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.

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1999
A motorcycle accident, bone cancer, a speeding truck crashing into a boy on a stolen bicycle—tragic life-changing events turn the worlds of three young men upside down. These three very different personalities have only one thing in common—their passion for basketball. (Source: Viz) Note: Won an Excellence Prize for manga at the 2001 Japan Media Arts Festival.
  • Published – 1999-11-11
  • Written / Illustrated by – INOUE Takehiko
  • Genre – Drama, Psychological, Sports, Seinen, Slice Of Life, Tragedy
From JShoujo Scans:
Being a tomboy who loves to get into fights, Ouka's had zero-luck in the love department. The motto she lives by leans more towards "Be Yourself" than "Be Ladylike," and she follows that to a T. But lately, her long time friend Mashima's been on her case about how she should act "more like a girl"...
  • Published – 2006-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – Ootani Noriko
  • Genre – Romance, Shoujo
Ueda Tomoharu is a cop manning a local koban station, and he's quite happy with his job and relatively quiet life until he happens to run into yakuza member Gotouda Aki while chasing down an underwear thief... and is suddenly confessed to! Aki doesn't seem bothered in the least about their ~star-crossed lovers~ status and eagerly dives into a super lovey-dovey relationship with his policeman, but Ueda's about to find out just how dangerous it can be dating a mobster... in more ways than one.
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2008-07-10
  • Written / Illustrated by – YAMAMOTO Kotetsuko
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, Slice Of Life
On a hill overlooking the sea, in a town that retains its old-world beauty, a new and gentle love story begins!
(Source: Transcendence)
  • Published – 2011-01-01 2015-10-05
  • Written / Illustrated by – Nanaji Nagamu
  • Genre – Romance, School Life
Pinky promise. If you lie then you have to swallow a thousand needles and your finger will be chopped off. Kiriko is a little girl who makes pinky promises with various people who expect her to pay for them, looking forward the day they run out of fingers to make promises with or break their promise. An adorable yet creepy 8 page oneshot.
(Source: Psycho Pandas)
  • Published – 2009-03-09
  • Written / Illustrated by – YUMEKA Sumomo
  • Genre – Drama, Mystery, Horror
When Donut meets Mew, their encounter turns out to be more than just a coincidence, as their closeness slowly turns into something more intimate. Lily Love... is a story between two very different people, who hand and hand, learn to trust each other in order to nurture and protect the love they share regardless of position, distance, or gender. If finding true love already seems next to impossible, how much harder will it be to keep it?

(Source MU)
  • Published – 2014-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – Ratana Satis
  • Genre – Drama, Romance, School Life, Slice Of Life
Collection of 5 oneshots.
  • Published – 2000-11-18 2002-05-18
  • Written / Illustrated by – HARUTA Nana
  • Genre – Romance, Shoujo
When the world was plunged into darkness martial artists gathered to form the ‘Northern Heavenly Sect’. With the help of the Northern Heavenly Sect people began to enjoy peace again. However, as time passed the martial artists began to conspire against the ‘Northern Heavenly Sect’, and eventually caused the death of the Sect Leader, Jin Kwan-Ho, destroying the sect with it. As everyone left the sect, Jin Kwan-Ho’s only son, Jin Mu-Won was left behind. Mu-Won has never learned martial arts, but he finds the Techniques secretly left behind by his father and begins to acquire the martial arts of the Northern Heavenly Sect.

(Source: Leviatan Scans)
  • Published – 2019-12-31
  • Written / Illustrated by – Hae-Min
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Webtoons
Golden Wind is the fifth story arc in the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

It stars Giorno Giovana. Giorno is determined to rise to the top of organized crime and become a head gangster in order to help people and make the world a better place. So he joins Passione, an organized crime group that employs many Stand users...

(Source: Wikipedia)
  • Published – 1995-11-28 1999-03-23
  • Written / Illustrated by – ARAKI Hirohiko
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Supernatural, Mystery, Mature
In a world split between the Inside and the Outside, those living in both realms are told never to cross over to the other side, lest they be cursed. A young girl named Shiva lives on the other side, in a vacant village with a demonic guardian known only as “Teacher.” Although the two are forbidden to touch, they seem to share a bond that transcends their disparate appearances. But when Shiva leaves Teacher’s care to seek out her grandmother, the secret behind her mysterious living arrangement comes to light.

(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
  • Published – 2015-09-05 2021-03-05
  • Written / Illustrated by – Nagabe
  • Genre – Drama, Fantasy, Supernatural
The second JJBA series takes place in the 1930s, and follows the misadventures of Joseph Joestar, the grandson of Jonathan Joestar, as he fights vampires and ancient super beings with some help from a cybernetically-enhanced Nazi and an Italian man he has a lot in common with.
(Source: Wikipedia)
  • Published – 1988-01-01 1989-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – ARAKI Hirohiko
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Shounen, Supernatural, Horror
Shuri Otokawa, a girl who can see premonitions of the future, has been trying to hide and suppress her special ability for 18 years. In order to start a new life, she joins the private investigation agency owned by her aunt, trying to use her ability in a beneficial way. However, her ex-boyfriend (and the reason of her hate towards men) Riki Nijihara was accidentally hired by her aunt as well, not to mention his superior performance as a private detective has thwarted her plan to have her aunt fired him. With another male colleague named Youta Kubo who has a crush on her, Shuri has to prove herself professionally worthy as well as dealing her office affairs triangle.
(Source: ANN)
  • Published – 2004-02-01 2018-11-26
  • Written / Illustrated by – OBANA Miho
  • Genre – Drama, Supernatural, Romance, Shoujo, Mystery, Josei
The story begins with Yggdrasil, a popular online game which is quietly shut down one day. However, the protagonist Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as "the most powerful wizard." The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) begining to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become.

(Source: ANN)
  • Published – 2014-11-26
  • Written / Illustrated by – MARUYAMA Kugane
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Supernatural, Harem, Sci Fi
Growing older is pretty rough and Kenji is finding out just how hard it can be as life starts wearing down on him. On top of trying to make ends meet running a convenience store he has to care for the niece that his missing sister left in his care. Memories of youth make it easier, until those memories come back to haunt him
Picking up directly after the events of 20th Century Boys, it seems like the world is finally out of danger, but the mystery of "Friend" still exists. As the world is threatened again, Kenji must search his memories for any clue about "Friend".
(Source: ANN)
  • Published – 2006-12-25 2007-07-14
  • Written / Illustrated by – URASAWA Naoki
  • Genre – Action, Drama, Psychological, Mystery
Nobody paid much attention to John – just a normal teenager at a high school where the social elite happens to possess unthinkable powers and abilities. But John’s got a secret past that threatens to bring down the school’s whole social order – and much more. Fulfilling his destiny won’t be easy though, because there are battles, frenemies, and deadly conspiracies around every corner.(Source: LINE Webtoon)
  • Published – 2016-05-24
  • Written / Illustrated by –
  • Genre – Action, Fantasy, School Life, Webtoons
“I just want to live a normal life, why is this happening to me!” Your average student Ham Dan, whose hobby was reading “Law of Insomnia” wakes up to a beautiful novel like heroine. But even in the world of fantasy novels, her role is no different. Stuck as the childhood friend of the heroine, her normal everyday life comes to an end, becoming more twisted by her strong character.

(Source: Mangadex)
  • Published – 2019-03-31
  • Written / Illustrated by – Yuhan
  • Genre – Fantasy, Romance, School Life, Webtoons
While spending summer with his mother, Haru meets Ren, a boy newly adopted by his mother. Getting along with Ren isn't easy as Haru's goal is to "civilize" him by the time summer ends. Their relationship slowly improves as Haru spends more time with Ren and in return Ren steadily warms up to him. Can they really become a "family" at the end of summer!?
(Source: Bliss)
  • Published – 2009-12-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – ABE Miyuki
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, School Life, Slice Of Life
In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch … until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem …(Source: Kodansha Comics)
  • Published – 2016-07-22
  • Written / Illustrated by – SHIRAHAMA Kamome
  • Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy