Neo-Tokyo, biker gangs and a psychic child; Otomo's six volumes the film only sketched.
Major Kusanagi and Section 9 in Shirow's dense cyberpunk pages, with footnotes.
A boy with a chainsaw devil for a heart hunts devils for the government; Fujimoto's chaos.
Miyazaki's seven-volume manga of the toxic jungle and the princess who understands it; darker than the film.
Tezuka's eight-volume life of Siddhartha, funny and profound.
Two brothers, a failed transmutation and a military state; Arakawa's tightly plotted twenty-seven volumes.
Humanity behind walls against titans; Isayama's manga ended in 2021 and the ending is still argued.
Urasawa remakes an Astro Boy story as a murder mystery about robots and war.
A robot boy built by a grieving scientist; Tezuka, the god of manga, from 1952.
An outcast ninja with a fox demon inside him wants to lead his village; seventy-two volumes.
Childhood friends and a cult leader who copies their game; Urasawa's conspiracy epic.
Goku from a boy with a tail to the Saiyan wars; the manga every shonen descends from.
A disgraced executioner pushes his son across Edo Japan in a cart of hidden blades.
Light Yagami and the notebook that kills; the manga the anime followed closely.
A town cursed by spirals; Junji Ito's horror masterpiece.
A delinquent joins the basketball team to impress a girl; the sports manga that made Japan play.
Luffy and the Straw Hats chase the One Piece across 100-plus volumes; the best-selling comic ever.
A Japanese surgeon in Germany saves a boy who becomes a serial killer; Urasawa's thriller.
Guts, the Band of the Hawk and the Eclipse; Miura's dark fantasy, unfinished at his death.
Miyamoto Musashi's road to becoming the greatest swordsman; Inoue's ink brush.
A boy in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, drawn by a survivor; the manga on the bomb.
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