Da Vinci magazine has released what their devoted readers consider to be the top 50 manga of 2014, with the long-reigning One Piece at last being stamped into oblivion by a titanic foe – for the second year running in fact.
The ranking, based on 4,589 votes:
1. Shingeki no Kyojin – Hajime isayama
2. One Piece- Eiichiro Oda
3. Silver Spoon – Hiromu Arakawa
4. Haikyu!! – Haruichi Furudate
5. Hoozuki no Reitetsu- Natsumi Eguchi
6. What Did You Eat Yesterday? – Fumi Yoshinaga
7. Umimachi Diary- Akimi Yoshida
8. Monthly Shoujo Nozaki-kun – Izumi Tsubaki
9. Ooku: The Inner Chambers – Fumi Yoshinaga
10. Chihayafuru- Yuki Suetsugu
11. Detective Conan/ Case Closed- Gosho Aoyama
12. Saint Young Men- Hikaru Nakamura
13. Assassination Classroom- Yusei Matsui
14. Ane no Kekkon- Keiko Nishi
15. Sangatsu no Lion – Chika Umino
16. Space Brothers – Chuuya Koyama
17. Barakamon- Satsuki Yoshino
18. Tokyo Ghoul- Sui Ishida
19. Black Butler- Yana Toboso
20. Kuroko’s Basketball – Tadatoshi Fujimaki
21. Ao Haru Ride – Io Sakisaka
22. Arslan Senki – Hiromu Akakawa
23. Orange – Ichigo Takano
24. Amaama to Inazuma- Gido Amagakure
25. Kyou wa Kaisha Yasumimasu – Mari Fujimura
26. Yowamushi Pedal- Wataru Watanabe
27. A Bride’s Story – Kaoru Mori
28. Kimi ni Todoke- Karuho Shiina
29. A Silent Voice/ Koe no Katachi- Yoshitoki Ooima
30. Natsume’s Book of Friends- Yuki Midorikawa
31. Wakako Zake- Chie Shinkyu
32. JoJolion- Hirohiko Araki
33. Neko Pitcher- Kenji Sonishi
34. Moyashimon- Masayuki Ishikawa
35. Kounodori (Volumes 1-6) – You Suzunoki
36. Mahou Tsukai no Yome- Kore Yamazaki
37. Giant Killing – Masaya Tsunamoto and Tsujitomo
38. Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi- Kei Sugita
39. My Love Story!!- Kazune Kawahara and Aruko
40. REAL- Takehiko Inoue
41. The Piano Forest – Makoto Isshiki
42. Hyakushou Kizoku – Hiromu Arakawa
43. World Trigger – Daisuke Ashihara
44. Koudai-ke no Hitobito – Kozueko Morimoto
45. Your Lie in April- Naoshi Arakawa
46. Around 30-chan – Nayuka Mine
47. Isobe Isobee Monogatari – Ryou Nakama
48. Houseki no Kuni – Haruko Ichikawa
49. The Seven Deadly Sins – Nakaba Suzuki
50. Kakukaku Shikajika – Akiko Higashimura
Sayonara Sorcier – Hozumi
Juuhan Shuttai! – Naoko Matsuda (three-way tie)
I hate to say it, but this list reflects that most manga readers are old, and there is little readership amongst younger audiences.
not really care about list but this one looks legit with multiple genre in the lion on balanced ranks.
at least dozen times more realistic than whatever list with only one genre on it.
3 manga I’ve never heard of in the top 10, and looking them up they sound interesting.
That alone makes this the best list in sankaku history.
Shingeki is so fucking overrated. I really don’t understand what people see in it. Don’get me wrong, I think it is good but not to the extent that it can topple One Piece.
SnK is in my top 5 favorite list, One Piece is not even in the top 10.
Don’t get me wrong, I like One Piece, I just prefer dark anime/manga.
SnK is not overrated, you just didn’t like it as much as most people did.
Yes it is overrated and also it being in your “top 5” has nothing to do with what I said or back up any reason in which it isn’t overrated. And to the first reply his response is the most accurate. The manga didn’t mean s♥♥t until the anime came out because the ANIME version was amazing not due to the manga. And what “most” people liked wasn’t the manga to begin with, it was the anime so don’t start with the “You didn’t like it as much and that’s why it’s not overrated” bull s♥♥t reason.
Well you’re backing yourself up with bullshit, SnK got popular because of the anime, so what? that doesn’t mean it’s overated! it only means that the anime was great enough to make the manga more popular! I mean that happens with every fucking high rated manga these days! even One Piece wouldn’t have become this popular if it wasn’t adapted!
I’m saying that I personally like SnK and think it deserves the high ratings, that’s an enough reason for me to think that it’s not overrating.
You in the other hand didn’t like it so much, and that’s fine, but you trying to convince people that SnK being overrated is a fact based on reasons is childish, especially since your “reasons” are made up and only theoretical, not to mention that they could be true for every other show, not only SnK!
I said that I had no complain about your personal opinion, but I had complains about the way you’re forcing your opinion, that’s why I replied, was it that hard to understand?!
Also you commenting on this also proves that you have a complain about me thinking Shingeki is overrated so just stop contradicting yourself.
You saying “SnK is not overrated” is already backing it up. If that’s not what you meant then I have no clue what you mean by even saying that. Also anime makes many manga multiply in popularity. Those “high ratings” came from after the anime adaption was released and not due to it’s own popularity to begin with. People are confusing the the amazing animation and story telling of the anime with the manga. As I was saying the MANGA is overrated and no the anime which is deserved. As well as calling me totally childish and immature when telling you why I think it’s overrated with legitimate REASONS and not stupid ass things like “cause it’s my top five” just shows how much of a brain you have.
I wasn’t backing anything up, I was just saying my opinion.
I have no complains about you thinking that SnK is overrated, as long as you admit that it’s no more than your personal opinion, I’ll respect that.
But forcing your opinion on others as if the heavens have decided that it is the correct one, is totally childish and immature.
Both the anime and the manga have high ratings and are very popular worldwide, if they didn’t deserve those high ratings, then how did they get them?! by cheating? by courtesy?
It’s funny even the anime has merits with the amazing art and great animation, the good music, and VA’s but… the manga has none of these. Instead it actually has bad looking art, a plot full of holes and and characters who are extremely shallow. Honestly I’ll never understand why it got such a good anime adaptation and yet better manga all the time get s♥♥t anime adaptations.
Thank you finally someone with a brain that can comprehend that the anime adaption was amazing but it by itself as a manga has much to improve on.
The Tanuki is the only correct character in the pic for Monthly Shoujo Nozaki-kun, unless that girl is supposed to be Mamiko (Who is in turn, basically a gender-bent Mikorin).
I think it’s an actual gender-bent Mikorin. :O