264 (+1115)
