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The Cat ReturnsThe Cat Returns began as a 20-minute short for a theme park that canceled it. Ghibli made it a feature.
JoJo's Bizarre AdventureJoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a manga by Hirohiko Araki that fills 139 collected volumes as of March 2026. By August 2023, more than 120 million copies were in circulation, which places it among the best-selling manga ever printed. Yet the…
InuyashaIn the manga Inuyasha, a dying priestess orders her own body burned along with a sacred jewel.
NarutoOn the night Naruto was born, his father sealed a nine-tailed fox inside him. He grew up scorned by the village.
One PieceOda sealed the truth about One Piece's treasure in a box and sent it to the ocean floor.
Ranma ½Ranma ½ is a Japanese manga by Rumiko Takahashi about a teenage martial artist whose body changes with the temperature of the water that touches him. Ranma Saotome has trained in fighting since early childhood. He spends the series hunting…
Yu-Gi-Oh!This manga's hero wins battles without ever hitting anyone. Kazuki Takahashi wanted something original.
Fist of the North StarAn editor's used-bookshop find led to the manga Fist of the North Star.
Battle Angel AlitaA doctor digging through a garbage dump finds a living cyborg head and torso. He names her Alita, after his dead cat.
Mobile Suit GundamMobile Suit Gundam, a Japanese anime series created by Yoshiyuki Tomino, once drew a crowd of 15,000 people to a single film premiere on the 22nd of February 1981. Police and the media feared that the gathering could turn into a riot. The…
Case ClosedCase Closed, a Japanese manga series by Gosho Aoyama, had more than 270 million copies in circulation worldwide by January 2023. That makes it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. It runs in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, a magazine…
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no YaibaDemon Slayer began as a quiet manga about a boy who sold charcoal. By July 2025 it had over 220 million copies out.
Jujutsu KaisenA rotten finger sets off the manga Jujutsu Kaisen. A student swallows it and hosts a thousand-year-old sorcerer.
RWBYRWBY's title is not a word but a color code. It stands for red, white, black and yellow, the four leads' colors.
Rurouni KenshinThe hero of Rurouni Kenshin carries a sword with its blade turned backward.
Vagabond (manga)The manga Vagabond opens with two bleeding teenagers on a battlefield in 1600. One will become a famed swordsman.
Fullmetal AlchemistTwo brothers try to bring their mother back in Fullmetal Alchemist, and lose a leg and a whole body.
Bleach (manga)The manga Bleach began with a drawing of a kimono. Its artist had just had his previous series canceled.
Spy × FamilySpy × Family, a Japanese web manga written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo, had more than 42 million copies in circulation by April 2026. That puts it among the best-selling manga series of all time. Its hero is an agent known as Twilight,…
GintamaGintama opens with a joke about its own page count. In the very first chapter, a character finishes a short fight and complains that it lasted only one page. The hero, Gintoki, snaps back: "Shut up! One page is a long time for a manga…
YuYu HakushoYuYu Hakusho begins with a 14-year-old street brawler named Yusuke Urameshi shoving a young boy out of the path of a car. The boy lives. Yusuke does not. It is an uncharacteristic act of kindness from a teenage delinquent, and it kills him…
Monster (manga)A surgeon disobeys an order and saves a boy instead of the mayor. That boy grows into the killer in Monster.
DarkstalkersIn Darkstalkers, Demitri's move Midnight Bliss turns an opponent into a girl before he drains their blood.
FrierenFrieren is an elven mage who makes a promise to her friends that, for her, is almost no promise at all. Under a meteor shower called the Era Meteors, which appears once every fifty years, she agrees to gather with her old companions again…
Claymore (manga)The magazine that launched Claymore shut down exactly six years to the day after the manga began.
Death NoteA plain black notebook sits at the center of Death Note, a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. Anyone who writes a person's name in its pages ends that person's life within seconds. In Tokyo, a…
Lucky Star (manga)Lucky Star, a four-panel comic about high school girls, also spawned chemistry textbooks.
Cobra (manga)The manga Cobra opens with a bored office worker who asks for a dream and remembers a hidden life.
Blue ExorcistIn Blue Exorcist, a teenager pulls a sword and learns he is the son of Satan. His flames burn blue.
Black CloverIn the manga Black Clover, the hero wants to be Wizard King but has no magic.
Bastard!!Kazushi Hagiwara's manga about a dark wizard names its characters, spells and places after rock and metal bands.
Kaiju No. 8Kaiju No. 8 rests on one bitter irony. In this Japanese web manga by Naoya Matsumoto, a man named Kafka Hibino longs to join the force that kills monsters. Then he gains the power to turn into one himself. Every dream he has left now…
DorohedoroDorohedoro, a Japanese manga series by Q Hayashida, begins with a man whose head is that of a reptile and who cannot remember who he used to be. His name is Caiman. His only clue to the sorcerer who cursed him is a full-size man living…
Haikyu!!Haikyu!!, a Japanese manga written and drawn by Haruichi Furudate, had more than 75 million copies in circulation by December 2025. That total places it among the best-selling manga series of all time. Its subject is a high school…
My Hero AcademiaMy Hero Academia is a Japanese manga series by Kōhei Horikoshi, and its hero starts with nothing. Izuku Midoriya is a boy born without a Quirk, one of the superpowers that have become ordinary in his world. He dreams of becoming a…
Revolutionary Girl UtenaRevolutionary Girl Utena begins with a teenage girl in a boys' school uniform who raises a sword to win another girl's hand. Her name is Utena Tenjou, and the prize is Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious student known as the Rose Bride. Anthy is…
Hell's Paradise: JigokurakuHell's Paradise: Jigokuraku, a web manga by Yuji Kaku, begins with an execution that does not work. Gabimaru the Hollow, a ninja from Iwagakure, has been sentenced to die. Nothing the executioners try is able to kill him, because his body…
One-Punch ManOne-Punch Man is a Japanese manga series about a hero who can end any fight with a single punch. Saitama has trained so thoroughly that no opponent can test him, and the reward is boredom rather than glory. His creator, who goes by the…
Hunter × HunterHunter × Hunter, the Japanese manga series by Yoshihiro Togashi, is spoken aloud as "hunter hunter," because the multiplication sign in its title makes no sound. The doubled name came from a television variety show called Downtown, where…
Chainsaw ManChainsaw Man is a Japanese manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto, and its world contains a creature that can erase an idea from human memory. When the Chainsaw Devil devours another devil, the thing that devil stood for vanishes from existence and…
Steel Ball RunSteel Ball Run is the seventh main story arc of the Japanese manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It opens in September 1890, when racing jockeys from all over the world pour into the United States.…