355 reviews in this genre
by Kasane Ichikawa
A review of Hands Off! — Kasane Ichikawa's eight-volume supernatural shojo about a boy who sees visions and memories when he touches people, and the cousin who tries to protect him from the world — and vice versa.
by Aya Kanno
A review of Blank Slate — Aya Kanno's two-volume shojo action manga about Zen, a man with no memory who may be the most dangerous criminal alive, and the bounty hunter sent to bring him down.
by Yoshitsugu Katagiri
A review of Red Hot Chili Samurai — Yoshitsugu Katagiri's four-volume action comedy about a wandering samurai whose power is activated by eating spicy food, and the girl who gets caught up in his travels.
by Yoshiki Nakamura
A review of Tokyo Crazy Paradise — Yoshiki Nakamura's nineteen-volume shojo action-romance set in a futuristic Tokyo overrun by crime, following a girl raised as a boy by police parents who ends up as the bodyguard for a powerful yakuza boss.
by Dall-Young Lim (story), Park Sung-woo (art)
A review of Black God (Kurokami) — the Korean-Japanese action manga by Dall-Young Lim and Park Sung-woo about a struggling programmer, the Tera Guardian Kuro, and the Doppeliner system where three identical people share one fate.
by Aki Shimizu
A review of the Suikoden III manga adaptation — Aki Shimizu's version of the JRPG's political fantasy, following three protagonists across factions as their stories converge toward a war that none of them chose.
by Masakazu Yamaguchi
A review of Arm of Kannon (originally Birth / バース) by Masakazu Yamaguchi — the 9-volume Buddhist body-horror manga about a boy infected by a divine relic, the military that hunts him, and a story that derails into feudal Japan before it crash-lands.
by Yuji Shiozaki
A review of Battle Vixens (Ikki Tousen) by Yuji Shiozaki — the M-rated fighting manga where Japanese high school students carry the magatama souls of Romance of the Three Kingdoms warriors and brawl across seven schools, with heavy fan service throughout.
by Yuichi Kumakura
A review of King of Bandit Jing — the fantasy action manga about the legendary thief Jing and his crow Kir, who travel the world stealing impossible objects from impossible places.
by Nanae Chrono
A review of Peacemaker Kurogane — the historical action manga set at the end of the Edo period, following a boy who joins the Shinsengumi to avenge his parents and discovers what it costs to become a killer.
by Santa Inoue
A review of Tokyo Tribes — Santa Inoue's stylized gang manga about youth tribes in a fictionalized near-future Tokyo, where hip-hop culture, street art, and gang warfare intersect in a world built entirely from street aesthetics.
by Tsukasa Hojo
A review of Angel Heart by Tsukasa Hojo — the parallel-world City Hunter manga where a teenage assassin receives Kaori Makimura's transplanted heart and slowly turns the legendary sweeper Ryo Saeba into a father.
by Sakae Esuno
A review of Big Order by Sakae Esuno — the Future Diary author's manga about a boy blamed for ending the world, the assassin sent to kill him, and the wish that was never what anyone thought.
by Sanami Suzuki (story & art), huke (original concept)
A review of Black Rock Shooter: Innocent Soul, Sanami Suzuki's three-volume manga set entirely in Hazama, where a girl called Rock hunts the souls of people who couldn't let go.
by Yuichi Hasegawa (art), Yoshiyuki Tomino (story)
A review of Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam — the 1990s Universal Century manga set 30 years after Char's Counterattack, following space pirate Tobia Arronax as he joins the Crossbone Vanguard in fighting the Jupiter Empire.
by Masashi Kishimoto
A review of Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring — the single-volume bridge between the end of Naruto and the beginning of Boruto, following Sarada Uchiha's search for her father and the truth about her birth.
by Makoto Ogino
A review of Peacock King by Makoto Ogino — the late-80s esoteric action manga about a Buddhist monk who battles demons using powers drawn from Tantric Buddhism, set against a backdrop of genuine occult mythology.
by Masaru Gotsubo (manga adaptation)
A review of the Samurai Champloo manga adaptation — the hip-hop samurai anime's story brought to page, following two fighters and a girl across Edo-period Japan.
by Takashi Okazaki
A review of Afro Samurai — Takashi Okazaki's hip-hop-soaked samurai revenge manga, where the final duel is the one Afro never gets to fight.
by Kotaro Takata
A review of Hallelujah Overdrive! — a music manga about a quiet boy who picks up guitar and discovers something inside himself that's anything but quiet.
by Osamu Tezuka
A review of Jungle Emperor Leo by Osamu Tezuka — the foundational manga about Leo the white lion, his journey from cub to king, and the complicated relationship between the animal kingdom and humanity.
by Mahiro Satou (art), Jin (story)
A review of Kagerou Daze, the manga adaptation of Jin's hit Vocaloid music project about teenagers with supernatural eye abilities trapped in a time loop.
by Yudetamago (Takashi Shimada — story / Yoshinori Nakai — art)
A review of Kinnikuman, Yudetamago's 1979 wrestling manga — 36 volumes in its original Weekly Shōnen Jump run, continuing since 2011 on Shū Play News and now at 92 volumes total. VIZ Media publishes the original 36 volumes digitally in English.
by Gosho Aoyama
Kaito Kuroba is a high school stage magician who discovers his late father was the legendary phantom thief Kaitou Kid — and that his father was murdered by a shadow organization searching for an immortality jewel. Gosho Aoyama's 5-volume manga from 1988 has been on indefinite hiatus since Aoyama started Detective Conan, but Kid lives on as one of Conan's most beloved recurring characters.
by Hideyuki Furuhashi (story), Betten Court (art)
A review of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes — 15 volumes in Shōnen Jump+. Koichi Haimawari has a minor Quirk and no hero license; he becomes an unlicensed street vigilante working alongside Knuckleduster and pop idol Kazuho. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Shuji Sogabe
A review of the Persona 4 manga adaptation — how Shuji Sogabe translated Atlus's acclaimed JRPG into manga form and what the medium change reveals about the game's emotional core.
by Mitsuteru Yokoyama
A review of Tetsujin 28-go, Mitsuteru Yokoyama's 1956–1966 Shōnen magazine series — the first manga to popularize the giant robot in Japan and a foundational text for everything from Mazinger Z to Pacific Rim.
by Osamu Tezuka
A review of Vampire by Osamu Tezuka — a dark science fiction story about a boy who can transform into animals and the hidden world of shapeshifters living among humanity.
by Yokusaru Shibata
A review of Air Master, Yokusaru Shibata's seinen brawler about Maki Aikawa, a 184cm ex-gymnast who quit the sport for being too tall and found the only thing that makes her feel alive: street fighting, mid-air.
by Yumi Tamura
Totono Kuonji is a college student with spectacular curly hair, no friends, and a habit of solving crimes by talking until everyone in the room has nothing left to hide. Yumi Tamura's ongoing mystery manga (also known as Don't Call It Mystery from the 2022 live-action drama) is one of the most distinctive series in current josei publishing.
by Spider Lily / Asaura (original) / Yasunori Bizen (manga)
Tokyo, present day. Order is maintained by Direct Attack, a hidden agency that employs young women as government assassins called Lycoris. Chisato Nishikigi is the greatest Lycoris ever produced — and she refuses to kill. Takina Inoue is the elite who got demoted for insubordination. They run a café together. Lycoris Recoil began as an original 2022 A-1 Pictures anime; the main manga adaptation by Yasunori Bizen runs in Monthly Comic Flapper (8 volumes as of 2026) and is being released in English by Yen Press.
by Akira Amano
Ron Kamonohashi is a brilliant detective whose deductions cause murderers to take their own lives. He can only work through Totomaru Isshiki, a young Tokyo detective whose physical intervention stops the deaths Ron's deductions set in motion. Akira Amano (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!) brings her eccentric character energy to mystery manga.
by Yasuhiro Kano
Yu's review of MxO — Taiga Kuzumi fails his entrance exam to a prestigious magic school but ends up enrolled anyway through a misunderstanding; he has no magic whatsoever but must pretend he does to avoid expulsion; a fast-moving comedy about competence through bluffing, unexpected friendship, and what happens when the least magical person in a magic school keeps winning anyway.
by Jeho Son (story) / Kwangsu Lee (art)
A review of Noblesse — 16 volumes on Naver Webtoon. Cadis Etrama Di Raizel (Rai), an ancient noble who has slept for 820 years, awakens in modern Korea, reunites with his loyal servant Frankenstein, and enrolls in high school to understand the present world while a secret organization hunts those around him. WEBTOON Unscrolled's English edition is complete.
by Akihisa Ikeda
Yu's review of Rosario+Vampire Season II — the continuation of Rosario+Vampire follows Tsukune and his monster companions back to the human world and into the politics of the monster world; significantly darker and more action-focused than the first series, with genuine consequences and a more ambitious plot.
by Toshio Sako
Baku Madarame — known as Usogui, 'the Liar Eater' — is the most extraordinary gambler in Kakerou, an underground organization that runs games where losers forfeit their lives. 49 volumes of escalating psychological warfare, complete, unlicensed in English.
by Keisuke Itagaki
A review of Baki-Dou (刃牙道), the fourth Baki series, where a cloned Miyamoto Musashi is resurrected into the modern world and the strongest fighters alive learn that a real blade changes everything.
by Eiji Nonaka
A review of Cromartie High School, the surreal comedy manga set in Japan's most infamous delinquent school — where a normal student enrolls by mistake.
by Hiroshi Takahashi
A review of Hiroshi Takahashi's Crows (クローズ) — 26 volumes in Bessatsu Shōnen Champion from 1990 to 1998. Harumichi Bouya arrives at Suzuran All-Boys High looking for a real fight and finds the most dangerous school in Japan.
by Seimaru Amagi (story) / Fumiya Sato (art)
Detective School Q follows Kyu Renjou, a boy with extraordinary observational instincts, as he enrolls in the legendary Dan Detective School — and alongside four classmates with extraordinary individual skills, works to become the school's first Q Class.
by Toshiki Yui (manga) / Haruka Takachiho (original)
Dirty Pair follows Kei and Yuri — the Lovely Angels — a pair of Trouble Consultants whose missions always succeed and whose success always comes with catastrophic collateral damage that earns them their nickname.
by Yuto Tsuruta (story), Shun Saeki (art)
A review of Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, the explosive cooking battle manga that made cooking feel like combat.
by Yongje Park
A review of The God of High School, the Korean webtoon about a martial arts tournament that spirals into a battle between gods.
by Akira Amano
A review of Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, the manga about a weak middle schooler chosen to become the next boss of a powerful mafia family.
by Masami Yuki
A review of Mobile Police Patlabor, the classic manga about a police unit that operates giant labor robots in a near-future Tokyo.
by Motohiro Katou
Touma Sou graduated from MIT at fifteen and came home to attend a normal Japanese high school. The high school turns out to be full of murders, locked rooms, and impossible crimes. His classmate Kana Mizuhara keeps dragging him into them. Motohiro Katou's 50-volume honkaku mystery manga is one of the most intellectually rigorous in the genre. Only 2 volumes were released in English by Del Rey (2005–2006).
by Shūichi Asō
A review of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., the comedy manga about a supremely powerful psychic who wants nothing more than to be left alone.
by Hirohiko Araki
A review of Steel Ball Run — 24 volumes, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7. The year is 1890; America announces a transcontinental horse race from San Diego to New York; paraplegic former jockey Johnny Joestar meets the mysterious Gyro Zeppeli; hidden players use the race to find the scattered corpse parts of a saint. Widely considered the best JoJo part. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Shinji Wada
Sukeban Deka follows Saki Asamiya, a delinquent girl recruited by the police to work undercover at a series of schools — armed only with a steel yo-yo and her reputation as the toughest girl in Japan.
by Yusei Matsui
A review of The Elusive Samurai by Yusei Matsui, following a young noble who survives the fall of the Kamakura shogunate through unmatched evasion skills.
by Yoshiaki Tabata (story) / Yugo Okuma (art)
A review of Yoshiaki Tabata and Yugo Okuma's Young Black Jack — 16 volumes in Weekly Young Champion. Young Hazama Kuroo — the future Black Jack — as a medical student in 1960s Japan, performing extraordinary surgeries in an era of political upheaval and moral complexity. No official English edition.
by Masahito Soda
Daigo of Fire Company M follows Daigo Asahina, an extraordinary new firefighter who joins Company M — and the question of what drives a young man of exceptional ability to choose the most dangerous possible job.
by Fumei Sai (story) / Yasushi Kanami (art)
Tetsuya follows a young man known as Tetsuya who becomes Japan's greatest underground mahjong player in the devastation of postwar Tokyo — using skill, psychological insight, and sometimes outright cheating to survive in a world where the stakes are always real.
by Mikiya Mochizuki
Wild 7 follows a special police unit composed of convicted criminals given a second chance — authorized to use lethal force against criminals the law cannot otherwise reach, operating on motorcycles and outside the normal rules of law enforcement.
by Hiroshi Takahashi
Worst is the direct sequel to Crows — returning to Suzuran All-Boys High School one generation later, with new students, new factions, and new battles for supremacy in the school known as the place where crows gather.
by Yusuke Nomura
Juncket Bank follows Shinonome Ginji, a man who discovers he cannot lose at any game of chance — and a casino operator who wants to harness this ability for something far more dangerous than ordinary gambling.
by Masanori Morita
Taison Maeda arrives at Kichijoji's Teiken High School (modeled on real Kichijoji-area delinquent schools of the 1980s) with one ambition: to become a professional boxer like Mike Tyson, after whom his father loosely named him. The school is full of Tokyo's toughest delinquents. Maeda has to fight his way through them. Masanori Morita's 42-volume Shonen Jump manga ran 1988–1997. Unlicensed in English.
by Shinji Hiramatsu
Black Angels follows Yoji Yukito, a meek-looking young man who kills criminals the law cannot touch with a single bicycle spoke. A 1980s Weekly Shonen Jump vigilante manga that uses extreme violence to ask who gets to decide who lives.
by Kazuhiko Shimamoto
Blazing Transfer Student parodies the conventions of school delinquent and transfer-student fight manga by playing every single convention completely straight — with such intensity that it becomes genuinely funny and then genuinely moving.
by Buichi Terasawa
Cobra is the greatest space pirate who ever lived — charming, unstoppable, and armed with the Psychogun fused to his arm — in a galaxy-spanning adventure that turned stylish cool into a manga philosophy.
by Shinichi Koga
Eko Eko Azarak follows Misa Kuroi, a teenage witch who attends ordinary high school and uses her dark magical abilities to deal with supernatural threats — without mercy, without sentiment, and without the comfort of a happy ending.
by Kaoru Shintani
Futari Taka follows two rivals in motocross — Taka Mutsu and Taka Mikuni — whose competition defines both of them and becomes the closest thing each has to a relationship with someone who truly understands them.
by Baku Yumemakura (story) / Jiro Taniguchi (art)
Garouden follows Bunshichi Tanba, a former judoka who operates in the underground fighting world — a manga drawn by Jiro Taniguchi with psychological depth and physical authenticity rare in fighting manga.
by Masatoshi Kawahara
A review of Masatoshi Kawahara's Shura no Mon — 31 volumes in Monthly Shōnen Magazine from April 1987 to November 1996. Tsukumo Mutsu inherits an ancient killing art and faces every major martial discipline in modern Japan.
by Takashi Shiina
Zettai Karen Children follows three ten-year-old girls who are the most powerful psychics in the world, and their handler Kouichi Minamoto — a manga that starts as comedy and gradually becomes something more serious as the children grow up.
by Yoshihiro Takahashi
Silver Fang follows Gin, a silver Akita puppy who leaves his human to assemble an army of dogs and hunt down Akakabuto — a monstrous bear that has claimed an entire mountain and become a threat to everything living on it.
by Hideki Arai
The World Is Mine follows two criminal partners — the unpredictable Mon and the calculating Toshi — on a violent crime spree across Japan, alongside a separate thread about a mysterious monster emerging in the wilderness.
by Hiroyuki Nishimori
Kyo Kara Ore Wa!! follows two completely ordinary high school students who, upon transferring to a new school, independently decide to reinvent themselves as the toughest delinquents around — and discover they are both surprisingly and absurdly effective at this.
by Hiroshi Motomiya
Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho follows Tora Otori, a young delinquent whose goal is not just to be the toughest kid in his school but to become the undisputed boss of the entire country — and who pursues this goal with a force of personality that makes followers out of former enemies.
by Akira Miyashita
Otokojuku is a private school for delinquents where the curriculum consists entirely of brutal martial arts trials designed to forge men of iron will — and the manga is the story of Momotaro Tsurugi, who survives every trial while everyone else fails.
by Go Nagai
Go Nagai's 1968 debut series ran in Weekly Shonen Jump's launch year. Set at a school where lecherous teachers and male students pursue female students in escalating ecchi gags. PTAs across Japan protested. The manga continued anyway. Then, in the final arcs, Nagai started killing characters in a 'Harenchi War' that turned the comedy into a violent ending nobody expected. 13 volumes, completed 1972. Unlicensed in English.
by Motoei Niizawa
Chameleon follows Kazuki Edajima, an ordinary young man who wants to be a tough delinquent and keeps faking it until the situations he's created demand actual toughness — a comedy about the gap between the identity someone performs and the person they actually are.
by Rumiko Takahashi
Ranma Saotome trained in martial arts in China with his father. They fell into the cursed springs of Jusenkyo. Now Ranma transforms into a girl whenever cold water touches him (hot reverses it); his father transforms into a giant panda. Returning to Japan, Ranma discovers his father arranged a marriage to a girl he has never met. Rumiko Takahashi's 38-volume manga (1987–1996) is one of the defining works of 1990s shonen comedy. A new 2024 MAPPA anime adaptation began airing in October 2024.
by Masami Kurumada
Otokozaka follows Ryu Asuka, a young street fighter who begins climbing the Otokozaka — the Man's Slope — facing increasingly powerful opponents in a ritual of masculine challenge, a series famously cut short after 3 volumes in 1984 and completed by its creator over 30 years later.
by Takao Saito
Zero the Man of the Creation follows Zero, a master of disguise and strategy who takes on impossible missions through perfect impersonation and human intelligence — Takao Saito's second major long-running series alongside Golgo 13, and a different kind of professional entirely.
by Haruto Umezawa
Gorillaman follows Kumata Masao, a transfer student whose intimidating appearance — enormous, powerful, silent — leads everyone at his new school to assume he is the most dangerous delinquent alive, when in fact he simply wants to attend school without incident.
by Masami Yuuki
Musashi no Ken follows Musashi Nanaori, a boy born into a kendo family who grows up pursuing the sport that defines his father and his destiny — a classic Weekly Shonen Sunday kendo manga that tracked its protagonist from childhood through young adulthood.
by Masatoshi Kawahara
Shura no Toki is a companion series to Shura no Mon, following members of the Mutsu clan across different historical eras — encountering legendary warriors and historical figures in battles that test the limits of their invincible fighting style.
by Takeshi Maekawa
Tekken Chinmi follows Chinmi, a young boy who enters the Dairin Temple in China to train in kung fu — a classic Weekly Shonen Magazine martial arts series that traced a protagonist's development from enthusiastic novice to exceptional fighter across 34 volumes.
by Nobuyuki Fukumoto
Gin to Kin is Nobuyuki Fukumoto's gambling manga about Morita Tetsuo, a young man drawn into the inner world of high-stakes underground gambling — a slower, denser predecessor to Kaiji where every game is a psychological war.
by Tatsuhiko Kuroki
Mahjong Hourouki is Tatsuhiko Kuroki's manga adaptation of Tetsuya Asada's classic postwar mahjong-hustler novel — Bouya, a young drifter in the chaos of immediately-postwar Tokyo, who learns mahjong as the only way to survive the era's rubble economy.
by Yasushi Amasaki
Mukobuchi follows the mysterious mahjong player Asakura, a man whose presence at any high-stakes table reveals everyone else's true character — over 70 volumes of compact, intense games where Asakura serves as both player and moral mirror.
by Junichi Nojo
Naki no Ryu follows Ryu, a mahjong master called by underworld figures to play games with consequences far beyond money — a yakuza-mahjong manga that turned the table into a stage where lives, allegiances, and futures were decided.
by Mitsutoshi Kuroda
Tenpai is a long-running mahjong manga following Manabu Sotokawa, a young player whose talent draws him into the upper reaches of Japan's mahjong underworld — over 100 volumes of high-stakes games, mentor relationships, and psychological warfare at the table.
by Hiroyuki Shinohara
Toupai follows K, a high-school mahjong prodigy who plays in underground games where the consequences for losing extend far beyond money — a brutal modern entry in the mahjong-manga tradition where the table is a literal battlefield.
by Nobuyuki Fukumoto
Uchihime Obakamiko is Nobuyuki Fukumoto's lighter mahjong manga — Mieko, an enthusiastic but technically poor player whose mentor Toshio reluctantly trains her, with the comedic premise that even Fukumoto can write characters who are not psychological warlords.
by Mitsuyoshi Sonoda
Yuyake Bancho follows Akagi Kentaro, a transfer student whose fists settle conflicts at every school he attends — a 1960s Weekly Shonen King delinquent classic that helped establish the genre and gave the era's youth a hero who fought for the right reasons.
by Hiroto Saki (writer), Juzo Tokoro (art)
Bukko no Taku follows Takuya Asama, a high school transfer student drawn into the bosozoku (motorcycle gang) world of late-1980s Japan — a 27-volume Magazine classic that captured the bosozoku subculture during its actual cultural moment.
by Tatsuya Hatanaka
Fatal Fury (Garou Densetsu) is the manga adaptation of SNK's seminal fighting game franchise — Terry Bogard, his brother Andy, and Joe Higashi taking on Geese Howard's tournament in a 5-volume Comic Bom Bom adaptation.
by Dai Tennoji (writer), Michio Watanabe (art)
Hakuryuu follows Hakuryu, a yakuza whose intelligence and ambition take him through the Japanese underworld with the procedural precision of business fiction — Manga Goraku's 25-volume yakuza epic that treated the criminal world as a working economy.
by Noboru Takahashi
Mogura no Uta follows Reiji Kikukawa, a fired police officer reinstated as a deep-cover infiltrator into the Tokyo yakuza — a 84+ volume Big Comic Spirits epic blending undercover thriller, comedy, and the character study of a man whose cover identity becomes his real one.
by Masayuki Katayama
Gambler Jiko Chuushinha is Masayuki Katayama's mahjong comedy from Weekly Young Magazine — a 17-volume tribute to mahjong's social culture, where the comedy comes from the players' bizarre personalities while the mahjong remains genuinely played.
by Hiroshi Hirata
Sailor Fuku to Kikanjuu is the manga adaptation of Jiro Akagawa's novel about Izumi Hoshi, a high school girl who inherits leadership of a small yakuza family — a compact comic-dramatic work whose premise became one of Japanese popular culture's most recognized.
by Go Nagai
Go Nagai's brutal post-apocalyptic saga following a giant warrior wandering a Japan destroyed by earthquake.
by Ikki Kajiwara, Jiro Tsunoda
A semi-fictionalized biography of Mas Oyama, the founder of Kyokushin karate — and one of the most influential martial arts manga ever.
by Tsukasa Hojo
A sweeper for hire in Shinjuku cleans up the city's worst criminals while hiding a heart softer than anyone suspects — City Hunter is the definitive action-romance manga.
by YC (art) / Reekr (story)
A review of Mercenary Enrollment — the Korean manhwa about a boy who survived as a mercenary since age 8 and must now reintegrate into normal high school life while protecting his family.
by Jaehyun Son / Zhena (art)
A review of Eleceed — the Korean manhwa about a kind-hearted boy with lightning-fast reflexes who discovers the secret world of Awakened ability users through a fat cat who is actually a legendary warrior.
by Go Nagai
An android schoolgirl who can transform into anything she wants — the manga that helped invent the magical girl battle genre.
by Toru Fujisawa
A review of GTO: Shonan 14 Days, the sequel to Great Teacher Onizuka where the legend returns to his hometown beach to cause chaos and change lives — as only Onizuka can.
by Ryohgo Narita (story) / Shinta Fujimoto (art)
A review of the Baccano! manga by Shinta Fujimoto — the 3-volume Young Gangan adaptation of Ryohgo Narita's Grand Punk Railroad arc, where immortals, gangsters, and a bloody urban legend collide aboard the 1931 Flying Pussyfoot express.
by Yasuhiro Nightow
Vash the Stampede walks a desert planet called Gunsmoke. He has a $$60 billion double-dollar bounty on his head, a gun arm hidden under his red coat, and a single rule he has never broken: he does not kill anyone. Yasuhiro Nightow's 14-volume sequel to Trigun is one of the most thematically serious action manga ever serialized.
by Ryou Akizuki (art) / Trigger (original story)
A review of Kill la Kill manga, the adaptation of Trigger's anime about a girl searching for her father's killer at a school where power is literally woven into clothing.
by Yoshio Sawai
An afro-haired warrior fights with his nose hairs in the most committed nonsense manga ever serialized in Jump.
by Go Nagai
Go Nagai's foundational mecha epic about a teenage pilot and the giant robot that defined a genre.
by Tohru Fujisawa
A review of Shonan Junai Gumi — the prequel to Great Teacher Onizuka, following Eikichi Onizuka and Ryuji Danma as high school delinquents in Shonan.
by Daiki Igarashi
Time-eating demons feed on regret. A pair of immortal hunters fight them across the years.
by Taejoon Park
A review of Lookism — the Korean webtoon about an ugly, bullied boy who wakes up able to transfer between his original body and a tall, handsome one, exploring how appearance shapes how the world treats you.
by King Gonta (art) / Lee Ryujin (story)
A review of Souten Kouro, the manga about the Three Kingdoms era that makes Cao Cao the protagonist — the villain of most versions — and argues he was the era's greatest mind.
by uru-chan
A review of UnOrdinary — the Webtoon action series about a boy who appears powerless in a world of ability users, hiding an enormous secret that makes him the most dangerous person in his school.
by Takayuki Yamaguchi
After an earthquake levels Tokyo, Kakugo Hagakure puts on a living suit of armor holding 3,000 dead soldiers and fights the most grotesque monsters ever drawn in shonen manga — to stop his own brother.
by Kentaro Katayama (story) / Yamato Yamamoto (art)
A review of Kurenai — 10 volumes in Jump Square from 2007 to 2012. A teenage dispute mediator hides and protects a sheltered seven-year-old girl from one of Japan's most powerful aristocratic families.
by Jeon Geuk-jin (story) / Park Jin-hwan (art)
A review of The Breaker — the Korean martial arts manhwa about a bullied high school student who becomes the disciple of a legendary murim warrior.
by Takashi Shiina
A glamorous exorcist runs a ghost-busting business with her hapless apprentice in '90s Sunday's most reliable comedy.
by Jeon Geuk-jin (story) / Park Jin-hwan (art)
A review of Breaker: New Waves — the sequel to The Breaker, following Shi-woon as he navigates the murim world without his master's protection.
by Kazuhiro Fujita
A young boy chased by assassins. A young woman who fights with a marionette. An ancient secret about puppets that hunt humans. Karakuri Circus is Kazuhiro Fujita's masterpiece — relentless, emotional, and unlike anything else.
by Seopass (story) / Kim Jin-seok (art)
A review of Weak Hero — the Korean manhwa about a slender, bookish transfer student who defeats much larger bullies through precise, calculated violence and zero tolerance for injustice.
by Hiroyuki Nishimori
A review of Kenka Bancho, the manga adaptation of the video game about a delinquent who must defeat the toughest fighters across Japan to become the ultimate bancho.
by Masahiko Takajo (story) / Tetsuya Saruwatari (art)
Masahiko Takajo and Tetsuya Saruwatari's 12-volume martial arts manga (1987–1990) about Saiga Ricky, a superhuman prisoner with five fingers worth of bullets in his abdomen, fighting through a privatized near-future prison and its four corrupt wardens. The source material for the 1991 cult Hong Kong film 'Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky.' Unlicensed in English.
by Michiharu Kusunoki
A review of Wangan Midnight — the iconic Japanese street racing manga set on the Bayshore Route where urban legends and machines pushed beyond their limits define a particular vision of speed.
by Keito Shinasaka
A review of Gachiakuta — the shonen manga about a boy thrown into a garbage underworld who discovers the power to weaponize discarded things.
by Shinji Saijyo
A review of Iron Wok Jan, the cooking competition manga with the most aggressively unpleasant protagonist in the genre — and somehow it works.
by Koji Kiriyama
Goofy-looking ninja warriors fight a corrupt empire in a manga that mixed comedy and martial arts before Naruto did.
by Hitoshi Iwaaki
Hitoshi Iwaaki — the creator of Parasyte — has spent over twenty years on Historie, his historical manga about Eumenes of Cardia. The real Eumenes was Alexander the Great's personal secretary and one of the Successors after Alexander's death. Iwaaki's fictional version starts as a Scythian slave boy with extraordinary intelligence. 12 volumes published since 2003; ongoing but glacial. A TV anime adaptation was announced in January 2026.
by Yoshikazu Hamada
A review of Tsugumomo, the supernatural action manga about a boy whose mother's obi sash becomes a spirit who fights alongside him.
by Seimaru Amagi (story) / Fumiya Sato (art)
A review of Kindaichi 37-sai no Jikenbo — 18 volumes in Kodansha's Evening and Comic Days from January 2018 to November 2024. Hajime Kindaichi returns as a 37-year-old salaryman who cannot stop finding murder.
by Haro Aso / Kotaro Takata
A review of Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead — 15 volumes in Monthly Sunday GX. Akira Tendo spent three years being worked to death at a black company; when the zombie apocalypse starts, his first thought is relief that he doesn't have to go to work; he makes a list of 100 things to do before becoming a zombie. The most original zombie premise in years. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Tite Kubo
Yu's review of Zombie Powder — Gamma Akutabi is a wanted criminal with a massive chainsaw sword and an arm full of strange tattoos; he is hunting for the twelve Rings of the Dead, which when assembled produce Zombie Powder, a substance that grants immortality or resurrects the dead; he picks up a young boy named Elwood whose sister needs a miracle.
by Makoto Raiku
A review of Zatch Bell! — 33 volumes in Weekly Shonen Sunday. Genius middle schooler Kiyo Takamine partners with demon child Zatch Bell in a battle royale of 100 demon/human pairs competing to become King of the Mamodo World; Zatch wants to be a kind king. The manga that made an entire generation cry about a book burning. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Masakazu Katsura
Yu's review of Zetman — Jin Kanzaki is a boy who can transform into ZET, a living weapon created by a corporation's experiment; his story is intertwined with Kouga Amagi, heir to a company that creates its own superhero armor — two different ideas of what a hero means, in conflict and occasional partnership.
by Kazuki Takahashi
Yu's review of Yu-Gi-Oh! — Yugi Mutou solves the Millennium Puzzle and his body becomes shared with a spirit of unknown origin; the early series follows the spirit's use of 'shadow games' to punish bullies and cheaters, eventually evolving into the card game tournament arc that the franchise became known for.
by Yoshihiro Togashi
A review of Yu Yu Hakusho — 19 volumes in Weekly Shonen Jump. Yusuke Urameshi dies heroically saving a child, is recruited as a Spirit Detective to investigate supernatural cases, and grows from a delinquent who doesn't care about anything into someone with people worth protecting. The series Togashi made before Hunter x Hunter. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Yoichi Takahashi / Ryo Ogawa
Yu's review of Ya Boy Kongming! — Zhuge Liang, the legendary strategist of the Three Kingdoms era, reincarnates in modern Tokyo; he arrives at a Shibuya club and hears a singer named Eiko whose talent is undeniable; he becomes her manager; Yoichi Takahashi's comedy manga about military strategy applied to the music industry.
by Takeshi Natsuhara / Hiroki Miyashita
A comprehensive review of Yakuza Reincarnation — plot, characters, art style, and whether it's worth reading.
by Yuji Kaku
A review of Ayashimon — Yuji Kaku's short, fast 3-volume Shonen Jump action manga about a super-strong manga otaku who joins an oni's yakuza gang to fight the demons running Kabukicho's underworld.
by Kazuya Minekura
Yu's review of Wild Adapter — Makoto Kubota is a Yakuza boy genius who gets drawn into investigating Wild Adapter, a drug that turns users into monsters; he finds Tokito, a boy with no memory and a monster's hand, and takes him home; Kazuya Minekura's crime manga about an unlikely pair and the mystery of a transforming drug.
by Daisuke Ashihara
Yu's review of World Trigger — a defense organization uses sci-fi weapons called Triggers to fight alien invaders called Neighbors, and a weak new recruit turns out to be connected to those invaders in unexpected ways.
by Takehiko Inoue
Yu's review of Vagabond — a manga about the historical Miyamoto Musashi's journey to become the greatest swordsman alive, and his gradual understanding that invincibility is not the same as wisdom. Visually the most beautiful manga ever published.
by Makoto Yukimura
Yu's review of Vinland Saga — a Viking manga that starts as a brutal revenge story and becomes a profound examination of what violence costs the people who use it. One of the greatest manga being published today.
by Ken Akamatsu
Yu's review of UQ Holder! — a sequel to Mahou Sensei Negima!, set in a future where Touta Konoe is a young immortal who joins UQ Holder, an organization of immortal beings; the series continues the Negima universe while establishing its own identity.
by Kazuhiro Fujita
Yu's review of Ushio and Tora — Ushio finds an ancient beast-spirit called Tora pinned under the temple floor; he releases Tora to fight other spirits threatening his town; Tora intends to eat Ushio eventually; they travel Japan fighting supernatural threats.
by Stan Lee / Hiroyuki Takei
Yu's review of Ultimo — the Karakuri Doji, robot-like mechanical beings created by the medieval scientist Dunstan, are divided into Ultimo (ultimate good) and Vice (ultimate evil); they battle for the fate of humanity across reincarnations, with high school student Yamato Agari at the center as Ultimo's master in the modern era.
by Yoshifumi Tozuka
Yu's review of Undead Unluck — Fuuko, a girl whose touch causes catastrophic misfortune to anyone around her, meets Andy, an immortal who wants to die; together they join a secret organization that fights supernatural rules governing reality.
by Yoshiaki Sukeno
A review of Yoshiaki Sukeno's Twin Star Exorcists — 30 volumes in Jump Square. Rokuro Enmado abandoned exorcism after a catastrophe killed his friends; Benio Adashino is a dedicated exorcist from Kyoto determined to surpass her own limits; the two are declared the Twin Star Exorcists, prophesied to produce the child who will destroy all evil. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Takeshi Azuma
Yu's review of Ultimate Otaku Teacher — Junichiro Kagami is Japan's greatest physicist and also a complete shut-in otaku who only leaves his room for anime and manga; when his sister forces him to become a teacher at her school, he discovers that his otaku knowledge and online gaming skills provide unusual solutions to student problems.
by Sunao Yoshida
Yu's review of Trinity Blood — in a post-apocalyptic future where vampires and humans are at war, a vampire-eating priest works for the Vatican to maintain the fragile peace.
by Tokihiko Matsuura
Yu's review of Tuxedo Gin — Ginji Kusanagi is a teenage boxing prodigy who dies in an accident the night before his first date with Minako; he reincarnates as a penguin and is found by Minako, who keeps him as a pet while his spirit must wait until the karmic debt is paid.
by Shouji Sato
Yu's review of Triage X — a covert medical organization using a 'black label' system targets criminals who are beyond the reach of law, using a team of beautiful assassins.
by Mikoto Yamaguchi / Yuki Sato
Yu's review of Tomodachi Game — Yuichi and his four close friends suddenly find themselves participating in the 'Tomodachi Game,' a debt-resolution game run by a mysterious organization; one of them enrolled everyone to pay off a debt, and the games are specifically designed to strain and destroy friendships.
by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
Yu's review of Toriko — a Gourmet Hunter in a world where ingredients are the most precious things alive battles fantastic creatures to capture the rarest foods and complete his dream full-course meal.
by Ken Wakui
Yu's review of Tokyo Revengers — 31 volumes about a loser who discovers he can time-travel back to his middle school years and is determined to save the girl he loved from being murdered by a gang. The most emotionally gripping gang manga in years.
by Akinobu Uraku
Yu's review of Tokyo Underground — Rumina Asagi and his friend Ginnosuke fall into the Underground — a city beneath Tokyo where the population has elemental ability users called Elemental Users; they encounter Chelsea Rihikawa, an Elemental User who can control fire, and become involved in rescuing her companion Ruri from the powerful organization that controls the Underground.
by Saki Hasemi / Kentaro Yabuki
Yu's review of To Love Ru — Rito Yuuki has never been able to confess to his classmate Haruna; his situation becomes considerably more complicated when an alien princess named Lala teleports into his bathtub, decides he will be her fiancé, and brings the political complications of the galactic succession to his high school.
by Maybe
Yu's review of To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts — during a civil war, soldiers of the Northern Army were transformed into Incarnates — humans with the ability to become powerful monsters — to win; now the war is over, and the Incarnates cannot return to human society; the man who led them has become their hunter, and the daughter of one who died follows him.
by Katsuhisa Minami
Yu's review of The Fable — Akira (codename 'The Fable') is considered the deadliest assassin in Japan; his boss orders him to take a year off and live as an ordinary person without killing anyone; the comedy of an extraordinarily dangerous man trying and mostly succeeding at being normal while the criminal world swirls around him.
by Mizuki Sakakibara
A comprehensive review of Tiger & Bunny — plot, characters, art style, and whether it's worth reading.
by Daisuke Aizawa / Anri Sakano
Yu's review of The Eminence in Shadow — Minoru Kageno is reincarnated into a fantasy world and creates a shadow organization called Shadow Garden, inventing fictional enemies for his followers to fight; the enemies turn out to be real; the comedy is that he never knows this.
by Taiyo Matsumoto
Yu's review of Tekkon Kinkreet — Black and White are two orphaned street kids who rule Treasure Town from the rooftops; when organized crime moves in to develop the city, Black and White must fight to keep what they consider theirs; a visually revolutionary manga about the psychic cost of violence and the specific love between two people who only have each other.
by Oh! Great
Yu's review of Tenjho Tenge — two street fighters who transfer to Todo Academy intending to dominate it quickly discover the school has martial arts clubs that operate by completely different rules.
by Hiroyuki Asada
Yu's review of Tegami Bachi — in a land of perpetual night called AmberGround, Letter Bees risk their lives to deliver correspondence across insect-haunted wastelands; Lag Seeing, the child who was once delivered as a letter, grows up to become a Letter Bee and searches for the mentor who first carried him.
by Shinjiro
A comprehensive review of Taboo Tattoo — plot, characters, art style, and whether it's worth reading.
by Taizan5
Yu's review of Takopi's Original Sin — Takopi is an alien from Happy Planet sent to spread happiness on Earth; he meets Shizuka, a girl who is being bullied and whose home life is deeply troubled; the series uses Takopi's happiness abilities to examine what happiness means when suffering is real.
by Tony Takezaki
Two psychic sisters fused into a weapon of mass destruction in a cyberpunk world that doesn't deserve them.
by Shinobu Ohtaka
A review of Shinobu Ohtaka's Sumomomo Momomo — 12 volumes in Monthly GFantasy. Koushi Inuzuka wants to be a public prosecutor and wants nothing to do with his martial arts family; Momoko is the overwhelmingly powerful daughter of a rival clan who arrives certain he is her future husband, determined to protect him from everything. Yen Press's English edition is complete.
by Neko Nekobyou
Yu's review of Sword Art Online: Girls' Ops — a spinoff following Lisbeth, Silica, and Leafa — three of the main SAO series' female characters — as they adventure in ALfheim Online together, dealing with challenges that don't involve Kirito; a character-focused spinoff for readers who wanted more from the original series' supporting cast.
by Satoshi Mizukami
Yu's review of Spirit Circle — Fuuta Okeya has the ability to see spirits; when a new classmate, Kouko Ishigami, arrives and announces she is his enemy from a past life, their conflict forces both to revisit six shared past lives and understand what connected them across time.
by Takemachi / Tomari
Yu's review of Spy Classroom — Klaus, the world's greatest spy, assembles a team of failed spy trainees for an impossible mission; each girl has failed the standard spy program but has unusual potential; Takemachi's light novel adaptation about unconventional spies and their world-class handler.
by Atsushi Ohkubo
Yu's review of Soul Eater — a manga set in a school where students are weapon-wielders, and the weapons are people. Gothic, funny, and visually unlike anything else in manga. One of the best completed action series of its era.
by Kyo Shirodaira / Eita Mizuno
Yu's review of Spiral: Bonds of Reasoning — Ayumu Narumi's brother Kiyotaka, a genius detective, disappeared two years ago leaving only the words 'Blade Children'; Ayumu, a high school student with exceptional deductive ability, begins encountering the Blade Children — cursed individuals with exceptional abilities — and the mystery his brother left behind.
by Hajime Kanzaka / Shoko Yoshinaka
Yu's review of Slayers — Lina Inverse is a sorceress who is feared across the countryside for her combination of extreme magical power and extreme appetite; she travels with Gourry Gabriev, a swordsman of great physical ability and famously limited intellect, and leaves a trail of destroyed bandits and damaged architecture wherever she goes.
by Atsushi Ohkubo
Yu's review of Soul Eater NOT! — a spinoff set in the same Death Weapon Meister Academy as Soul Eater, following Tsugumi Harudori, a new student who is a weapon but not yet a skilled one; she must choose between two potential meisters — the calm Meme and the earnest Anya — while navigating first-year academy life.
by Katarina (art), Ryosuke Fuji (original story)
Yu's review of Shangri-La Frontier — Rakuro Hizutome's hobby is playing terrible, broken games; when he tries Shangri-La Frontier, the world's most popular and technically perfect VR RPG, his experience with game-breaking strategies makes him approach it in ways no other player would.
by Kenta Shinohara
Yu's review of SKET Dance — Bossun, Himeko, and Switch form the SKET-dan, a school club that helps anyone who asks with any problem; what starts as episodic comedy gradually reveals the serious backstories behind three students who understand what it means to need help.
by Hiroyuki Takei
Yu's review of Shaman King — a laid-back shaman who communes with spirits enters the Shaman Fight, a tournament held every 500 years to determine who becomes the Shaman King and reshapes the world.
by Izo Hashimoto
Yu's review of Shamo — a model student who murders his parents learns karate in juvenile detention and emerges as a dangerous, broken prodigy with nowhere to put his violence.
by Mine Yoshizaki
A comprehensive review of Sgt. Frog — plot, characters, art style, and whether it's worth reading.
by Hiroyuki Takei
Yu's review of Shaman King: Flowers — Hana Asakura, son of Yoh and Anna, is the protagonist of this sequel set in 2020; the shaman world has changed but the fights continue; Hiroyuki Takei's continuation of the Shaman King world through the next generation.
by Takaya Kagami / Yamato Yamamoto
Yu's review of Seraph of the End — a virus kills all adults; vampires emerge and enslave the surviving children as livestock; Yuichiro Hyakuya escapes and joins the Japanese Imperial Demon Army to avenge his orphan family and kill all vampires.
by Strike Tanaka
Yu's review of Servamp — Mahiru Shirota picks up a stray black cat and names it Kuro; the cat is actually Sleepy Ash, one of seven Servamps — ancient vampires who form contracts with human Eves and serve them; Mahiru's simple desire to not leave problems unresolved pulls him into conflict with Servamps who have abandoned their Eves.
by Sakurako Gokurakuin
A comprehensive review of Sekirei — plot, characters, art style, and whether it's worth reading.
by Satoshi Mizukami
Yu's review of Sengoku Youko — in Sengoku-era Japan, a powerful spirit girl travels with a timid human boy seeking to create a world where humans and youkai can live in peace.
by Kazuo Koike
Yu's review of Samurai Executioner — set in Edo-period Japan, this seinen series follows the official executioner of Edo as he navigates his role at the edge of society and justice.
by Akira Toriyama
Yu's review of Sand Land — Beelzebub is the son of the Demon King; he teams up with an old sheriff named Rao to cross a desert and find a legendary lake, because the Demon Realm needs water and the king is hoarding what exists; Akira Toriyama's standalone adventure.
by Yuto Suzuki
Yu's review of Sakamoto Days — Taro Sakamoto was the most feared hitman in the world; he retired when he fell in love, married, and opened a convenience store; now overweight, domestically happy, and out of practice, he must repeatedly deal with the assassin world that cannot accept his retirement; an action comedy about a legendary fighter who would rather stock shelves.
by Akimine Kamijyo
Yu's review of Samurai Deeper Kyo — after the Battle of Sekigahara, the legendary demon-eyes samurai Demon Eyes Kyo's soul is sealed inside the body of Kyoshiro Mibu, a wandering medicine seller; four years later, Kyo's consciousness begins to emerge, and the search for his original body begins.
by Masami Kurumada
Yu's review of Saint Seiya — five Bronze Saints in legendary constellation armor fight to protect the reincarnated goddess Athena from divine enemies; Seiya and his companions push past human limits with their Cosmo energy in battles that defined 1980s action manga.
by Kazuya Minekura
Yu's review of Saiyuki Reload — the sequel series to the original Saiyuki follows Sanzo and his three companions deeper west, with heavier consequences and darker character revelations.
by Nobuhiro Watsuki
A review of Rurouni Kenshin — 28 volumes in Weekly Shonen Jump. Himura Kenshin was Japan's most feared assassin of the Bakumatsu; he now wanders with a reverse-blade sword, trying to protect without killing. The Kyoto Arc is one of the greatest extended arcs in manga, and Shishio is the genre's finest villain. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Naoko Takeuchi
Yu's review of Sailor Moon — a clumsy, crybaby middle schooler is revealed to be the legendary Sailor Moon, guardian warrior of love and justice, and eventually the reincarnated princess of the Moon Kingdom.
by Akihisa Ikeda
Yu's review of Rosario + Vampire: Season II — picking up from the end of Season I, Tsukune Aono and his monster companions return with higher stakes; the series shifts toward darker action with genuine monster-world political conflict while retaining the original's character relationships.
by Ike
Yu's review of Rosen Garten Saga — in a dark fantasy world, all legendary warriors are women; Rin is a legendary swordswoman who discovers a man named Percival — the only man who can grant a wish to the one who possesses him; the series follows the brutal combat between legendary women competing for Percival.
by Ishio Yamagata / Miyagi / Atto
Yu's review of Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers — the legends say six heroes are chosen to fight the Demon God; when the six braves gather, they discover seven of them are present; one is an impostor, possibly the Demon God's spy; the series becomes a fantasy mystery as the heroes try to identify the fake before the real enemy destroys them.
by Rumiko Takahashi
A review of Ranma ½ — 38 volumes in Weekly Shonen Sunday. Ranma Saotome transforms into a girl when splashed with cold water; his father has arranged him to be engaged to Akane Tendo, who hates boys; the series follows their chaotic not-quite-relationship and increasingly bizarre martial arts challenges. Rumiko Takahashi's most kinetic work. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Hiro Mashima
Yu's review of Rave Master — Haru Glory discovers he is the second Rave Master, holder of the legendary Holy Bring sword; with his companions, he travels the world collecting the five Rave stones and destroying the Dark Bring before they can be used to end the world.
by Daiki Kobayashi
A comprehensive review of Ragna Crimson — plot, characters, art style, and whether it's worth reading.
by George Abe / Masasumi Kakizaki
Yu's review of Rainbow — six juvenile delinquents are sent to a brutal reformatory in 1955 Japan and placed in Cell 6, where they bond with their cellmate Rokurouta Sakuragi, a former boxer who teaches them what it means to survive with dignity.
by Ryotaro Iwanaga
Yu's review of Pumpkin Scissors — a ceasefire has ended the war between the Empire and the Republic, but the civilian population is suffering from poverty, bandit violence, and the breakdown of social infrastructure; the Imperial Army's Section III — Pumpkin Scissors — is supposed to handle war relief; Alice L. Malvin leads the section with the conviction that soldiers have an obligation to serve civilians; Randel Oland, a massive ex-soldier with a blue lantern and a traumatic past, joins.
by Tony Valente
Yu's review of Radiant — Seth is a young wizard infected as a child by a Nemesis (monsters that fall from the sky); he survived, which gives him magic, but infected wizards are feared and persecuted; he wants to find the Radiant — the origin point of the Nemeses — and destroy it; the series is notable as a French-authored manga published in Japan and localized to English.
by Ryoji Minagawa / Kyoichi Nanatsuki
A comprehensive review of Project ARMS — plot, characters, art style, and whether it's worth reading.
by Toshiaki Iwashiro
Yu's review of Psyren — Ageha Yoshina finds a phone card called Psyren; using it transports him to a devastated future Japan where monsters called Taboo hunt humans; players who survive the game develop psychic powers; together with others, he tries to prevent this future from happening.
by Hidenori Kusaka / Mato
A comprehensive review of Pokémon Adventures — plot, characters, art style, and whether it's worth reading.
by Akira Hiramoto
Yu's review of Prison School — five boys enroll at a recently co-educational girls' school and are immediately imprisoned in the on-campus detention facility by the Underground Student Council for a minor violation; the series follows their attempts to escape while serving a month's sentence.
by Suu Minazuki
Yu's review of Plunderer — in a world where every person has a Count visible on their body representing some aspect of their life, those whose Count reaches zero are dragged into the Abyss; Hina searches for the legendary Ace who her dying mother told her about, and finds Licht Bach.
by Natsumi Mukai
Yu's review of +Anima — in a world where some children develop +Anima, the ability to partially transform into animals and gain their characteristics, Cooro is a crow +Anima who travels through a world that treats +Anima as freaks or weapons; he is joined by Husky, a fish +Anima forced to perform as a mermaid; Senri, a bear +Anima with a traumatic past; and Nana, a bat +Anima searching for acceptance.
by Kento Matsuura
Yu's review of Phantom Seer — Iori Katanagi has always been able to see spirits and has learned to ignore them; Riku Aibetsu cannot stop attracting powerful spirits; their partnership, initially reluctant, becomes the series' central dynamic as they face increasingly dangerous supernatural encounters.
by Tsugumi Ohba / Takeshi Obata
Yu's review of Platinum End — Mirai Kakehashi, at the edge of suicide, is given angel wings and arrows by his guardian angel; he and 12 other candidates chosen by angels are competing to become the next God; the creators of Death Note apply their formula to a theological competition.
by Aka Akasaka, Mengo Yokoyari
Yu's review of Oshi no Ko — a doctor reincarnates as the son of the idol he worshipped, retaining his adult memories; he enters the entertainment industry to find his mother's killer while his twin sister becomes an idol herself.
by Mineo Maya
A child king runs a tiny country with the help of MI6 assassins, BL romance subplots, and absolute chaos.
by ONE (story) / Yusuke Murata (art)
Yu's review of One Punch Man — a manga about the most powerful hero in the world who can't feel excited about anything anymore because he always wins in one punch. Visually the most spectacular action manga alive. Philosophically surprisingly deep.
by Shinobu Ohtaka
Yu's review of Orient — in an alternate Japan where demons called Kishin have ruled for 150 years, the samurai who once fought them have been erased from history and remembered as criminals; Musashi and his best friend Kojiro dream of reviving the samurai band, believing the erased history contains the truth about what humans can be.
by singNsong (writer) / Sleepy-C (art) / UMI (storyboards)
A review of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, the manhwa adaptation of singNsong's 551-chapter web novel, drawn by Sleepy-C — about Kim Dokja, the only person on Earth who read the web novel that is now coming true around him.
by Eiichiro Oda
Yu's review of One Piece — the manga that has been running for over 25 years and still feels alive. About freedom, friendship, and one ridiculous boy who refuses to be defined by anyone else's rules.
by Hiroshi Shiibashi
Yu's review of Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan — Rikuo Nana is one-quarter yokai and grandson of Nurarihyon, the Supreme Commander of all yokai; during the day he lives as an ordinary middle schooler who wants nothing to do with the supernatural; at night his yokai blood awakens and he becomes something else entirely; as rival yokai clans threaten his grandfather's domain, Rikuo must decide whether to embrace his heritage.
by Seishi Kishimoto
Yu's review of O-Parts Hunter — Jio Freed is a boy who wants to rule the world but carries a demon called Satan inside him that awakens when he is in danger; he travels a post-apocalyptic world with Ruby, an OPT hunter, in search of legendary O-Parts — ancient relics with extraordinary power.
by Adachitoka
Yu's review of Noragami: Stray Stories — a companion anthology to Noragami containing short stories, side stories, and bonus material featuring Yato, Yukine, Hiyori, and the gods of the main series in adventures and comedic situations outside the main narrative.
by Adachitoka
Yu's review of Noragami — a manga about a minor god with a broken phone number, one divine weapon, and a desperate wish to be remembered. Funny and warm early, genuinely affecting as it deepens. One of the most underrated supernatural manga running.
by Yasuko Aoike
A flamboyant art thief and a stoic NATO spy chase each other across Cold War Europe in one of shojo's longest-running adventures.
by Masashi Kishimoto
A review of Naruto — 72 volumes in Weekly Shonen Jump. Uzumaki Naruto is a boy with the Nine-Tailed Fox sealed inside him, rejected by his village, dreaming of becoming Hokage not for power but to be seen. The most emotionally resonant outcast-to-legend arc in manga. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Yuhki Kamatani
Yu's review of Nabari no Ou — apathetic middle schooler Rokujou Miharu hosts within him the Shinrabanshou — the ultimate power of the ninja world — that every faction of the hidden world wants to control; Rokujou doesn't care about any of this, which makes him the most dangerous person in every room.
by Masashi Kishimoto / Kenji Taira
A comprehensive review of Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth Full Power Ninja Chronicles — plot, characters, art style, and whether it's worth reading.
by Yōko Akiyama
Yu's review of My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions — a spinoff series featuring U.A. students paired with professional heroes from different agencies for joint training missions; lighter in tone than the main series, focused on character interactions and comedy.
by Kohei Horikoshi
Yu's review of My Hero Academia — a superhero manga that asks a genuinely hard question: what does it cost to be the kind of person who saves others? Complete at 40 volumes, and one of the most emotionally layered shonen series of its generation.
by Yasuhiro Kano
Yu's review of Mx0 — Taiga Kuzumi fails the entrance exam for Seinagi Private High School, a secret magic academy, but is accidentally enrolled anyway; he has zero magical ability but must survive in a school full of powerful magic users by bluffing, strategy, and the help of a strange magic plate on his chest.
by Hirofumi Neda
Yu's review of My Hero Academia: Smash!! — the official comedy spin-off of My Hero Academia; Deku, All Might, Bakugo, and the entire cast of UA High reimagined as gag manga characters; Hirofumi Neda's parody of Kohei Horikoshi's hero universe that finds every possible comedy angle in the source material.
by Ryousuke Takeuchi / Hikaru Miyoshi
William James Moriarty — Sherlock Holmes's future archenemy — reimagined as a young nobleman who decides Victorian England's class system can only be destroyed by murdering the people who benefit from it. Part 1 complete (19 volumes); Part 2 ongoing since December 2024. One of the most morally serious historical manga Viz has published.
by Yoshiyuki Nishi
Yu's review of Muhyo & Roji — Toru Muhyo is the youngest person in history to achieve the title of Executor in Magical Law; his assistant Roji is a fumbling junior who has not yet passed the Magical Law exams; together they run an office that takes supernatural cases involving ghosts that have crossed legal lines.
by ONE
A review of Mob Psycho 100 — 16 volumes on Ura Sunday. Shigeo Kageyama (Mob) is the most powerful psychic alive and keeps his powers suppressed because he doesn't want to hurt anyone; he just wants to get better at talking to his crush. The best manga about emotional suppression and what actual strength looks like. Dark Horse Comics' English edition is complete.
by Okayado
Yu's review of Monster Musume — in a Japan where monsters have been revealed to exist and a cultural exchange program places them with human host families, Kimihito Kurusu ends up hosting a lamia, a harpy, a centaur, and more, while navigating the law that forbids human-monster relationships.
by Hitsuji Gondaira
Yu's review of Mission: Yozakura Family — Taiyo Asano, a timid boy who relies entirely on his childhood friend Mutsumi, discovers her family is a family of elite spies; when circumstances require it, he marries into the family to protect her, and must now survive training under her various combat-specialist siblings to become a spy himself.
by Hajime Komoto
Yu's review of Mashle: Magic and Muscles — in a world where magic determines social status, Mash Burnedead has no magic at all; he compensates entirely through physical strength so absurd it defeats every magical opponent he encounters.
by NisiOisiN / Akira Akatsuki
Yu's review of Medaka Box — Medaka Kurokami is elected student council president with 98% of the vote and wants to answer every student's problems using the school suggestion box; the manga begins as school comedy and transforms into a meta-commentary on shonen manga tropes.
by Hiromitsu Takeda
Yu's review of Maken-Ki — a formerly all-girls school goes co-ed and the protagonist discovers his new school trains students in supernatural weapons called Maken.
by Nobuyuki Anzai
Yu's review of MÄR — Ginta Toramizu, a boy who obsessively dreams about a magical world called MÄR Heaven, is pulled into it; in MÄR Heaven he is stronger than he ever was in Japan; the world is threatened by a group called Chess, and Ginta must compete in their War Games to protect it.
by Icchokusen Maniwa
Yu's review of Magical Girl Ore — Saki Uno discovers her mother was a magical girl; when she tries to transform to fight demons threatening the boy she likes, she succeeds — and transforms into a muscular man in a magical girl outfit; the demons, it turns out, are attracted to beautiful boys, which now includes her transformed self.
by Naoki Iwamoto
Yu's review of Magico — Shion is one of the most powerful mages in the world; Emma carries a cursed power called Echidna inside her that will eventually destroy everything; the only way to suppress it is to complete the Magico ritual, which requires the two to act as husband and wife while performing increasingly elaborate magical ceremonies.
by Kazuo Koike / Goseki Kojima
Yu's review of Lone Wolf and Cub — Ogami Ittō was the Shogunate's official executioner; framed for treason by the Yagyū clan, stripped of his position, his wife murdered; he chose the Meifumadō — the road to hell — placing his infant son Daigorō before a ball and a sword, and the child chose the sword; they travel as assassins for hire, seeking vengeance.
by Yoshifumi Ohba (Art) / Shinobu Ohtaka (Original Story)
Yu's review of Magi: Adventure of Sinbad — a prequel to the main Magi series following Sinbad at sixteen, before he became King of Sindria; Sinbad is the first person to ever conquer a dungeon, and this story follows how he went from a poor boy in a dying village to the most powerful king in the world.
by CLAMP
Yu's review of Legal Drug — Kazahaya Kudo and Rikuo Himura work at the Green Drugstore and occasionally take on unusual jobs for the owner that involve their supernatural abilities; CLAMP's supernatural mystery series with boys' love subtext and the first three volumes of a story continued in Drug & Drop.
by Yoshihiro Togashi
Yu's review of Level E — a self-declared alien prince has crashed his ship on Earth and has conveniently developed amnesia; he moves in with Yukitaka Tsutsui, a freshman baseball prospect in rural Yamagata; the prince turns out to be the most intelligent and least cooperative being in the galaxy, and he treats everything around him as a long-running game designed for his own amusement.
by Kazuo Koike / Kazuo Kamimura
Yu's review of Lady Snowblood — Yuki Kashima was born in prison to a woman who had herself imprisoned to find the men who murdered her husband and son and raped her; Yuki's sole purpose, from birth, was to be the instrument of her mother's revenge; she was trained by a Buddhist monk and became exactly what her mother needed.
by Tatsuki Fukuchi
Yu's review of The Law of Ueki — Kousuke Ueki is given the power to turn trash into trees by his homeroom teacher, a god candidate competing in a divine tournament; if his teacher wins, he becomes the next ruler of the Heavenly World; if Ueki fights on his behalf and wins, he gets a blank talent.
by Yasuhisa Hara
Yu's review of Kingdom — Xin is a war orphan in Warring States China who dreams of becoming the greatest general under the heavens; he encounters the young king Ying Zheng who intends to unify all of China; Yasuhisa Hara's historical epic about the birth of the Qin Empire through the eyes of soldiers and commanders who fought for it.
by Dall-Young Lim / Sung-Woo Park
Yu's review of Kurokami (Black God) — Keita Ibuki discovers that his continued existence is statistically linked to the deaths of his 'look-alikes'; after his mother's death he meets Kuro, a powerful supernatural being called a Mototsumitama, and they form a 'Tera Contractor' bond that saves both of them — and draws them into a conflict far larger than Keita understood.
by Yabako Sandrovich / Daromeon
Yu's review of Kengan Omega — the sequel to Kengan Ashura; two years after the Kengan Annihilation Tournament, the underground gladiator world faces a new threat from the Purgatory organization; Narushima Koga, a dedicated but outmatched young fighter, fights his way into this world as the stakes grow larger than the previous generation understood.
by Yozaburo Kanari / Fumiya Sato
Yu's review of The Kindaichi Case Files — Hajime Kindaichi is a lazy underachiever who is also a genius detective when murder presents itself; his grandmother's rival's grandson pursues him; the series follows his investigations through elaborate locked-room mysteries and impossible crime scenarios.
by Sho Aimoto
Yu's review of Kemono Jihen — Kabane is a half-Kemono (supernatural monster-human) boy who was mistreated by his relatives; he is discovered by Kohachi Inugami, who runs a Tokyo detective agency investigating supernatural Kemono cases; Kabane joins and learns what he is.
by Yabako Sandrovich / Daromeon
Yu's review of Kengan Ashura — since ancient times, Japanese corporations have resolved business conflicts with gladiatorial combat; Ouma Tokita, the Ashura, is the fighter hired by Nogi Hideki to fight his way through a tournament that will determine who controls the Kengan Association.
by Touya Mikanagi
Yu's review of Karneval — Nai is searching for someone who left him only a bracelet; Gareki is a thief who gets caught up in Nai's search; together they encounter Circus, the government's elite agency tasked with combating the criminal organization Kafka, and their lives change completely.
by Yellow Tanabe
Yu's review of Kekkaishi — Yoshimori Sumimura and Tokine Yukimura are rival kekkaishi from neighboring families, both tasked with protecting the Karasumori school grounds from demons; the land amplifies supernatural power, which means every ayakashi that enters becomes an immediate threat.
by Naoya Matsumoto
Yu's review of Kaiju No. 8 — Kafka Hibino, a 32-year-old kaiju cleanup worker who failed his dream of joining the Defense Force, gets a second chance when a small kaiju enters his body and gives him the power to transform.
by Yashichiro Takahashi
Yu's review of Kamisama Dolls — Kyohei Kuga left his rural village and its tradition of Seki (Doll masters who control ancient wooden god-machines called Kakashi) to start a new life in Tokyo; when a murder occurs connected to his village, his sister Utao arrives with her Kakashi Kukuri, and the village's dark history follows him.
by Hirohiko Araki
Yu's review of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure — a generational saga following the Joestar bloodline across centuries and continents, each story featuring a new JoJo facing supernatural evil with increasingly creative and bizarre combat abilities.
by Gege Akutami
A review of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 — 1 volume in Jump GIGA. Yuta Okkotsu is haunted by the cursed spirit of his childhood sweetheart Rika; Satoru Gojo recruits him into Jujutsu High; the prequel that makes the main JJK series richer. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Shinichi Kimura / Sacchi
Yu's review of Is This a Zombie? — Ayumu Aikawa was murdered and resurrected as a zombie by a necromancer named Eucliwood; when he accidentally absorbs the powers of a magical garment girl (masou shoujo) named Haruna, he finds himself fighting monsters in her place — in her outfit.
by Yuji Kaku
Gabimaru the Hollow is a legendary Iwagakure shinobi awaiting execution. The Edo period government offers him a deal: travel to a mysterious island in search of the elixir of immortality, and earn his freedom. The island is paradise. The island is also hell. Yuji Kaku's 13-volume manga ran 2018–2021 in Shonen Jump+, with a 2023 MAPPA anime adaptation and 2026 second season. Complete in English from VIZ.
by Takashi Nagasaki / Seima Itoh
Yu's review of Inspector Kurokochi — Keishi Kurokochi is a police inspector who is deeply, openly corrupt; his partner Seike is an idealist; together they solve cases that the normal police apparatus won't or can't touch; Seima Itoh's police manga about effective but morally compromised law enforcement.
by Rumiko Takahashi
Yu's review of InuYasha — a modern high school girl falls through a well into feudal Japan, meets a half-demon with dog ears, and must help collect the shards of a shattered magical jewel before an evil villain uses them to destroy everything.
by Kaori Ozaki
Yu's review of Immortal Rain — Machika Balfaltin wants to collect the bounty on Methuselah, the most wanted criminal in the world, who cannot die; when she finds him, she discovers he is gentle, melancholy, and exhausted by 600 years of existence; the series explores what immortality costs and what death means to someone who cannot experience it.
by Shuichi Shigeno
Yu's review of Initial D — Takumi Fujiwara has been delivering tofu for his father up and down the mountain roads of Akina since he was a child; without knowing it, he has become Japan's most technically precise drift racer; the discovery of this fact is the beginning of the story.
by Yuji Shiozaki
Yu's review of Ikki Tousen — high school students in the Kanto region carry the fighting spirits (magatama) of Three Kingdoms warriors from Chinese history; they are compelled to fight for territorial dominance just as their historical counterparts did; Hakufu Sonsaku carries the spirit of Sun Ce and is extraordinarily powerful.
by Naoki Yamakawa / Akinari Nao
Yu's review of I'm Standing on a Million Lives — Yusuke Yotsuya and a group of classmates are transported to a fantasy world by a mysterious Game Master and given quests to complete; failure means death; Yotsuya is an antisocial protagonist who approaches the situation with cold analysis rather than heroism.
by Kaoru Shintani
A review of Young Miss Holmes, the manga about Christie Holmes — Sherlock's clever niece — who solves mysteries in Victorian London.
by Syun Matsuena
Yu's review of History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi — Kenichi Shirahama is the weakest student at his school until he joins Ryōzanpaku dojo, where six masters of different martial arts disciplines agree to train him simultaneously.
by Yoshihiro Togashi
Yu's review of Hunter x Hunter — 37 volumes of the most intelligent action manga ever written, from the creator of Yu Yu Hakusho. A series that keeps reinventing itself and never stops being the best thing it possibly can be, when it's being published.
by Nanaki Nanao
A review of Helck — 13 volumes in Shōnen Sunday S. A tournament is held to find the next Demon King; Helck, the most powerful human hero, arrives and enters claiming he wants to destroy humanity; demon captain Vermilio tries to expose him as a spy while he proves consistently, genuinely helpful. A fantasy comedy that earns its transition into something serious. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Takahiro / Strelka
Yu's review of Hinowa ga CRUSH! — set in a feudal Japan-inspired world, young warrior Hinowa fights alongside the skilled fighter Akame — yes, that Akame — in a land divided between the nation of Soukai and the conquering empire of Tenrou; the series chronicles the resistance against occupation with the same willingness to kill its characters that defined Akame ga Kill.
by Kenichi Sonoda
Yu's review of Gunsmith Cats — Rally Vincent and Minnie-May Hopkins run a gun shop in Chicago and work as bounty hunters; Rally is a firearms expert; Minnie-May specializes in explosives; Kenichi Sonoda's action manga about two women operating in the criminal underworld with serious gun research behind every page.
by Akihiro Ononaka
Yu's review of Gushing over Magical Girls — Hiiragi Utena is obsessed with magical girls; she is recruited by Enorme, a dark organization, and given a magical form — but her power manifests as villainy rather than heroism; she discovers she genuinely enjoys defeating and dominating the magical girls she used to idolize.
by Yasuhiro Nightow
Yu's review of Gungrave — the manga adaptation of Nightow's acclaimed game, following a hitman's loyalty, betrayal, and supernatural resurrection for revenge.
by Yu Aida
Yu's review of Gunslinger Girl — the Social Welfare Agency of Italy rescues girls from terminal illness or traumatic situations and gives them cybernetic bodies and psychological conditioning; each girl is paired with a handler and used for government counter-terrorism work; the series examines what this costs them.
by Toru Fujisawa
Yu's review of GTO: Paradise Lost — Eikichi Onizuka, the Great Teacher, returns in a new setting: Morinomiya Academy, an elite preparatory school where the students include children of politicians, celebrities, and organized crime — a different kind of problem classroom for Onizuka to bulldoze through.
by Tohru Fujisawa
Yu's review of GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka — Eikichi Onizuka is a 22-year-old former gang leader and virgin who becomes a middle school teacher at an elite private school; what he lacks in academic credentials he compensates for with an absolute refusal to give up on any student.
by Souichi Ikeda
Yu's review of Grenadier — Rushuna Tendo is an extraordinarily skilled gunslinger traveling feudal Japan with the goal of creating world peace through her Enlightenment Strategy — embracing defeated enemies so warmly they have no wish to fight; her shooting skill is matched only by her cheerful determination to hug everyone into peace.
by Toru Fujisawa
Yu's review of GTO: The Early Years — Eikichi Onizuka is a high school delinquent in Shonan with his best friend Ryuji Danma; they're not yet teachers, just two teenagers who want to be with beautiful women and occasionally beat up yakuza; Toru Fujisawa's prequel to GTO that follows Onizuka's wild youth before teaching made him great.
by Saito Takao
Yu's review of Golgo 13 — Duke Togo, codenamed Golgo 13, is the world's most professional and most feared assassin; the series follows individual contracts across international locations, with Golgo as an almost supernatural constant in a world of political intrigue, corporate corruption, and Cold War geopolitics; manga's longest-running action series and one of its most influential.
by Yoshiaki Sukeno
Yu's review of Good Luck Girl! — Ichiko Sakura has so much luck that she unconsciously drains it from the people around her; Momiji, a Poverty God, is sent to drain Ichiko's excess luck and restore the balance; the problem is that Ichiko is extremely difficult to handle.
by Satoru Noda
A review of Golden Kamuy — 31 volumes in Weekly Young Jump. Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto teams up with Ainu girl Asirpa to hunt escaped convicts whose tattooed skin holds the key to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, while the Imperial Army hunts them both. One of manga's great historical adventures. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Yuya Aoki / Rando Ayamine
Yu's review of GetBackers — Ban Mido and Ginji Amano run a recovery service out of a rundown car; they retrieve anything that has been taken; their 100% success rate is maintained through supernatural abilities including Ban's Evil Eye and Ginji's lightning generation.
by Hideaki Sorachi
A review of Gintama — 77 volumes in Weekly Shonen Jump. Gintoki Sakata runs an odd-jobs business in an alternate Edo Japan where aliens conquered the country and samurai are forbidden to carry swords. The funniest manga ever made, hiding some of the most devastating serious arcs in the genre. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Hiromu Arakawa
A review of Fullmetal Alchemist — 27 volumes in Monthly Shonen Gangan. Edward and Alphonse Elric commit the taboo of human transmutation trying to revive their mother; what follows is 27 volumes with zero wasted chapters about two brothers trying to fix a terrible mistake — widely considered the best-written manga ever made. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Yosuke Nakamaru
Yu's review of Gamaran — Gama Kurogane, son of Japan's greatest swordsman, is recruited to help a young lord win a martial arts tournament; against schools representing every style of Japanese combat, Gama's natural genius and the mysterious Ogame style are tested against opponents who may be his equal.
by Yuzo Takada
Yakumo dies protecting a three-eyed immortal girl — and she binds his soul to hers so he can't stay dead. A 15-year urban-fantasy epic about wanting to be ordinary.
by Dall-Young Lim & Kwang-Hyun Kim
Yu's review of Freezing — In a world repeatedly invaded by alien entities called Nova, specially engineered female soldiers called Pandoras and their male partners called Limiters fight humanity's defensive war; Kazuya Aoi enrolls at West Genetics academy and partners with the untouchable strongest student Satellizer el Bridget.
by Nobuyuki Anzai
Yu's review of Flame of Recca — a high school boy obsessed with ninjas discovers he can summon fire and is actually an heir of the ancient Hokage flame ninja clan, pulling him into a battle with a deathless villain who wants to use the power of flames to achieve immortality.
by Yuto Tsukuda (story) / Shun Saeki (art)
Yu's review of Food Wars! — Soma Yukihira is a brash country diner cook who enrolls in the elite Totsuki Culinary Academy, where only 10% of students graduate; cooking duels (shokugeki) determine rank and survival; Soma wants to beat everyone and prove that honest home cooking can stand with the world's finest cuisine.
by Tetsuo Hara / Nobu Horie
Yu's review of Fist of the Blue Sky — set in 1930s Shanghai, Kasumi Kenshiro is the 62nd grandmaster of Hokuto Shinken — the legendary martial art that will later define Fist of the North Star; he navigates the criminal underworld of pre-war Shanghai while protecting the weak with the deadliest fighting system ever devised.
by Buronson / Tetsuo Hara
A review of Fist of the North Star — 27 volumes in Weekly Shonen Jump. In a nuclear wasteland, Kenshiro masters of Hokuto Shinken wanders the badlands protecting survivors; the manga that defined post-apocalyptic martial arts action and whose Raoh arc is one of shonen manga's greatest villain arcs. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Hiro Mashima
Yu's review of Fairy Tail — a celestial spirit mage joins the most destructive (and most tight-knit) guild in the kingdom, and together they save the world repeatedly through the power of friendship and overwhelming magic.
by Atsushi Ohkubo
Yu's review of Fire Force — Shinra Kusakabe, a pyrokinetic firefighter with devil feet who can ignite flames from his feet, joins Special Fire Force Company 8 to find the truth behind his mother's death and the phenomenon that turns humans into living flames.
by Rikdo Koshi
Yu's review of Excel Saga — Excel is a fanatically devoted agent of ACROSS, an organization led by the magnificently incompetent Lord Il Palazzo whose goal is world domination; she is paired with Hyatt, who dies regularly; together they fail to conquer their assigned sector of Japan with maximum enthusiasm.
by Hiro Mashima / Atsuo Ueda
Yu's review of Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest — the direct sequel to Fairy Tail sends Natsu and Team Natsu on a quest that has gone uncompleted for 100 years, involving five Dragon Gods whose power exceeds anything they've previously faced; this is Fairy Tail continuing with the same team, same energy, and new antagonists.
by Ryohgo Narita / Akiyo Satorigi
Yu's review of Durarara!! — Mikado Ryugamine moves to Ikebukuro and finds himself in a city of gangs, urban legends, an information broker who knows everything, a bartender who throws vending machines, and a headless Irish fairy riding a black motorcycle through Shinjuku traffic.
by Mayumi Azuma
Yu's review of Elemental Gelade — Coud Van Giruet, a sky pirate, discovers Ren in his ship's cargo — a girl who is actually an Edel Raid, a living weapon who bonds with a human partner called a Pledger; rather than selling her, he promises to take her to Edel Garden, a sanctuary for Edel Raids, and the journey structures the series.
by Ken-ichi Sakura
Yu's review of Dragon Drive — Reiji Ozora is a lazy boy who quits everything; when his childhood friend drags him into a VR game where players fight with dragons, his assigned dragon looks weak and useless — but Chibi turns out to be something much more significant.
by Kouta Hirano
Yu's review of Drifters — great warriors from throughout human history — Shimazu Toyohisa, Oda Nobunaga, Nasu no Yoichi — are transported at the moment of their deaths to a fantasy world by mysterious bureaucrats; they are called Drifters; a parallel group called the Ends are transported figures who were killed by betrayal and seek to destroy humanity; the two sides are at war.
by Akira Toriyama / Toyotaro
Yu's review of Dragon Ball Super — the official sequel to Dragon Ball Z, with story by Akira Toriyama and art by Toyotaro; following the defeat of Majin Buu, Goku and Vegeta face new threats including the God of Destruction Beerus, the multiverse tournament, and villains from other universes.
by Akira Toriyama
A review of Dragon Ball — 42 volumes in Weekly Shonen Jump. Son Goku's journey from a boy in the wilderness to the strongest being in the universe — the manga that defined what shonen action could be and that every battle manga since has owed something to. VIZ Media's English edition is complete.
by Akira Toriyama
Yu's review of Dr. Slump — Senbei Norimaki is a not-very-good inventor who creates the perfect android girl, Arale, who is stronger than any human, has perfect vision but is terribly nearsighted without her glasses, and has the complete absence of self-preservation instinct that characterizes someone who cannot be hurt.
by Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi
Yu's review of Dr. Stone — Senku Ishigami, a scientific genius, wakes from a millennia-long stone petrification to find human civilization erased; he decides to use science to rebuild everything humanity ever created, starting from zero.
by Osamu Tezuka
Yu's review of Dororo — a 4-volume Osamu Tezuka classic about a boy whose body was traded to 48 demons before birth, now fighting to reclaim his parts. Dark, strange, and essential reading from the God of Manga.
by Komi Naoshi
A comprehensive review of Double Arts — plot, characters, art style, and whether it's worth reading.
by Koyoharu Gotouge
Yu's review of Demon Slayer — 23 volumes, breathtaking art, and a story about a boy who shows kindness even to the monsters who destroyed his family. One of the most beautiful and brutal manga ever made.
by Shirow Miwa
Yu's review of Dogs: Bullets & Carnage — four individuals with violent pasts navigate an underground city built on human experimentation; Heine is a modified human who heals from anything; Badou is a chain-smoking information broker; their paths converge in the depths below the city; Shirow Miwa's action manga about the price of survival.
by Go Nagai
Nagai retells the myth of Susanoo, the storm god, in his usual maximalist horror-action mode.
by Yukinobu Tatsu
Yu's review of Dandadan — Momo believes in ghosts, Ken believes in aliens, and they make a deal to test each other's beliefs; both get immediately proven wrong and right simultaneously, and a bizarre supernatural romance begins.
by Kazuo Koike / Ryoichi Ikegami
Yu's review of Crying Freeman — Yo Hinomura is a Japanese potter brainwashed into becoming the world's greatest assassin for the Chinese crime syndicate 108 Dragons; he cannot resist the compulsion to kill, but weeps after each killing because he retains his soul; a woman who witnesses his first assassination and falls in love with him changes his life within the organization.
by Katsura Hoshino
Yu's review of D.Gray-man — a young exorcist with a cursed arm fights parasitic demons called Akuma in a 19th-century world, working for a secret church organization against the Millennium Earl who creates the Akuma from human grief.
by Norihiro Yagi
Yu's review of Claymore — half-human, half-Yoma warriors called Claymores hunt the shape-shifting demons that prey on humanity, struggling against the monster within themselves as much as the ones outside.
by Akimine Kamijyo
Yu's review of Code:Breaker — a high school girl witnesses a boy burn people alive with blue flame and realizes he is a Code:Breaker, a government agent authorized to kill using supernatural powers.
by Daisuke Moriyama
Yu's review of Chrono Crusade — Sister Rosette Christopher of the Magdalene Order partners with Chrono, a devil bound to her soul, to battle demonic threats across 1920s America while searching for her missing brother Joshua.
by Syougo Kinugasa / Yuyu Ichino
Yu's review of Classroom of the Elite — the government's most elite school gives students full freedom and unlimited privileges, with one rule: only results matter; Class D is full of misfits and rejects; Kiyotaka Ayanokoji appears to be an ordinary student of no particular ability; he is not; the series follows the class's struggle to rise through the school's brutal social hierarchy.
by Sui Ishida
Yu's review of Choujin X — Tokyo Ghoul creator Sui Ishida's new series: in a world where some humans transform into 'Choujin' — superhuman beings with terrifying abilities — Tokio injects himself with a Choujin syringe to save his best friend, and both of them enter a new world.
by Yashu / Nini
Yu's review of Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World — Cain von Silford is reborn as the third son of a count in a fantasy world; unlike most reincarnated nobles who get complacent, Cain works to actually understand his world, master both magic and swordfighting, and build something his family and territory can be proud of.
by Gosho Aoyama
Yu's review of Case Closed (Detective Conan) — Shinichi Kudo is a teen genius detective who is given a poison by a criminal organization and shrunk to elementary school age; he lives with his childhood friend's family using a fake identity as Conan Edogawa; every volume contains multiple murder mysteries he must solve while hiding who he is.
by Takahiro / Yohei Takemura
Yu's review of Chained Soldier — Yuuki Wakura wanders into the demon world, Mato, and is rescued by Kyouka Uzen, the seventh unit captain of a demon-slaying organization; to escape Mato, he must become her slave, granting him a superpower that grows stronger the more he serves her needs; they form an unusual partnership.
by Hiroshi Fukuda
A review of Mushibugyo, the Edo-period action manga about a group of elite bug hunters defending Edo from giant insects — bigger heart than premise suggests.
by Yoshinobu Yamada
Yu's review of Cage of Eden — high school student Akira Sengoku survives a plane crash with his classmates and finds himself on an island populated entirely by animals that should be extinct; the survivors must find out where they are, why this is happening, and how to survive long enough to get home.
by Kotoyama
Yu's review of Call of the Night — Ko Yamori cannot sleep; unable to feel anything during the day, he starts sneaking out at night and discovers that he actually belongs in the night; when he meets Nazuna, a vampire who drinks blood from sleeping humans, he asks her to turn him into a vampire — but the only way to become one is to fall in love.
by Nobuhiro Watsuki
Yu's review of Busou Renkin — a boy is killed by a homunculus and revived by an alchemist warrior using a kakugane medallion; he joins the fight against the creatures threatening humanity.
by Kafka Asagiri / Sango Harukawa
Yu's review of Bungou Stray Dogs — Atsushi Nakajima, orphan with an unknown power, is recruited by the Armed Detective Agency whose members all have abilities named after famous authors; the agency operates in Yokohama alongside the Port Mafia and international organizations in a city where ability users shape every conflict.
by Tite Kubo
Yu's review of Burn the Witch — Tite Kubo's Bleach spinoff set in Western Branch, where two witch agents hunt dragons in a hidden version of London.
by Yunosuke Yoshinaga
A comprehensive review of Broken Blade — plot, characters, art style, and whether it's worth reading.
by Masashi Kishimoto / Mikio Ikemoto
Yu's review of Boruto — Boruto Uzumaki is the son of the Seventh Hokage; he resents the attention his father gets as a legend; his generation faces threats the previous one could not have imagined, including enemies from outside the world the Ninja War established.
by Kairi Shimotsuki
Yu's review of Brave 10 — Saizo Kirigakure is a wandering ninja who encounters Isanami, a shrine maiden, in Sengoku-era Japan; he brings her to Yukimura Sanada; Yukimura is assembling ten legendary warriors called the Sanada Ten Braves; Kairi Shimotsuki's historical action manga about the legendary Sengoku warrior collection.
by Ryou Ryumon / Kouji Megumi
Yu's review of Bloody Monday — Fujimaru Takagi is a genius high school hacker whose father works for a government intelligence organization; when a terrorist group plans to release a deadly virus on New Year's Day, Fujimaru is pulled into a race to stop them using his hacking abilities.
by Kazue Kato
Yu's review of Blue Exorcist — the story of Rin Okumura, son of Satan, who enrolls in an academy to become an exorcist and fight against his own father. A manga about choosing who you are despite where you came from.
by Tite Kubo
Yu's review of Bleach — 74 volumes of the most stylish, visually stunning manga ever serialized in Shonen Jump. The story is wild and sometimes uneven, but the aesthetic, the fights, and the characters are unforgettable.
by Yuuki Kodama
Yu's review of Blood Lad — Staz Charlie Blood is a vampire territory boss in the demon world who is obsessed with Japanese anime, manga, and games; when a human girl named Fuyumi accidentally wanders into his territory and is killed by a plant monster, he promises to resurrect her — partly out of guilt, mostly because she's from Japan.
by Hiroaki Samura
Yu's review of Blade of the Immortal — Manji is a ronin cursed with immortality by sacred bloodworms; to end the curse he must kill a thousand evil men, and he agrees to protect Rin Asano, a girl whose family was destroyed by the Itto-ryu sword school led by Anotsu Kagehisa. Hiroaki Samura's nineteen-year masterpiece, complete in 31 volumes from Dark Horse.
by Yuki Tabata
Yu's review of Black Clover — in a world where everyone is born with magic, Asta has none. He screams, he trains, he picks up two anti-magic swords, and he refuses to stop running toward the throne.
by Rei Hiroe
Yu's review of Black Lagoon by Rei Hiroe — Rokuro 'Rock' Okajima, a Tokyo salaryman, is taken hostage by the mercenary crew of the torpedo boat Black Lagoon; when his company writes him off rather than pay ransom, he joins them in the lawless Thai port city of Roanapur.
by Yellow Tanabe
Yu's review of Birdmen by Yellow Tanabe — Eishi Karasuma and three classmates survive a bus crash because a winged classmate, Takayama, shares his blood with them. They wake up as Seraphs who can grow wings, and slowly learn that the gift may cost them the part of themselves that is still human.
by Kentaro Yabuki
Yu's review of Black Cat — Train Heartnet, Chronos's Number XIII, abandons the world's most feared assassin organization after a sweeper named Saya teaches him what it means to live freely.
by Ryuhei Tamura
Yu's review of Beelzebub — the toughest delinquent at the most violent school in Japan pulls a man out of a river, the man splits open, and a naked demon baby crawls out and decides Oga is his dad. A comedy with a real heart underneath the fighting.
by Riku Sanjo (story) / Koji Inada (art)
Yu's review of Beet the Vandel Buster — by the Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai duo Riku Sanjo and Koji Inada. The world is in a Dark Age ruled by Vandels, and the five legendary Zenon Warriors give up their lives to pour their souls into their Saiga weapons and save a dying boy named Beet. He inherits all five weapons, and the dream of ending the Dark Age, from heroes he can never thank.
by Paru Itagaki
Yu's review of Beastars — In a society of anthropomorphic animals where carnivores and herbivores live side by side, Legoshi is a gray wolf who is afraid of what he is. After a classmate is killed and eaten, he is pulled toward Haru, a tiny dwarf rabbit, and has to decide what kind of animal he wants to become.
by Akimi Yoshida
Yu's review of Banana Fish — Ash Lynx is a seventeen-year-old gang boss in 1980s New York whose life collides with Eiji Okumura, a gentle Japanese photographer's assistant, when a dying man whispers the words 'Banana Fish.' Akimi Yoshida's 19-volume crime epic about a mind-control drug, the men who own the streets, and the one connection that almost saved a boy built only to kill.
by Yumi Tamura
Yu's review of Basara — in a post-apocalyptic desert Japan ruled by the Golden Emperor and his sons, a prophecy names the twin Tatara as the child of destiny. When Tatara is killed, his sister Sarasa cuts her hair, takes his name, and leads the rebellion — then falls in love with a stranger at a hot spring who turns out to be the Red King who destroyed her village.
by Kentaro Yabuki
Yu's review of Ayakashi Triangle — Matsuri Kazamaki is a wind-style exorcist ninja cursed into a girl's body by the ayakashi king Shirogane, who hopes the change will ruin Matsuri's chance with childhood friend Suzu. A 16-volume action comedy by Kentaro Yabuki that ends somewhere genuinely surprising.
by Gun Snark (story) / Hikaru Suruga (art)
A review of Attack on Titan: No Regrets — 2 volumes, the origin story of Levi Ackermann from underground criminal to Survey Corps soldier. Gun Snark story, Hikaru Suruga art. Kodansha USA's English edition is complete.
by Hajime Isayama
Yu's review of Attack on Titan — a manga that starts as a monster story behind three walls and ends as a story about inherited hatred, genocide, and one boy who tried to drown the world. Brutal, brilliant, unforgettable.
by Saki Nakagawa (original by Hajime Isayama)
Yu's review of Attack on Titan: Junior High — Saki Nakagawa's official comedy spin-off where Eren, Mikasa, and the Scouts are middle schoolers who share a campus with the Titans. Eren's lost cheeseburger replaces his lost mother, Levi rules a secret club with a paper fan, and every dark beat of the main series gets rebuilt as a school-life gag.
by Hiroshi Seko (original novel), Ryosuke Fuji (art), Hajime Isayama (creator)
Yu's review of Attack on Titan: Lost Girls — Ryosuke Fuji's two-volume manga of Hiroshi Seko's spin-off novel. Annie's detective story 'Wall Sina, Goodbye' and Mikasa's alternate-world dream 'Lost in the Cruel World,' two girls lost in different ways.
by Yusei Matsui
Yu's review of Assassination Classroom — 21 volumes about a class of underachievers assigned to kill their alien teacher before he destroys the Earth. The funniest manga about murder, and the most moving manga about being seen by a teacher who refused to write you off.
by Satoshi Shiki (art), Ryo Suzukaze (original novel), Hajime Isayama (original concept)
Yu's review of Attack on Titan: Before the Fall — set seventy years before the main series, this prequel follows Kuklo, a boy born from a Titan's stomach, and the invention of the vertical maneuvering equipment in an era when killing even one Titan was thought impossible.
by Chūgaku Akamatsu (story), Yoshino Koyoka (art)
Yu's review of the Aria the Scarlet Ammo manga (art by Yoshino Koyoka, story by Chūgaku Akamatsu) — at Tokyo Butei High, where students train to be armed detectives, a boy who deliberately seals away his combat superpower is forced into a partnership by Aria H. Kanzaki, a tiny, furious descendant of Sherlock Holmes.
by Kyoichi Nanatsuki / Ryoji Minagawa
Yu's review of Project ARMS (ARMS) by Kyoichi Nanatsuki and Ryoji Minagawa — four teenagers carry nanomachine weapons named after Alice in Wonderland grafted into their bodies. Ryo's right arm hides the Jabberwock, an artificial intelligence built from Black Alice's hatred that takes over when he loses control. A 22-volume Weekly Shonen Sunday sci-fi thriller, fully available in English from Viz Media.
by Takahiro Arai
Yu's review of Arago — Takahiro Arai's 9-volume Shonen Sunday series about Arago Hunt, a London man who loses his twin brother Ewan to the body-harvesting killer Patchman, inherits his brother's arm and the decaying Brionac power, and joins the Metropolitan Police to hunt the supernatural Four Horsemen.
by Yuu Watase
A comprehensive review of Arata: The Legend — the body-swap shonen by Fushigi Yugi's Yuu Watase, where the hero conquers enemies by earning their trust instead of crushing them.
by Norihiro Yagi
Seiichiro Kitano has the face of a demon. He also has the heart of an angel. He moves to a Tokyo high school known for its delinquent culture, where every kind act he performs is misread as the terrifying intimidation of a new unstoppable boss. Norihiro Yagi's 1993–2000 Monthly Shonen Jump manga (15 volumes) is one of the great misunderstanding-comedies in manga. Unlicensed in English — Yagi's later work Claymore is his English-licensed major series.
by NAOE
Yu's review of Aoharu x Machinegun — Hotaru Tachibana is a justice-obsessed student council president who is pulled into airsoft survival games by host Masamune Matsuoka, joining his team Toy Gun Gun while hiding that she's a girl. A character study about abandonment, found family, and competition.
by Takahiro (story) / Tetsuya Tashiro (art)
Yu's review of Akame ga Kill! — a country boy joins Night Raid, an assassin cell fighting a rotting empire, in a 15-volume manga that kills off the people you love and means it every single time.
by Oh! Great
Yu's review of Air Gear — Oh! Great's motorized-skate epic where a delinquent named Ikki chases the feeling of flight, climbing a world of eight Kings, stolen Regalia, and a mentor who betrays him.
by Yuki Amemiya / Yukino Ichihara
Yu's review of 07-Ghost — Teito Klein, a former combat slave at a military academy, learns he is the lost prince of the destroyed Raggs Kingdom and the human vessel of the sealed death god Verloren. He flees to a church sanctuary protected by three bishops who are secretly the legendary Ghosts.
by Mitsu Izumi
Yu's review of 7th Garden — Awyn Gardner, a humble gardener, awakens a demon called Vyrde and contracts with her after Holy Knights burn his village. Together they wage war on the angels who secretly rule humanity, in a dark fantasy by Mitsu Izumi that VIZ published in full but that stopped on indefinite hiatus after 8 volumes.