New Manga Series for the Year 2016
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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Kimetsu no Yaiba
From Viz:
Learning to destroy demons won’t be easy, and Tanjiro barely knows where to start. The surprise appearance of another boy named Giyu, who seems to know what’s going on, might provide some answers but only if Tanjiro can stop Giyu from killing his sister first.
Note: Nominated for the 1st Tsutaya Comic Awards in 2017, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020 and the Seiun Awards in 2021. Won the BookWalker Award Grand Prize and the Da Vinci Annual Book of the Year award in 2020, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, the Japan Cartoonists Association Award and the Da Vinci Annual Book of the Year award in 2021.
Official Japanese:
Piccoma, Shounen Jump Plus, Shueisha, Zebrack Comic
Official Translations:
Read for FREE on Manga Plus (English, Spanish)
English, Korean (Naver Series, Kakao Page, Lezhin, RIDI, MrBlue)
Rating: 8.05 (999 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #471 (-17)

Tensei Shitara Ken deshita
From Seven Seas:
Reincarnated as a sentient weapon with memories of his past life, but not his name, a magical sword saves a young beastgirl from a life of slavery. Fran, the cat-eared girl, becomes his wielder, and wants only to grow stronger, while the sword wants to know why he is here. Together, the strange duo’s journey has only just begun! This manga adaptation of the hit light novel series features charming artwork by manga artist Tomowo Maruyama and is sure to be enjoyed by existing fans of the franchise as well as all-new readers who are ready for a sharp fantasy tale.
Rating: 7.66 (289 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #484 (+89)

Kono Ai wa Yamai ni Niteiru
Chronological order:
• This Love is Like a Disease 1-5
• Shitsuke no Kura / Storehouse Development (躾の蔵)
• This Love is Like a Disease 6
• Adeyaka na Inrui / Bewitching Physicality (艶やかな淫涙)
• This Love is Like a Disease 7
Rating: 6.12 (16 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #518 (+795)
!Khchange!
A compilation of chapters originally included in the Shin Koihime Musou Gaishi Saiten anthology series with some new content.
Rating: 6.37 (1 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #613 (+214)

Tongari Boushi no Atelier
From Kodansha:
In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem.
Official English (Comic Days, Renta!)
Note: Nominated for the 11th Manga Taishou Award in 2018 and the Harvey Award for Best Manga in 2024.
Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia, together with Cats of the Louvre, at the Eisner Awards in 2020 and Best Manga at the Harvey Awards in 2020.
Rating: 8.23 (344 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #727 (-49)

Haikyu!! dj - Do or Die?
Pairing: Tsukishima x Tsukishima
Rating: 6.13 (2 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #850 (+695)

Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu.
From Viz:
Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. But all that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly realizes she isn’t aloof - she’s just super awkward. Now he’s made it his mission to help her on her quest to make 100 friends.
Original: Shonen Sunday, Shonen Sunday Comics | Mechacomic, Piccoma, Pixiv Comic
Rating: 7.93 (671 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1009 (+160)

Fumetsu no Anata e
From Kodansha:
An epic story spanning time and space. A lonely boy wandering the Arctic regions of North America meets a wolf, and the two become fast friends, depending on each other to survive the harsh environment. But the boy has a history, and the wolf is more than meets the eye as well. To Your Eternity is a totally unique and moving manga about death, life, reincarnation, and the nature of love.
Rating: 8.07 (397 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1065 (-38)

Oroka na Tenshi wa Akuma to Odoru
Masatora Akutsu has just transferred into class in Japan from a long way away - all the way from Hell, to be exact. Akutsu is a demon who's come to Earth to find someone who can motivate the forces of Hell to fight back against the invading Heavenly army. He immediately sets his sights on one of his classmates, the kind and beautiful Lily Amane, but ends up in way over his head when it turns out Lily has some secrets of her own!
Rating: 7.38 (149 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1068 (+725)

29-sai Dokushin Chuuken Boukensha no Nichijou
From K Manga:
Ninth grader Yusuke Yotsuya is practical, friendless, and not active in any clubs. Then one day, he and two female classmates are suddenly sent to another world where they must work together to battle for their lives. Yotsuya is a lone wolf and has always lived his life according to his wants but how will that work out now that he’s supposed to be a hero? Get ready for a one-of-a-kind fantasy story that will challenge everything you thought you knew about fantasy.
Rating: 6.84 (67 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1118 (+894)

Sadistic Beauty
The lives of two men are thrown into chaos when the sexy Chun Duna returns to town. On one end is student Woo Haesol whose timid nature reveals a man just begging to be dominated. On the other is Professor Byun Minho, a male chauvinist who bitterly views Duna as his mortal enemy. Tempers flare as pain turns into pleasure under the watchful eye of a sadistic beauty.
Original Webtoon:
R19: Bomtoon, Lezhin, Naver Series, MrBlue
R15: Bomtoon, Lezhin, RIDI, Naver Series, MrBlue
Official Translations:
English: Tappytoon, Lezhin, Tapas
Others: Japanese, French, German, T.Chinese, Spanish, Thai
Notes:
•The Side Stories are licensed under the Main Story on Tappytoon.
•Yuri and Yaoi Tag are for the Side Stories, DO NOT remove them.
•As of July 26, 2021 Lezhin US has re-added the series back on their site, now Tappytoon & Lezhin have their own translations.
Rating: 6.03 (178 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1207 (+58)

Teisou Gyakuten Sekai
On our current society, most porn consumers are males, we are the ones who think with our d***** many times, we worship the female body and our society, products, advertisements and many other things are centered around that. But, what if it wasn't that way?
What if, instead of men being the ones controlled by their sexual urges, women were the ones who bought porn magazines and had the most interest in sex? What if the moral standards between men and women were reversed?
Based on a Hentai Doujinshi.
Rating: 6.94 (131 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1223 (+170)

Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou
From Seven Seas:
Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers and tasked with saving the human race from extinction, Hajime’s job, a Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith’s level of strength?
Rating: 6.85 (362 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1232 (+256)

UnOrdinary
Nobody paid much attention to John – just a normal teenager at a high school where the social elite happened to possess unthinkable powers and abilities. But John’s got a secret past that threatens to bring down the school’s whole social order – and much more. Fulfilling his destiny won’t be easy, though, because there are battles, frenemies, and deadly conspiracies around every corner.
Official Translations:
French, German, Spanish, Thai, Japanese, T.Chinese
Korean: Naver Webtoon, Naver Series
Rating: 7.28 (48 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1346 (-14)

Hardcore Leveling Warrior
Known as Hardcore Leveling Warrior, Ethan is the #1 player of the world's biggest game, Lucid Adventure. But when a mysterious player kills Ethan and forces his character back to level 1, he will do anything to get back on top. New friends and old foes, as well as mysterious forces and his own dark past, will follow him as he does his best to take back what was once his.
Original Webtoon:
S1-2: Naver Webtoon, Naver Series
S3: Naver Webtoon, Naver Series
Official Translations:
S1-2: English, Japanese, T.Chinese, Thai, French
S3: English
When you go from level 99 to level 1 and start all over again.
"Those who clear quests, shall receive everything." An RPG adventure with HCLW and his allies, set in a lucid reality.
Rating: 7.22 (160 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1362 (-81)

Fight Class 3
Original Webtoon:
Naver Webtoon, Naver Series
Official Translations:
English (Digital, Print), Indonesian
Overview:
In an imaginary world where Korea is one of the world's leading nations in martial arts, its government encourages high schools to set up martial art classes to develop talented martial artists. As the government provides with numerous benefits to the students of these classes, almost all teenagers dream of being selected for the special classes. Among the martial arts classes all over the country, Nam-il High School's Fight Class 3 is the most famous.
A short, weak freshman named Ji-tae, whose physical appearance is the very opposite of a typical athlete, looks to join Nam-il’s Fight Class 3. Maria, a genius martial artist and international student of Class 3 from Brazil, happens to notice the unique talents that Ji-tae possesses—a double jointed body and the ability to read the movement patterns of his counterpart while fighting—that are ideal for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. And convinces the head martial arts teacher to test Ji-tae, and he passes. Julia also knows about Ji-tae's missing father, who used to be a famous martial artist. Through numerous fights with Maria and his other classmates, all who have mastered different martial arts themselves, Ji-tae gradually becomes a martial artist specializing in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. All the while, he continues searching for his missing father with Maria...
Don't miss this exciting new martial arts school manhwa series! For fans of The Breaker.
Rating: 6.46 (43 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1404 (+105)

Goblin Slayer*
From Yen Press:
A young priestess joins her first adventuring party but almost immediately encounters the most unspeakable horrors. Rescued by an enigmatic warrior called Goblin Slayer, she partners with her savior on his mission to exterminate all goblins by any means necessary. When rumors of Goblin Slayer's feats begin circulating, there's no telling who might come calling next.
Rating: 8 (528 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1436 (+146)

Busu ni Hanataba wo.
From Yen Press:
Hana Tabata has accepted her role as the unattractive side character in other people’s stories. Though her name is Japanese for “flower,” she sure doesn’t feel like one. That doesn’t mean she can’t enjoy some heart-pounding romance manga and maybe occasionally, every so often, imagine herself as the heroine. But when the most popular guy in class stumbles upon a daydreaming Hana, she braces herself for the embarrassment and humiliation to come. Unexpectedly, he keeps her secret and he also won’t stop striking up conversations with her! Ever the pessimist, Hana can’t help feeling suspicious. But could it be that his friendly demeanor is genuine?
New 5 chapters, under the subtitle Bloom, were released in 2025 to promote the anime and collected as Vol 13.
Rating: 7.5 (61 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1490 (+290)

Youjo Senki
Fron Yen Press:
When the average Japanese salaryman is suddenly thrown into in a world wracked with warfare and hardship by a supernatural power, they might first think to hide or run away. But not Tanya Degurechaff. A calculating and utilitarian man has been reborn as a child soldier. This young girl will do anything to rise in rank and find a way to live a life of comfort, and woe to any king, country, or god who stands in her way.
Rating: 7.93 (178 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1502 (-15)

Dakimakura to wa Kekkon Dekinai!
I Can't Marry A Hugging Pillow!
My hugging pillow turned into a really beautiful girl?! (She's not fake, she's human!)
And apparently, this girl wants to marry me!
I-I'm sure everything will turn out fine.
There's nothing to worry about...
Rating: 6.05 (36 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1593 (+1824)

I Live With a Demon King
The entanglement and love between demons and humans! Little Luo Li lives with the indifferent "little brother" at home, but he is actually the big demon king.
His goal is to take over Luo Li's body and mind, and then offer her as a sacrifice?! Is there no true love between humans and demons?
Rating: 6.27 (1 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1605 (+190)

World's End Harem
From Seven Seas:
The Man-Killer Virus. A lethal disease that has eradicated 99.9% of the world’s male population. Mizuhara Reito has been in cryogenic sleep for the past five years and now awakens to an all-female world where he himself is the planet’s most precious resource. Reito is given one simple mission: repopulate the world by impregnating as many women as possible. Whether he wants to or not.
Rating: 5.74 (336 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1634 (+134)

Amai Choubatsu - Watashi wa Kanshu Sen'you Pet
Hina is locked up in prison after being framed for a crime she didn't commit. There, she meets the cold and cruel warden Aki Myojin. She's at the mercy of his delicate touch and ravishing tongue everywhere: in the examination room, her cell, and even in the visiting room - with her lover watching! Bit by bit, her body is disciplined to give in to Aki Myojin!
Rating: 6.22 (29 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1639 (+420)

Kenja no Mago
A young man who had surely died in an accident, was reborn in another world as a baby! After that, he was picked up by the patriot hero "Sage" Merlin Wolford and was given the name Shin. He was raised as a grandson by Merlin and soaked up Merlin's teachings earning him some shocking power however, when he became 15 his grandfather Merlin said: "I forgot to teach him common sense". https://www.cmoa.jp/title/123121/
Rating: 6.84 (280 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1678 (+520)

Yuukoku no Moriarty
From Viz:
In the late 19th century, Great Britain rules over a quarter of the world. Nobles sit in their fancy homes in comfort and luxury, while the working-class slave away at their jobs. When young Albert James Moriarty’s upper-class family adopts two lower-class orphans, the cruelty the boys experience at his family’s hands cements Albert’s hatred of the nobility he was born into. He asks the older of the two boys - who has a genius mind and a killer instinct—to help him rid the world of evil, starting with Albert’s own family.
Original: Jump Comics, Jump Comics DIGITAL, Jump Square, Yangjiang+, Zebrack Comics | Mechacomic, Piccoma
Others: French (Kana, Mangas.io) | German |
Korea (Kakao Page, MComics, MrBlue, Naver Series, RIDI) | Polish | Spanish
Rating: 7.48 (84 votes)
Activity (over 3 months): #1680 (+242)



