Top 15 Short Manga Series of All Time

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

Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's 12-volume cat-and-mouse thriller about a student with a death-dealing notebook.

1000pts

2

Monster

Naoki Urasawa's 18-volume psychological thriller chasing a charismatic serial killer across Europe.

999pts

3

Erased

Kei Sanbe's 9-volume time-travel thriller about a man sent back to prevent childhood murders.

923pts

4

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Hayao Miyazaki's 7-volume post-apocalyptic epic that inspired the Studio Ghibli film.

807pts

5

Goodnight Punpun

Inio Asano's 13-volume coming-of-age drama following a boy drawn as a tiny bird through a bleak life.

807pts

6

20th Century Boys

Naoki Urasawa's sprawling-yet-tight mystery about a doomsday cult tied to childhood friends.

749pts

7

Hellsing

Kouta Hirano's 10-volume gothic action manga starring the vampire Alucard.

749pts

8

The Promised Neverland

Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu's 20-volume thriller about orphans escaping a sinister farm.

681pts

9

Uzumaki

Junji Ito's 3-volume horror masterpiece about a town cursed by spirals.

681pts

10

Pluto

Naoki Urasawa's 8-volume sci-fi retelling of Astro Boy's 'Greatest Robot on Earth' arc, a murder mystery among robots.

599pts

11

Akira

Katsuhiro Otomo's 6-volume cyberpunk epic set in a dystopian Neo-Tokyo.

599pts

12

Chainsaw Man

Tatsuki Fujimoto's frenetic Part 1, an 11-volume devil-hunting shonen full of chaos and heart.

599pts

13

Mob Psycho 100

ONE's 16-volume supernatural comedy about a repressed psychic middle-schooler.

599pts

14

Battle Angel Alita

Yukito Kishiro's 9-volume cyberpunk saga of a reborn cyborg warrior in the Scrapyard.

599pts

15

A Silent Voice

Yoshitoki Oima's 7-volume drama about bullying, deafness, and redemption.

499pts