"I Was Browsing MAL As Usual Then I Realized My Web Novel Could Become Manga" or "MAL x HF Writing Contest" for short is a MyAnimeList and Honeyfeed collaboration that started in 2021 with the intention of shedding light on all the anime enthusiasts that, with their talent and passion, have created fantastic worlds of their own and delivered them to the world through web novels. Now in 2022, this contest returns with more opportunities for writers around the globe, as the winners will once again get a chance to be adapted into light novel or manga to be published in Japan by Kodansha.
Anime, manga, and light novels from Japan have inspired the world for decades. Now, it's time to show Japan what you can do.
The country of New England is in the midst of a corporation-controlled cultural movement and on the cusp of a violent revolution. Automation has reached an all-time peak, the gap between the poorest and the richest grows ever larger, and for some reason, the search engines don’t seem to know what...
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Second chances aren't given, they're earned - or so do six high school students soon realize, after dying in a tragic accident and finding themselves in front of the selfish and fabulous Cupid! He offers them all the opportunity to come back to life with a catch: they can only stay that way if th...
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What’s life like for a generic side character in your typical fantasy shounen manga? Shun is just a normal high school student—average grades, average aspirations, average circumstances. Things are perfectly ordinary…until he stumbles upon a classmate fighting monsters he can’t see. He’s not s...
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Kiro Lane floated along the social current of the esteemed V.I.A.S. High like a piece of driftwood. But it's to be expected. After all, he was the only human living in this world of monsters. That was, until one fateful day when that entire world fell into question. The line between falling in...
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The country of New England is in the midst of a corporation-controlled cultural movement and on the cusp of a violent revolution. Automation has reached an all-time peak, the gap between the poorest and the richest grows ever larger, and for some reason, the search engines don’t seem to know what...
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"Dogs don't get to choose." Lucky is a dog that finds themselves mixed in with the exotic animal trade with no memory of their past. With the help of other Pets, Lucky discovers the truth behind their existence and attempts to dismantle the system that perpetuates it: the GACHA System.
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240 students. Only 40 will graduate. In life, success isn't determined solely by one's academic performance. There exist athletic and creative pursuits, of course, but don't forget how capable one is at manipulating, lying, cheating, and backstabbing others — those talents are important too. T...
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Astella Academy might be home of the greats, but even they need a hand from time to time. Amy manages the Advisor’s Hall, a club meant to lend every student a warm word or a shoulder to cry on. It’s the last place picture-perfect Mia would frequent, but lately not a week has passed without her kn...
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An army of androids led by the enigmatic Rat King besieges cities around the globe every ninety days. In response, the Venator licence was created, granting near limitless freedom and funds to combat the threat. Living in his parents’ shadow, Yagi Akinori needs to avenge his brother. Raise...
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Natsuki has big plans for her freshman year at Miyazawa High - finding herself and seizing the day! Quickly overwhelmed by trying to figure out how to do all that, Natsuki stumbles upon a club that reminds her of a long-lost passion of hers - the Web Novel Club. It's exactly as it sounds. Join...
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What’s life like for a generic side character in your typical fantasy shounen manga? Shun is just a normal high school student—average grades, average aspirations, average circumstances. Things are perfectly ordinary…until he stumbles upon a classmate fighting monsters he can’t see. He’s not s...
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Princess Chiffon loves many things: early morning tea and sweet cakes to lift her spirits… and the scent of blood paired with the crunch of bones. If the latter isn’t enough to warp her elegant façade, her new knight, Caramello, takes every opportunity to bring out the worst in her. Charming and ...
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Second chances aren't given, they're earned - or so do six high school students soon realize, after dying in a tragic accident and finding themselves in front of the selfish and fabulous Cupid! He offers them all the opportunity to come back to life with a catch: they can only stay that way if th...
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Meet Kakuji Ran, a 17-year-old high schooler and a hard-boiled gacha addict. Kakuji's devotion towards his favorite character, Neri Tendou from the idol rhythm game Kira-Kira Party, is world-class: despite being a fully functional B-level student and working part-time at a local convenience store...
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Jin Yurinhalt was a hero. She led the charge, fought the homunculi, slayed their queen. Jin Yurinhalt won the war. So why does she have trouble sleeping at night? She’s tried therapy. She’s tried pills. Hell, she’s even tried neural implants, but nothing stopped the gnawing darkness that h...
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Seth Gilles, a 27-year old public school teacher, has a secret: he can travel back in time, and influence the subsequent events. However, it comes with a price. For each of his attempts to change the timeline, he ends up suffering for it. Because of that condition, Seth vows never to use it u...
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A meteor crashes the failing astronomy club‘s stargazing session, revealing an alien girl, who turns the lives of the four oddball members upside down for crazy memorable school year!
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There was an ambitious boy named Amahiko Yajima. Revival of his plain, boring, silent life was his goal. Underprivileged though was he, Amahiko decided to enter an emerging, prestigious university. Struggles were to be expected, as he had never been in such an environment. Therefore, he resolv...
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Daiki is a young adult who experiences his everyday life showing complete apathy, until one day he finds himself in a familiar situation that will change his life forever! "Everyone in this life has a purpose, a fate.." "Fear, insecurity, hatred, jealousy, lack of trust, all eventually crea...
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Kaori is just your average high school student. Your average high school student who has been transported to another dimension. At least, that’s what she thinks happened because it’s pretty hard to tell when it looks exactly the same as your own. Wait, there is that girl who disappeared from s...
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He knows he's a god. He knows his power is infinite. It’s just the rest of his memories are a total blank. But he doesn’t find his amnesia alarming at all—his six girlfriends do—and some of them don't even know about each other! He could just tell them about his condition, but would...
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Love and fantasy are different but similar in their own ways. One of those ways, and the one that Araldo Tsutsumi is coming to terms with, is discord. His life had never been "normal" but after a chance encounter with a girl with mystical eyes, his world was changed when she — threatens to kill ...
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Zeal and Joy had been dating for almost a year now, and while they were close, she never revealed much about her background. Until one day she laid it all in front of him. She came from Planet S3X, home of the horniest humans. Now, Zeal must travel with Joy to her homeland and participate in the ...
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Middle school was the time for Oyama Tadao, he talked with everyone who he passed by, he helped out his teachers and other school staff whenever he could and when it came to his academics in class and club, he was at the top of his game. Once he started High school, he was finally going to go ...
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when 2 families of Tokyo mafia were in tip of bankruptcy they decided to combine forces and have a boy or girl marry each others families, Gabriel Angel is a perfect girl by any means she was forced to chose a partner to marry to in order to save those 2 families but dose forced love even going...
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“Theft is a crime and he sure is receiving a death penalty!” Katsura Miku once fainted on stage due to a heart attack, and the question was… Who stole her first kiss?!- I mean, who the heck performed CPR on her?! In the quest to find the mysterious male student who ‘supposedly’ stole her ‘firs...
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"Men are trash." This was Ori's absolute philosophy in life. Every encounter she's had with them always seems to end in disaster. It was because of them that her life had been turned into a living hell, to the point that she had become the most unpopular girl in school due to all their manipulati...
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Bellatrix Lupensia never married. Never fell in love. That sole fact pulled and tugged at her heart strings until she just couldn't bare it anymore. On a precipice overlooking the ocean, she watched another one of her friends wed the man of her dreams while she stood idly by, always supportive...
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The Demon Lord was a being to fear, one that instilled dread in anyone who came even within the slightest vicinity of his presence. (Un)Fortunately, that flamboyance of his left as soon as he reincarnated and (un)fortunately turned into an absolute pacifist who dreams of nothing but living a h...
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Jin Yurinhalt was a hero. She led the charge, fought the homunculi, slayed their queen. Jin Yurinhalt won the war. So why does she have trouble sleeping at night? She’s tried therapy. She’s tried pills. Hell, she’s even tried neural implants, but nothing stopped the gnawing darkness that h...
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Mutants, mechs, n’ mayhem! Join Johnny Millenium in a distant future as he uncovers secrets in a dark and dystopian landscape.
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The underground city of Los Riveracci is a movement, a vibe unlike any other earthly city known to man. It is a home to the weak, to the lost, to the outcasts. A realm for punks, deadbeats, and everything in between. Where one can truly be themselves. It was not built lightly, however. It is a...
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The year is 2353, and the Council of Seven rules the North American continent with an iron fist. Nearly two hundred years ago, they broke their promise to hand over leadership to the benevolent AI, Altruist. Instead, Altruist is used as a tool by the Council to serve their personal interests: mak...
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Utilizing technology with specific elements as a weapon to fight demons called malus seems like a bizarre dream in 16 years old Hikari Yama's mind. From a machine gun that shoots water to bombs that are created from the earth. Keeping world peace by eliminating malus is a job for those who we...
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Ellie von Eisenhower is the estranged daughter of one of the members of the Council of Twelve. The representatives of Project New Eden. The project that successfully colonized the moon in the year 2470 as the Earth became uninhabitable leaving 98% of the populous to die. The year is now 2484. ...
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In A dark, gritty world of suffering, being controlled by various powers from the underworld, enforced by cyborgs and androids and other machines that work for the humans, What if someone told you that all your dreams could come true in such a world? You wouldn’t believe it. But it’s true, all y...
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