"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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ᴄʜᴏᴏꜱᴇ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴄʀᴀᴢʏ, ᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ᴄʜᴏᴏꜱᴇ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴀ ᴍᴇᴅɪᴜᴍ." Mediums. People with the ability to act as a bridge between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Hadiza Hara's heart stopped for 3 minutes, and she survived. But ever since then, she's been hearing things...things ...
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Airi Himura is a seventeen-year-old is a normal high school student living in Japan. One day after a visit with her grandfather, she finds that the small egg-shaped device he has given her can actually let her relive a day. Of course, this comes with its limitations, which she finds out the hard ...
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A girl in an ephemeral dream is always wishing for Ayumu to find happiness. With the death of his parents, Ayumu had a sad life with nothing but regrets. Now he wants to change himself to create happy memories in his second year of high school. But two mysterious girls enter his life, bringing wi...
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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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What if everything was managed by a God ? And if all thoses gods was at school ? ... Homie, the main caracter and god of humanity, is going to show us what it's like to go to a shool for god. Would you like to be friend with Anna, the goddess of memorises ?
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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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“Let go! Let go of me!! Can’t you hear me?! Stupid! What kind of Joke is this! I’m not getting married or Whatever!!!” Kazu was being forcefully carried by 2 AA DA members, “How can the life of someone like me end this way?!!! I don’t want to get married!! My Waifu!!”
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To Go Back - 戻るには - Modoru Ni Wa What if you could simply return to a previous state in life? Perhaps back to your first day in school? Maybe your first kiss? Or your first... other things? And what if I told you about a machine that could allow you to do just that? To revisit any aspect of yo...
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The slumber of the witch Hana has ended, but it has been so long that our present day is like seventy years in the future for her. Against the suggestion of her friend, Hana decides to explore the new world she is in. But then a fateful encounter occurs.
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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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Watch a poor man and a superstar woman clash in this Rom-Com! Life couldn't have crashed harder for the formerly rich Kai Darak, who lost everything thanks to his father's corruption while gaining a 30 million dollar debt. How does one sally forth while conveying his love to the girl who's life w...
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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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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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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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The world of business is a cruel battlefield in which manipulation reigns supreme. So what happens when the business world's two most "elite" con-artists get to meet one another? Will it end up in a clash of wits and techniques or will this be the perfect match in crime? Or both?
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Lei Mei, a cute Chinese transfer student has recently arrived, I have begun feeling things I never felt before. I decided to dive deeper into her and discover what she is hiding behind her façade.
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“Red is most commonly associated with two things. The velvety bright shade of rose petals given by a person—love. And the reaction of being stung by a bee in the mid of spring—blood. In my case, it’s neither of those; but also, in a way, both.” Searching for love has always been difficult fo...
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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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The most important resource in the world isn't money, its data. As people freely surrendered their data online without thought of consequence, they didn't realise they were dooming civilisation. Realising too late the weight of what they had done, people chose in a final act of desperation to...
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In the distant future, every crime, no matter how small, gets you thrown in prison. However, it’s equally as “easy” to get out – by winning a series of deadly virtual reality games against the wardens and their different machinery, the Red-Black Course. Rex – a young boy thrown in jail for rea...
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Mutants, mechs, n’ mayhem! Join Johnny Millenium in a distant future as he uncovers secrets in a dark and dystopian landscape.
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Philippine Politician gets sick. Company freezes his body. Wakes up 2000 years later in a body of a loli. Ignacio Asturias Luna, a 32 year old politician, suddenly got infected with a new disease while participating in rescue operations. The disease rapidly caused necrosis and was immune to mo...
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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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"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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In a predacious, corporate world of advanced cybernetics, the life of a young boy is put to the test. What kind of test? A Turing test. And the only reason being that he was born within the confines of a simulated reality. His plan is to escape. But escape isn’t all that easy within a ...
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