Punched every title mentioned in this thread into MyAnimeList. Speaks volumes that almost all of them crack the top 200.
Honestly, anything above 200 will be worth the read if you have the time and patience. Anime fans should find lots of familiar faces in that territory: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, One Piece, Tokyo Ghoul, Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, Berserk, Dragon Ball, Pandora Hearts, Hunter x Hunter, Bakuman, to name just mentioned examples.
I'm more of an anime fan but I tend to pick up a few manga if I like the anime adaptation. Some of my favorites are Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Made in Abyss, and Hinamatsuri.
In what sense hasn't it been in the top 20? The manga is the 3rd best selling comic in the world, bested by Superman and batman only. I started watching one piece about 7 years ago and binged the entire anime over the summer, back when the anime was in Punk Hazard. After getting caught up I started reading the manga and even reread all the parts I've already watched. IMO the manga is so much better, and i think its just that I dont think the anime is that great of an adaptation, even though i binged like 500 episodes lol
There are tons of extremely good manga/manhwa/manhua, hard to pick a clear favourite tbh. Ran to Haiiro no Sekai and Otoyomegatari are amazing if you like Slice of Life and appreciate an appealing artstyle. For romance Something About Us and Fluttering Feelings (both are manhwa) certainly rank among the very best imo with a more mature and thought-out plot/character development than most other romance manga. For drama I'd choose Takahiro Arai's manga adaptation of the famous Les Misérables, Osamu Tezuka's classic Hi no Tori and Kenji Tsuruta's fairly short novel adaptation of Omoide Emanon. For Action/adventure my picks probably would be Kingdom, Berserk and Historie (same author as Parasyte).
A lot of other great works have been mentioned already like Akira, Death Note, Vagabond and One Punch Man, they're also definitely worth reading.
I really enjoy FMA, Berserk, Claymore, One punch, Mahou Sensei Negima (i read this one 2x), Doubt, there are more but these are like the most remembered for me.
If you are into a mature, dark and gritty story with lots of gore and a lot nudity and the single best main character who feels more natural and realistic than some real persons, you should settle for One Piece. Just kidding, it's Berserk.
So Berserk is one of the people's favourite (also mine) it seems. but i would like to recommend also:
Gamaran, Feng Shen Ji, Kingdom, Boku no Hero Academy, Tokyo Ghoul, Ubel Blatt and also, for those who love Berserk, Priest manhwa (it isnt finished sadly)& Shin Angyo Onshi. Have a good time reading ;)
I've only finished Dragon Ball and liked that one a lot. Seven deadly sins is my favorite anime and I've read most of the first season of its manga as well, and it was pretty good. Haven't tried One piece or berserk so can't say about those.
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I've only finished Dragon Ball and liked that one a lot. Seven deadly sins is my favorite anime and I've read most of the first season of its manga as well, and it was pretty good. Haven't tried One piece or berserk so can't say about those.
I read/watched a good amount of manga/anime and always saw the country farmer boy with a straw hat and long arms and thought what idiotic manga that should be .... until i started, from curiosity, reading the manga and it is the only one i still read today. You are not going to regret it. I recommend reading it first and after that watching the anime.
You know, there is something slightly sad about the fact that when it comes to "best manga" discussions and all, it's always Seinen (or sometime pseudo Seinen that are in fact Shonen) manga that are advanced and shown as best taste and all. I do get it when the vast majority of people say bersek and vagabond, etc etc , because they ARE indeed great/good manga.. but it also shown in my opinion that most people stay in the demographic that is aim for them, and are not curious enought to try other departement like shojo manga for exemple.
I think it's a problem, because personaly , I think staying in a confort demographic/genre zone only offer a narrow view of all the possibilities that manga can offer. One way to really realize that is when you actually go to japan and you see how much, in fact, the seinen/shonen manga that are by far the most praised, consumed and published manga in foreign country are in reality the minority when it comes to number in japan. Shojo manga litteraly crush them in term of publication and have such a wider range of thematic of genre you would usualy think. For one reason or another, all the shojo manga that are published outside of japan are 99% of the time school romance thing, and they are usually of low quality = this result in a depreciation of the departement as being filled with cliche and uninteresting tropes and all, when, in fact, and I assure you I'm not joking, the most psychologicaly violent and "hard to shallow" works I have read in my manga explorations were definitly shojo works. It really amuse me to see so much people talking about Berserk as being the most dark and mature manga that ever existed and using as reference, because, as funny as it sound, it's in shojo manga that there is the most death of important protagonist, suicide, rape, lethal accident, murder, etc.. All those things are actually super common in "true" shojo manga. And the funniest thing is that for a lot of them those story are intended to be read for young girls, not even adolescent let alone adults.
All that to say, that there is some huge misconception in the west about manga demographics, because we can actually only read the emerged part of the iceberg consisting of works that are supposed to appeal to us, and so are the only one published in other language. Why do you think the most interesting shojo manga are not published for us ? It's because in a sexist way to think, we would consider those works to be too graphically stange or "out of confort zone" and psychologically hard/difficult/violent for woman to enjoy. And so, most girl and woman that are invested and curious about manga as a form of art have to read Seinen works to escape the mellow insipid and graphicaly blank romance that are published for them. Really makes you think.
... I'm not even sure myself why I made this wall of text to defend shojo manga as it's not even my departement of predilection since like most people that posted here, I'm most interested in seinen works, but I guess all that bugged me too much and I had to get it out of my mind. haha
By the way, my personal and subjective trinity of best manga author are Inio Asano (Oyasumi Punpun/Umibe no Onnanoko) , Taiyou Matsumoto (Sunny/Gogo monster) and Kazuo Kamimura (Kantou Heiya/Dousei Jidai/Rikon club).
Edit: I think I should give some dark/mature/psychological/graphically inventive shojo manga exemple to back up what I said, before I might be asked to - Zankoku na kami ga shihai suru (and other works my Moto Hagio in general) , Banana Fish (currently being adapted in anime) , ES: eternal Sabbath (would recommend for people that like the famous manga "Monster" by Urasawa) , Kaoru Fujiwara's one shot manga (not one in particular, they are all very morbid) , Copernicus no Kokyuu (and the other yaoi rape fetish things the author like to make.. not my type of things to be honest).. and then I could give good shojo drama, but I'll stay with the more "dark" ones to show my points.
Berserk is the only one I've read.
As for anime, again, not seen much, but Parayste was great.
I never read manga, it is not my thing but anime:
Death Note, One Punch Man and Parasite The Maxim.
If you aren't reading, or haven't read Berserk, Battle Royale or Akira, you're not ready to talk to me about good manga.
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Punched every title mentioned in this thread into MyAnimeList. Speaks volumes that almost all of them crack the top 200.
Honestly, anything above 200 will be worth the read if you have the time and patience. Anime fans should find lots of familiar faces in that territory: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, One Piece, Tokyo Ghoul, Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, Berserk, Dragon Ball, Pandora Hearts, Hunter x Hunter, Bakuman, to name just mentioned examples.
I'm more of an anime fan but I tend to pick up a few manga if I like the anime adaptation. Some of my favorites are Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Made in Abyss, and Hinamatsuri.
I Couldn't Read all of them because Boomsday Launch :)
I will read them all to Have perfect idea to discuss about them .
Dragon Ball Z still my all time favourite, not overextending the story and always fresh.
In what sense hasn't it been in the top 20? The manga is the 3rd best selling comic in the world, bested by Superman and batman only. I started watching one piece about 7 years ago and binged the entire anime over the summer, back when the anime was in Punk Hazard. After getting caught up I started reading the manga and even reread all the parts I've already watched. IMO the manga is so much better, and i think its just that I dont think the anime is that great of an adaptation, even though i binged like 500 episodes lol
Death Note and Berserk are tops.
Been watching the Overlord anime. I don't understand why I like it but it's addictive.
There are tons of extremely good manga/manhwa/manhua, hard to pick a clear favourite tbh. Ran to Haiiro no Sekai and Otoyomegatari are amazing if you like Slice of Life and appreciate an appealing artstyle. For romance Something About Us and Fluttering Feelings (both are manhwa) certainly rank among the very best imo with a more mature and thought-out plot/character development than most other romance manga. For drama I'd choose Takahiro Arai's manga adaptation of the famous Les Misérables, Osamu Tezuka's classic Hi no Tori and Kenji Tsuruta's fairly short novel adaptation of Omoide Emanon. For Action/adventure my picks probably would be Kingdom, Berserk and Historie (same author as Parasyte).
A lot of other great works have been mentioned already like Akira, Death Note, Vagabond and One Punch Man, they're also definitely worth reading.
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O yeah, perfect thread. And One Piece is totally the best manga. At least as shounen.
My top 3 are
3. Hellsing
2. JJBA
1. Berserk
Just came to say Berserk.
I really enjoy FMA, Berserk, Claymore, One punch, Mahou Sensei Negima (i read this one 2x), Doubt, there are more but these are like the most remembered for me.
If you are into a mature, dark and gritty story with lots of gore and a lot nudity and the single best main character who feels more natural and realistic than some real persons, you should settle for One Piece. Just kidding, it's Berserk.
So Berserk is one of the people's favourite (also mine) it seems. but i would like to recommend also:
Gamaran, Feng Shen Ji, Kingdom, Boku no Hero Academy, Tokyo Ghoul, Ubel Blatt and also, for those who love Berserk, Priest manhwa (it isnt finished sadly)& Shin Angyo Onshi. Have a good time reading ;)
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I've only finished Dragon Ball and liked that one a lot. Seven deadly sins is my favorite anime and I've read most of the first season of its manga as well, and it was pretty good. Haven't tried One piece or berserk so can't say about those.
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Is this thread still going? LOL
Since there are still people who do not know that berserk is the best
mangaDark fantasy story ever, you realise the quality of the story when:The anime's animation is like this:
While the fans are so passionate with the source material that have created this:
and this!(the video was actually made back in 2008 and was uploaded 3 years later!!!)
I read/watched a good amount of manga/anime and always saw the country farmer boy with a straw hat and long arms and thought what idiotic manga that should be .... until i started, from curiosity, reading the manga and it is the only one i still read today. You are not going to regret it. I recommend reading it first and after that watching the anime.
Why is the rum gone?
You know, there is something slightly sad about the fact that when it comes to "best manga" discussions and all, it's always Seinen (or sometime pseudo Seinen that are in fact Shonen) manga that are advanced and shown as best taste and all. I do get it when the vast majority of people say bersek and vagabond, etc etc , because they ARE indeed great/good manga.. but it also shown in my opinion that most people stay in the demographic that is aim for them, and are not curious enought to try other departement like shojo manga for exemple.
I think it's a problem, because personaly , I think staying in a confort demographic/genre zone only offer a narrow view of all the possibilities that manga can offer. One way to really realize that is when you actually go to japan and you see how much, in fact, the seinen/shonen manga that are by far the most praised, consumed and published manga in foreign country are in reality the minority when it comes to number in japan. Shojo manga litteraly crush them in term of publication and have such a wider range of thematic of genre you would usualy think. For one reason or another, all the shojo manga that are published outside of japan are 99% of the time school romance thing, and they are usually of low quality = this result in a depreciation of the departement as being filled with cliche and uninteresting tropes and all, when, in fact, and I assure you I'm not joking, the most psychologicaly violent and "hard to shallow" works I have read in my manga explorations were definitly shojo works. It really amuse me to see so much people talking about Berserk as being the most dark and mature manga that ever existed and using as reference, because, as funny as it sound, it's in shojo manga that there is the most death of important protagonist, suicide, rape, lethal accident, murder, etc.. All those things are actually super common in "true" shojo manga. And the funniest thing is that for a lot of them those story are intended to be read for young girls, not even adolescent let alone adults.
All that to say, that there is some huge misconception in the west about manga demographics, because we can actually only read the emerged part of the iceberg consisting of works that are supposed to appeal to us, and so are the only one published in other language. Why do you think the most interesting shojo manga are not published for us ? It's because in a sexist way to think, we would consider those works to be too graphically stange or "out of confort zone" and psychologically hard/difficult/violent for woman to enjoy. And so, most girl and woman that are invested and curious about manga as a form of art have to read Seinen works to escape the mellow insipid and graphicaly blank romance that are published for them. Really makes you think.
... I'm not even sure myself why I made this wall of text to defend shojo manga as it's not even my departement of predilection since like most people that posted here, I'm most interested in seinen works, but I guess all that bugged me too much and I had to get it out of my mind. haha
By the way, my personal and subjective trinity of best manga author are Inio Asano (Oyasumi Punpun/Umibe no Onnanoko) , Taiyou Matsumoto (Sunny/Gogo monster) and Kazuo Kamimura (Kantou Heiya/Dousei Jidai/Rikon club).
Edit: I think I should give some dark/mature/psychological/graphically inventive shojo manga exemple to back up what I said, before I might be asked to - Zankoku na kami ga shihai suru (and other works my Moto Hagio in general) , Banana Fish (currently being adapted in anime) , ES: eternal Sabbath (would recommend for people that like the famous manga "Monster" by Urasawa) , Kaoru Fujiwara's one shot manga (not one in particular, they are all very morbid) , Copernicus no Kokyuu (and the other yaoi rape fetish things the author like to make.. not my type of things to be honest).. and then I could give good shojo drama, but I'll stay with the more "dark" ones to show my points.