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.

Chica is packed away to sleep in an escape pod, to avoid a deadly asteroid collision on earth. When she wakes up, however, she finds herself in the distant future, but still on Earth. Earth is now filled with strange creatures, like flying fish. She's being cared for in a dome by an android guardian named Roy and a maid android called Silvia. She also encounters a mysterious, friendly man with cat ears, named Oboro. All the future beings are fascinated with her, seeing as she's an 'original' human, but sometimes they forget about the limitations of human lifeforms. Will Chica be able to find a place in this strange new world?
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2011-06-30 2012-11-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – Yoshizawa
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, Shoujo, Sci-Fi

Heads

2002
This manga is a story based on a thriller by Keigo Higashino. The main protagonist, the shy Jun Naruse, is a rather average guy who works for a electronic company and loves to draw. He falls in love with Megumi whom he met at a shop selling drawing materials and an intimate relationship develops. A few days later the office gets attacked and when the criminal tries to shot a little girl he saves her by jumping in front of her.
A month pasts until he wakes up again and is told that half his brain got destroyed and he only survived because someone donated half a brain. Everything seems to be fine, he quickly recovers and is happy, however he begins to change...is the donated brain the reason for that? Or is it just a side effect of the medicine?
(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2002-07-18 2003-04-24
  • Written / Illustrated by – HIGASHINO Keigo
  • Genre – Action, Psychological, Seinen
Knife-Edge Girl is a collection of several graphic novellas that had previously run in Comic Yuri Hime.
The book begins with the titular "Knife-Edge Girl" a story about two friends with completely different approaches to life.
Also includes "Graffiti," in which two women who use the same desk at different times of the day communicate in drawings on the desk top. When they finally meet in real life - purely by accident - the attraction is instant on Kana's side...and maybe not on Rise's. Or maybe, it is.
In "Torte Fromage" Miwa's boring OL life is suddenly thrown into glamour and excitement when she meets avant garde actress Nakae-san.
(Source: Okazu)
  • Published – 2009-07-18 2010-04-17
  • Written / Illustrated by – FURUTSUJI Kikka
  • Genre – Drama, Slice Of Life, Yuri
In a world where the taste and texture of food are an extremely important part of life, a man with superhuman skills is regularly hired by restaurants and the rich as a hunter of precious foods. With the "help" of his timid accomplice, inspired by Toriko's greatness to accompany him, he travels to capture the evasive and ferocious animals he needs to create the ultimate dinner course.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
  • Published – 2008-05-19 2016-11-21
  • Written / Illustrated by – SHIMABUKURO Mitsutoshi
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci Fi, Cooking
1. Yacchimaina!!
Chisa's an ordinary girl who finally confessed to the school prince and got the man of her dreams. But what is he hiding from her that'll turn all the girls away from him?! Will she be like them or will she keep her love for the prince?
2. Icchimaina!!
3. Mousou Lolipop
4. Baby Rondo
(Source: MangaUpdates)
  • Published – 2008-11-26
  • Written / Illustrated by – SHIIBA Nana
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, Shoujo, One Shot
He woke up in a familiar world that had vastly changed.

His familiar school had become a mystical school that teaches magic, encouraging everyone to become a mighty magician.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2016-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – Chaos, 乱
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Martial Arts, School Life, Tragedy
Annoying! Cute! But Annoying!

The daily life of a quiet college student who just wants to left alone, being teased by his cute, stacked underclassman.

(Source: MangaDex)
  • Published – 2017-12-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – TAKE
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, Ecchi, Slice Of Life
Everyone in his Triad gang looked up to him. He was the boss’s favorite pupil, but then in a single night, after he had won so many territorial fights for his gang, he lost everything! Why?
(Source: Easy Going Scans)
  • Published – 2010-11-29 2011-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – Yu Er
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Seinen
Manga about the everyday lives of Lulu and her little adventures in the late industrial revolution era.
(Source: Batoto)
  • Published – 2009-02-26 2012-06-26
  • Written / Illustrated by – TOKUNOU Shoutarou
  • Genre – Seinen, Slice Of Life
It was just a usual morning.

Akira Shiroyanagi, a high schooler who loves games and Konpeito (Japanese sweets), has suddenly been dragged into a battlefield by a mysterious girl who calls herself Mion. The participants are told that they are "erased from the family register, involved in an experiment, and gained certain powers."

Akira is determined to win the game with his newfound powers and destroy the organization. Armed with a power no one expects and his "brain" skills, the new period of intelligence battle of begins!

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2015-08-11
  • Written / Illustrated by – HARAWATA Saizou
  • Genre – Action, Drama, Supernatural
After getting into high school, Furuya became roommate with the cute Himi. Himi keeps to himself and sleeps real early. A petite boy with a loud voice, Himi is terrified of darkness because of a tremor he suffered when he was a kid. On the other hand, Furuya is afraid of bright lights and gets real nervous when he’s feeling uneasy. How would they help each other to overcome the fears?
(Source: Attractive Fascinante)
  • Published – 2008-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – OGURA Muku
  • Genre – School Life, Yaoi, Shounen Ai
"It's a very human thing to have something like a dirty secret you can't tell."

Kaoru goes to the same college as the popular model she yearns for: Reika. On campus, Reika stands out considerably shining as an intelligent, beautiful, and perfect girl. In the middle of all this, Kaoru witnesses Reika kissing another woman. Kaoru and Reika are in the center of it all, mixing with the love and hate of both men and women. With no way out, their campus life begins.

(Source: Comicsmart, translated)
  • Published – 2018-07-12 2019-10-03
  • Written / Illustrated by – KUDOU Makoto
  • Genre – Romance, School Life, Gender Bender
Known as the hardass delinquent of her school, Sotomura is feared by everyone and has a nasty reputation. But in truth, she is an incredibly misinterpreted girl. The mean look everyone thinks she gives is just her not knowing how to smile. The scary comments she makes is only because Sotomura isn’t good at expressing her feelings or taken way out of context. And the badass appearance she has is the result of her believing that cute girly things don’t match her. Not wanting to go on with life like this, Sotomura tries to change her image, but the more she does, the more her reputation becomes more set into stone.
(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2009-07-04 2017-10-21
  • Written / Illustrated by – MINAMORI Minamo
  • Genre – Comedy, School Life, Slice Of Life, 4 Koma
A story about two unusually mature young people. They are both smart, very together and they are in love. But, as grown-up as they act, they are still just 14 and their feelings for each other are captured with tenderness and lack of nostalgia, but very cutely.
  • Published – 2010-06-30
  • Written / Illustrated by – MIZUTANI Fuka
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life
Atsuki Komiya is a college student that's living alone. Suddenly, his sister visits and asks for a favor, which is to take care of his niece, Kasane, for two weeks. A story about the awkward relationship of these two, the confused Atsuki and the sullen Kasane, living together. Which direction will this story go…?

(Source: Bato.to)
  • Published – 2015-09-10 2015-11-19
  • Written / Illustrated by – Yohachi
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Slice Of Life
Miyoshi is always competing and losing against his childhood friend, Mamiya, who is good at everything. One day, Mamiya collapses from illness and is hospitalized forseveral weeks. When he returns to school, it turns out he is genetically female, and has decided to try living his life as a girl now much to Miyoshi's horror.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2013-06-10 2017-03-03
  • Written / Illustrated by – OGURA Akane
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Sci-Fi, Gender Bender
When Mayumi’s fiancée leaves her for another woman, Mayumi impulsively decides to move away and start over again by the seaside. Once there she meets Rin, a tough but kind single mother who runs the housing complex Seagull Villa. While the two women might not have a lot in common, they’re drawn to each other, and the relationship growing between them is deeper than they expected. Sail away on this tale of romance by the sea!

(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
  • Published – 2019-01-18
  • Written / Illustrated by – KODAMA Naoko
  • Genre – Romance, Ecchi
Adaption of Ryō Suzukaze's light novel series of the same name.

The story takes place before Hajime Isayama's original manga and follows Anheru, a member of the Survey Corps who works in weapons development. Anheru is tired of seeing the corpses of his fellow Survey Corps members, and is working to design equipment that will allow humans to be able to kill Titans. Thus far, no one has been able to find out the weak point of the Titans, and so no one has managed to kill one. However, government conservatives think that fighting against Titans is unnecessary, and order the dissolution of the Survey Corps.

(Source: ANN)
  • Published – 2013-08-26 2019-03-26
  • Written / Illustrated by – SUZUKAZE Ryo
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mature