Not sure if this is a bug or intentional.

I wanted to see what the highest rated manga were on here. So I clicked on 'Series Info' on the right and then on 'Rating' for sorting. Top result is "Alchemist of Steel" which I thought was weird that it's not called "Hagane no Renkinjutsushi" since that's the main title of the entry. So going down the list I found there are a bunch of manga with titles in all kinds of languages. A cursory check of sorting by title and year had the same results.

It seems like the displayed title is whatever is at the top of the 'Associated Names' section.

I also did an advanced search with sorting by rating instead of just listing everything. Here Fullmetal Alchemist was actually listed by its main entry title "Hagane no Renkinjutsushi". Same with all the other manga.

Hi icassop,

That was intentionally done in the past to limit load on our database. What's happening is that when you hit the rating button, it adds "letter=A" to the URL, like this:

https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?letter=A&orderby=rating

If you want to see what the highest rating series is, you can remove the "letter=A&" to get this URL:

https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?orderby=rating

Another reason this was done is because most of the alphabetically ordered series have strange names that are difficult to display, whereas the series starting with "A" are prettier for a front page (of the series section).

You can see what that looks like here: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html

We should definitely rethink this overall going forward.

Thanks!

Ah, got it. Thanks for the explanation! =)

Maybe it'd be more useful to add the alphabet at the top, so users can jump to the titles starting with the selected letter? Would that help not overloading the database?