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.

College student Yoichi helps a swan stuck on a bridge, only to be visited later in the night by Miwa, a beautiful woman claiming to have been the same swan Yoichi rescued. Miwa stays with Yoichi to pay back her debt, but Yoichi harbors doubts about Miwa really being a swan. With his uneasiness, is there hope for a relationship between Yoichi and Miwa?
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2007-03-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – KODAMA Yuki
  • Genre – Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, Slice Of Life
While he cannot explain it, Udou Ryuuji is absolutely certain of one thing: he loathes Kujou Ritsuki from the very core of his being. There’s just something about his good looks and the way he flirts and has all the girls eating out of his hand that pisses Ryuuji off royally—so when he accidentally discovers the deep dark secret behind Ritsuki’s part-time job, he’s of course going to milk it for all it’s worth…right?
(Source: September Scanlations)
  • Published – 2013-01-01 2013-05-25
  • Written / Illustrated by – SHIINA Akino
  • Genre – Comedy, School Life, Shounen Ai
Takamiya Honoka is a regular student whose only problem seems to be that he sits next to Kagari Ayaka, the school's #1 beauty. They have never spoken to each other before and any small interaction between them immediately results in her fanclub beating him. Yet when a falling part of the school's building is about to send him to the afterlife, it's Kagari that comes to his rescue. Only... she's dressed as a witch, carrying him in her arms and floating on a broom?! Kagari tells him it is her mission to protect him and that now she can finally protect him openly rather than undercover.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2010-03-05
  • Written / Illustrated by – MIZUNAGI Ryuu
  • Genre – Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, School Life
True friendship is something that is not easily broken. That is exactly what best friends Haruka, Yuki and Misaki have. The school girl trio lives in a town close to the ocean and spend most of their time together on daily adventures. From a nice day at the beach to their typical day at school or the fun night at the local festival, Haruka, Yuki and Misaki will be best friends forever...
(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2008-07-19 2012-11-19
  • Written / Illustrated by – Takamichi
  • Genre – Seinen, Slice Of Life
It's nature vs. nurture when a nerd swaps bodies with the toughest guy in school! Tuji and Usoo have swapped...their bodies! After becoming the subjects of a mad scientist's experiment with her latest invention - the quantum teleporter - their bodies are switched, leaving only their minds and spirits intact. Usoo, who was once a model student, must face the life of Tuji, a teenage menace. Never having an enemy in his life, he now has to deal with the handful of Tuji's list, but will his kinder, gentler demeanor ward off his rivals? Or will survival determine his future? Will he become the hardened fighter that matches his new exterior?
  • Published – 1998-01-01 2004-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – Eun Ho Son
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, School Life, Sports
Hibi Chouchou and Hirunaka no Ryuusei crossover bundled with Margaret 2014 #11 as separate-volume supplement.

Hirunaka no Chouchou: Shopping Biyori no Shinhakken (A Shocking Day for New Discoveries)
A shopping mall date with Suiren and Kawasumi. But... Suiren gets lost?! She and a small girl find themselves at the Lost Child centre where suddenly Suzume and Mamura come along!

Hibi Ryuusei: Suzume no Parallel Koukou Nikki (Suzume's Parallel School Diary)
The Suzume who steals everybody's attention at the high school entrance ceremony. Though she's no great beauty, she does things at her own pace and is a hot topic amongst everyone. In the middle of this, the only person who doesn't notice her, Kawasumi – will he become interested?!

(Source: Batoto)
  • Published – 2014-05-02
  • Written / Illustrated by – MORISHITA, Suu, YAMAMORI, Mika
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice Of Life
Omnibus volume of short manga by Urushibara, Yuki. Includes "She Got Off the Bus At the Peninsula", "Labyrinth Cat" and the previously published omnibus volume "Bio Luminescence" which was created under the pen-name Shima, Soyogo. The latter includes two Mushishi stories set in modern day Japan and with different characters than the long running series.
  • Published – 1992-01-01 2004-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – Urushibara Yuki
  • Genre – Drama, Supernatural, Seinen, Slice Of Life
25-year-old Haduki-san has no experience in romance but ends up being pushed into a relationship by her younger sister. Her partner is a high-school boy!? A timid love story begins.
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2011-05-21 2012-07-21
  • Written / Illustrated by – KAZAMA Ayami
  • Genre – Comedy, Shounen, Romance
The main character of the story moves from the countryside to the city. Soon after arriving, the main character spots a cat about to fall from a rooftop down into the street below. In saving the cat, the main character falls from the roof. Surprisingly, the main character awakes to find that the cat from before has used one of it's nine lives to repay it's debt and return the main character to life! Unfortunately, a cat's life only accounts to a year of life for a human, so the main character must now solve 100 cases in order to regain a full life. A series of strange adventures with animals in human-form ensues.
  • Published – 2010-05-27 2012-03-27
  • Written / Illustrated by – Tiv
  • Genre – Shounen, Supernatural, School Life, Shoujo Ai
Jin is a rock artist in the making, and in a relationship with Tama, a wanna-be bread maker. However, as Jin's popularity grows, he feels he doesn't have enough time for Tama, and breaks up with her. Tama agrees to call it off... A little too easily. The two go off their separate ways and decide to meet new people, but is their relationship really truly over? Watch their piping hot love slowly unfold!
(Source: Operation Boredom)
  • Published – 2008-08-28 2011-04-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – AMANO Shiro
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, Seinen, Slice Of Life
It is the Taisho Era at a certain girl's school. There one young lady embodies the ambition and is the envy of every girl. The crimson ribbon adorning her marks her as the top student. She is none other than Yoshimura Sayaka. Always at her side is the chauffeur her family employs, Narutaki Shinobu. Are the two in love as rumored amongst the female student body!?
(Source: Omari's Sister)
Included one-shot:
Volume 1: Ruka to Touzoku (Ruka and the Thief)
  • Published – 2010-02-10 2011-12-10
  • Written / Illustrated by – ISHIHARA Keiko
  • Genre – Drama, Romance, Shoujo, Historical
Toujou Aki lives with his younger step-brother, Saku who is a university student. Instead of going home to sleep though, Saku will stay out with as many women as possible, to the point of being a man-whore. Aki, on the other hand, has a deep hatred for women, enough to make him nauseous being around them. Aki's one secret is that he would do anything for his brother. No matter what it is. However, everything can change in an instant during the silence of three minutes.

(Source: Exiled Rebels Scans)
  • Published – 2016-01-29 2016-09-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – ICHINASHI Kimi
  • Genre – Drama, Romance, Slice Of Life
A collection of one-shots by Fumie Akuta.
  • Published – 2011-06-13 2013-07-13
  • Written / Illustrated by – Akuta Fumie
  • Genre – School Life, Slice Of Life
A dramatization of the real life of Yaeko Yamamoto. Over 100 years ago, Yaeko broke traditional Japanese stereotypes gender and honor to become a gun-warrior in defense of her homeland of Aizu.
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2012-12-04 2013-11-02
  • Written / Illustrated by – YAMAMOTO Mutsumi
  • Genre – Action, Drama, Shounen, Martial Arts, Historical
Danjou Yamato is a high school student who lives in the countryside and is the boxing champion of the region. However, when his family has to move out to live in Tokyo, he is transfered to a school in Tokyo that was previously an all-girls school. Girls have a lot of power and give the guys a hard time. But Yamato will not bow down to the power of the girls, and on his way to claim power for the guys in the school, he finds out something about his past...something that he had forgotten long ago... (From AnimeWaves)
  • Published – 2001-03-16 2008-06-16
  • Written / Illustrated by – KAWAKATA Kaoru
  • Genre – Comedy, Shounen, Romance, School Life, Harem, Sports
For five years, there has been a desperate war against an unknown enemy. The people on the remote island Aoshima hardly know of the terrible conditions on the mainland. But this changes all of a sudden when every friday at the fifth hour, scholars are chosen to fight directly at the frontlines.

Both Saku and Miyako are declared unfit for service for undisclosed reasons. However, young Reina, who had just fled Tokyo, is first to be sent to the war zone.

(Source: Tokyopop)
  • Published – 2014-05-02 2017-02-03
  • Written / Illustrated by – Yuu, (優)
  • Genre – Seinen
A young salaryman finds a secret that was kept between his brother and his boss.

  • Published – 2015-10-30 2016-02-29
  • Written / Illustrated by – KAYAMA Aori
  • Genre – Romance, Slice Of Life
Wolfsmund is a dark historical manga set in the early 14th century of Europe (Switzerland). The story revolves around the eponymous fortress in the St. Gotthard Pass which is ruled by a sadistic tyrant. Each chapter deals with characters who for some reason have to cross the pass and who end up getting interrogated by the tyrant.

What sets this manga apart is the fact that there's rarely a happy ending for our protagonists. The author pulls no punches to show us just how brutal and inhuman the Middle Ages really were.

(Source: Kotonoha)
  • Published – 2009-02-14 2016-10-15
  • Written / Illustrated by – KUJI Mitsuhisa
  • Genre – Action, Drama, Historical, Seinen, Mature, Tragedy