"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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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Lesley valentine, A book smart girl who lives under Euphimias shadow as the Palantine vice president of literature club is a delusional aspiring novel writer who is well know for being weirdo constant daydreaming and spacing out most of the time-had a huge crush for the campus prince but was poli...
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A vampire named Shizu, is a part of a species of vampires that can shapeshift into other people after devouring their life energy. These vampires are known as "Body Stealers". After his dearest friend, Nao dies from a vampire hunter attack, Shizu decides to use his powers to transform into his fr...
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My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed...
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"My name is Ichika Wakabayashi, sixteen years old. I attend an all girls school in a (not quiet enough) rural town. I am the only child of a single mother. And I have a secret. A secret that I can't tell anyone. . . Cliché, I know. What am I some of kind of magical girl, you ask? If only. . ." ...
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She was a song left unsung– a word left unsaid. A petal of cherry blossom unswayed by the breeze; And the forgotten taste of summer wind They said love was a losing game, and maybe that’s why Arin lost herself loving her own best-friend. In the whispers of solace and tales of romance, Arin...
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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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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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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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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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Scarlet Johnson, also known as the [Crimson Beast] in the underworld, lives by doing odd jobs like saving murderers, kidnapping children and bringing down rival companies. Her enemies fear her, her employers distrust her, her friends avoid her to not get tied up in her life. But there is one pe...
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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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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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After getting into an accident while running from some thugs threatening his life, actor Jae Phoenix instead of dying, finds himself thrown to another realm where empires still exist, spiritual power is real and... Does he have the body of a young female consort? Taking over Saaren Jaelin, th...
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Roscoe Fletcher would rather not be disturbed. He is happily spending his summer indoors, awaiting streams from his favorite Vtuber- the charming Sumire Anata. But when she becomes far closer than he could ever imagine, he soon spirals into a series of trials he has never prepared to face and que...
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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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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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Concursus is a planet that has seen no peace. For two decades the planet has seen frequent fighting from three separate empires that sought control over it for one reason or another. But this is not a story about the planet, rather the ambitions of a man. That through his will he shall seek re...
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500 Years after the Cataclysm, the world has been divided between the Predators (Vampires and Werewolves) and the Prey (Humans and Elves). For the sake of survival, the Magitech Giant Invictus built Paradisium City, the Last Bastion of Humanity. But in this seemingly utopian city lurks all kin...
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After 25 years of being a manager at a chain store, Daichi Orio can’t help but feel disappointed and unsatisfied with how his life has turned out. One day, he rediscovers his childhood manga collection, which reignites his childlike amazement of fictional worlds, as he’d much prefer to be in an e...
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After taking to the stars in search of a new home the select few of humanity that made it to the ships expected to find an oasis of beauty. Some did, but most were not that fortunate and ended up in small settler towns like Dustridge, located smack-dab in the middle of the giant single continent ...
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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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Job interview gone wrong! Missing classes and working overtime were not the only recurring nuisances in Yuri's life. Spending the last four years being a proxima ship attack survivor has taken a toll on Yuri's mental health. Disinterested in studies and custodian professions, Yuri invests most of...
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