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.

Mizutani Souta is confessed to by the school's famous frail beauty Aizawa Shino. Then came another one of her! And another! And another! Each with different attitudes, but all of them are Aizawa Shino herself. What will this sort-of harem love story come to!?

(Source: Batoto.net)
  • Published – 2013-12-05 2017-02-02
  • Written / Illustrated by – SHIKI Seiichi
  • Genre – Comedy, Shounen, Romance, Harem
Without worries about girls or money, half-heartedly living Nishizaki meets the love of his life on campus. A lover who bites his lips when happy... Araya is always troublesome, gloomy, and without desire. Thinking of him, Nishizaki’s teeth always hurt...
Other than the title series, the “Your Everything” series, “Aurora Railway” and “The Owner Up Above” is also included.
(Source: Nakama)
  • Published – 2007-08-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – MIIKE Romuko
  • Genre – Romance, School Life, Yaoi
This could be any girl. Imagine being a heroine of a love story. Hatori also believed that one day she would get married to her childhood friend, Rita. But that’s not how the world works! This is a hilarious comedy that honestly paints a painful unrequited love story of this young girl!
(Source: Anime-tion)
  • Published – 2010-03-13 2013-03-13
  • Written / Illustrated by – KODA Momoko
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice Of Life
Welcome to the 35th Test Platoon of the Taimadou Gakuen, or "Antimagic Academy". The academy is home to squads that hunt down and kill, destroy, or otherwise render harmless magical practitioners and artifacts. The 35th Test Platoon is a band of misfits who don't seem to fit in anywhere else. Each member is a specialist with a focus on a different aspect of operations. The squad may become the greatest team ever, but first they must overcome their greatest obstacle: each other.
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2012-11-09 2014-05-09
  • Written / Illustrated by – YANAGIMI Touki
  • Genre – Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, School Life, Ecchi, Harem
The story of Ciguatera follows Ogino, who is bullied in high school along with his friend Takai. The two rely on their passion towards motorcycles and desire to get one to add some hope and vigor to their otherwise bleak lives.

The two are learning to drive in secret at a driving school, and it is there that Ogino's life begins to change forever. The manga follows a variety of characters through their high school and working lives, through their struggles, their triumphs, their dreams, their futures, their love, life and loss.

Ciguatera is a mature manga from Minoru Furuya, author of Ping Pong Club and Himizu.
  • Published – 2003-01-01 2005-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – FURUYA Minoru
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, Ecchi, Seinen
1-4. The Detective Will Drown in Lust! (Tantei wa Retsujou ni Oboreru)
5. Loving Butt
6. Love Blooming From the Ass
7. Last Trap
  • Published – 2013-03-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – SAKIRA
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Mature
Humanity's peaceful days all at once transform into an unspeakably odious hell. The sudden invasion of wasp-like insects, along with gargantuan "dolls" wielding their enormous alien weapons, annihilating everyone in their path. In the middle of the chaos, high school first-year, Iruma Ikaruga, fights to save his best friend and his beloved senpai from the dolls' assault with an unyielding spirit. However, all that awaits him is despair. Just what are the enormous puppets known as "Dolly"after? What fate awaits Iruma? The curtain has risen on humanity's "puppet show" of unimaginable despair, and the battle for survival has begun.

(Source: MangaBox)
  • Published – 2014-08-16 2017-09-23
  • Written / Illustrated by – KURANDO Yukiaki
  • Genre – Action, Drama, Horror

Aiura

2011
The story centers around Amaya, Iwasawa, and Uehara — three "annoying, spirited high school girls with zero motivation" — and their classmates. Their daily life is "what happens when there is nothing happening."
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2011-03-02 2014-04-26
  • Written / Illustrated by – Chama Uji
  • Genre – Comedy, School Life, 4 Koma
Track team member Kashiwagi Ayumu has put aside his secret feelings for his classmate, Shinohara Takahito.
One day, his track club senpai, Sawatari Atsushi, realizes Ayumu’s feelings, and embraces Ayumu against his will in attempt to cure his own boredom.
Sawatari seems cold hearted, but suddenly reveals a tenderness to the resisting Ayumu, but…?!
(Source: Blissful Sin)
  • Published – 2008-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – ITSUKI Kaname
  • Genre – Drama, Romance, School Life, Sports, Smut, Yaoi
The manga follows the story of Junk, a young knight that tries to distance himself from the shadow of his legendary father and future expectations.

  • Published – 2017-05-07
  • Written / Illustrated by – NAKAO Takuya
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A side-story based off of the 'Kuroneko Kareshi' series; follows Kagami Keiichi's older brothers (Kagami Yuujin) relationship with his childhood friend/butler/secretary (Takamizawa Ei).

Kagami Yuuji constantly hounds Keiichi for picking up and living with "a useless stray cat" and "not marrying the proper candidate in order to continue the superior bloodline of the Kagami family."

But is Yuuji-san really upset because Keiichi-kun has enjoyed the company of Shingo, a basic black shape-shifting cat, or is his just bitter because it leaves his own life unfulfilled?
  • Published – 2014-10-14 2015-01-14
  • Written / Illustrated by – SAKYOU Aya
  • Genre – Drama, Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, Smut, Yaoi
Ten years ago, they took him in. He doesn't even know who. And for ten years, he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years, his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jail mates. In time, he lost himself. He changed...transformed himself into something else...something hard...something lethal. Suddenly, one day his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated, stuffed inside a trunk, and dumped in a park. When he awakes, he is free to reclaim what's left of his life...and what's left is revenge.

(Source: Dark Horse)
  • Published – 1996-01-01 1998-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – TSUCHIYA Garon
  • Genre – Drama, Psychological, Mystery, Seinen, Mature
Genius-level freshman Tomoe Tatsumi was smart enough to get accepted into a private college in Tokyo, but too naive to realize there wouldn't be enough money left over for rent. So, how is it that he's living in a fabulous apartment for less than most people pay for a single room?
It is thanks to white-collar worker Mitsugu Kurokawa, a good Samaritan with an ulterior motive: to love, honor, and cherish this irresistibly charming student until his dying days! ...Which may come sooner than not if Tomoe's violently homophobic older brother Souichi has any say in the matter.
(Source: DramaQueen)
  • Published – 1997-01-01 2004-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – TAKANAGA Hinako
  • Genre – Romance, Yaoi, Shounen Ai
A "scientific" perverted manga with a lot of tentacles. Komaba Haruki is a high school boy who has two eccentric girl friends: Hizuki Ayana and Kuze Airi. Ayana is half-dog and Airi is half-cyborg. Haruki gets involved in ecchi troubles caused by the two.
(Source: MAL news)
  • Published – 2010-01-01 2013-12-05
  • Written / Illustrated by – YOSHIKAWA Hideaki
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life, Ecchi, Harem, Mature
1. MANNERIXXX
2-4. Souteigai Love Serendipity
5-7. Kanashimi no Shaddy
  • Published – 2015-10-17
  • Written / Illustrated by – meco
  • Genre –
After awakening from an eight-year-long coma, Kurosawa must face the trials of homelessness.
  • Published – 2013-05-20
  • Written / Illustrated by – FUKUMOTO Nobuyuki
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Psychological, Slice Of Life
Adeiro Yuugi is about Katase (Kadase?) who works at a workshop which specializes in the traditional, intricate art of yuzen dyeing. He doesn’t get along well with others and deliberately keeps people at a distance. This changes when he’s told to allow a friendly young man in training to stay at his place.
(Source: the manga habit)
  • Published – 2010-06-01 2011-02-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – TAKATSUKI Noboru
  • Genre – Romance, Slice Of Life
It’s fairly obvious to Terui Chiaki that her classmate Ajikawa Yoshio has a crush on her. He is completely not boyfriend material in her eyes and, even if he was, Chiaki already has a boyfriend. Their mysterious teacher Mr. Yamada sees this relationship between the two students and offers an experiment. He is able to make copies of people and objects and does so with Chiaki, creating a copy of her, except the copy has no knowledge of her boyfriend. Yoshio will hit on the Chiaki copy, who is named Koaki, and he'll try to make her fall in love with him. After a specified amount of time, the copy and original will be combined back together and which ever love is stronger between the current boyfriend and Yoshio will overwrite all other emotions. So this love experiment begins and both Chiaki and Koaki, being the same person, thinks Yoshio has no chance in hell but with each passing day, some feelings begin to bubble.
(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2009-06-15 2012-10-15
  • Written / Illustrated by – YASOHACHI Ryou
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Sci-Fi, Seinen, Slice Of Life