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.

SAOTOME Nanno is a first-year high school girl living an ordinary life with her close friends Maki and Yuusuke. Although she dreams of having a boyfriend, she doesn't have a one, because she is wary of boys after one broke her heart in 6th grade.
One day at school, she encounters a very handsome boy who makes her heart beat fast. He is surprised to see Nanno and soon starts teasing her. He even asks her if she is already in love with him. The way he is talking is familiar to her. He uses the same lines as those in a 70's style-manga that Nanno's friend, Maki, reads. But that's not the only reason....this boy is none other than the one who broke her heart years before, Tsusuki-kun!
Nanno is angry and humiliated when she finds out his real identity while he made fun of her as he knew from who she was from the start. He already has a jealous girlfriend.
Nanno will never like him again even if he still makes her heart pound...but what if someone confesses to Nanno!? A new love comedy begins.
(Source: JShoujo)
  • Published – 2008-01-01 2009-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – NANAJIMA Kana
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice Of Life
Poor Mugi Tadano... The sixteen-year-old is heartbroken after his girlfriend moves away. To ease his troubled state, Mugi takes a summer job at his friend Kazuki's beach-side snack bar/hotel on a tropical island. It seems like the perfect plan-until Kazuki sets Mugi up on a date with Yuu, who's supposed to be, well, a little less than perfect. When Yuu arrives, however, she's not the monster that either of the boys had imagined. In fact, Yuu is about the cutest person that Mugi has ever seen. But after Mugi accidentally walks in on Yuu in the bath, the girl is steamed. When trying to apologize the next day, he discovers that Yuu has left the shores of paradise. Mugi vows to search high and low for the beautiful Yuu, but will he ever see her again?

(Source: Del Rey)

Included one-shots:
Volume 11: Candy Girl ni Hanataba wo.
Volume 13: Apricot Girl
Volume 24: Happy Ice Cream
Volume 34: Otoko wa Sore wo Gaman Dekinai!!
Volume 42: Weapon!!!
  • Published – 2002-07-10 2017-01-20
  • Written / Illustrated by – KOBAYASHI Toshihiko
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, Ecchi, Harem, Slice Of Life
Assorted horror stories by Junji Ito that ran in the now revived "Nemuki" magazine.

(Source: ANN)

1. Futon
2. Mokuzou no Kai (Haunted Wood Mansion)
3. Tomio: Akai High-neck (Tomio: Red Turtleneck)
4. Yuruyaka na Wakare (Lingering Farewell)
5. Kaibou-chan (Dissection Girl)
6. Kuroi Tori (Black Bird)
7. Nanakuse Magami
8. Mimikosuru Onna (Whispering Woman)
  • Published – 2013-04-13 2014-04-12
  • Written / Illustrated by – ITO Junji
  • Genre – Horror
Five creepy oneshots by five different authors. (Source: Mangaupdates)
  • Published – 2009-01-01 2009-08-10
  • Written / Illustrated by – WATANABE, Shiho, YAMADA, Komomo, Nanao, Mio, CHIKAWA, Chihiro, SHIMAKI, Ako
  • Genre – Romance, Shoujo, Horror, Tragedy
Keyman is the resident hero of Rockville City, a place inhabited by both humans and animal people. In the years since his debut as a hero, crime has decreased significantly, which does not look all that great for the local police force. But one day, after he catches yet another group of criminals, Keyman is mysteriously murdered. Detective Alex and his police force are investigating the murder, and one of their major clues is the words "Dr. Necro," which were carved onto Keyman's body after his death. Their case gets even stranger when Alex unexpectedly meets "Dr. Necro," who appears to be a young girl, in a bar. What monster could be behind the murder of Keyman, and what does the childlike Dr. Necro have to do with it all?

(Source: MangaHelpers)

Included one-shot:

Volume 2: Sonshi ga Ikusa(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2011-04-19 2016-12-19
  • Written / Illustrated by – WARAI Naku
  • Genre – Action, Comedy, Mystery
Because of some bad luck, Aikawa Towa's recent problem is the complicated relationship between the devilish student council president, Shirahane Mikado. Kissing is not the only thing... but is this friendship?! What's more, Mikado started to take a part time job to find relief, but... his bad friends, Shinonome and Yukimura saw their kiss scene...?! Eh?! Will two guys be "lovers"...?!
(Source: Princes)
  • Published – 2010-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – SAKURAGA Mei
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Yaoi
Tachibana Kentarou is a high school badminton coach who has a lot more enthusiasm than some of the members of his very small team. One day, he meets the quiet-voiced student Hanesaki Ayano, who is effortlessly physically capable and experienced in badminton. He tries to recruit her, but she seems to have no interest in the sport at all. Due to a series of circumstances, she eventually ends up joining the team. Coach Tachibana is determined that with her on board, they'll be champions!

(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2013-06-07 2019-10-07
  • Written / Illustrated by – HAMADA Kousuke
  • Genre – Sports
In 1990, in Elysium; the five saints Seiya, Hyoga, Shun, Shiryu and Ikki are battling the god Hades. During the battle, Hades starts remembering that he has seen Seiya's face before and comes to the conclusion that he faced him before, and thus the story begins...
  • Published – 2006-04-27
  • Written / Illustrated by – KURUMADA Masami
  • Genre – Action, Shounen, Martial Arts
Spin-off of Fairy Tail follows guild master Sting, Rogue, Yukino, Minerva, and other members of the Sabertooth Guild.
  • Published – 2015-07-30 2015-11-04
  • Written / Illustrated by – MASHIMA Hiro
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
A-Channel depicts the daily lives of Run, Tooru, Yuuko and Nagi in high school. The natural airheaded Run spreading her liveliness and indiscretion is just a small part of the four girls hectic life in high school.
  • Published – 2008-12-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – Kuroda Bb
  • Genre – Comedy, Slice Of Life, 4 Koma
When Midou Ginnosuke lost both parents at the age of ten, his grandmother decides to take him in. He goes to live with her and her pet cat, Anzu. Life was peaceful for a time and all was right with the world, until he wakes up one morning and discovers that the girl with cat ears lying beside him is none other than Anzu, who has transformed into a nekomata (two-tailed monster cat).
(Source: Stiletto Heels)
  • Published – 2010-03-09 2013-01-09
  • Written / Illustrated by – NARA Ippei
  • Genre – Slice Of Life
Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They're treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku's wet dream quickly turns into Hajime's nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime's job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith's level of strength?

(Source: J-Novel Club)
  • Published – 2015-06-25
  • Written / Illustrated by – Hakumai Ryou
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Harem
I don’t need any deep relationships. I have no desire for a girlfriend, and I only require one friend who holds any value to me. Ever since I threw out my youth for the sake of efficiency, there is one person who keeps entering the bedroom of Ooboshi Akiteru. She’s neither my little sister nor my friend. She’s nothing more than a bothersome, annoying Kouhai, as well as my friend’s little sister: Kohinata Iroha.

“Senpai, let’s go on a date~! Did you think I’d say that~?”

Rather than blood, it seems like energy drinks run through her veins. She keeps occupying my bed, and she tries her best to seduce me with whatever method she can play to her favor. She’s a girl who’s constantly annoying and obnoxious around me. Even though I’m busy all day long, she doesn’t care.

And in case you’re wondering why all these envious gazes are directed at me, it’s because Iroha is actually really popular. She’s an honor student at our school with top grades to boot, and she’s known for being kind and proper to anyone she meets.

…Hey now, why are you only so annoying when you’re around me?

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2019-12-12
  • Written / Illustrated by – MIKAWA Ghost
  • Genre –
The end of the civil war signaled the start of the industrial revolution in the United States and immigrants from all over the world traveled to find their American dream. But what awaited the majority of them was poverty, discrimination and hopelessness. Manhattan, New York was full of immigrants flooding through the ports and the 6th district, Five Points, was considered at the time, the world’s worst slum. The mobsters corrupted the entire area, including the police by paying them off; Five Points was the mob’s territory and they were the law.

But even in Five Points, where there seemed to be nothing but robbery, prostitution and murder, showed some signs of hope. Luke Burns was a honest and righteous teenager who realized that the mob was the cause of the harsh lifestyle and that joining the mobsters would not bring him the American dream. But his older brother, Brad Burns, had become the assassin to the biggest mob group of Five Points, the Grave Diggers, a secret he kept from Luke for his own protection. Brad was known as the Grim Reaper and his reputation preceded him as a ruthless and skilled killer.

(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2011-06-13 2013-05-13
  • Written / Illustrated by – KAKIZAKI Masasumi
  • Genre – Action, Historical, Seinen
Parallel world to Fate/stay night where the Greater Grail was removed from Fuyuki after the Third Holy Grail War and disappeared for many years. Around the 2000s, around the same time as the Fifth Holy Grail War would have happened, the group that plundered the Grail, Yggdmillennia, openly declares their secession from the Mage's Association and that they are in possession of the Grail. The Association dispatches fifty magi to retrieve it, but all but one are instantly slaughtered by Lancer of Black. The one remaining manages to activate the reserve system of the Greater Grail, allowing for the summoning of fourteen Servants in total.

This marks the start of the Great Holy Grail War in Trifas, featuring two different factions, the Black Faction (黒の陣営), whose members are part of Yggdramillennia, and the Red Faction (赤の陣営), whose members were sent by the Mage's Association with the exception of one from the Church. The Grail itself also summons Ruler to act as a mediator of the Holy Grail War.


(Source: Type-Moon Wikia, Edited)
  • Published – 2012-12-29 2014-12-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – Yuuichirou, Higashide, TYPE-MOON
  • Genre – Action, Drama, Fantasy, Supernatural, Historical
Yuri doesn't have any friends because of her personality. One day, the famous Fujiwara talks to her, but Yuri thinks that she's nothing but a fake person. Shinobu, her childhood friend and only friend, writes a story for a doujinshi which Yuri would do the art. On the story, the main character resembles Fujiwara a lot, but with a twisted personality. On that same day, Yuri sees the real Fujiwara and, as she had suspected, that girl wasn't so lovely as she appeared.
(Source: MU)
Included one-shots:
Volume 1: First Love; First Love, After That
  • Published – 2012-04-12
  • Written / Illustrated by – SUGA Atsushi
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, School Life, Shoujo Ai
The spin-off of "The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi" begins! This time the main heroine is Yuki! The story revolves around Yuki and Kyon, about their school life, their club activities, their comedic schoolmates, and the bits and pieces of romantic times that the two have together.
  • Published – 2009-07-04 2016-08-04
  • Written / Illustrated by – PUYO, TANIGAWA, Nagaru
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Supernatural, Romance, School Life, Mystery
Upon entering high school, the very quiet but extremely cute Suiren becomes the immediate center of attention among the boys… but one particular boy does not look her way. The story of a quiet girl and a quiet boy. A short, refreshing love story.
(Source: Day of the River)
  • Published – 2012-02-20 2015-08-05
  • Written / Illustrated by – MORISHITA Suu
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life, Slice Of Life