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.

Shion is a young man working for the Onmyou Organization under false pretenses. He is attempting to avenge the destruction of his nation and the deaths of his family members, and targets the Empress in an attempt to destroy her homeland. However, their destinies are in fact entwined, as she not only dislikes destruction, but wishes to unite all of Japan peacefully. (Source: ANN)
  • Published – 1999-02-01 1999-06-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – YABUKI Kentaro
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A collection of short stories which feature the mystery of human beings with a seemingly surreal yet pure literature-like style.

(Source : MU)
  • Published – 2011-12-22 2012-08-22
  • Written / Illustrated by – MIYAZAKI Natsujikei
  • Genre – Seinen
Beitofuku's father remarried a week ago and her step brother turns out to be the school's most popular guy, Aizawa Hiroki. Giving the appearance of a gentleman it turns out he's a huge playboy, trying to "capture" her to prove they can't be a family!?
  • Published – 2011-01-01 2012-02-13
  • Written / Illustrated by – MORITA Fuji
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice Of Life
After moving to a new city, Soko inexplicably begins to feel sick. At school, as beautiful as she is, a lot of guys start to bother her, especially Kashi. When Kashi tries to rape her, however, he disappears, and a few days later another man shows up posing as Kashi. The only thing is, though he looks nothing like Kashi, only Soko can tell he's a fake! The new man tells her he's Akira the Byakko, from the family of the West. Because she's the reincarnation of Souryo from the family of the East, the queen of the demons, she must be destroyed. He's the only one who can kill her, and it's his duty to do so. Is she really a monster? Why does she have human memories? Why does she have to die? Will she be able to change her destiny and live on?
(Source: Storm in Heaven)
  • Published – 1992-05-01 1994-11-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – SHINOHARA Chie
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, Shoujo, Mystery, Mature
Sagara Masamune is a manga author who isn't very successful, and it's looking like it's time to end his battle manga. To go for an unexpected ending, he plans to kill off the main heroine, Nina, in a dramatic way. As he works on his manga, he is mysteriously sucked into the pages. Now he's trapped in the world of his own creation, with his protagonists, exorcists Haru and Nina. He doesn't really get what's happening, but he thinks concluding the manga, which involves orchestrating Nina's death, might get him back home.
(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2012-10-25 2014-04-25
  • Written / Illustrated by – KATSURAGI Hajime
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Ecchi
Kazusa, a young high school girl, is killed instantly when a car crashes into her as she was crossing the street. As a ghost, she watches her friends' reactions to her death—keeping a close eye on Miharu, the boy she was in love with before she died. However, she discovers that he was in love with another girl Okabe Ranko... but can Okabe see Kazusa's ghost when no one else can?
(Source: Dazzling Scans)
  • Published – 2011-12-25 2012-08-25
  • Written / Illustrated by – SEIKE Yukiko
  • Genre – Supernatural, Romance, Seinen, Tragedy
Shin adores his little brother Satoru & childhood friend Mitsuya but starts having strange feelings when he overhears a couple of fujoshi talking about how hot it would be seeing Satoru and Mitsuya kiss. He thinks he'd be happy accepting a relationship between his little brother and best friend but when he walks in on them actually kissing... he starts to cry?

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2015-03-20 2017-08-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – KANDA Neko
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life
"When we met, I fell in love with you..." The novelist Sakaguchi was troubled. When Sakaguchi took in a weak kitten, the high schooler Kazuya who comes to his house to visit the cat, suddenly confessed. He thought it was just childish nonsense but while usually being quiet, the Kazuya who confessed his love awkwardly while his ears became red, seemed cute to Sakaguchi. But... adult love also entails sex, right?
The love between the rough novelist and clumsy high schooler.
(Source: Bakeneko Scanlations)Included one-shot: Alcohol Love Call
  • Published – 2013-03-09
  • Written / Illustrated by – FUJIKAWA Ruri
  • Genre – Romance, Yaoi
Although Koharu is a little taller than the average person. She's a 15-year-old girl who lives a much simpler life than the average person. Having no experience with love, she thought she'd spend her days peacefully with her group of ordinary friends. However, a destined encounter will change Koharu...!!

(Source: Summer Rain)
  • Published – 2013-05-13 2016-04-13
  • Written / Illustrated by – OZAKI, Akira, (尾崎あきら)
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life
A collection of short stories about love: Doing what you love, being with the one you love, and falling in love…
1) Doujinshi wo Tsukutte Mita. (I Tried Making a Doujinshi.)
2) Futatsu Negai. (Two Wishes.)
3) Suki to Ienai Koto (I Can’t Say I Love You)
4) Chiku Taku (Tick Tock)
5) Suki mo Yoi (Love Is Good)
(Source: roankun)
  • Published – 2012-04-07
  • Written / Illustrated by – FUTAMI Sui
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance
Rio was living a perfectly normal high school life, when suddenly the amazing transfer student, Tomo-chan, appeared before him. Rio watches the guy, with his overpowering aura, from afar. Until one day Tomo-chan picks up Rio's dropped planner with a picture of his beloved idol, a (male) teacher, inside.
Tomo-chan suspects Rio is gay, and after stating that he's going to "cure it", they embark on a sexual "Homo Fixing Training Regimen"! As for Rio, despite thinking that he shouldn't be, seems to feel something...
(Source: M-U)
  • Published – 2007-06-01 2011-03-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – OUGI Yuzuha
  • Genre – Comedy, School Life, Yaoi
What do you do when the MMO you’ve run for 15 years comes to an end? Akira Ono didn’t get much of a choice — he woke up trapped inside the world of his own game in the body of his in-game character: the Demon Lord. With an outcast child as his sidekick, he tries his best to survive the cruel fantasy world of his own creation, prosecution from the good guys, and of course, the final boss.

Source: J-Novel Club
  • Published – 2017-10-30 2019-12-20
  • Written / Illustrated by – KANZAKI Kurone
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Ecchi, Harem
An assassin is retiring after he finishes dodging bullets from his current assignment, all while fantasizing about his future leisurely life, when a strange woman throws a little boy down to him and begs him to, "Save this child!" 14 years later, instead of managing a fancy art gallery he's doing manual labor and raising an increasingly distant teenage boy but he's happy to provide a happy home for his new son until he realizes why Ryuunosuke has been acting so strangely....
(Source: Dangerous Pleasure)
  • Published – 2010-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – Shoowa
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Yaoi
Girl moves into an "apartment" (seems more like a house with a bedroom being rented out) and finds out the landlady is a lesbian. Being the bubbly cheerful girl she is, it doesn't really bother her, but what will happen when the landlady develops feelings for her and starts coming on to her?
  • Published – 2011-01-01 2014-07-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – FUJIO
  • Genre – Slice Of Life, 4 Koma
Nicknamed “The Prude,” Aizome Maiko is an misunderstood girl who actually has explicit fantasies. When a boy with a delinquent’s face, Yajima Keisuke, ruins her dream romantic encounter, she forces him into slavery by getting him to carry out her ridiculous plan to reach the man of her dreams. What has “The Prude” have in store for Yajima and will her ridiculous plan succeed?
(Source: Weekend Betsuender)
  • Published – 2013-04-25
  • Written / Illustrated by – OKADA Haruki
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, One Shot
Buso Renkin is the story of teenager Kazuki Muto, who dies trying to save a girl who was being attacked by an eerie monster. The next morning, however, Kazuki is left wondering whether it was all a dream. Lo and behold, the girl, the monster, and his death are all real! The girl, Tokiko Tsumura, was actually trying to slay the homunculus (a beast that can take the form of humans, but whose main source of food is people), but Kazuki got in her way. To revive Kazuki, Tokiko replaces his heart with a "kakugane," an alchemic device that allows him to summon a lance with which to fight the monsters. It turns out that Tokiko is a member of Renkin Kenshi (Alchemist Soldiers), an organization sworn to protect the world from the diabolical creatures. Soon, Kazuki joins Tokiko in her quest to terminate the sinister being that creates and controls the homunculus.
(Source: Viz)
  • Published – 2003-06-23 2005-04-18
  • Written / Illustrated by – Watsuki Nobuhiro
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen, Supernatural, Romance, School Life, Sci-Fi
Kiriko has always been overshadowed by her older sister Eiko. Eiko is cute, smart, and extremely popular unlike Kiriko. This manga is about Kiriko leaving her sister's shadow. Although this sounds like a typical manga, the manga-ka enjoys switching to different manga styles to show extreme expressions and actions of the characters. Seishunchuu is a very cute and funny manga!
(Source: Impossibility)
  • Published – 1998-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – KURIHARA Mamoru
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life, Mystery, Horror
Konata, Miyuki, Tsukasa, and Kagami fall asleep to find themselves anime figure sized when they awake.
  • Published – 2007-11-26 2008-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – YOSHIMIZU Kagami
  • Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy