New Manga Series for the Year 2012
All new manga series reported for this year can be found here. You can sort them by the date they were reported to us, the rating, or based on how active the series was over the past month.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-fi, Supernatural
From Viz:
Every time a promising villain appears, Saitama beats the snot out of ’em with one punch! Can he finally find an opponent who can go toe-to-toe with him and give his life some meaning? Or is he doomed to a life of superpowered boredom?
Note:
Was nominated for the seventh annual Manga Taishō Award in 2014, an Eisner Award in 2015 and a Harvey Award in 2016. Won the Sugoi Japan Award and the Spanish Manga Barcelona award in the seinen category in 2017.
Official Japanese
Official English
Rating: 8.77 (2353 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #47 
(-15)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Lolicon, Mature, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-fi, Supernatural, Tragedy
From Seven Seas:
In an age when the corners of the world have been scoured for their secrets, only one place remains unexplored–a massive cave system known as the Abyss. Those who traverse its endless pits and labyrinth-like tunnels are known as Cave Raiders. A young orphan named Riko dreams of following in her mother’s footsteps as a Cave Raider, and when she meets a strange robot when exploring the Abyss, she’s one step closer to achieving her goal.
Note: Nominated for the 11th Manga Taishou Awards (2018).
Rating: 8.4 (311 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #323 (-39)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-fi, Seinen, Slice of Life, Tragedy
From Kodansha:
In a world inhabited by crystalline lifeforms called The Lustrous, every unique gem must fight for their way of life against the threat of lunarians who would turn them into decorations. Phosphophyllite, the most fragile and brittle of gems, longs to join the battle. When Phos is instead assigned to complete a natural history of their world, it sounds like a dull and pointless task. But this new job brings Phos into contact with Cinnabar, a gem forced to live in isolation. Can Phos's seemingly mundane assignment lead both Phos and Cinnabar to the fulfillment they desire?
Original Manga
Official English: Azuki, INKR
Note: Nominated for the 8th Manga Taisho in 2015.
Rating: 8.48 (303 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #338 
(+63)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen, Slice of Life, Supernatural
From Azuki:
Makoto Kowata, a novice witch, packs up her belongings (including her black cat familiar) and moves in with her distant cousins in rural Aomori Prefecture, in the far north reaches of Japan, to complete her training and become a full-fledged witch.
Official Korean (Lezhin)
Official English: Azuki, INKR
Rating: 8.26 (241 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #502 (-2)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life
From Yen Press:
Middle schooler Nishikata has had it with his classmate Takagi--the chronic teaser who sits nearby. Day in and day out, she comes after him with every sort of trick or prank. Even when he tries to get her back, she's always one step ahead. But rest assured, it's only the beginning. He's not about to give up that easily in this battle of cunning and youth.
Rating: 7.98 (427 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #580 (-57)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life, Yaoi
In the ”Canis” series:
Vol. 1 - ”Dear Mr. Rain”
Kutsuna Satoru, a hatter, picks up a man collapsed by the side of the road. This man, Kashiba Ryou, has come to Japan to die.…
Vol. 2-3 - ”Dear Hatter”
Sequel to ”Dear Mr. Rain.”
Vol. 4-7 - ”The Speaker”
A spin-off of the main series that follows some of Ryou's gang acquaintances.
Notes:
- Later chapters contain explicit content.
- New Takeshobo editions for the first 3 volumes have extra content.
Rating: 8.67 (216 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #599 (+468)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural
From Yen Press:
It's tough being evil when you have to pay the rent. This comical tale of a demon-lord-turned-fry-slinger follows the daily travails of (former) Devil King Sadao Maou and his general Shiro Ashiya as they navigate the complexities of life in modern-day Tokyo. Having suffered utter defeat at the hands of a plucky hero, they've been banished to earth and stripped of magical power. And if that wasn't enough, that pesky hero is still hell-bent on finishing the job. Artist Akio Hiiragi brings Satoshi Wagahara's story to hilarious life in this manga adaptation of the hit light novel series. It turns out crushing your enemies beneath your feet is tricky when you haven't even made manager yet.
Rating: 8.02 (279 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #911 (+8)
Genre: Adult, Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life, Supernatural
From Seven Seas Entertainment:
Monsters? They're real, and they want to date us! Three years ago, the world learned that harpies, centaurs, catgirls, and all manners of fabulous creatures are not merely fiction; they are flesh and blood?not to mention scale, feather, horn, and fang. Thanks to the "Cultural Exchange Between Species Act," these once-mythical creatures have assimilated into society, or at least, they're trying.
When a hapless human teenager named Kimihito Kuruzu is inducted as a "volunteer" into the government exchange program, his world is turned upside down. A snake-like lamia named Miia comes to live with him, and it is Kuruzu's job to take care of her and make sure she integrates into his everyday life. Unfortunately for Kuruzu, Miia is undeniably sexy, and the law against interspecies breeding is very strict. Even worse, when a ravishing centaur girl and a flirtatious harpy move in, what's a full-blooded teenage human with raging hormones to do?
Rating: 8.04 (821 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1078 (+7)
Genre: Drama, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life
Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members into the club, or the club will become terminated. Out of nowhere, a new member barges into the near-abandoned club room, demanding to join the club. How will Takezou be able to keep his club alive and deal with this rascal of a new member?
Rating: 8.57 (298 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1132 (+49)
Genre: Adult, Smut, Yaoi
Volume 01
Mid-life Crisis of the Forties
Eno and Fujio (from Class Reunion) navigate their relationship together
Looking for Lost Cat
Yamada Goro loses his cat Burnt Rice, Shinichi finds the cat and takes him back to Goro. After it happens twice Shinichi offers to cat-sit for Goro and ends up falling in love with him...
Volume 02
Pavlov
A food writer is dating a food lover
I want to posses you
Mitsuki works as a home renovator with Minazuki, who is oddly adamant about no-one working in a certain room. Mitsuki decides to go in anyway.
Volume 03
Train Spotting
Due to a misunderstanding high school student Aogaki ends up at the mercy of a yakuza boss
No really, there's no way I did it!
Takizawa Itsuki is falsely accused of groping a woman on the train and need to convince detective Itagaki there's no way he did it because he's gay.
Volume 04
Swept Away
(sequel to Train Spotting)
Aogaki has fun
Powerful force!!
(connected to No really, there's no way I did it!)
Detective Itagaki is on a stake out with his collegue Yamato Oosaku
Volume 05
Losing Virginity
(sequel to Train Spotting, Swept Away)
Aogaki wants to try topping
Detective Life!!
(connected to No really, there's no way I did it!)
Detective Itagaki is on his day off
Rating: 6.4 (5 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1142 (+88)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life, Sports
From Viz:
After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, “the King of the Court,” Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy he wants to defeat ends up being his teammate?
Note: Won the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award for Shounen.
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Rating: 8.61 (783 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1255 (+146)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Shounen, Supernatural
From Viz:
Yuichiro’s dream is near-impossible, given that vampires are seven times stronger than humans, and the only way to kill them is by mastering Cursed Gear, advanced demon-possessed weaponry. Not to mention that humanity’s most elite Vampire Extermination Unit, the Moon Demon Company, wants nothing to do with Yuichiro unless he can prove he’s willing to work in a team - which is the last thing he wants.
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Rating: 7.5 (344 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1291 (+67)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Seinen
Fujiyama-san is 181 cm (Approx. 5' 11'') and she is the ace player for her school's volleyball team. Kanba-kun is 160 cm (Approx. 5' 3") and has known Fujiyama since their preschool years. With his prankster friends, Kanba peaks into the girl's locker room right when Fujiyama is undressing. From then on, he could not get the image of Fujiyama out of his mind, so he decides to ask her out. She says yes. Enjoy their naive and secretive relationship as Kanba ogles his tall girlfriend in many different situations.
Rating: 8.09 (467 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1329 (+42)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life
From Viz:
After Kawasumi rescues her from an unwelcome admirer, Suiren finds herself captivated by him. However, Suiren is too shy to speak to anyone, much less this reserved karate boy. What’s more, Suiren isn’t the only one interested in Kawasumi. Will a class trip offer the opportunity to reveal her feelings before it’s too late?
Rating: 7.84 (784 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1369 (+308)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Seinen, Supernatural
Having been kicked out of the orphanage, a despairing young man by the name of Atsushi Nakajima rescues a strange man from a suicide attempt - Osamu Dazai. Turns out that Dazai is part of a detective agency staffed by individuals whose supernatural powers take on a literary bent!
(Source: Yen Press)
Manga Simulpub
Rating: 7.85 (185 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1413 (+47)
Genre: Drama, Gender Bender, Mature, Mystery, Psychological, School Life, Seinen, Slice of Life
Isao Komori is a college dropout who spends his days cooped up in his apartment playing video games and masturbating. The highlight of his day is visiting a convenience store where an angel-like high-school girl called Mari visits every night.
One morning Komori wakes up in Mari's body. Another "Komori" inhabits his old body, and Mari has disappeared. Komori struggles to maintain Mari's ordinary life and starts to investigate Mari's disapperance. Perhaps Mari wasn't so innocent and perfect after all?
Official English: Crunchyroll Manga
Rating: 7.73 (651 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1447 (+565)
Genre: Drama, Harem, Horror, Mature, Mystery, Psychological, School Life, Seinen
High schooler Shiina Shinya thinks that all girls are pretty much good-for-nothing, mostly because he doesn't understand them at all. That doesn't stop him from being surrounded by strange girls! Tsubasa Tooka, a cute, much-admired girl, stalks him. Shikimura Masami is majorly into masochism, and has recruited Shinya into her play sessions. Ikari Satsuki seems suspiciously interested in the recent serial stabbings, and seems to want to drag Shinya into it. Banjou Yoruko, a normally quiet, bookish girl, has decided she and Shinya are bound up in some fantasy setting. Uchida Yumeji is the school's sleeping beauty, who spends all of her time in the infirmary because she requires so much sleep. Shinya brings her newspapers, so she can keep up with current events in the short time she spends awake. Lastly, Okui Akane is convinced she is a vampire. For all Shinya knows, it could be true, but in practice it just means that he has to let her drink his blood. How will Shinya deal with all these good-for-nothing girls that complicate his life?
Rating: 8.07 (401 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1502 (+398)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life
From Dan of Population GO:
Yukihira Souma's dream is to become a full-time chef in his father's restaurant and surpass his father's culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Souma's fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?
Rating: 8.06 (1345 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1535 (+440)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Sci-fi, Shounen, Supernatural
High school student Kaname Sudou receives an invitation from a classmate to play Darwin’s Game, a mobile game he has never heard of. However, as soon as he opens the application, a green snake suddenly pops out from his phone screen and bites his neck, leaving him unconscious. Waking up in the infirmary without any signs of a snake bite, he is told by the school to take the rest of the day off. Although he is puzzled by what has happened, he dismisses the surreal experience as a hallucination and boards the train home.
Unfortunately, his curiosity gets the better of him and he uses the application once again. As the application appears to be just like any other battle game, Kaname breathes out a sigh of relief and decides to start his first match. However, the pleasant surprise is short-lived, as his in-game opponent unexpectedly appears right in front of him and attempts to hunt him down with a knife.
As he desperately runs for his life, Kaname puts two and two together and realizes that Darwin’s Game is not an ordinary game, but rather, it’s a brutal fight for survival.
Rating: 7.86 (333 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1551 (+384)
Genre: Adult, Comedy, Harem, Romance, School Life, Seinen
A world where cute girls fight as cards. What's more terrifying (or pleasant?) it is a battle is to make the other girl undress. Win by making full use of your intellect and physical strength with the girls who have materialized from cards! If you win, the opponent's girl card will also be yours! ? A harem of 100 people (people?) isn't just a dream.
A slightly sexy card battle comedy, the long-awaited comic!
Rating: 6.3 (16 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1570 (+276)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Harem, Romance, Seinen, Supernatural
Bouida Haruto, a hardcore otaku with no interest in 3D (real) women, once appreciated figures from afar, accepting that "if you get into them, there's no turning back." However, when Nona, a character he loved from an anime called "Girls→Planetary Investigation" had a figure of her released, he ended up purchasing it. And then that night, the figure of Nona somehow came to life, and a couple-like lifestyle between man and toy began.
Rating: 6.85 (17 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1601 (+1100)
Genre: Seinen, Slice of Life
Follows a new character, Ren Sajima, who travels to Paris in hopes of becoming a bartender.
Rating: 6.26 (5 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1610 (+275)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Mature, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Slice of Life
Amaguri Senko is a high school girl with a cool personality (as in, kuudere) and a big pervert. She openly reads porn and masturbates, and isn't perturbed in the slightest at the sight of penises and such. The story centers around Senko's daily life with two male handymen who works for her father's company which she also helps out with, Takamura Ryou and Sugita Kouhei. Takamura ends up being constantly sexually harassed by Senko, partially due to his phimosis dick that caught her interest, but little did he know, she wasn't joking when she bluntly said "I like you"...
Rating: 7.23 (162 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1614 (+447)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mature, Mystery, Seinen, Supernatural, Tragedy
From Kodansha:
For high schooler Kei and for at least forty-six others immortality comes as the nastiest surprise ever.
Sadly for Kei, but refreshingly for the reader, such a feat doesn't make him a superhero. In the eyes of both the general public and governments, he's a rare specimen who needs to be hunted down and handed over to scientists to be experimented on for life. A demi-human who must die a thousand deaths for the benefit of humanity.
Only the first volume is credited to MIURA Tsuina.
Official English: Azuki, INKR
Note: Nominated for the 7th annual Manga Taishou Award, the Readers Award in the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, the 38th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards in the Seinen category and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016 in the General category.
Rating: 8.22 (680 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1614 (+318)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Psychological, Romance, Sci-fi, Seinen, Supernatural
From Seven Seas:
Fuuta Okeya can see dead people. Other than that, you might assume he’s a perfectly normal junior high school student. When new transfer student Kouko Ishigami comes to school, Fuuta falls head over heels in love with her. But while she wants nothing to do with him, the ghost that trails behind her is another story. Just when Fuuta thinks he may have won Kouko over, she catches a glimpse of the strange birthmark beneath the bandage on his cheek and denounces him as her mortal enemy.
Official English Translation
Rating: 8.72 (965 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1621 (+432)
