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.

Kuroba Yo is a sadistic detective who enjoys nothing more than destroying his targets emotionally and psychologically through his deductive reasoning. Toiro Arata is a naive and slightly masochistic boy who gets duped by Yo into becoming his assistant, or slave. These two team up to become the "Black & White" detective, solving crimes and chasing after criminals.

(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2013-02-12 2015-07-10
  • Written / Illustrated by – HIOKA Yen
  • Genre – Comedy, Shounen, Mystery
The story centers around a girl named Hanakaku who at only 142cm (4'6 ft tall) is never treated seriously and looked upon as weak. Wishing to become stronger she attempts to join some of the school sports clubs but is turned down by everyone. Depressed she begins to break down and give up until she runs into the leader of the MMA club (Who coincidentally seems to have had a crush on her) he recommends trying out Martial Arts. Can she survive seemingly the most vicious club in the entire school and achieve true strength or will she hit the mat head first?!

(Source: C-Side News)
  • Published – 2013-08-24 2015-07-25
  • Written / Illustrated by – MATSUI Katsunori
  • Genre – Drama, Sports
Rokudou is a loser, and everyone knows it. He gets picked on at school, gets snide looks from passersby, and can only muster up the courage to complain in secret with his equally hapless friends. Looking to turn his life around, he desperately uses an ancestral artifact passed down in his family for generations: a scroll that is capable of subduing all demons. However, in the modern age it has a different effect—it makes all bad girls fall in love with him.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2016-06-23 2021-04-08
  • Written / Illustrated by – Nakamura Yuji
  • Genre – Action, Comedy, Romance, School Life, Harem
Ever since a meteorite fell, the world has become strange. Two young immortals, Mithia and Youthanasia, are traveling through this crazy world in hopes of finding a way to die.

(Source: ANN)
  • Published – 2017-09-25
  • Written / Illustrated by – NARITA Imomushi
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Ecchi, Mature
The protagonist who was rarely ever at school during his middle school and high school days, is unemployed even as an adult. From morning till night, it was video games. For him who was ranked first worldwide, it was his life.

One day, his character is suddenly hacked. The data was unrecoverable and there was nothing that could be done. Feeling great despair at having lost his rank that he had bet everything to achieve in a world that controlled his life, the protagonist attempts suicide.

When he awakens, he finds himself inside the video game, no, it was a real world that resembled it. There, he notices that he has reincarnated into the the body of a sub character that he had created and bought premium benefits for long ago but had left neglected.

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2018-09-26
  • Written / Illustrated by – SAWAMURA Harutarou
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Harem, Slice Of Life
The year is 2800 and Lufas Maphaahl – The Black-Winged Tyrant, Great Conqueror, and leader of the Twelve Heavenly Stars – has returned.
A man wakes up in the body of his MMO character 200 years after her defeat during an player-made event in the game, Exgate Online. Now, he's stuck in her body. But this isn't a game, it's real. With her reign long over, and her legacy one of fear, Lufas must journey through the world of Exgate, looking for answers, possible comrades, and all the monsters her “death” unleashed upon the world...

(Source: J-Novel Club)
  • Published – 2017-06-07
  • Written / Illustrated by – Hazuki Tsubasa
  • Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Gender Bender
Hirahara Tsukasa just moved to Tokyo from Hiroshima, and she's late on her first day of school because she misses the bus. But this leads to a chance encounter with four other people in her class, and somehow, the five of them became friends?
Crybaby Tsukasa, the sharp-tongued yet soft-hearted Himeno, the understanding Ichihara, as well as Agatsuma and Onda… these five different personalities come together to create a youthful school life story—
(Source: Day of the River)
  • Published – 2011-11-24 2013-06-24
  • Written / Illustrated by – TSUKISHIMA Haru
  • Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life
Onizuka is an Oni and her childhood friend Sawarida is a human who likes to touch weird stuff. She might be in love with him, but he is too dense for love or is it the other way around?

(Source: Mangadex)

Twitter manga by Uehara Oi (@uehara_oi) that later got serialized in Manga 4-koma Kings Palette.

Note: Includes 18 extra chapters
  • Published – 2019-06-04 2021-04-24
  • Written / Illustrated by – NAKAHARA Kaihei
  • Genre – Comedy, Romance, School Life
Satoru spends his days listlessly in a factory town. The old man Segawa, a former Yakuza, lives in the room next to his cheap apartment. One day, Segawa asks Satoru to kill him for a 5 million yen, but Satoru hesitates, and Segawa sees through to the madness eating away inside him and begins to have a change of heart, and yet...!?

A story of the filth of society and the dark path that Satoru takes, on the edge of sanity, with a gun and 5 million yen.

(Source: MU, edited)
  • Published – 2015-05-08 2016-10-14
  • Written / Illustrated by – TAKAHASHI Tsutomu
  • Genre – Action, Drama, Psychological, Tragedy
1. Shitteru yo.
2. Shireba Shiru hodo
3-4. Nii-chan no Renai Kakumei
5. Risei wa Inma ni Kuwareru
6. Datte Senpai ga, Ore wo Miteta kara
7. Nii-chan no Renai Kakumei Sonogo
  • Published – 2012-04-01 2013-09-21
  • Written / Illustrated by – Hinako, (ひなこ)
  • Genre – Romance, School Life
In XX AD, a new generation of arms race is emerging. “Vanguards” are the new type of weapons being used on the battlefield. Liu Li is a Vanguard that is about to retire. In her last 380 days she receives her final mission…

(Source: MU)
  • Published – 2009-09-15
  • Written / Illustrated by – Sun Heng
  • Genre – Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen, Romance, School Life, Sci-Fi, Mecha
This is the story of a wuss named Sakurai Mikito who one day swallows the creation of a creature called Zakuro and becomes an "oni", a superhuman creature with a taste for human flesh. As Mikito is horrified by this change in his once-gentle nature, he decides to leave on a journey with an oni-hunter in order to discover a way to turn back to normal.
  • Published – 2004-01-01 2006-01-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – NATSUME Yoshinori
  • Genre – Action, Shounen, Supernatural, Mystery, Horror
Possessing both flexibility and tenacity, Imomushi (Japanese for Caterpillar) is an assassin that does not kill anyone but those who are assigned to her. She seems to have had something happen between her and her older sister in the past, however.
A new spin-off story from the same author of Arachnid, this story looks at the inner workings of a top assassin within The Organization itself.
(Source: Kirei Cake)
  • Published – 2012-03-02 2018-04-20
  • Written / Illustrated by – MURATA Shinya
  • Genre – Action, Mature
Fish people have been welcomed to the town where the human girl Wakasa Otomi lives, and they are integrating well. The fish people can be identified by the physical marks of their fish species, though they take medicine to keep their lower bodies human rather than a fish tail. Otomi loves fish people, and is eager to meet as many as she can! One day, she meets a new transfer student, a lantern fish girl named Tsutsumi Anko. Anko is a bit self-conscious about being a deep sea fish, with a tail that is not cute like some other fish girls. At school, she and Anko deal with various fish problems that intersect with issues an ordinary human high-schooler would face.

(Source: MangaHelpers)
  • Published – 2012-11-21 2015-08-12
  • Written / Illustrated by – Inuinu
  • Genre – Comedy, Fantasy, School Life
When Yuuya receives unwanted attention from a customer at the bar where he works, one of the bar’s regulars, Haibara comes to his rescue. Yuuya falls in love with Haibara, but how will he be able to confess his feelings when Haibara sees Yuuya’s attitude towards him as nothing more than an act?

(Source: The Zero Alliance)
  • Published – 2012-10-01
  • Written / Illustrated by – KANAI Kei
  • Genre – Drama, Slice Of Life
Through a series of coincidences, Yoshinori wound up having to fill in for his beautiful older sister as a model for a bridal gown. Now, he has discovered that he has a liking for cross-dressing, and that by doing so, he is learning a great deal about what it means to be a woman--and a man. (Source: Tokyopop)
  • Published – 2003-01-01 2010-03-12
  • Written / Illustrated by – MIYANO Tomochika
  • Genre – Drama, Romance, Ecchi, Seinen, Slice Of Life, Gender Bender
"Seriously, I'll finish you within three hours."
That's what Kirishima Haru had in mind when he entered the virtual world of a dating sim. Haru's had it all since childhood - looks, charisma, good grades, athletic talent and girls, but in this virtual world, Haru would meet the only thing he wants and unable to attain. At the edge of the incomplete world, the love story of a player and a NPC unfolds.
(Source: Horobosu Scanlations)
  • Published – 2011-01-01 2012-02-07
  • Written / Illustrated by – ICHINOMIYA Shihan
  • Genre – Romance, School Life, Sci Fi
Just after being dumped by his girlfriend for being wishy-washy, our hero meets a high school girl... with dog ears? Is she a dog? A human? She's wide open, rather naive, and with her around, it's just one crazy day after another. Romantic comedy author Hiroyuki Tamakoshi, author of "Boys Be", brings us the unlikely love story of a hopeless office worker and the extraordinarily beautiful girl who lives with him. Take care of your doggy!

(Source: MangaBox)
  • Published – 2013-12-09 2015-01-26
  • Written / Illustrated by – TAMAKOSHI Hiroyuki
  • Genre – Comedy, Supernatural, Romance, Shoujo, Slice Of Life