Manga is a Japanese comic or graphic novel that typically follows a specific style of art. This style of art has roots in Japanese history and can span a variety of genres, ranging from action and mystery to even romance and fantasy. Most manga also gets adapted into an anime – an animated Japanese film or television series. Today, let’s take a look at the top 10 manga of all time.
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Top 10 Manga of All Time | 10 Best Manga
- Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama
- Dragon Ball
- Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba
- Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
- Berserk
- Bleach
- Monster by Naoki Urasawa
- Naruto
- One Piece
- Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akutami
Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama
Attack on Titan is a widely popular manga that first published in the ‘Bessatsu Shounen Magazine’ in September 2009. The story, comprising a total of 34 volumes, continued for twelve years and finally came to an end in April 2021. The manga also got adapted into an anime, premiering on April 7, 2013. The production company for the final season, MAPPA, is set to air the end of Attack on Titan in 2023. The anime as well as the manga by Hajime Isayama has managed to garner a huge fan following all over the globe.
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball was first created by Akira Toriyama in 1984 and serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984-1995. The series follows the story of Son Goku, the show’s hero, from childhood to adulthood as he masters martial arts. Dragon Ball was inspired by the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West as well as Hong Kong martial arts films.
Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba
The Death Note manga was written by Tsugumi Ohba and features illustrations by Takeshi Obata. It was published in the ‘Weekly Shonen Jump’ magazine from December 2003 to May 2006. The story was also adapted into an anime series of the same name by Madhouse in October 2006.
Set in Tokyo, the story follows high-schooler Light Yagami who finds the ‘Death Note’, a black book. If the user writes a name in this book, it would kill them so long as the user knows both the name and the face of the person.
Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
Hiromu Arakawa’s Fullmetal Alchemist manga series was published in the Monthly Shonen Gangan Shonen Manga anthology magazine from July 2001 until June 2010. The story follows the Elric brothers – Edward and Alphonso – after an attempt to bring back their mother from the dead with Alchemy goes wrong. The series was adapted as an anime by studio Bones and premiered in October 2003. It consists of twenty-seven volumes.
Berserk
Guts, a lone mercenary, and Griffith, the leader of a band of mercenaries known as the “Band of the Hawk”, are the focus of this story set in a dark fantasy world inspired by middle age Europe. Miura debuted a prototype of Berserk in 1988, and the series began the next year in Hakusensha’s Monthly Animal House magazine. In 1992, Berserk switched to the semimonthly magazine Young Animal, where it has been published sporadically since then.
Bleach
The story of Bleach follows a young man named Ichigo Kurosaki, who takes on the responsibility of being a Soul Reaper from the previous one, Rukia Kuchiki. With this new duty, he becomes the protector of humans and spirits alike.