There are plenty ofSeinen manga that get released each year, many of them potential classics that only need some time to solidify as a part of history. However, finishing a manga takes a lot of time, and it can be quite frustrating waiting for talented artists to come out with one chapter each week, or even each month.
Thankfully, plenty of Seinen manga get finished each year too. These aren’t necessarily the best manga of their respective years, but there’s something to be said about the quality of a fully finished piece of art and literature that an unfinished piece simply doesn’t have.
7Combatants Will Be Dispatched!
Hostile Company Takeover in Another World
Isekai isn’t a simple twiston the fantasy genre anymore, it has evolved to become its own genre with plenty of subgenres and a large, dedicated community that follows each release religiously. The premise of isekai manga and anime is inherently interesting, and the twists different releases add to the basic condition makes them that much more entertaining to read.
Combatants Will Be Dispatched!follows a 6 and Alice, a comedy duo who work for an evil corporation that conquers worlds for resources. After taking over earth, these two agents are sent to a fantasy world where they have to establish a foothold for the company’s invasion.
6Share House with Terminator
Short Terminator Comedy
A short five-chapter mangathat asks the question: What if the terminator was a cute anime girl?,Sharehouse With Terminatoris a hilarious comedy that follows a heartless terminator robot from the future that is sent back in time to kill the resistance leader.
After he explains to her that killing him would unmake her because of the grandfather paradox, she gets persuaded to let him live and focus her efforts on returning back to the future, doing chores at his house in exchange for high octane gas. It’s a light hearted comedy that ends too fast and has plenty of laugh out loud moments.
5My Master Has No Tail
Stories Are Lies With Flavor
Traditionally known as tricksters and masters of disguises, Tanukis (Raccoons) areanimals heavily tied with Japanese folklore and mythology. They are often the subject of stories of caution, occupying the space that foxes sometimes hold in western literature. They are cunning, smart, and will con you as soon as you turn around.My Master Has No Tailfollows the story of a wanna-be master of disguise who realizes that humanity has progressed too much for their traditional tricks to work on them effectively.
When they find out about a Rakugo storyteller who enraptures the audience with their words, effectively tricking them, they become obsessed with learning the art of story telling from them. The manga explores the art form of Rakugo and its nuances without getting too bogged down by the technicalities, making it a decent exploration of Japanese culture while still being quite entertaining.
4Nobunaga no Chef
Unerotic Food Wars
A cooking-focused mangathat exists within the same sphere asFood Warsbut doesn’t sexualize the food eating process, Nobunaga no Chef follows a modern day person who gets transported in the era of the warlord Nobunaga, and is subsequently drafted into his army because of his skills as a chef.
The manga is an interesting read and has plenty of historical elements that are sure to keep the attention of more savvy viewers, but it doesn’t expect the viewer to take a history lesson before reading it, making sure it’s casual enough for a wider audience.
3Oshi no Ko
Reincarnated as a Superstar’s Child
One of themost well-acclaimed manga and anime of recent times,Oshi no Kois had a short but eventful runtime from 2020 to 2024. Four years is not that long in terms of manga length, so it’s quite surprising how much this manga managed to accomplish in that limited time frame.
The comic follows a doctor who gets murdered while treating his favorite idol, and gets reincarnated as the child of said idol. It focuses on family drama, showbiz, and a little bit of romance in the latter stages, though the undertones are present from the start. It’s a fantastic read for drama lovers, and it neatly ties up its story by the end.
2A Second Goodbye to You
Supernatural Horror Mystery with a Time Travel Twist
A struggling web designer and passionate artist, Harusawa Hinata, gets entangled in a supernatural plot and time travels back to his days as a high schooler, presumably to stop his childhood friend from disappearing and getting murdered.
The art ofA Second Goodbye to Youis quite good, and the story conveyed through that art is better for it. There’s nothing quite like a nice time travel story, and that’s exactly what A Second Goodbye To You is. It is a hidden gem that functions as asupernatural horror mysterywith a time travel twist.
1Land of the Lustrous
Stones Have Feelings Too
A beautiful exploration of a mysterious world,Land of the Lustrousis a manga that has been in serialization since 2012 and has gained quite a large audience in that time. It tells the story of anthropomorphic gems that have to contend against mysterious Lunarians trying to kidnap and kill them every day.
Who these Lunarians are, where they come from, what they want from the gems, is all a part of the larger mystery that slowly gets revealed as the manga chapters get flipped. Part of thecharm of this manga is the mystery, the other part is the beautifully made action sequences, and the most significant part is the beautiful story that permeates it.
