"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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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Saki is a lonely and gloomy girl who is recovering from a horrid incident that happened to her in junior high school. During her second year of high school, she decided to get involved with some of the most popular boys in school by texting them. By doing so, she manages to make friends again and...
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When the frontier continent of Jaderis was discovered by airships braving the western winds, a fever full of adventure, exploration, and the promise of surmountable riches swept the heart of every person calling themselves "Adventurer". Adventurer Academy was founded with the intention of groo...
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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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After a mysterious supernatural occurrence happened to Adrion when he was a kid, he learned a truth of a danger that nearly no one knows about. Deciding that the burden is his alone, he is determined to enroll in the most rigorous academy to grow stronger. How will he fair at Cacumen Academy with...
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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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Kaori is just your average high school student. Your average high school student who has been transported to another dimension. At least, that’s what she thinks happened because it’s pretty hard to tell when it looks exactly the same as your own. Wait, there is that girl who disappeared from s...
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Noel was just a dorky, snarky teenager until he found his entire family had become succubae—literal she-demons—which, obviously, is quite stressful for a young man. But it’s not just him. Everyone on Earth wakes up to discover they’ve become bizarre and legendary creatures, like some kind of d...
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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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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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when 2 families of Tokyo mafia were in tip of bankruptcy they decided to combine forces and have a boy or girl marry each others families, Gabriel Angel is a perfect girl by any means she was forced to chose a partner to marry to in order to save those 2 families but dose forced love even going...
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>be me >21 year old gay dude >unexpectedly win a free rig on twitter >panic >send in OC for my DnD group >realize character is a girl >start streaming?
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As Leo opened his eyes, he found himself in the body that is not his. Colt Edgeworth is a man with little to no information in the story Sword of Heaven. The character Colt Edgeworth died in the hands of his fiancée after experiencing some stabby-stabby action. And that is who Leo had bec...
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Lily rose a young 16-year girl living in the year 2038, Just turned 16 and her life took a sudden turn. She is now He...She confessed her crush and while waiting for the answer she turned into a boy.
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They say that love can blossom where you least expect it—something that Minato Tanaka, a part-time gardener, and full-time student, learns the hard way. After planting a strange seed he came across, it shockingly sprouts into a beautiful girl claiming to be from a race of plant-human hybrids. ...
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The Hanabi Buso were once a team of Magical Girls that saved the world countless times, and the Osoroshi Kaidame were once the most feared group of villains in all of Japan. But that was fourteen years ago. Nowadays there is only two left. The leader of the once terrifying villains Kaiyo Omo, or ...
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What makes you human? What if we can be something more? In a world where everyone, regardless of social class, can live in ease thanks to modern technology, a young man begins his journey of cracking the foundations of the façade: the façade of society and the façade of humanity. The day Von Ephi...
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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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Verdict’s clear. We still can’t time-travel—that is, inside real bodies. Turns out, the Doctor isn't real. Thanks to her. Dancing through the shimmering night, she reaps. Reap after reap, she sends clients down memory lane. To another world, Paradise. Until she realizes that, just maybe, ...
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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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Imagine that! The year 2600 was now far too technological, and you are a student in the second year of high school who happens to be the descendant of a great commander who was also a great samurai. And even though it's the year 2600, you still live in a traditional Japanese house. What can happe...
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One Planet. 7 Houses. The 200 Year War. A ban on expanding and colonizing other planets based on religion and prophecy. The creation of chimeras, lab-made animal-human hybrids and their struggle for emacipation. And a looming cosmic doom. All that has to be solved by the soldier and princess Er...
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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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It took humanity 10 years to understand that they've messed up! After the nuclear disarmament that happened after the third world war, a new type of weapons was created to counter the new generation of humans: Half-Android Humans or Cyborgs... The peace thought to be obtained got shattered befo...
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Good day valued stranger! Come visit Prestige City! The glorious megastructure built by the noble sacrifice of the Grandeur Six vs the Dastardly 7! Resting on the apocalyptic-but-now-junk mobile fortress built by the villain group’s leader Dr. Nefarius himself, Prestige city represents the beau i...
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