What is the most influential manga of all time?

By YPB Team

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

  1. Astro Boy — ranked #11
    Astro Boy
    Osamu Tezuka's 1952 series, the template for postwar manga and the industry that followed it.
    1000pts
  2. Dragon Ball — ranked #22
    Dragon Ball
    Akira Toriyama's adventure-turned-fighting series, the blueprint for modern shonen battle structure.
    763pts
  3. Fist of the North Star — ranked #33
    Fist of the North Star
    Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's postapocalyptic epic, which set the look of 1980s action manga.
    658pts
  4. Akira — ranked #44
    Akira
    Katsuhiro Otomo's cyberpunk work, the book that made Western publishers take manga seriously.
    625pts
  5. Death Note — ranked #55
    Death Note
    Ohba and Obata's thriller, proof that a mainstream Jump hit needed no fighting at all.
    625pts
  6. Slam Dunk — ranked #66
    Slam Dunk
    Takehiko Inoue's basketball series, credited with the sport's popularity across Japan.
    500pts
  7. Attack on Titan — ranked #77
    Attack on Titan
    Hajime Isayama's siege story, the 2010s series that pushed manga toward serialised prestige drama.
    500pts
  8. Naruto — ranked #88
    Naruto
    Masashi Kishimoto's ninja series, the export that carried manga into Western bookshops in the 2000s.
    500pts
  9. Sailor Moon — ranked #99
    Sailor Moon
    Naoko Takeuchi's series, which built the magical-girl team format the genre still runs on.
    500pts
  10. Golgo 13 — ranked #1010
    Golgo 13
    Takao Saito's assassin series, running since 1968 and the longest-running manga in print.
    433pts
  11. Berserk — ranked #1111
    Berserk
    Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy, the reference point for a generation of grim fantasy artists and games.
    269pts
  12. Doraemon — ranked #1212
    Doraemon
    Fujiko F. Fujio's robot-cat series, a fixture of Japanese childhood and the country's soft-power mascot.
    269pts
  13. Rose of Versailles — ranked #1313
    Rose of Versailles
    Riyoko Ikeda's 1972 historical drama, the work that redefined what shojo manga could carry.
    269pts
  14. Demon Slayer — ranked #1414
    Demon Slayer
    Koyoharu Gotouge's 23-volume series, which put 220 million copies into circulation in under a decade.
    269pts
  15. One Piece — ranked #1515
    One Piece
    Eiichiro Oda's pirate epic and the best-selling comic series by a single author.
    269pts
  16. Ghost in the Shell — ranked #1616
    Ghost in the Shell
    Masamune Shirow's cyberpunk manga, whose ideas reached far beyond comics into film and philosophy.
    167pts
  17. Lone Wolf and Cub — ranked #1717
    Lone Wolf and Cub
    Koike and Kojima's samurai series, an early crossover that reshaped American comics art.
    167pts

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