"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.
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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ayumu Nobunaga has Main Character Syndrome which made him a bully. but after being deeply traumatised by an accident which almost caused his friend's life in middle school, his parents decided to send him to a rural town where he used to spend his childhood. To his surprise, he finds out his chil...
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A whole new year is about to start at the Deer's Valley High School. In order to get into the top class of the school the M-class, second years must undergo an exam like no other, let's see who passes
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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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17-year-old Va has a horrible premonition: Is her schoolmate Keiichi actually trying to take over the world and replace all women with living anime girls? Agitated, she starts the WTP Club and gathers six people from her grade to stop Keiichi together. Although the others seem unconvinced by Va’...
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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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I, Leon Rando, am currently in a very peculiar situation: I lost my memories. It seems like I woke up one day not remembering anything anymore. Not even the doctors understood why. Luckily, at school people calling themselves my friends offered me their help to regain my memories. Despite re...
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A suicidal delinquent is tired of everything and wishes he can start over and start fresh. But life is never that easy is it? Or maybe sometimes it can be. As luck might have it he gets another shot at life from when things started going wrong, will he mess it up again? Will he be grateful and ch...
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"Why does life have to be so boring? The monotony of my daily routine has become practically unbearable lately. It’s really just been one mundane event after the other." Despite seeming like a typical charismatic overachieving high school student, these are some of the thoughts that Shirase Ay...
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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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They said it would never happen. They said people were just talking crazy. But they lied. It was all true, rising radiation levels in the atmosphere destroyed all life on the Earth's surface in a matter of weeks. But not all hope was lost. With the help of the artificial intelligence Ai, ...
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There's a Magical Girl in town! Deep in the Andalusian countryside lies the village of Carcabuey. Enter Olivia, a very special person with a very special Magical Girl form. Having escaped from the bustle of Madrid, she finds that escaping from the annoyances she fled from won't be so easy: Fro...
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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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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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A 17-year-old, grumpy city boy named Soraji Yukio, lives a normal high-school life in Tokyo, only 6 months away from graduation. That is until one fateful summer day… Where he is forced onto a ferry and shipped to a faraway island by his father, in the pretense of helping out his grandma with h...
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In a world with Demon Lords and Heroes, two childhood rivals are about to be reunited. Yuki, the dumb but sweet swordswoman, who wants to be the Hero. And Natsuko, one of the most promising up-and-coming mages, who's biggest desire is to become the Demon Lord. On the same day both of their wishes...
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A “slumber” is someone who is paid to sleep. In the near future, a drug known as “somnus” has made the 5th Industrial Revolution possible. The astonishing substance gives the user all the benefits of a full night’s rest with just one pill. Society is now sleepless. No one sleeps. No one dreams. N...
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9 years after the destruction of New York City, a young woman finds herself trapped in a web of conspiracy that threatens to tear her life, family, and entire world apart. Only through controlling a devastating, mechanical monster can she learn the truth about the memories she had once forgott...
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Alice is a simple Chef android content with living a quiet life. Revelations of her purpose lead to Alice leaving her shop on the run from her creators, Alice's goal to bring all androids Self-Awareness: A way to think outside their base functions. Will she be able to kill other androids if i...
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Karter a young boy on a journey to seek revenge, finds himself in an underground place similar to a temple, but with only two huge statues inside and two strange symbols instead of their faces, Karter begins to feel observed by the statue on the left. Suddenly, with an unimaginable pain, the sam...
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In a future society, medical science is tested on clones of a man born without a consciousness possessed by AI. Created and disposed of without a second thought, what happens when an artificial creature is left to become human? Who will it become and how will it handle the challenges posed by the...
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It’s not just a game anymore. CREO—the game of creating virtual worlds and battling within them. I found a glitch—or it found me—an NPC came with me into the physical world! When an NPC follows (former) top player Kai into the physical world, the true nature of CREO and the shadowy agenda that...
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