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Top 15 Short Manga Series of All Time

by YPB Team

Tight, complete, and unforgettable, these series prove you don't need a hundred volumes to leave a mark, swinging from cosmic horror to gut-wrenching drama. Cast your vote!

  1. Death Note — ranked #11
    Death Note
    Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's 12-volume cat-and-mouse thriller about a student with a death-dealing notebook.
    1000pts
  2. Monster — ranked #22
    Monster
    Naoki Urasawa's 18-volume psychological thriller chasing a charismatic serial killer across Europe.
    999pts
  3. Erased — ranked #33
    Erased
    Kei Sanbe's 9-volume time-travel thriller about a man sent back to prevent childhood murders.
    877pts
  4. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind — ranked #44
    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
    Hayao Miyazaki's 7-volume post-apocalyptic epic that inspired the Studio Ghibli film.
    692pts
  5. Goodnight Punpun — ranked #55
    Goodnight Punpun
    Inio Asano's 13-volume coming-of-age drama following a boy drawn as a tiny bird through a bleak life.
    692pts
  6. 20th Century Boys — ranked #66
    20th Century Boys
    Naoki Urasawa's sprawling-yet-tight mystery about a doomsday cult tied to childhood friends.
    600pts
  7. Hellsing — ranked #77
    Hellsing
    Kouta Hirano's 10-volume gothic action manga starring the vampire Alucard.
    600pts
  8. The Promised Neverland — ranked #88
    The Promised Neverland
    Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu's 20-volume thriller about orphans escaping a sinister farm.
    491pts
  9. Uzumaki — ranked #99
    Uzumaki
    Junji Ito's 3-volume horror masterpiece about a town cursed by spirals.
    491pts
  10. Pluto — ranked #1010
    Pluto
    Naoki Urasawa's 8-volume sci-fi retelling of Astro Boy's 'Greatest Robot on Earth' arc, a murder mystery among robots.
    360pts
  11. Akira — ranked #1111
    Akira
    Katsuhiro Otomo's 6-volume cyberpunk epic set in a dystopian Neo-Tokyo.
    360pts
  12. Chainsaw Man — ranked #1212
    Chainsaw Man
    Tatsuki Fujimoto's frenetic Part 1, an 11-volume devil-hunting shonen full of chaos and heart.
    360pts
  13. Mob Psycho 100 — ranked #1313
    Mob Psycho 100
    ONE's 16-volume supernatural comedy about a repressed psychic middle-schooler.
    360pts
  14. Battle Angel Alita — ranked #1414
    Battle Angel Alita
    Yukito Kishiro's 9-volume cyberpunk saga of a reborn cyborg warrior in the Scrapyard.
    360pts
  15. A Silent Voice — ranked #1515
    A Silent Voice
    Yoshitoki Oima's 7-volume drama about bullying, deafness, and redemption.
    0pts

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Comments

108 chapters across 12 volumes is brisk for a Jump hit, and long next to Akira's six volumes and Uzumaki's three. Brevity is one of fifteen angles here: https://youpick.best/articles/death-note-ranked-many-ways

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