"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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"I wonder how I can be truly happy." That was the thought running through Lucas's head as he began his senior year of high school. Trying to find the answer is not a simple task. As he searches, Lucas makes friends with a shy bookworm, an aggressive model student, and a delinquent. At least, that...
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Despite achieving great wealth and fame, Akane Yuki lived a lonely, miserable life. Taking pity upon the young woman, God decided to give Akane another chance to redo her life from scratch, but it was no use - her second life was filled with sorrow. Desperate, Akane begged God for one more...
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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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I'm in my last year of high school, and I still don't know what life is. I don't have any friends, because I don't need any, I have myself. I have my own little world, in which I live my own little life. Yet when I look at others, I don't even feel alive. At night, I often dream of a yellow cat. ...
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Sammy falls in love with a Suko and a Stella but she has no idea who to date so she finally finds a solution by dating both! Yet there are alot of challenges in their relationship but what relationship doesn't have problems...Yet going through puberty and dating Suko, Sammy, and Stella can they f...
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After a mysterious supernatural occurrence happened to Adrion when he was a kid, he learned a truth of a danger that nearly no one knows about. Deciding that the burden is his alone, he is determined to enroll in the most rigorous academy to grow stronger. How will he fair at Cacumen Academy with...
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In the age where we all have to gone through, in which we can't even do anything. We all have to suffer to this phrase - nightmare, tears, hurted, shocked, anger, hatred emotional, sensitive life, alone, love, heartbreak, study pressure, betrayer, backstab,lies, untrusted and so on. Yes its about...
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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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As low-birth rates loomed, Japan launched a program that granted government-issued girlfriends to prospective applicants. If approved, you’d have the honor of maintaining a glorified mooch! Among mooches and freeloaders, Keiko Asagiri stands above the rest. She's snarky, sassy, and her new boy...
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Riku has been supporting his bestfriend Daichi for two years in his strange Harem Rom Com, but now that they are in their final year of high school things need to change, and Riku will do whatever he can to help his friend develop his romantic feelings.
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I love my best friend. However she's plagued by a troubled love life. The observation records of a girl in love with her best friend.
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Upon waking up from what seemed like a nightmare, self proclaimed “model student”, Sousho Hachiya found himself in an unfamiliar building with hundreds of people smiling at him from their seats. Luckily for him, it wasn’t an auction house but a church and he was in the body of another man, the gr...
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Rowen is a Savior with unfortunate bad luck. After saving another world, she follows a cat to a new world and…surprise! That world also needs saving. But Rowen is done being a hero and runs away at the first opportunity she gets. Of course the further she runs, the more involved with the world sh...
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After a young lad with mild autism switches his life in Manchester, UK to Japan, Isaac rescues Sara one night, a young innocent girl who is the daughter of a rich and powerful family as the two soon blossom a relationship, as it grows and grows overtime, so does Isaac’s presence towards the whole...
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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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He always made the right decisions when it came to investment opportunities. What will he do when life throws his way a hapless barista that can figure out the inner workings of his business-savvy mind? Emotions run up and down just like stocks, but he has no way of knowing how this venture will ...
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“Do you wanna hear a scary story?” In the far future of 2666, the world has been transformed into a high tech utopia. Ghosts, demons, and YOUKAI, in other words anything magical, has been tossed aside into the realms of imagination and myth. However a secret group of EXORCISTS exist who protect ...
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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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SALUTATIONS TO THE AST CONGREGATION AND THE ETHEREAL RICK, THE BEACON OF OUR HOPE IN THIS STRANGE LAND, THE ONE THAT ROLLS AND DENIES US HIS BACK AS THE MELODIES RING TRUE AS THE MOONS PASS! Follow the WILD journey of an old man with a wooden arm, a boy whose eyes gleam with purple, and a rob...
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In the late 21. century earth was invaded by an extraterrestrial army. Unfortunately for everyone, humans were stupid enough to use nuclear weapons, obliterating not only the majority of the invading army but also the entire North American continent.
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By 2039 Shut-ins are numerous and forgotten. Ever since android technology was perfected, it became easier than ever to stay at home. Sixteen-year-old Fukuzawa Kenji hasn’t left his apartment in over a year. Faced with a meaningless life, he does anything to pass the time. But one day his apa...
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The year is XX41. Ninety years ago, the world experienced a second continental drift. Following fifty years of war and a ten-year civil war, Japan regained its freedom. Twenty years later, the National Police Investigation Force discovers a biologically enhanced boy in a secret lab; the only liv...
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Good day valued stranger! Come visit Prestige City! The glorious megastructure built by the noble sacrifice of the Grandeur Six vs the Dastardly 7! Resting on the apocalyptic-but-now-junk mobile fortress built by the villain group’s leader Dr. Nefarius himself, Prestige city represents the beau i...
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Jonathan Townshend makes his living as a mercenary in a land where technology has pushed humanity beyond its limits. Yet conflicts are still fought with bladed weapons, enhanced in countless ways to better kill other humans. Everything goes wrong for him when his mercenary group steals the world'...
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