
"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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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After Kaden, the son of the best hero duo in current times, gets rejected from every hero school in the country, he joins the most notorious known villain school in the country, as a last resort. When making new friends at his school, he realises that not all villains have evil intent, and some ...
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When the frontier continent of Jaderis was discovered by airships braving the western winds, a fever full of adventure, exploration, and the promise of surmountable riches swept the heart of every person calling themselves "Adventurer". Adventurer Academy was founded with the intention of groo...
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I'm a shut in. I'm a (CENSORED) addict. Everyday I strap myself into a VR headset and have (CENSORED) (CENSORED) until I'm totally (CENSORED). I piss crypto. I am carnally involved with spreadsheets. Except none of that is true. You see, I'm not just a great writer. I dream in torn pages, of f...
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Yoshimitsu Suzuki is your average male teenager studying at an average high school.... Or so it seems. Born with a light presence and an average-looking face, he fails to make friends and strays away from social situations, leading him to a life in solitude. Yearning to find meaning in a borin...
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What would you do in a world where you could achieve whatever you dreamed of at night? Indra is just a teenager in a world where only paranormal, mysterious and strange things happen. Indra heard about these events, but never took them into account. All this until one day at school, she falls a...
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After losing her beloved Sakura to an accident, Lilianne Evans wished to be with her again. When the school rooftop collapsed, she resigned to her fate so she could reunite with Sakura however was engulfed in a white light instead. When she woke up, she found herself brought back to the time b...
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A second-year high schooler named Shinsuke Tanahashi suddenly transferred around the Setagaya area from his hometown of Fukuoka. With a new chapter in his life just started, there are new people to know and new memories to share with them, hence he has less than two years to share with them,...
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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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Scarlet Johnson, also known as the [Crimson Beast] in the underworld, lives by doing odd jobs like saving murderers, kidnapping children and bringing down rival companies. Her enemies fear her, her employers distrust her, her friends avoid her to not get tied up in her life. But there is one pe...
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Koi Yamamoto left behind his old life in the hope of living a fresh one in a new college, only to end up falling into a mess due to his kindness and ended up becoming homeless and penniless... Airi Ito, a college girl, a Non-government organization leader, and the daughter of a wealthy busines...
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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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When Ai Nakahara first met her upperclassman, Michiru Kurosawa, she was already terrified by the latter's impressive fighting skills. There are also all kinds of weird rumours floating around the school about Michiru or (as Ai's classmates refer to her) 'Miru-senpai', one of those rumours being t...
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Mai's life was as quiet as any other girl's, until she finds a person on the street starving to death and decides to help by giving her food. Now countless strange men appear behind her and her new friend wanting to capture and even kill them.
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The Hanabi Buso were once a team of Magical Girls that saved the world countless times, and the Osoroshi Kaidame were once the most feared group of villains in all of Japan. But that was fourteen years ago. Nowadays there is only two left. The leader of the once terrifying villains Kaiyo Omo, or ...
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Curiosity killed the cat, the saying goes. In Izumi's case, it leads him down an adventurous path from murder mysteries to an unexpected infatuation with a man condemned by all.
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Hikkikomori are on the rise nowadays. With things becoming more digital and easier to obtain without leaving the comfort of your own home sure maybe in a way it doesn’t sound so bad and most people picture them as mostly overweight guys who eat junk food and don’t go outside at all but I’m a dif...
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Artificial Island K-A is home to runaways with fake names and real lives. One of its many residents is Noa, an android equipped with the ability to turn any device with augmented reality technology into her eyes and ears. Witness Noa's day-to-day as she deals with the nightlife, android discri...
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Do you believe that people can change? How about the worst pieces of human trash with no regard for the living or the dead? Murderers, traffickers, terrorists and thieves. Even them? I see. How about you? If there was ever somebody who deserved to burn in hell, it would be Malaika Cassidy ...
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Imagine that! The year 2600 was now far too technological, and you are a student in the second year of high school who happens to be the descendant of a great commander who was also a great samurai. And even though it's the year 2600, you still live in a traditional Japanese house. What can happe...
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In a world where cyborgs are both an asset and nuisance, Pyro is the most sought-after freelancer in the business. Not only is she a rare blue-type with incredible acrobatic abilities and superhuman strength, but she's not afraid to get her hands dirty. Unfortunately, most cyborg jobs are illegal...
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Washita could feel life going out of his body as he laid down on the ground, dead. As he thought this was the end, it wasn't. He woke up in another world, a world where technology is far greater than it was in the past one. A place where a historical, traditional group dedicated to protect the we...
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Solipsism is the idea that only your mind is real, and that everything else experienced is not. Like AI, generated by something unknown. Solipsys was a cancelled project. A device that could take you back to any point in your past. The hardware was so advanced you could live out different cho...
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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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Are you a wealthy CEO, technocrat, or corporate overlord? Do the peons keep threatening to take you hostage or worse? Never fear! The Underwriters are here to save the day. *** When a desperate Hibiki Wright decides to join the Underwriters to pay the bills, she has no idea what to expect. ...
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