"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.
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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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33-year-old Jacob Young, an American survivalist living in Japan, finds himself unable to find gainful employment due to not graduating high school back in the USA. When he tries and fails to fake his credentials, he faces an ultimatum--enroll in high school like a man, or face the consequences o...
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Fordiyurta Academy is a unique high school where students are classified through an assassin game. The more a student succeeds in a game of assassin, the more privileges the student gets. Those who aren't at the top not only receive less amenities, but they will be treated as slaves by those who ...
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Nerithis Academia, the beginnings of kings and the authorities that back them. Kain, a first-year student is ready to start his school life.
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'' A good story helps you escape reality, a great story helps you cope with it '' Alex Sinary is a 17 years old high school student born with a minor facial deformity. He lives his life being constantly bullied by his classmates both mentally and physically. Until one day he meets a strange p...
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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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Keisuke Saburi is a teenage thief that suffers from amnesia. Having no knowledge of his past, Keisuke comes to live with the inviting arms of the Fujiwara household, which is run by one of the great sages that is known for his extreme knowledge in the scientific discovery. After the strange dis...
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The 16-year-old Ash Spitfire has lived his entire life with Humans like him. But after being dared to apply to Dragoon Academy—a school for those who want to be given the privilege to leave the Fire Kingdom’s walls—he is now surrounded by a new student body: Dragonoids. People who can command the...
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Aito's summer vacation didn't start very well. he almost drowned. After almost drowning He started seeing a girl every time he was near the water. the girl was cold, she didn't even have a name
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After sharing his deepest desires with his best friend, Koike Aito finds himself trying to date not one, or two, but as many as three girls. Maybe even four, depending on how you count. Somehow Aito convinces one of his friends to go along with his own stupid scheme and introduce him to sever...
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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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Megumi Kaneko is just your average university student, except of course for her irrationally strong fear of needles and anything that involves them. One miraculous day when Megumi's friend Kana tricks her into going into a tattoo shop with her, Megumi meets Alex. Kana thinks Alex is cute, but Meg...
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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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Sumeragi Yukino is a cool and smart girl who is loved by an ordinary student named Kaidou Itsuki. However, he was too scared to confess his feelings. He thought that cool and beautiful girl couldn't be dated by ordinary people. Knowing what Kaidou was thinking, his close friend, Kagami Takashi...
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Welcome to Podzemgrad, where power is the law and crime is the way of life. The wicked paradise for all crooks alike. Five years ago, Ryou Takagi threw himself into the underground city with a purpose before losing it as time went by. However, the sudden appearance of a five-year-old girl chan...
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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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Many… unusual things have been observed, and it has been labelled the Phy. These are a few of the documented and confirmed Phys between 1800-2001 A.D: a colossal being, with the body of a gorilla and the head of a rhino, roams a newly formed desert in Rao with an island on its back; a cloud that ...
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Humanity had to leave earth and go into quarantine in space for 400 years, due to a massive outbreak of a very deadly mutative virus. But now time has come to reclaim their mother land. A group of young adults have been chosen travel to earth and check whether it is really the time to comeback?...
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Tens of thousands of light years away from Earth, in the planet-wide city of Bibliotheca Aeterna, a young woman had just arrived. Her name was Constance Rainsford, an Earthling summmoned to the home of the Kexterans to serve as an Archivist, bearers of the ancient civilisation. Uprooted from ...
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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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It is the year 2086. A man shook the Bangkok Metropolis when he could disable electronic devices by playing an oboe. Investigator Sri-suwan Rattanawohan spearheads the investigation, believing that the culprit is his long-lost brother.
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