"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In a world where the gods can vanish if people stop worshipping them, Kana is one of the gods who was obliviated, after losing all his worshippers. But after an accidental offering by an unaware schoolgirl named Saya, Kana is revived back into the world of gods and their believers. Now in order...
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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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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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Azama Meyos is the best damn freelance mercenary there is. Whether it be to infiltrate a maximum-security prison, become a chef to the president, or even win a beauty pageant, there seems to be nothing he can't do. But one day, he receives his most difficult challenge yet. To help run a school a...
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In his final year of high school, Shinzo tries to join the anime club. Unfortunately, said club has been hijacked by a group of plotting, far-left misfits commanded by Asako Asanuma, an eccentric, cosplaying, politician-impersonating lunatic. Surrounded by protest posters and red flags, Shinzo ac...
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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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In a school called " Ultimate Brain Academy " where only the smartest and top talents can survive, a boy rises using his wits, his name is Ran Genesis, a son of the two smartest scientists who swear vengeance on the government by using their very own child to topple them. Would this young lad out...
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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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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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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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Rowen is a Savior with unfortunate bad luck. After saving another world, she follows a cat to a new world and…surprise! That world also needs saving. But Rowen is done being a hero and runs away at the first opportunity she gets. Of course the further she runs, the more involved with the world sh...
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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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This is a story about a guy who goes to Tokyo from his home town Yamagato to study in one of the art universities in Tokyo to purse his ambition figure sculpting and on his journey he falls in love with a girl of another university and how he manages to impress her and develop their relationship....
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Indigo is a combat-focused cyberpunk series about the titular girl getting a chance to improve her family's financial and social standing by representing her delegation in duels that determine who gets to make the rules basically. This duels are heavily affected by the whims of two massive corpor...
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How would an android, made for war but given free will, decide to act in a human world that looks at machines with disdain? Would the people accept the android? Be resented? Would it retaliate? Would it be possible for this manmade creation to live as an equal amongst humanity? Would it walk a...
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20 years ago, at the helm of a technological boom, society as a whole collapsed when an essay titled "The Truth" was released. The Truth within the writings sent a shockwave of violence across the world until there was nearly nothing left. However, a group of survivors managed to seal the dept...
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In the modern-day Jahan where every problem has a solution a boy, Edra Banoto has happened to diagnose with an illness that causes his vital organs to fail. The new technology also allows for determining how long a person can survive a disease, with nothing much left in his life after his parent'...
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A girl living her normal working life suddenly finds herself thrust into a web of intrigue and deception. She must struggle to overcome difficult challenges and make hard decisions that might shape the future of her home city of Umevar and she can trust no one. Will repost this on my account o...
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In a dystopian future set in 2140, there's a category of men, the "Machine Men" who possess a mechanical heart, a "Machine Heart." The story tells about one of these individuals, K-111, and his "special" job in a society that has now pushed beyond all the limits and lost every value and virtue ....
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"Take my hand and I will show it to you!" Its the 27th century in a world mostly populated by Omanoids "actual humans" made by humankind. Following the events of the 30 years of war, an era of peace finally began. A barrier separated the 2 species but it wasn't forbidden to visit though it was...
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