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.

Athanasia Cloix, a woman whose elegance and beauty is akin to that of a swan lake, was the Duke’s eldest daughter and the Queen of the social circles: an existence near to perfection. Due to some rumors, however, people began to misunderstand and belittle her. As she suffered through these unfortunate events, she learned to conceal her feelings by putting on a façade and agreed to a political marriage with the Winter-comer who's also known as the “Northern Monster”.

"As the Grand Duke, I will do my best to accommodate your needs and desires. But love alone is something I can't give to you." Unbeknownst to her, that very man will change her life and thus a new fate is about to unfold.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2019-07-26
  • Written / Illustrated by – Extreme Culture
  • Genre – Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Webtoons
Andou is a high schooler who possesses the ability to force others to vocalize his thoughts – an ability similar to ventriloquism. Inukai is young man shrouded in mystery who commands the vigilante group, Grass Hopper, which appeared in a city shaken by the downtown restoration program. This is a tale of courage, resolution… and confrontation; this is a depiction of the two boys’ encounter.
(Source: Aku Tenshi)
  • Published – 2007-07-01 2009-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – ISAKA Kotaro
  • Genre – Shounen, Supernatural, Psychological, Sci-Fi
Hardworking, good-looking, and heir to daddy's company, Shimano thinks his life's just about perfect. Except that he's working from the bottom up in the company, and he can't seem to get along with Kurokawa, his manager. Competent but flippant, Kurokawa always seems to pay extra attention to Shimano, whether it's teasing him to make him work harder or covering up for his mistakes, which of course drives Shimano crazy. So he has Kurokawa firmly blacklisted until he realizes that Kurokawa's private life isn't a bundle of roses and begins to sympathize...and how are you supposed to hate someone you sympathize with, anyway?
(Source: Vices & Devices)
  • Published – 2005-08-12 2007-05-14
  • Written / Illustrated by – NATSUME Isaku
  • Genre – Comedy, Yaoi
Natsumi just lost her younger sister, Haru to chemotherapy. As her sister's coffin finally closes for the last time she whispers "wait for me until I join you", but Haru's finace, Tougo has other plans which might mend both their hearts.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2015-11-28 2016-11-28
  • Written / Illustrated by – KONISHI Asuka
  • Genre – Drama, Psychological, Romance, Slice Of Life
It's been ten years since Rentt Faina, a down-on-his luck Bronze-class adventurer, set his eyes on becoming Mithril-class. Unfortunately, Rentt finds himself helpless when confronted by a legendary Dragon in the Labyrinth of the Moon's Reflection...and is summarily eaten. But Rentt has miraculously reawakened...as a Skeleton?!

(Source: J-Novel Club)
  • Published – 2017-11-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – OKANO Yuu
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Supernatural, Mystery, Harem
"Why don't the two of us date?......In secret"

Tateishi, who works in accounting at a snack making company, has a secret. That secret is the existence of his cute lover that he's had since yesterday. Why keep it a secret, you ask? Because his lover is his unyielding colleague from the planning department of the same company: Mitsuya!

A pure office romance story about a couple who started their relationship in secret, and want to keep it that way!

(Source: Mangadex)
  • Published – 2019-03-20
  • Written / Illustrated by – ENOMOTO Akamaru
  • Genre –
In the 1950s, an old woman was brutally murdered on the face of a clock tower by her adopted daughter. Two years later, the clock tower is known as the 'ghost tower' and it is supposedly haunted. Through an unusual series of events, a young NEET man named Amano Taichi is attacked by someone or something in the same clock tower, and finds himself bound to the clock face to be killed in the same way as the old woman. Luckily for Amano, he doesn't meet the same fate. He's rescued by a mysterious person who claims his name is Tetsuo.
(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2010-05-27
  • Written / Illustrated by – NOGIZAKA Tarou
  • Genre – Drama, Mystery, Ecchi, Horror, Mature, Gender Bender
A spin-off of Kanojo, Okarishimasu starring the adorable supporting character, Sumi Sakurasawa! (Source: MU)
  • Published – 2020-06-21
  • Written / Illustrated by – MIYAJIMA Reiji
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, Slice Of Life
The mixed twins – Kobayashi Mitsuru (male) and Kobayashi Megumu (female), who haven’t seriously fallen in love for someone and other who doesn’t know anything more than 2D world. A situation arises were Megumu and Mitsuru are forced to cross dress, and go to school? Mitsuru’s encouter with a cute girl in Megumu’s school and Megumu’s meeting with the guy she met earlier is actually in her brother’s school?? Will they find themselves and their first love??
  • Published – 2012-08-20 2015-12-19
  • Written / Illustrated by – IKEYAMADA Go
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Gender Bender
Ishidou Natsuo is a gifted girl who can achieve anything she wants in sports. Because of this she is permanently bored, as there aren’t any real challenges to her abilites to make her feel alive. One day she receives an invitation of a merry girl to join her martial arts club. Irritated by her happy expression, Natsuo decides to accept the invitation just as a pretext to beat her up, but she receives a shocking surprise.

(Source: Animexis)

Note: Volume 6 contains the side story "Nekketsu Kouha Natsuo-chan Dodgeball-bu"
  • Published – 2008-11-07 2015-07-07
  • Written / Illustrated by – Futada Moare
  • Genre – Action, Comedy, Martial Arts, School Life, Sports, Seinen
The story of Kodomo no Jikan is centered around 23-year-old Aoki Daisuke, who has just landed his first teaching job as a grade school teacher at Futatsubashi Elementary School. He is placed in charge of Class 3-1, where one of his students, a mischievously precocious Rin Kokonoe, develops a crush on him and goes so far as to proclaim herself Aoki's girlfriend. She aggressively pursues her efforts to be with her teacher despite the fact that he will lose his job if she gets too close, a situation further complicated by the often complex, intertwining relationships existing between them and their respective friends, families, and peers.
(Source: Wikipedia)
  • Published – 2005-05-22 2013-04-22
  • Written / Illustrated by – WATASHIYA Kaworu
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Ecchi, Seinen, Slice Of Life, Mature
It's the fall of the first year of high school. After changing seats, Yuki Amano and Hayato Kuga became seat partners. Kuga attempts to get the silent Amano to open up, but she does not even show a smile. Meanwhile, Amano also starts to show interest in the airhead Kuga. They've fallen in love, but they have yet to realize their feelings. The heart pounding love comedy begins!

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2017-10-27
  • Written / Illustrated by – AKIBA Ruiki
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life, Slice Of Life, 4 Koma
The story follows 28-year-old civil servant Akiyasu Shin as he's chosen to take part in a new government program under the so-called "NEET protection law". This project pairs government employees with NEETs, as a means to rehabilitate them and re-introduce them into society. Problem is, his chosen partner, Sawamoto Himari, was signed up without her knowledge!
Will Akiyasu Shin end up winning her over? Or will this arranged marriage be a bust!?
(Source: DanReadsManga)
  • Published – 2015-07-26
  • Written / Illustrated by – Dongmax
  • Genre – Fantasy
A tale from Rain's younger days when he was searching for a master in the mysterious Country of the Mist.
  • Published – 2012-07-30 2012-12-28
  • Written / Illustrated by – YOSHINO Takumi
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Vampire
In this world, respect is earned with martial arts. Weak martial artists have strengths of tens of thousands of pounds, capable of cracking boulders. And the strong ones can cut off rivers and split mountains. There are even martial kings who know everything and can travel across the universe. Martial art decides your fate as well as your life and death. The weak is humiliated while the strong looks down on the world. This is a a world where the strong bullies the weak. People's statuses are decided by the levels of their cultivation of martial arts. Each faction fights for the title of "The Strongest". Only the strong ones have the right to survive. Even if you are from the same clan or faction, if you are weak, then you will be bullied and kicked out without mercy.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2016-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – Yunduowudongman
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Martial Arts
"I want to protect this little cutie!" I wished for that so hard, but that kid, Rui Hanamine, just continued to grow and grow and grow until I, Yuujirou Matsukaze began to worry. I've already realized these feelings I have for my 180-some centimeter childhood friend, but...

A story of a short but manly guy vs. a large but fluffy and cute childhood friend.

(Source: Gentosha Comics, translated)
  • Published – 2017-08-15 2018-07-06
  • Written / Illustrated by – Yusen Atsuko
  • Genre –
Sakurako Kawawa has moved into a boarding house to attend high school, excitedly waiting her first meeting with her new roommate. And who should arrive at her door but Kasumi Yamabuki?

Kasumi is absolutely stunning, but she marches at the beat of her own drum. Her carelessness awakens the "big sister" inside of Sakurako.

(Source: MangaDex)
  • Published – 2014-07-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – Yukiko
  • Genre – Comedy, School Life, Slice Of Life, 4 Koma
Ukai Zero saves three troubled teens from a Suicide Website, and together chooses to work as 'Robin Hoods' of society. However, one of Zero's friends are caught by an organization he got in trouble with, and Zero is forced to enter a gambling competition hosted by a rich, rotten old man who is looking for talented gamblers to be his rep player. The reward money? ONE TRILLION YEN.
Resumed serialization as Tobaku Haouden Zero Gyanki-Hen on 7/13/2011 after a 2.5 year hiatus.
  • Published – 2007-09-05 2009-02-25
  • Written / Illustrated by – FUKUMOTO Nobuyuki
  • Genre – Drama, Shounen, Psychological, Sports