Highest Rated Manga

Todaymanga would like to introduce the highest rated manga of all time including classic series and recent and ongoing books. We hope this best manga lineup will help beginners to find the first manga to read and manga fans to dig the manga world deeper.

Mashiro-hime has just transferred to the all-girls school, Garderobe...but little do the other students know, she's actually a boy. Desperate to escape an all-boys school where he was looked down upon, he disguised himself as the late Mashiro-hime to get in. Unfortunately, due to "her" royal status, members of an organization known as Shwarz are trying to assassinate him, and all the while, he's trying to break his Contract with Arika Yumemiya, who unexpectedly became his Otome to protect him from a member of Shwarz. (Source: M-U)
  • Published – 2005-08-01 2006-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – SATOU Kenetsu
  • Genre – Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, School Life, Ecchi, Harem, Gender Bender, Mecha, Shoujo Ai
College student Daria isn’t a big guy–he’s thin and kinda scrawny, and he’s a little self-conscious about it. When he bumps into Rubi-san, a totally cut lady who can haul massive logs around, he thinks she’s the epitome of macho coolness. And it’s more than just admiration or even envy–he’s immediately smitten by her! Watch slight Daria chase after the buff and sexy Rubi in this charming modern love story.

(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
  • Published – 2019-08-09 2019-10-26
  • Written / Illustrated by – ANO Amesuke
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, Slice Of Life
When a boy she doesn't know confesses to her, Yoshinaga finds herself the victim of bullying at the hands of his girlfriend and her female classmates. She resolves to endure it alone, until a classmate stands up to the bullies and sweeps her off her feet (literally!). The closer they get, the more she comes to care for him... but little does she know, her hero is hiding a sad secret of his own.
(Source: Shoujo-Sense)
  • Published – 2013-03-19 2013-04-20
  • Written / Illustrated by – KOIZUMI Ren
  • Genre – Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Tragedy
In this world, there are those who look like humans but are actually beings with supernatural power. In order to respond to crimes committed by these kinds of people, an organization that employs some of their number has been established. Kurohimeyama Eve is a member of this organization, and she is also a teenage girl that has "Oni" powers. One day, she goes to meet a new member, Ichizuka Senya, who is a boy with dangerous shadow powers and a bad personality. In front of the other girls in the organization, though, he seems to act perfectly nice. What's even worse, he's transferred into her private religious school! Kurohimeyama's once-peaceful life will never be the same!

(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2014-10-16 2016-09-08
  • Written / Illustrated by – HARADA Anjyu
  • Genre – Action, Shounen, Supernatural, Romance, School Life
Suffering from unrequited love, Todou Tsukasa, also called "the moody pillar", walks into a barbershop. The cheerful barber not only gives him a sexy new haircut, but also advice on how to better carry himself. Tsukasa takes that advice to heart and goes on to fame and success. But he never forgets the barber who helped him when he needed it, and keeps dropping by. However, confidence didn't come along with the new haircut nor the fame and success, and his feelings are neither conveyed nor understood well.
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2009-01-24
  • Written / Illustrated by – NAGATO Saichi
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, Slice Of Life, Yaoi
Hiro’s construction company has assigned him to assist in renovating a host club. But there he meets a familiar face, the source of his past trauma and present misery.

(Source: MU)

1. I Hate
2. I Love
3-5. No Where, Now Here
6. Love Is Here...?
7. About Them
  • Published – 2014-05-26 2015-04-27
  • Written / Illustrated by – NATSUME Kazuki
  • Genre – Drama, Romance, Slice Of Life
Sakura Kousuke is a boy who strives to throw away a past mired in regret. He transfers to a new school for his second year of high school, believing it will give him a chance to come clean.

Unbeknownst to him, however, the appearance of five other "Sakura"s in his class will bring the past to his present, forcing him to come to terms with himself, his old friends, and a girl who, though being Kousuke's complete opposite in terms of personality, also knows him better than anyone else.

(Source: Batoto)
  • Published – 2011-09-01 2012-07-19
  • Written / Illustrated by – MASUDA Eiji
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Romance, School Life, Slice Of Life
The demon queen quite by chance saves Haru, a young human boy about to be sold as a slave, and takes him back to be her attendant.

Some years later, a bored demon queen asks our now fully grown and handsome Haru what else she has left to do. "Marriage", Haru replies.

A heart-pounding love comedy between an innocent demon queen and her servant.

(Source: MangaDex)
  • Published – 2018-06-07
  • Written / Illustrated by –
  • Genre –
Due to his scary face, Shougo has been alone since entering university. But unexpected events lead him to become close with Hina, from the same university. Shougo, elated at the fact he's become friends with the cool and kind Hina, finds out that Hina breaks out into hives when people treat him with affection—a "love allergy"?!

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2014-04-28 2014-12-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – SAKURA Riko
  • Genre – Romance, Slice Of Life
Onodera Kano and Nanase Miyuu have recently made their debut as a manga author duo with Kano writing the story and Miyuu drawing the art. However, Miyuu needs some help drawing love scenes, so she gets Kano to agree to act as her "boyfriend" to keep their manga aspirations alive. The only problem is that Kano has mixed feelings about it because she secretly harbors feelings for Miyuu.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2018-06-15 2019-05-24
  • Written / Illustrated by – Akamaru
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, Slice Of Life
In 3000AD, mankind is in chaos after a series of natural disasters. It's up to the Catholic priest Izaya and his mass-murderer companion Kyou to save the day...
(Source: Beautiful Soup)
  • Published – 2004-07-24
  • Written / Illustrated by – SHIMOTSUKI kairi
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, Sci-Fi, Mature, Yaoi
The comedy spin-off story focuses on the Spear Hero, Motoyasu Kitamura. At the brink of death he acquires the power to turn back time, and decides that he'll use it to become stronger and start a "new game."

(Source: ANN)
  • Published – 2017-08-21
  • Written / Illustrated by – ANEKO Yusagi
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Sword Magic, where a sword is manipulated using magic to freely fly in the air, cutting down enemies. Ardis is a user of this new magic art that has never been seen before throughout the entirety of the history of magic. As a mercenary, he undertakes various requests in return for remuneration, including subjugations, escorts and investigations.

On the way home from a survey request, he protects a pair of twin girls who survived their caravan being attacked by bandits, however in this world twins are considered “abominations”.

Along with the twins and a girl who accompanies him as a follower, he holds back his anger at the world which looks coldly at the twin girls due to the goddess’ intervention.

This is the story of such a swordsman called the countless swords sorcerer.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2019-07-12
  • Written / Illustrated by – TAKAMITSU Akira
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Every ten years, a young woman is offered as a sacrifice to the mountain god. When the tengu goes to see the sacrifice, he finds out that the sacrifice actually volunteered for the role. And the sacrifice turns out to be a young…. boy.
(Source: The Zero Alliance)
3rd Place winner of the Fresh GanGan 2011 Autumn Event
  • Published – 2011-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – NAGAHA Magi
  • Genre – Drama, Shounen, Supernatural, Historical
Akane has an older twin brother who does not get along with her at all....?!
(Source: Phoenix Serenade Scans)
  • Published – 2012-08-03 2016-04-02
  • Written / Illustrated by – MAKI Youko
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life
Meet Kageno, the super dull, glasses-wearing, short first year high school girl. She has no friends and envies people who are enjoying their youth. Meet Mitsunaga Youta, the most popular, handsome guy in school. Girls constantly confesses their love to him, but he has no plans of dating anyone. After a string of events, he decides to ask Kageno to be his fake girlfriend for a month in order to stop the girls from confessing to him in exchange for his friendship. How will Kageno face all the ordeal that is about to come.
This is the beginning of a love comedy between the school idol and the negative girl.
  • Published – 2013-05-13 2013-12-13
  • Written / Illustrated by – KITAGAWA Yuka
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life
One day, Yasuke was working up the courage to confess his feelings for his childhood friend Akari. It was the perfect opportunity, since the two of them were going to eat dinner alone together at his family's shrine. Before dinner, he rushes through the daily shrine rituals and accidentally breaks a sacred mirror.

A goddess, who looks like a cute girl, curses him for it, and now he will die if he's ever separated from her. All too late, he learns that she's a goddess of misfortune, and horrible things happen around her whenever she's upset. Will he be able to get the goddess to lift the curse? And how will he ever explain this to Akari?

(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2011-02-26 2017-02-25
  • Written / Illustrated by – TAGUCHI Hoshino
  • Genre – Comedy, Supernatural, Romance, School Life, Ecchi, Harem
Bazalta is a combat association, in which the combatants, or Rankers, are ranked according to their strength. The higher rank you get, the more wealth, fame and power you get, and you may even get the ability to change the world. In short, in Bazalta, "strength is everything".
Zig, a young boy from Cantalera, a wandering tribe where fighting and wanting to become stronger is prohibited; after his father fell victim of some monsters, decides to train against the tribe rules, and seeing how despite his training he couldn't save the inhabitants of the tribe from the monsters, he decides to set off on a journey to join Bazalta and make his way to the top.
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2010-09-04 2011-10-04
  • Written / Illustrated by – Ueda Satoshi
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen, Martial Arts, Romance, Tragedy