
"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Forest's first day of high school is suddenly interrupted by a girl shoving her phone in his face with a single emoji on the screen: 🆘 This is how he meets Genie, a girl with bilingual aphasia from a serious accident who can only "speak" in emoji! Forest is determined to be her friend, help he...
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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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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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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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A story about an idea. Our protagonist finds himself roped into a mysterious club at the beginning of the school year. In this club he will learn about an idea that is great enough to effect the entire world.
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Pens up, Papers down, Power's primed. Something is wrong with this school. Students that harass one another because of their lineage or prestige. Teachers cannot do anything because of the law, and an eccentric Student Council President that expects total obedience to his accords. But accordin...
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Yuujin Seira is a high school student who has his life take a turn after receiving a special pair of glasses from an antique shop. Follow Yuujin's life as these spectacles welcome many colorful people into his world; unveiling a story full of new beginnings, hidden selves and friendships! But thi...
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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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After graduating magic school Lulu the witch started working as a part-timer at a café named Teabreak Twinkle. Working at the café she encounters one of her colleagues named Erno, a serious and quiet shapeshifter who, curiously enough, prefers to be turned into a frog. Lulu is intrigued by Erno a...
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A story where the hero defeated the demon lord, saved the world, and fulfilled his purpose. On the other hand, on earth, university student Katou Yuuto, lived peacefully and leisurely throughout his life... well that is until he got himself killed after saving a girl. Two different people from...
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Louis Buissy, a foreign exchange student, start a new academic year in Tomobiki University, Tokyo. Is he your average student? Yes. Well... Not exactly. You see, he's ̶b̶u̶r̶d̶e̶n̶e̶d̶ blessed with a power : He can hear the narrator of his story. Arriving to Japan, he did not expect the co...
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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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Twenty-five year old Dia Lynn has always had a knack for running into trouble! But when she carelessly signs up for a program to preserve monster kind from extinction through forming intimate bonds with them- she finds her world turned upside down when she meets her assigned partner to be in the ...
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Awkward and prone to overthinking, Rin has always struggled socially. It doesn't help that her white hair tends to draw attention. That said, one night on the train she sees a sight even more unusual than herself. A girl with horns. Her name is Evi. At least, that's the only name she's willing...
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Thanks to his captivating silver hair and pop-idol face, Haru Miyamoto is always at the center of girls' attention. Despite being so popular with girls, he never met one he found interesting thus far, and turned down dozens of love confessions. But when he comes across a strange girl named Sakura...
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College freshman Makoto Katayama has his sights on conquering the elite Takaoka University. However, things do not go according to plan when an incident gets him targeted by the Wingman Squad, an underground student club dedicated to the art of picking up girls. Forced to join, the club does eve...
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A scientist and engineer, thanks to his submarines capable of reaching depths unthinkable by a normal human, sets out to explore the Pacific Ocean where he discovers a new race, the fish men. He decides to merge his DNA with this new race to create supermen capable of helping him in the study of...
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(This is not a synopsis) I'll be rewriting Staccato, since I feel that I've rushed my writing process too much, and that the course of events within the story has deviated too much from what I first planned. I also feel like a different chapter length, narration, and pacing would suit Staccato ...
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In 2039, an unexplained phenomenon wiped out 95% of the plant life on Earth, leading to a 13 years long war over the remaining resources and borders, this war was known as the IV war. 2 years after the War, The gap between the people in the society grew larger as inflation on food stocks rage ...
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The world once blessed by the nature has long crumbled from the plague . As no one can naturally use magic , the blessing that nature gave them , everyone is forced to use runes : devices that allow them to use magic at a certain extent yet by doing so they drain their own life force .
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Isei Kitagawa lives an ordinary life in the city of New Tokyo during the year 2XXX. New Tokyo is a high rate technological metropolis where humans have developed enhanced cognitive abilities due to each one of them having a computer chip implanted into their neocortex. It isn’t until Isei is sen...
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By the year 2150 the world had changed by the virtue of technology, which was now as advanced as ever. Yet, crime and corruption were still thriving, rotting the roots of the drastically changing world. Advanced suits named INDIGO were developed around the world. Compatible with unique people, th...
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He is a drifter without a place or a people to return to... a killer said to bring all manner of death and destruction for the right price, but is that the truth? or just another tall tale passed around by the witnesses to his deeds. Dubbed 'the 5th calamity' will he be able to move towards a bri...
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Leaders are always a present figure in all societies throught history. Many of them have different attributes that explain their success. One common factor is what made their feats remarkable: they were only human. As techonology advanced without precedent the last three centuries, new predi...
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