New Manga Series for the Year 1994
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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Meitantei Conan
From Viz:
Precocious high school student Jimmy Kudo uses his keen powers of observation and astute intuition to solve mysteries that have left law enforcement officials baffled. Hot on the trail of a suspect, Jimmy is accosted from behind and fed a strange chemical that physically transforms him into a grade schooler! Taking on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa, he attempts to track down the people who did this to him. But until he finds a cure for his bizarre condition, Jimmy continues to help the police solve their toughest cases.
Can you crack the case before Conan does?
Original: Shonen Sunday, Sunday Webry | Mechacomic, Piccoma
Original English Translation: Shogakukan Asia, Viz
Note: Won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2001.
Rating: 8.24 (1050 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #146 (-21)

Monster
Monster weaves the riveting story of the brilliant Dr. Kenzo Tenma, a famous surgeon with a promising career at a leading hospital. Tenma risks his reputation and promising career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy. Unbeknownst to him, this child is destined for a terrible fate.
A string of strange and mysterious murders begin to occur soon afterward, ones that professionally benefit Dr. Tenma, and he emerges as the primary suspect. Conspiracies, serial murders, and a scathing depiction of the underbelly of hospital politics are all masterfully woven together in this compelling manga thriller.
Note: Won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.
Official:
Shogakukan, Shogakukan eComic, Shogakukan Comic
Comico, Piccoma
Rating: 8.76 (2008 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #624 (+86)

Rurouni Kenshin
From Viz:
One hundred and forty years ago in Kyoto, with he coming of the American "Black Ships," there arose a warrior who, felling men with his bloodstained blade, gained the name Hitokiri, manslayer! His killer blade helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the progressive age known as Meiji. Then he vanished, and with the flow of years, became legend.
Original: Jump Comics, Jump Comics DIGITAL, Shonen Jump Plus, Yangjiang+, Zebrack Comic
Official English Translation: Read for FREE on Manga Plus, Viz
Vol 1 includes the pilot Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story 1.
Vol 3 includes the pilot Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story 2.
Vol 6 includes the prequel Crescent Moon in the Warring States.
Vol 28 includes the epilogue Yahiko's Reversed-Edge Sword and the oneshot Meteor Strike.
Rating: 8.67 (2032 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1157 (+217)

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
From Seven Seas:
In a future Japan, long after an environmental catastrophe, Alpha the android runs a small café in a seaside town. As she wonders if her absent owner will ever return, she stands witness to the twilight of humanity with coffee, a slice of watermelon, and the sound of her moon guitar. Alpha and her fellow residents enjoy the melancholy beauty of life, even as the end approaches.
Note: Won the 2007 Seiun Award for Best Manga.
Rating: 8.71 (832 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1866 (+469)

Boku no Marie
From MangaProject:
Karigari Hiroshi is a total robotics geek/genius who really likes this one girl, Marie. He's too shy to ask her out, so he becomes obsessed with creating a perfect android copy of Marie. He succeeds perfectly in creating Marie, an android with the intelligence and heart/emotions of a human and who looks just like Mari (though with different colored hair). Of course, Karigari never really considered the implications of such a thing.
Rating: 6.09 (48 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2034 (+962)

Slam Dunk dj - Deep Purple
Pairing: Sendoh x Rukawa
"And let me play with you. It will be a better training match." This small event was the beginning...
Rating: 8.03 (38 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2088 (+1416)

Kodomo no Omocha
Sana Kurata, a child actress, faces many problems in her classroom, including a major one - her bullying classmate, Akito Hayama. Sana's outgoing and friendly nature leads her to work towards correcting all of the problems around her. Her 'meddling' irritates Hayama but at the same time captivates him, just as Hayama's gloomy nature irritates Sana and compels her to change him. As these two opposites attract each other, they face many hardships which bring them closer to a mutual understanding.
Note: This manga won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for Shoujo.
Rating: 8.53 (1016 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2149 (+355)

Tenkuu no Escaflowne
When high-school girl Hoshino Hitomi dabbles with tarot cards she suddenly finds herself on a strange world called Gaea. With her new found friend, Van Fanel, the young prince of the devastated kingdom of Fanelia, Hitomi becomes involved in the battle against the Zaibach forces, an evil empire bent on conquering the planet. So begins the epic saga that spawned one the most acclaimed anime series of the past decade ...
Rating: 6.34 (48 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2208 (+1069)

Kaisoku Tantei Miko
Jinguuji Miko and her male assistant Kanda Rokuro hunt phantoms together. The phantoms invade peoples bodies and control them. Trained as a skilled Phantom Hunter Miko must use exorcism to send the phantoms back to where ever they came from.
Rating: 6.52 (12 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2216 (+1063)
Shin Kotaro Makaritoru! Juudouhen
Having to repeat his final year in Tsurugamine High School, Kotaro is drawn to Judo through the encounters he make with first-year students Kumi Mifune, Sanshiro Saigo and Daigo Daigo. Having lost to Kotaro, first-year Judoka Kumi Mifune endeared to learn the Karate discipline in order to defeat Kotaro. However, the ambitious delinquent Judoka Daigo captured her as a bait to take on Kotaro and take over his long-standing Kyokutan dojo. Sanshiro Saigo who happened to be with Kumi was taken as well and caused the Judo Club to be involved in the conflict with Kotaro.
With the return of many previous characters (though many of them just making brief appearances) such as Shikato Tenzen, Momotaro Ushirono, Teruhiko Tenkouji and Kyoushiro Inamori; mixed with the appearance of new characters such as the leaders of the male and female Judo Clubs; Toshihiko Iga who seemed to know Kotaro very well and Rumiko Mitsugi whose panties Kotaro and Tenzen could never "possess" respectively, the new arc of Kotaro brings him and Mayumi to the world of Judo filled with the familiar mix of comedy, ecchi, and martial arts.
Rating: 7.82 (59 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2218 (+1101)

Shin Seiki Evangelion
From Viz:
In 2015, the "Angels" have returned, and Shinji Ikari, a fourteen-year-old child of the new Earth, is forced by his father Gendo, commander of the secret organization NERV, to pilot the monstrous biomechanical weapon called "Evangelion" to match the Angels' fearsome power.
Official Japanese:
Comic Walker, Kadokawa
Official English Translation:
English, Korean (Kakao Page, MrBlue, Naver Series)
Rating: 8.31 (646 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2218 (+336)

Zetman (1994)
The manga is a collection of 4 oneshots, published between 1989 and 1994 in Shueisha's Weekly Shounen Jump magazine:
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Zetman (original version)
Jin Kurono's father is dead, so he has been raised by his mother, who taught him the sense of honor and justice. But she died, killed by a car, with the culprit running away after the accident, leaving a scar on Jin's heart. Now, he's 23 years old, and the programmer of a new game called Zetman. Upset with the fact that there is no justice in the real world, he turns into his own superhero Zetman, to fight against crime, but with hard methods. To advise him and support him, he will always have his best friend, Sachiko Shirai. -
Shin-no-Shin
Ai to Nikushimi no Time Slip(SHIN-NO-SHIN 愛と憎しみのタイムスリップ, Shin-no-Shin: A Time Slip of Love and Hatred) -
Woman in the Man
Otoko no Naka no Onna(WOMAN IN THE MAN -男の中の女-) -
Shadow Lady (1993 ~ first version)
Rating: 6.41 (58 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2222 (+1022)

Shin Nozokiya
For the right price, no secret is safe! In the grimy motels and smoky back rooms of Tokyo, three men -- professional Cho, talented but unpredictable Ken, and clueless apprentice Smile -- have set up business as VOYEURS, INC., using the latest surveillance equipment and oldest crooked tactics to expose the peccadilloes, perversions, and crimes of corrupt and powerful men.
Rating: 6.46 (46 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2231 (+1053)

Canon
From CMX Manga:
This suspenseful, supernatural series tells the tale of Canon, the only student to escape from a bloody vampire attack that took the lives of her fellow classmates and turned her into one of the undead. Struggling against the terrible needs that compel her, Canon commits herself to use her powers for good and do whatever she can to avenge the deaths of her friends and her own terrible fate. Joining forces with a talking, vampire crow, she begins her quest to find Rodd, Lord of the Vampires.
Rating: 7.42 (185 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2234 (+1044)

Jigoro!
Prequel to Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl.
Published in an anthology of 4 stories about Jigorou and 2 other stories completely unrelated to Jigorou or Yawara. One of them is called A Bat & 2 Balls.
Rating: 6.56 (65 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2239 (+1097)

Harlem Beat
From Tokyopop:
Some athletes dream of the bling-bling, others dream of the women. But real hoop dreams reflect the desire to be the best. The dream of being able to take the rock, drive the lane, and take it to the hole. That's Naruse Tohru, branded as the team benchwarmer, just trying to get that shot at high school fame and glory. When he blows his chance to try and make his high school team, he takes his dream to the only place he has left. The streets. Away from the spotlight and glory of organized basketball, Naruse Tohru discovers himself on a back alley half-court.
The US release skipped Vol 10&11 and renamed the manga into Rebound for Vol 12-29, starting with a new Vol 1.
Rating: 7.82 (67 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2244 (+1073)

Dante Shinkyoku
Manga adaptation of Dante Alighieri's classic work "The Divine Comedy".
Rating: 7 (55 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2244 (+1084)

The New Kindaichi Files (Novel)
Kindaichi (frequently with best-bud, Miyuki) travels to various places where a murder has taken place, typically involving ghosts, curses, myths and folklore of significant events from the distant past, and solves the mystery using ingenious deductions of curious clues and his cool magic.
Activity (over 3 months): #2251 (+1097)

Genei Musou
Tamaki Otoya is the last in a line of ancient summoners tasked to battle evil forces that threaten mankind. Burdened by his duty as a summoner, Tamaki has always found strength from his childhood friend, Asahi, with whom he has a deep, emotional bond. So when Asahi's friend is found out to be possessed by a demon, he awakens--as the one destined to exorcise demons out of tortured human souls.
Rating: 6.93 (73 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2251 (+1083)

Chirality
In a not-too-distant future, the Earth has been overrun by a horrifying technovirus. Mechanical parasites, mistakenly created in an attempt to advance technology, attach themselves to human spinal cords and turn their hosts into cyborgs.
Desperate to rid themselves of this technological terror, the remaining human survivors must band together and learn to defend themselves against their android enemies.
Rating: 6.43 (77 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2254 (+1079)

Kimi ni Kiss Shitai
Makita Tsukasa and Himuro Takashi have been best friends for a long time. All the girl suspect that they are gay because they are always together, but they both deny it. But when Makita get a confession, Himuro acts strangely. A rumor spreads around that Himuro and another guy kissed. Is this the truth or is it simply girls gossiping about what they wish to happen?
Rating: 6.26 (18 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2254 (+1110)

Seraphim - 266613336 Wings
Seraphim is the story of a future Earth devastated by the "Angel Plague," a pandemic that induces apocalyptic visions in the afflicted, even as it ossifies their bodies into dead, seraphic forms. A cult-ridden, army-backed medical unit journeys into the heart of a dying Asian city accompanied by Sera, a mysterious girl linked to the phenomenon itself. Have they come here to kill or cure and is the Angel Plague a withered branch on the tree of life, or somehow a new flowering of existence?
Rating: 6.52 (28 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2258 (+1074)

No Side
It's about a guy named Yuuji, who loves to play rugby. One day he just up and dies, in the middle of a rugby match. His spirit is unable to rest, because his team has never gotten a try. So what does he do? Take over someone else's body to accomplish this goal. But... the body turns out to be a girl's!
Rating: 6.84 (65 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2258 (+1070)

Kokumin Quiz
From Mangascreener:
In a different world than the one we live in, a world where Japan is the lone superpower of the world, there is a wildly popular game show called the National Quiz. Every night, people dreaming of riches, fame, vengeance, and happiness compete on the show, for the chance to be granted a wish, any wish they have: the National Quiz has the power to make your wildest dreams come true. It also has the ability, if you lose, to make your life a living hell.
This is the story of K-i K-ichi (aka prisoner KK47331), a former actor-turned losing National Quiz contestant-turned wildly popular host of the show, and the people and events surrounding him.
Rating: 7.63 (148 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2259 (+732)

Orfina
From TJO:
The Kingdom of Granza is steadily building up its power and expanding its realm. Fleeing from their attack on her home, Faana and her companions hide in the woods, hoping to escape from the Granza military. However, as her group is hunted down, Faana is the only one fortunate enough to escape alive. Half-dead, Faana somehow manages to travel several kilometers to the Kingdom of Cordeaa, where she passes out at a lake. Upon awakening 3 days later, she is surprised to find herself inside the castle of King Yogufu, the ruler of Cordeaa. Faana is even more surprised when she meets his daughter, Princess Orfina, and the two girls are identical strangers. The two become fast friends, but this happiness is soon overshadowed as Granza advances its campaign into Cordeaa.
Rating: 7.06 (28 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #2260 (+1103)



