A ranking of the best manga covers of 2010 seeks to identify the year’s most stunning examples of graphic design and artwork in the medium of manga covers, with some striking selections presented.
1. Wolfsmund 1 by Mitsuhisa Kuji
2. Evil Heart (Final) by Tomo Taketomi
3. Self 4 by Saku Yukizou
4. I AM A HERO 3 by Kengo Hanazawa
5. Yatsugibaya no Lily by D.Kissan
6. Ashita no Familiar 1 by Akihiko Higuchi
7. Wabiremono by Shunji Kosaka
8. THERMAE ROMAE II by Yamazakimari
9. Amnesia Cradle 1/2 by Moyamu Fujino
10. SARU 1/2 by Daisuke Igarashi
The runners up:
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14.
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16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
The award for best back cover:
Halcyon Lunch by Hiroaki Samura
The award for best under cover:
Yotsuba&! 10 by Kiyohiko Azuma
The award for best endpaper:
Gisele Alain 1 by Sui Kasai
The award for best spine:
Hanayoi Dochu 1-4 by Kumiko Saiki
The UNIC*F Japan Prize:
Kodomo no Jikan 8 by Kaworu Watashiya
“Don’t judge a book by its cover” – forget it.
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Lol unic*f price hehe
Niker
I lol'd hard. HAHAHA
<3 kodomo no jikan
I wonder what would Agnes Chan will say if she saw that UNIC*F prize..., She'd probably jump off a building out of frustration.
We can only hope...
*hoping hard*
You wish man you wish.
she wil probably spend some money in a shoping spree out of frustration
The thing about Kojika is that even though it is about loli it is not really completely about loli.
Yotsubato! should have won best cover. oh that reminds me that I should but it. also I remember number 7 had a pretty good undercover it was a picture of a cow.
lol I meant buy it
ah kodomo no jikan. it will be sad to watch you get banned from tokyo.
what, no Berserk?
my thoughts exactly. Why the fuck ashita no familia is there but berserk Vol.35 not? VERY strange.
This Musn't Have Been That Good Of a Year For Manga Covers :/
Where Do People Learn To Type Like This?
These are my options:
1-Google translate perhaps?
2-Some of that stupid programs for forum post.
3-A underage user.
4-A retard.
5-A user of "Anime News Network" forums.(this is the bottom level)
Useless Anon are all the same...
...
Except for the anonymous "Me"...
8 11 And Kodomo no Jikan were my top 3
Any list that doesn't include Berserk cannot be taken seriously.
Muira's artwork is among the best in manga ever made.
Also, Kaoru Mori's Oyomegatari is also top-notch artwork.
Number 8: pffft lolwut?
Number 20: is that really a lollipop they are sucking?
All runner up covers look better then the top ten.
Game over i got one of those t-shirts
I think all of the top 10 looks mediocre at best.
They say never judge a book by its cover but they look awesome I just might read them.
THIS IS ALL Art-e-fuck's chosen one, too bad its sucks to be you.
hmmmm.... I did not really think any of them I would have called best covers.... 10 was interesting to look at.
...... which makes me wonder what exactly are the guide lines for "best" cover? ... some of them were nice like the Halcyon Lunch and (right side) Yotsuba&! oh and the 2nd one was kinda nice.... hmmmmm maybe the best simply refers to the difficulty of the medium possibly.
of all of them the 10th one I would deem "best" for I had to look at it for a bit to see everything in it.......
I guess I like the cover arts that are not deemed the best , the best lol. oh well...
I am a hero 3 looks interesting only because we have phone booth, greenish scenery, and bloody hands which might be a good horror manga or something....
overall I am disappointed I did not get one to impress me that much and I am not that hard to impress.
What is this? a list approved by Ishihara? most of them are hardly drawings/ art they are just photoshop gimmicks. i actually prefer the runners up.
Number 12 is adorable. It's a cute manga too! (Nekomusume Michikusa Nikki)
all of them suck
bottom of earth
very2 bad artwork
garbage
no sense no taste
Don't know why, but i really like the cover of "Limbo on the border line" (11).
Lol at the UNIC*F Japan prize xD oh how I would love to see the expression on Agnes' face.
Well, I have to say that I don't like those much.
1 is good, 9, 11 and 17 are very, very nice, I like Yotsuba and Kodomo no Jikan ones, too. 4 looks intriguing at least. But others don't appeal to me much.
What some titles do in the list is a mystery. 16 for example, which seems ugly and uninteresting to me.
Cover for THERMAE ROMAE II made me lol. And, better yet, it piqued my interest.
And #16 in the runners up section grabbed my interest as well, although the title of it confuses me greatly.
I loled at the #13
Titled "Game Over" and then the Marriage Picture. Quite accurate I must say. xD
#11 should have been higher ranked. It's gorgeous.
The number 8 caught my eyes.
Am i the only one who thinks the number 6 is not only not worthy of being in the top ten, but looks actually below average quality, both in colour and anathomy? (dat head. No, seriously.)
Did I just see an Animal Farm manga cover in there?
the first is good the rest are pretty much meh
LOL @ UNIC*F japan prize winner. Kodomo no jikan <-- epic borderline loli eromanga.
#20 ウワガキ "Uwagaki" Volume 1
What's number 14?
wolfmund made me want to play MTW2 again.
As an American of European origin, I've often wondered how interesting western things like Wolfsmund actually are in your cultures? Is it just that there is so much of it that it filters in, or are things like jousting knights and bat winged dragons actually cool in their own way?
Just because you like a manga doesn't mean it's the best cover.
I hate to say this but I've seen better.
These should be rated by genre not just manga in general.
14 is lovely, but Yotsuba is in a whole other class.
what the hell is #14? it's awesome. i can fap to this.
Why do I see Chiyo-Chichi in the Yotsuba&! under cover???
Oh. I've never heard about them.
I'd like to see some information about those mangas in sankaku.
No. 8. THERMAE ROMAE and 10. SORA is pretty epic