"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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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For a student, their time in high school moulds them into the people they will become in the future. But it’s not easy. At a volatile age, love, heartbreak, the feeling of inferiority, chasing dreams and the looming terrors of finals that can lead you to a cutthroat society expecting perfecti...
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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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Kimihiko Nobunaga is a sweet and caring daughter of Hilda Nobunaga and Elionor Nobunaga he grew up to farm and go to school every morning. Kimihiko is 16 years old when his father had an heart attack and they're drowned in debt due to hospital expenses, but one day a doctor comes to him and of...
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"I'll rewrite it all. This terrible future will not happen again." Ven Kamen is on a mission. Having escaped the worst future imaginable, he has returned to the familiar, but fundamentally different summer before his first year of high school. The first phase of his plan worked, and now, it'...
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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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Low-profile. Bit part player. Villager B. Although these terms, increasingly more derogatory, have all been used to describe him at one time or another, Tanizaki Seishi is not bothered - he wants nothing more than to while away his school days with his head buried in his beloved books. The...
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David Moreno was a man with much in his life. What he lacked was what many of his less successful classmates seemed to have: A partner. After a heartbreaking discovery and a night of alcohol, he gets his wish and marries a beautiful woman: The Devil Herself. What happens next is a series of ev...
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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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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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Ayane Yushu is going to commit suicide by jumping off a roof of a high-rise building. Nothing in his life has been good since his parents died, and he started his college in a new city. Being good in studies didn't help much due to his introverted and meek nature. After much contemplation and ...
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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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A fictional story about a man who is struggling to save his people from a supernatural evil king, ruling them with unfair and total oppression, this king has started a violent race where the participants fight and kill to live a better life, he have no choice but to join the race in order to ...
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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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When Sora and Riku Sakuba are killed, they both find themselves reincarnated into a new world. Vowing to reunite together in the new world, the two former siblings learn there is more to the two of them than what they originally thought.
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After the third World War, an organization comprised of anonymous wealthy individuals known as the Citadel ascended to great power and control over all nations. They brought about unbound technological advancement, but also death. With the introduction of biological augmentation chips, every citi...
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After 7 years, the first World war in history had finally ended.. And while most had feared it, some longed for it.. In the end only those with enough power or influence were given the choice to either take part in it or hide from it. At the dawn of world restoration and after 31 years an...
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Many forces work on the hundred-floors metropolis known as Miskaria. Below the cover of its light-filled top levels or from the roof of its massive skyscrapers, many want to control the city and its many resources. They're only kept in check by the few who don’t wish to see the city’s populati...
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Violet and Blue are two companies that are currently waging war on each other. To protect their lifestyles and their homes, the people of Violet will have to take up arms and fend off themselves. Armed with a brand new revolutionary nano-technology, both sides will do anything in their reach to...
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The year is 2353, and the Council of Seven rules the North American continent with an iron fist. Nearly two hundred years ago, they broke their promise to hand over leadership to the benevolent AI, Altruist. Instead, Altruist is used as a tool by the Council to serve their personal interests: mak...
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In the future of 2088 Japan entered another era of regional rivalry, this time between the 5 prideful regions of Chugoku, Kansai, Chūbu, Hokuriku, and Kanto. Each region is ruled by a single mysterious, yet incredibly powerful person, a Daimyo. Each Diamyo also has an heir to aid them, but al...
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In a Post-Apocalyptical world inspired by the book of Revelation, where the Demon Lord rules upon the Land and sea by using his mischivious tools such as mind control, robots, cyborgs, monsters and other horros taken out of Lovercraft works, created in labs as well as powerfull sorceres and dem...
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Harmony...what once was an empty and abandoned piece of land has transformed into the most advanced metropolis of its time. However, not long after its establishment, a strange phenomenon started occurring. “Outsiders” - creatures from unknown origins began appearing, bringing destruction whereve...
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