"I Was Browsing MAL As Usual Then I Realized My Web Novel Could Become Manga" or "MAL x HF Writing Contest" for short was the first MyAnimeList and Honeyfeed collaboration. Announced on June 24, 2021, this collaboration aimed to shed 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.
Anime, manga, and light novels from Japan have inspired the world for decades, now, it's time to show Japan what we can do. "Have you ever dreamt about one of your stories being adapted into manga? Thought of the perfect plot, but weren't sure how to get published?" These were the questions we tried to answer by launching the MAL x Honeyfeed Writing Contest. Following five different writing prompts to choose from, hundreds of stories were created on Honeyfeed and voted on by the MAL community. All of you came together to help the top three authors realize their dream debut with a chance to be adapted into manga and published by Kodansha.
If you still dream of making your stories into manga someday, then don't miss out on the second MAL x Honeyfeed Writing contest coming in 2022!
Can’t wait? Don’t let the contest date limit your creativity! Everything posted on Honeyfeed, new or old, will be eligible to enter this 2022 contest under certain conditions. More details about this will be announced later, stay tuned!
All she knew was what she saw - grass that turned into blades, and flower petals into bombs. It was called Plant Weaponry. Just like the many things that came out of the devastating explosion 20 years ago. An infamous scientist had rewritten the fabric of reality, introducing a set of realm...
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This isn’t a tale of a high schooler getting stronger to kill the Demon Lord. This is a tale of what happens to his body in the fantasy world after his soul returns to Earth. High schooler Hanasuke Ryojima suddenly found himself in a fantasy world as Evansmith, a village boy. Ten years later, ...
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The world is crazier than even crazy people dared to believe. A magical game of cards is being held at the end of the world or perhaps it's the beginning of a new one. Every card grants the holder a unique power that redefines what the magical world thought to be impossible. The more cards one...
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Read what MAL wrote about this contest's finalists here!
For Eujin Vast, hunting the evils that prey on men is an art- and he is the continent's most accomplished artist. For Syrvena Kunning, life is precious. Something you never take for granted, even when your days are filled with helping your overworked mother tend the local inn. But when her ...
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The city of Minerva beats to the humdrum of distant gunshots and screeching tires. It is a place of depravity, where gangs rule the streets and the authorities are gripped by the claws of corruption. It is a haven for dangerous criminals all around the world and the centre of many illegal operati...
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Six soldiers entered into a realm of shadows but only one survived. Aystaria Pynn only wishes to return to the life of a soldier after a tragedy that she continues to blame herself for. With time to recover, she is forced to become a private tutor for a rebellious noble and ensure she can pass th...
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Katherine Jones, a seventeen-year-old high school girl, had just wrapped up the school year and was planning to have the greatest summer of her life! But plans go awry when she finds a small kitten being threatened by a pack of wild dogs, ready to rip the poor creature to shreds. Kat makes it jus...
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Backward Steps follows the drama experienced by Kazuta Takeda, a young volleyball player who wakes up in what he thinks is his trial after death, after a serious accident. Faced with a mysterious senior, who presents himself as God, Kazuta is invited to face the past he has always avoided, confro...
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In Nekoji Academy, there was an unspoken rule that everyone must follow. No one should stay in the school after the last bell rings… it was the signal that the Cat’s Hour started. Hikari Terushima, a transfer student, broke the rule obliviously and discovered something that she shouldn’t have...
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Read what MAL wrote about this contest's Who Needs Plot semi-finalists here!
Somewhere in the lost galaxy of Earis, somewhere in the star system of Neula-V, lies the exiled world of Delirith; a planet whose inhabitants perfectly embodied the survival of the fittest, where one lives under their own definition of normality and conform. Not astray from the trigger-happy ...
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Princess is the name of a well mannered dog, she lives happily with her family. But is happiness eternal? Even if it is, does a dog understand happiness?
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A city in drought of a championship. A franchise that loses its biggest superstar. An NBA legend's tarnished legacy. A shunned NBA veteran. A kid who is deemed unfit to play due to his height. A spoiled brat who must grow into a man. A child who has his entire family murdered. An NBA team in dire...
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Since childhood, overworked office employee Kayo Suzuki has always followed the life path laid out in front of her by her parents. Afraid to deviate from the plan but always longing for a life she can call her own. Soon, a chance presents itself for her to follow that life she had always wanted. ...
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Dodgeball. Often referred to as the world's most dangerous sport, is now the only sport willing to accept the transfer student Choki Minami. She goes to the tryouts at Kiryu Academy and gets accepted onto the team! As she recruits new members her eyes ar opened up to the amazing sport of dodgeball!
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In the city of Reingale, there sits the newly opened Witch Cafe Wisteria, where one will find guests drinking teas which can grant them luck, steer them in the right direction, or help them in various other ways. Pecan is a sharp-tongued nineteen year old who wasn't sure what to do with her life....
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Read what MAL wrote about this contest's When the Clock Strikes Midnight semi-finalists here!
The world is quiet, the streets are empty, and Emiko wakes up alone.
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Individuality and sentiment are two things that distinguish one person from the next. However, trouble and difficulty lie down the path of adversity for those decreed as a whole but born destinate to be two halves — Twins. Meet Rei Hirojima and Kei Hirojima — two normal inseparable young boys...
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A prominent research scientist has been found dead in his home holding nothing but a cryptic final warning about the end times. Word of his death spreads like wildfire, and the city is soon ablaze with hysteria and conspiracy. As powerful opportunists and dormant forces awaken to quell the chaos,...
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Okajima Teruya was an agent working to protect the people from the different ones—savages was what they called them, while he preferred the term monsters. He grew up learning that they were hostile and dangerous. It's not until he got deeply involved with their world and found out he was half mon...
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Tokyo Prefecture has undergone a severe surge in criminal activity in the past two decades. Nao Watanabe, Chief of the Tokyo Police Department, selected Mamoru Fukumoto as the Captain of the newly instated, highly secretive, Special Operations Task Force. Their core obligation is to eliminate hig...
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How far are you willing to go for popularity? Honey is the beautiful and social media obsessed, new transfer student at Godforsaken High and she came with a goal. To be the most popular girl at school. However, her classmates and everyone else at Godforsaken High are uninterested in h...
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Another soul collected, another step towards insanity. That is the life of a death. Tasked with collecting the souls of the deceased, Milo Lethe must absorb them to not only survive as a servant of judgement, but to guide these souls to the Underworld. What will Milo do when his humanity begins t...
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Read what MAL wrote about this contest's My New Life As A... semi-finalists here!
After David Athelward dies protecting his family from a burglar, he finds himself face to face with Eris, the Goddess of Chaos and Strife. She wants David to invade another world and conquer it as the Demon Emperor; should he refuse, she will kill his entire family and sentence him to an eter...
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Misunderstandings - created at a glance, but difficult to get rid of. Two people are caught in the midst of them, fighting to find a place for themselves. For Maribell Schuzen, stumbling upon the Grimoire of Lies meant being labeled as a Witch, a follower of the slain Demon Lord and enemy of the ...
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To Mylo Bract, the town of Edule was a dead end. His wistful eye looks south, toward the capital. But he is about to meet someone from another world, who will see this backwater he hates as the gateway to adventure. As Mylo and the hero figure each other out, Edule begins to open beneath him a...
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Andrew Salvis Erit. That was his name, back in the other world. But he had already finished his business there, along with the friends he left behind. So what was left for him now, back in the regular world? Can he find his place again, amongst companions, new and old?
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Yukio has always been alone. Due to an unforgivable crime he committed, his family has also deserted him, and he is forced to transfer to a school in Tokyo. In a twist of fate, he meets Amanda, who is a part of a group called 'Minus Plus'. He goes to places he had never seen before, peeks at worl...
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Read what MAL wrote about this contest's Survivor Slaughter semi-finalists here!
At the world's end, Celeste Montedragon finds herself in a familiar world, One ravaged by a devastating outbreak that wiped out much of humanity. A strange mist quickly swept the vacant land where survivors were pushed into small populations. Survivors look at each other with suspicion while s...
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The story follows 24 year old Jun Hiroshi who one day discovers he has the ability to travel into fictional worlds through outdated media such as VHS tapes. Though some of these worlds are indeed fictional he and his colorful group of friends soon discover that the dangers that lie dormant in the...
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Battle Royal Online or BRO for short is the new rising star of VRMMO games. For a long time under the radar, because it was considered too violent and realistic, its renewed popularity is leading many new players to discover this world reeking of gunpowder and blood. A young girl is getting rea...
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A thousand years ago, the Earth was attacked by monsters. Destruction, death, and sorrow were everywhere. The war had taken a heavy toll on both sides. All kinds of monsters from the monster planet were sent to Earth. Devastated by the war, humans had to restart their civilization. They then made...
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Earth has been invaded and occupied by an alien species known as the 'niao.' Millions of humans have been forced off Earth to be used as disposable labor for the niao empire. A secret army of humans, led by the mysterious Lindwyrm, is preparing to fight back but will their violent methods free hu...
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Read what MAL wrote about this contest's Impossible Romance semi-finalists here!
Playing as a girl can be a wonderful experience… If you know how to exploit it the right way. And who says you actually need to be a girl? Behind the computer screen, nobody knows your true gender... Nakahara, Shiki has mastered this craft, he is the perfect girl that many guys would desire. ...
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Ethel Montgomery Arkwright knows what's wrong with the universe. Her two best friends never got together! After saving the world from an alien invasion, that was the conclusion she came to. So she created the "final council" an army of alternate Ethels from across the multiverse in order to bring...
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Daisuke Oishi was just an ordinary kid, nothing special about him at all. But then, on his first day of high school, he had a fateful encounter with the lovely Kuua Ueda-san, and found himself head over heels in love at first sight. Since that day, he's loved Ueda-san in secret, knowing that s...
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During their last summer vacation of high school, Risako Kitamura and Yasuo Mizutani go to an old Japanese-style mansion up in the mountains, each there for a separate reason. They discover the place is cursed, home to a hidden world of yokai monsters and spirits!
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After falling in love with a girl he rescues, Bloody Bat Romeo, the strongest delinquent in the city, decides to leave his dangerous lifestyle behind in an attempt to become worthy of her. Unfortunately, between violent enemies, love rivals, needy friends, and a brewing war of the gangs, will he ...
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In his journal (which is written suspiciously like a light novel), Mizuhara Kohei reflects on his three years at Kitazawa High: A typical public school, or so he says. Enduring run-in after run-in with a host of bizarre girls, boys, teachers and even a classist academic system, Kohei’s advent...
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“...in the end, the white snake stole the fox’s heart.” A girl descended from a lowly fox spirit whose instincts tell her to tear the snake apart for his beguiling lies meets a boy descended from the snake spirit who swears to himself that he won’t make the same mistake again. They must place the...
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