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.

What can you do when you get mistaken for murder? Nothing. You go to prison. Lucky you, your inmates are some of the biggest cutthroats in the prison. Seriously you are lucky. Especially when zombies attack.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2011-09-03 2015-08-04
  • Written / Illustrated by – KURAISHI Yuu
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Drama, Psychological, Mystery, Horror
Makoto is determined to step out of her model sister's shadow and have her own high school debut, but when Makoto's sister shows up at her school unexpectedly things go awry.
(Source: M-U)
  • Published – 2011-08-03 2015-06-03
  • Written / Illustrated by – SAKAI Mayu
  • Genre – Romance, School Life, Shoujo
Kagami Junichirou was known as a physics genius when he was a teenager, and he was even published in "Nature." However, after college, he suddenly lost all interest in science. As a NEET, he's devoted himself to his anime blog and nerdy collecting habits. He claims he has a serious illness called "I can't do anything I don't want to do." Desperate to get him to do something with his life, his little sister manages to get him a job teaching physics at his old high school. He's certainly an unconventional teacher, but he becomes fairly popular with the students. After helping a girl who's being ruthlessly bullied, Kagami finds that he actually likes teaching. Will he continue his career as a weird teacher? Will he go back into physics? Or will he end up back where he started?

(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2011-11-16 2017-03-29
  • Written / Illustrated by – AZUMA Takeshi
  • Genre – Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Ecchi, Harem
Kojiro is an impoverished young teacher and the supervisor of his high school’s kendo club. He doesn’t have the leeway to spend time on his students–he can barely feed himself as it is. So when an old friend makes him a bet with an entire year’s worth of deluxe sushi on the line, Kojiro finds a new purpose in life: to beat his friend’s kendo team! But before he can arrange a kendo meet for both schools’ kendo teams, he needs to actually put together a five-woman squad–and the first girl he needs is Tamaki Kawazoe, kendo athlete extraordinaire and daughter of an elite kendo dojo master. The problem is, she isn’t really interested in doing kendo for fun. What can Kojiro do to convince her to join the team?
(Source: Yen Press)Note: Originally published with 117 chapters, but was collected into 102 chapters in the tankoubons. There are also 5 special stories, which makes the total chapter count - 107.
  • Published – 2004-12-03 2010-09-03
  • Written / Illustrated by – TOTSUKA Masahiro
  • Genre – Comedy, Martial Arts, School Life, Sports, Seinen
Ushio just transferred from a prestigious high school. While running an errand after school, she collides with Mitsunashi, who's known as a studious robot, and breaks his glasses. Afterward, Mitsunashi invites Ushio to join the Astronomy Club. Will love blossom under the stars?
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2011-12-10
  • Written / Illustrated by – TSUKUBA Sakura
  • Genre – School Life, Shoujo, One Shot
Ten years ago, there was an explosion at Hisano's apartment building. She would have been there, but she'd been hit by a bike ridden by a boy in blood-stained clothes. He dropped a toy scale when it happened, and she's been hanging on to it as a good-luck charm ever since. Now Hisano's in high school. One of her teachers was murdered, and the police are investigating. A young man suddenly appears carrying the toy that scale belonged to. And perhaps... can he also see the hallucinations Hisano has always been plagued with? Everything is connected as the pattern slowly rises to the surface.
(Source: Storm in Heaven)
  • Published – 2007-12-13 2008-07-13
  • Written / Illustrated by – SHIMOTSUKI Kayoko
  • Genre – Drama, Psychological, Shoujo, Mystery
A knight captain at long last after a grueling ten years service has left and with what he saved over the years bought a new home... a castle fit for a man seeking a peaceful life. To relax and enjoy life. Alas... that peace will continue to last, but hijinks will come with his house warming gift. A hobbit/midget elf/child arrives seeking an evil god and assume he is what she seeks. Who is the knight captain to dash a child dreams? More so after losing the chance to correct the misunderstanding.

And so this is where the adventure begins.

(Source: KissManga)
  • Published – 2014-12-15 2018-09-02
  • Written / Illustrated by – NARITA Imomushi
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Most normal humans use only 30% of their brains, but a group of people known as the "Dokeshi" can use 50 to 60% of their brains, and thus have special abilities. These powers, however, come with a price: the Dokeshi must observe certain restrictions. Ignoring these rules can lead to the loss of something precious from within. In young Shotaro's case, he has to stick to doing one good deed every day! In the central town of Toykyo, he meets a girl named Mana, and together they go on a journey to find Shotaro's childhood friend Emine. Will Shotaro be able to do good daily or will he succumb to laziness on his journey?
(Source: Yen Press)
  • Published – 2001-10-12 2003-05-12
  • Written / Illustrated by – OOKUBO Atsushi
  • Genre – Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
Arishige Ritsu is the most popular boy in Nagao Mioko's high school -- admired by the boys and adored by the girls. His smile has the power to charm many, but Mioko has a strange feeling about it. When the whole school discovers Arishige's secret, Mioko must decide what role she wishes to play in the life of the boy whose honest and patient personality she has grown to love...
The manga also contains two unrelated oneshots.
(Source: Sound of Jewels)
  • Published – 2011-11-11 2012-01-13
  • Written / Illustrated by – TOUDA Yoshimi
  • Genre – Drama, School Life
Look for him in the boulevard full of sorrow and desires called Slum Street and there is where you shall find the Necromancer. He has the power and knowledge to resurrect all your loved ones and the only thing you have to do is make a contract with him while you’ll find yourself being swiped away by a tale of life and death.
(Source: Easy Going Scans)
  • Published – 2009-03-26 2011-01-26
  • Written / Illustrated by – SOGA Shina
  • Genre – Shounen, Supernatural, Psychological, Romance, Mystery, Horror, Tragedy
Tsurara Takahashi is a middle school student who belongs to the Shinzen tennis club. However, she carries a great misfortune that she cannot confess to her friends: she met the mysterious Mahou Shoujo Site and was given a stick in the shape of an electric drill.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2017-10-26 2018-08-30
  • Written / Illustrated by –
  • Genre –
Sae is a very shy high school girl who's in love with her classmate. One day she gets visited by a fairy who gives her various "love challenges" like "holding hands", getting an "indirect kiss" or giving a "lap pillow". Now join Sae as she struggles to complete these challenges.
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2011-04-23 2013-09-24
  • Written / Illustrated by – MIYABI Akino
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, Seinen
The Onishi family doesn't have a father anymore. They don't have much money. They don't even have a shower. Tenohira Size presents eight stories of a mother and her three children's day-to-day lives in the aftermath of divorce.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2009-12-08 2010-09-08
  • Written / Illustrated by – TENDOU Kirin
  • Genre – Drama, Slice Of Life
Ever since salary man Saki Hiroyasu passed out from fever and college student Shinomiya Jun nursed him back to health, they have only grown closer. Each time Saki frequently visits his favorite café, Jun rushes to his side to take his order, but ends up flushed in the face. No matter what he does to change things in his life, Jun always gets poked fun of by his coworkers and teased by his lover. Will this stop Jun and Saki from continuing to be lovey-dovey as they always are?
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2011-07-02
  • Written / Illustrated by – KANDA Neko
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, Slice Of Life
Adults have secrets. One night, after hearing a scream, Takimoto Kaoru is suddenly held tightly by someone in complete darkness. He was too surprised to retaliate, but the smell that tickled his nose was… of Sakuma?! In addition he tells Takimoto to sleep with him tonight"?!

Takimoto, who couldn't refuse an elite superior is now being used all over the place! And the appearance of a troublesome yandere-ikemen, Iwase Yuutarou, doesn't help either.

A bitter love, where the guys' wounds and secrets overlap, is here.

(Source: justpeachyicedtea)
  • Published – 2015-09-30 2016-01-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – TAKANASHI Morimichi
  • Genre – Drama, Romance
Sakurai-san is reminiscent. I'm entangled with me and I'm watching this when I notice it. And I always turn my happy face at that time. But if you're serious and like me ... A battle of love while being disturbed by girls' gestures!

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2019-10-29
  • Written / Illustrated by – AKINO Sora
  • Genre –
In the 19th century empire after the war, rose "mechanical boxing" which involved people who had had their bodies modified. Under his uncle's tutolage, Levius, a lonely youth who lost his father in the war and whose mother is in a coma, enters the mechanical boxing scene...

(Source: Batoto)
  • Published – 2012-12-25 2014-09-25
  • Written / Illustrated by – NAKATA Haruhisa
  • Genre – Seinen, Mature, Mecha
At a certain cafe, there are many different people with unique attributes such as tsundere, little sister, etc. The new part time worker Maika has been asked by the shop owner to fill the role of super sadist?! Now, while doing her best to work hard, she also blossoms as a super sadist... Stomping as way to victory, this is a perverted working comedy!
  • Published – 2013-08-28
  • Written / Illustrated by – NAKAYAMA Miyuki
  • Genre – Comedy, Slice Of Life