What is the most influential manga of all time?

Sales charts and influence charts rarely agree. These are the series later artists actually copied.

1. 1
   Astro Boy

   Osamu Tezuka's 1952 series, the template for postwar manga and the industry that followed it.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Dragon Ball

   Akira Toriyama's adventure-turned-fighting series, the blueprint for modern shonen battle structure.
   763pts
3. 3
   Fist of the North Star

   Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's postapocalyptic epic, which set the look of 1980s action manga.
   658pts
4. 4
   Akira

   Katsuhiro Otomo's cyberpunk work, the book that made Western publishers take manga seriously.
   625pts
5. 5
   Death Note

   Ohba and Obata's thriller, proof that a mainstream Jump hit needed no fighting at all.
   625pts
6. 6
   Slam Dunk

   Takehiko Inoue's basketball series, credited with the sport's popularity across Japan.
   500pts
7. 7
   Attack on Titan

   Hajime Isayama's siege story, the 2010s series that pushed manga toward serialised prestige drama.
   500pts
8. 8
   Naruto

   Masashi Kishimoto's ninja series, the export that carried manga into Western bookshops in the 2000s.
   500pts
9. 9
   Sailor Moon

   Naoko Takeuchi's series, which built the magical-girl team format the genre still runs on.
   500pts
10. 10
    Golgo 13

    Takao Saito's assassin series, running since 1968 and the longest-running manga in print.
    433pts
11. 11
    Berserk

    Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy, the reference point for a generation of grim fantasy artists and games.
    269pts
12. 12
    Doraemon

    Fujiko F. Fujio's robot-cat series, a fixture of Japanese childhood and the country's soft-power mascot.
    269pts
13. 13
    Rose of Versailles

    Riyoko Ikeda's 1972 historical drama, the work that redefined what shojo manga could carry.
    269pts
14. 14
    Demon Slayer

    Koyoharu Gotouge's 23-volume series, which put 220 million copies into circulation in under a decade.
    269pts
15. 15
    One Piece

    Eiichiro Oda's pirate epic and the best-selling comic series by a single author.
    269pts
16. 16
    Ghost in the Shell

    Masamune Shirow's cyberpunk manga, whose ideas reached far beyond comics into film and philosophy.
    167pts
17. 17
    Lone Wolf and Cub

    Koike and Kojima's samurai series, an early crossover that reshaped American comics art.
    167pts

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