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.

Accompanied by a talking lantern, Mika pursues her sister on a quest to retrieve that which was stolen from her long ago.
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2012-03-01 2016-01-07
  • Written / Illustrated by – Matoba
  • Genre – Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
Hark! The city is in peril! Who you gonna call? Colors!Sacchan, Yui and Kotoha are here to protect the city, solving mysteries and battling enemies with help from their friends.But their quest isn't an easy one as their arch-nemesis Saitou, the violent police officer of Ueno, meets them at every turn.
  • Published – 2014-07-26 2020-06-27
  • Written / Illustrated by – Katsuwo
  • Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Slice Of Life
The story of Steins;Gate takes place in Akihabara and is about a group of friends who have managed to customize their microwave into a device that can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

(Source: Wikipedia)
  • Published – 2009-09-26 2013-07-27
  • Written / Illustrated by – 5pb x Nitroplus
  • Genre – Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Seinen
Amako is a young girl who has a great love of sweets. Due to her father's job, she had to move many times during her childhood, which prevented her from making close friends. Now she's 15 and starting high school, and it looks like she'll finally be able to have a normal school life! She intends to join the tea ceremony club, but it's going to be abolished this year, due to the lack of members.

All seems lost, when a strange young girl named Pudding appears out of a pudding cup! She says she's run away from her home, in the Kingdom of Sweets, and she agrees to be in Amako's club in exchange for a place to stay. Soon, Pudding's sisters, Cream and Chocolate, arrive to bring her home, but they find that Pudding's way home is lost! Will Pudding be stuck in Amako's world permanently? This 4-koma features Pudding, Amako, and other visitors from the Kingdom of Sweets, as they enjoy school life and tasty snacks together.

(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2011-03-16 2014-12-16
  • Written / Illustrated by – CUTEG
  • Genre – Comedy, Fantasy, Slice Of Life, 4 Koma
Hikari Kohinata is a cheerful 15 year-old girl who lives near the ocean and she spends much of her time diving as a result. On her first day of high school, she meets a teacher who also likes scuba diving. There's also a 16 year-old classmate, Futaba, who gets dragged along in Hikari's maelstrom as soon as they meet at school. Most of the manga so far details the relationship between the two girls, which quickly seems to move into romantic two girl friendship-territory.
  • Published – 2008-11-29 2021-05-10
  • Written / Illustrated by – AMANO Kozue
  • Genre – Comedy, School Life, Sports, Slice Of Life
The spinoff will focus on Kishibe Rohan, an eccentric mangaka with the ability to read people's memories, an ability called "Heaven's Door." He seeks out the supernatural to see for himself what his mysterious ability is all about.

1. Episode #16: Zangeshitsu (At a confessional)
2. Episode #02: Mutsukabezaka
3. Episode #05: Fugou Mura (Millionaire Village)
4. Episode #06: Mitsuryou Kaigan (Poaching Reef)
5. Kishibe Rohan Gucci e Iku (Rohan da Gucci, Rohan goes to Gucci)
  • Published – 1997-06-24
  • Written / Illustrated by – Araki Hirohiko
  • Genre – Drama, Supernatural, Mystery, Horror
A wonderful slice of life comedy about the daily life of an innocent horned girl named Madoromi and her caretaker human Taichii and their adventures and exploits in life.
  • Published – 2013-02-26 2016-06-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – namo
  • Genre – Shounen
In the whole world there lays twelve paths to climb Tower of God, and in legends these twelve pathways leads toward legendary road of immortality. However these paths in the Tower of God, are far too long, without end. In ancient times there once were many types of martial arts, sadly the world underwent terrible changes, and only three were left: Flame, Dragon and Star Martial Arts. Generations of experts of those three martial arts are searching for the road of immortality.A Star Martial Arts practitioner on his journey of lifetime, plans to become the Highest God.(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2016-11-15
  • Written / Illustrated by – Mad Snail
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Martial Arts
Yuna, a 15-year-old girl, started playing the world's first VRMMO. She has earned billions of yen in stocks, and confines herself in her house playing the game without going to school. Today, a major update has arrived and she obtained a non-transferable rare bear outfit. But the equipment is so embarrassing that she can't wear it even in the game. Furthermore, when she answers the survey regarding the new update and relaunches the game, she appears in and unknown forest in the bear outfit. Where is this? Email from God? A different world? If she wears the bear outfit she's a cheat, if she takes it off she's a normal girl. Her adventure starts just like that. Yuna began doing whatever she wanted.

(Source: Shousetsuka ni Narou)
  • Published – 2015-05-29
  • Written / Illustrated by – Kumanano
  • Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

LIFE

2002
Ayumu Shiiba is studying for the all-important high school entrance exams. She is struggling to get by, but thankfully has help from her best friend Shii-chan, who is at the top of their class. Test results come back and their friendship falls apart when Ayumu surpasses Shii-chan's scores and gets into her high school of choice while Shii-chan doesn't! Losing Shii-chan is so painful for Ayumu that she starts cutting her wrists for comfort. Hoping for a fresh start, Ayumu arrives at her new high school and finally opens up to a new friend, Manami. But will Manami prove to be the friend that Ayumu truly needs or send her further in a downward spiral? (Source: Tokyopop)
  • Published – 2002-04-13 2009-02-13
  • Written / Illustrated by – SUENOBU Keiko
  • Genre – Drama, Psychological, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice Of Life, Tragedy
Ha-ri made a deal—go on one blind date for her BFF and pretend to be a super-vixen to end all of her unwanted marriage set-ups! Unfortunately, instead of easy money, Ha-ri’s got a headache. Her date is Taemu, her company’s hot new CEO, and he’s got his own plans to get his family to back off by marrying whoever shows up on the date. Should Ha-ri accept his proposal to keep playing pretend? Nothing could go wrong with lying about your real identity while dating the boss... right??

(Source: Tapas)
  • Published – 2018-09-18 2020-12-25
  • Written / Illustrated by – 해화
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, Slice Of Life, Webtoons

Id

2002
We find Chunwha in a world beyond his own... There he will struggle to find his own purpose among the many inhabitants of the new world including elves, dwarves, and even mages! As we watch him grow in strength and spirit, the mangaka creates fascinating characters out of his companions and adversaries and moves past the simple concept of the antagonist vs the protagonist.
To find out what fate has in store for our hero, follow Id in a fantastic adventure, exploring a world where anything is possible!
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2002-01-01 2009-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – KIM Daewoo
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Romance
Haruna, a young salesman with an allergy to alcohol, isn’t happy to be handed the account for a sake brewery. But when he pays a visit to his new client, instead of being greeted by the brewery’s notoriously cantankerous old owner, he meets Nakagawa, the handsome—but icy—man of his dreams. Now Haruna is drunk on love, and he’s desperate to convince Nakagawa that fate has brought them together. But the old brewer wants Haruna off his property by any means necessary. Are Haruna and Nakagawa destined to drink alone, or will their passion prove more intoxicating than the sake?
(Source: SuBLime)
  • Published – 2009-09-10 2012-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – KAWAI Touko
  • Genre – Romance, Slice Of Life
10 years ago, the monster horde from the rift formed from space and time started attacking the mankind. At the same time, people have started to awaken the power and began hunting the monsters for fame and money Lee SungHoon, in need of money because of his mother’s sickness, takes a dangerous job to help hunt those monsters four times a month by acting as a bait for the hunters But one day, he is heavily injured by a monster and remembers his past life as a sorcerer king ‘Huh? Did I just die?» ‘Wait, I was a Sorcerer King Kratraus in my previous life?’ With his past memories, SungHoon’s overpowered magic show begins.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2019-05-31
  • Written / Illustrated by – Decaspell
  • Genre –
Liquor, cigarettes, and a grapefruit-scented shampoo.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2016-10-08 2018-02-09
  • Written / Illustrated by – Zaria
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, Slice Of Life, One Shot
A gate to another dimension has burst open, and from it emerge gigantic invincible creatures that threaten all of humanity. Earth's only defense is a mysterious group of warriors who have co-opted the alien technology in order to fight back!
(Source: Viz Media)
  • Published – 2013-02-08
  • Written / Illustrated by – ASHIHARA Daisuke
  • Genre – Action, Supernatural, Sci Fi
"All things are born and all things die. That is the law of heaven." According to legend, the Bird of Fire called the Phoenix is the eternal spirit of life, death and rebirth. She oversees the cycle of reincarnation and the rising and falling of civilizations and species. Those who can obtain her blood will be granted eternal life, while to others she can grant infinite wisdom, or eternal suffering. Throughout history, from the dawn of civilization to the extinction of the human race, those human souls touched by the Phoenix have hunted her over and over in multiple reincarnations, and their actions in one life determine or reflect the sins and sufferings of other lifetimes.

(Source: ANN)

Note: This is an incomplete series due to Tezuka's death.
  • Published – 1954-07-01 1988-02-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – TEZUKA Osamu
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Supernatural, Psychological, Romance, Historical, Sci-Fi
In order to heal the wounds in Eiri Yuki's heart, he and his vocalist lover, Shuichi, travel to New York to visit the grave of Yuki's first love and tormentor, Yuki Kitagawa. They discover that the first Yuki has left behind a young son, Riku, and so the odd couple take the boy back with them to Japan. When Shuuichi receives a kiss from nutty rival band leader, Ryuuichi, Yuki flies into a jealous rage, and he and Riku disappear, leaving Shuuichi to search for them in vain. (Source: Tokyopop)
  • Published – 2005-01-01 2011-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – MURAKAMI Maki
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama