It's time for a new list. I always enjoy revisiting and catching up on the top manga of each year, even if it does give me the same headache as vetting my games of the year. Manga, too, are dominated by several massive, ongoing works with their own gravitational pull. Variety and newness are essential, but it can feel difficult to find time for the untried when there's so much of a proven comfort within arm's reach. In this sense, I'm blessed that my tastes have kept me out of the clutches of most of the time vampires of the shonen world, but with the likes of Komi Can't Communicate and Yona of the Dawn both well past 30 volumes, my manga reading time is getting divvied up either way.
Our list of the best manga of 2023 featured several new series as well as a few others that had recently reached a new peak. Those manga are still running, series like Dandadan are burning brighter than ever on the back of hit anime adaptations, and all of them are worth reading. I'm still reading them! But I won't mention them again here. This year, I've found it a bit easier to discover all-new manga that only just received an English release physically or digitally. Maybe there was a bumper crop of manga in 2024 or maybe I'm just one person with limited time and unavoidable favorites. It might be that.
