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.

Ogasawara Aki (age 25) is the reclusive, idealistic composer of the popular band Crude Play. Discontented with his life and with no drive to succeed, he meets Riko, the 16-year-old grocer's daughter in a band consisting of her childhood friends, and asks her to be his girlfriend on a whim. Riko, young and innocent, agrees immediately, but worries about her new boyfriend, whom she suspects has just broken up with a woman he cared very much for.
(Source: Nagareboshi Manga & Manga Abyss)
  • Published – 2009-04-01 2017-02-24
  • Written / Illustrated by – AOKI Kotomi
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Music
After recently moving to Onomichi, Hiroshima, high school student Tasuku Kaname is thrown into despair at the possibility that he may have been outed for being gay. Convinced his life is over, his despair turns into shock when he sees a woman jump out of a window of a nearby house. Tasuku races to the house in a panic only to discover that it's a public meeting lounge owned by the woman he saw before. Tasuku comes face to face with the woman as she walks past him unharmed, but not before she implies that she had been watching him from afar. Confused, Tasuku follows her up to the top of a steep hill where she offers to briefly listen to what's on his mind. Although Tasuku doesn't go into too much detail, he later accepts her invitation to come to the lounge to meet others with similar troubles.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2015-03-06 2018-05-23
  • Written / Illustrated by – KAMATANI Yuuki
  • Genre – Drama, Psychological, Slice Of Life
Hwa Gok is just a normal university student, until he sees a girl being attacked by the popular Lee Bin, and jumps in her defence. The only problem is that Lee Bin is more than meets the eye…

(Source: MU
  • Published – 2018-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – oneurman saneun hyeongje
  • Genre – Supernatural, Webtoons, Yaoi, Manhwa
After their parents are killed in a plane crash, Ryuuichi and his younger brother Kotarou are taken in by the chairman, who they never met before, of an elite academy. Ryuuichi becomes the school daycare's new babysitter.
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2009-09-24
  • Written / Illustrated by – TOKEINO Hari
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life
Adventurers seek to take the demon queen’s head, but a young female mage wishes to take her hand.

(Souce: Line Webtoon)
  • Published – 2018-08-20
  • Written / Illustrated by – Color_LES
  • Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Webtoons
Karin is an average girl...at best. She's not good at sports and gets terrible grades. Plus, her parents are dead and her beloved cat Shii-chan just died, too. She is miserable...but everything is about to change. Because little does Karin know that her mother's ring has the power to make her a goddess! Soon she and Kazune, a brusque but cute boy with godlike powers of his own, will have to fight to protect Karin's ring and Kazune's cousin Himeka from the evil forces of Kirio Karasuma...who has divine designs of his own.
(Source: Tokyopop)
  • Published – 2002-11-02 2008-04-03
  • Written / Illustrated by – KOGE Donbo
  • Genre – Comedy, Fantasy, Psychological, Romance, School Life
Spin-off volume featuring one man's unlucky venture into love (a familiar face for those who've watched episode 4 of the anime!).

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2011-11-19
  • Written / Illustrated by – ADACHI Toka
  • Genre – Shounen, Supernatural
With a father who's a singer, a mother who's a movie star, and an older brother Shougo who's the lead vocalist for the super-popular band "The Crusherz", Sena Izumi—an otaku college student—is the only dull one born into this super-famous and talented family. He loves "Magical Girl LalaLulu" and is working hard to become a mangaka, but one day he winds up appearing in a TV commercial he just can't turn down. There, he's reunited with Ichijou Ryouma, the super-popular young actor he costarred with on a project ten years prior.

(Source: September Scanlations)
  • Published – 2010-05-29 2016-07-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – EIKI Eiki
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, Slice Of Life, Gender Bender, Yaoi
In a regular school travel, the bus Rika Nikaidou took fell into a lake, drowning everyone on board except her. She vaguely remembered a person fed an item into her mouth when she was suffocating in water, but that was all she could recall. After her recovery, she found herself more and more agile in water, capable to stay underwater over ten minutes, while feeling less and less comfortable on land. One day, when she was practicing in school's pool, a beautiful yet completely stranger girl suddenly appeared in water, trying to to "reclaim the 'seed'" from Rika with force. (Source: ANN)
  • Published – 2004-06-25 2006-03-24
  • Written / Illustrated by – SHINOHARA Chie
  • Genre – Drama, Romance, Mystery
Side-story of Giyuu Tomioka shortly after meeting Tanjirou.
  • Published – 2019-04-01 2019-04-08
  • Written / Illustrated by – Hirano, Ryouji, Gotouge, Koyoharu
  • Genre – Martial Arts, Supernatural, Historical
Wolfgang Goldenleonard, the 4th Prince of the kingdom, returns to the palace after years of living in hiding. He rejects everything about his new royal life, but is intrigued by the mysterious and dutiful Shin Soohyuk, a catamite of the King. As Wolfgang slowly opens up and learns the ways of the palace, Soohyuk begins to see something special about the wild, unkempt, and stubborn young prince. He might just be the one Soohyuk has been waiting for... the one who could light the flame of rebellion.

(Source: Lezhin)
  • Published – 2017-04-25 2017-11-14
  • Written / Illustrated by – Haga, KANG, Ji, Young
  • Genre – Fantasy, Historical, Mystery, Webtoons
From Miracle-Manhwa:
Mi Ryu has a gorgeous mother, a new stepfather,and she’s suddenly attracted to her new stepbrother, or is it stepbrothers?
  • Published – 2017-04-07
  • Written / Illustrated by – LEE, Hyeon-Sook
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shoujo
"I don't know what this feeling is … I don't know what I should do now … all I know is, I want him."

They fight one another, they chase after one another, they capture one another—a turbulent tale of preteens on the brink of self-destruction, masterfully brought to life by George Asakura!

(Source: Kodansha Comics USA)
  • Published – 2004-10-13 2013-12-13
  • Written / Illustrated by – GEORGE Asakura
  • Genre – Drama, Romance, School Life, Slice Of Life
Before Naruto's birth, a great demon fox had attacked the Hidden Leaf Village. A man known as the 4th Hokage sealed the demon inside the newly born Naruto, causing him to unknowingly grow up detested by his fellow villagers. Despite his lack of talent in many areas of ninjutsu, Naruto strives for only one goal: to gain the title of Hokage, the strongest ninja in his village. Desiring the respect he never received, Naruto works towards his dream with fellow friends Sasuke and Sakura and mentor Kakashi as they go through many trials and battles that come with being a ninja.
  • Published – 1999-09-21 2014-11-10
  • Written / Illustrated by – KISHIMOTO Masashi
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Brothers Conflict manga focused on Natsume.
  • Published – 2013-01-22 2014-01-22
  • Written / Illustrated by – KANASE, Atsuko, MIZUNO, Takashi, Udajo
  • Genre – Drama, Romance, Shoujo, Slice Of Life
Matsuri it's a girl like all the other high school girls, likes boys, specially one called Wataru... but... Wataru seem to not notice her although she watchs him like a crazy gal... "Tough girls aren't my type" he once said, and now even three street guys say that shes a tough chick?! Nothing to good to say to the wrestling Princess. But being this kind of princess is nothing to be proud for Matsuri and its a secret that she keeps from her school mates, cause its her father that want to make her a wrestler ...but what will happen when shes discovered fighting with those three guys by Arata the badboy, who can even "fight cows"? Discover it and keep track of Matsuri Special.
(Source: Village Idiot)
  • Published – 2007-01-01 2009-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – KAMIO Youko
  • Genre – Comedy, Martial Arts, Romance, School Life, Sports
In Florida, 2011, Jolyne Kuujou sits in a jail cell like her father Joutarou once did; yet this situation is not of her own choice. Framed for a crime she didn’t commit and manipulated into serving a longer sentence, Jolyne is ready to resign to a dire fate as a prisoner of Green Dolphin Street Jail. Though all hope seems lost, a gift from Joutarou ends up awakening her latent abilities, manifesting into her Stand, Stone Free. Now armed with the power to change her fate, Jolyne sets out to find an escape from the stone ocean that holds her.

However, she soon discovers that her incarceration is merely a small part of a grand plot: one that not only takes aim at her family but has additional far-reaching consequences. What's more, the mastermind is lurking within the very same prison and is under the protection of a lineup of menacing Stand users. Finding unlikely allies to help her cause, Jolyne sets a course to stop their plot, clear her name, and take back her life.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]
  • Published – 1999-12-07
  • Written / Illustrated by – ARAKI Hirohiko
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Drama, Shounen, Supernatural, Mystery
Upon first sight Machida Yuki knows that she doesn't want anything to do with Naruse Shou, but how can she keep her cool when he is a part of the basketball club she manages?

(Source: Mystic Iris)
  • Published – 2013-10-19
  • Written / Illustrated by – MIYUKI Mitsubachi
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life, Sports