New Manga Series for the Year 2014
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, Fantasy, Seinen, Supernatural
From Yen Press:
When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions and a member. They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to starve on the way. But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons. None are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands.
Note: Nominated for the 9th to 12th Manga Taishou Award from 2016 to 2019.
Rating: 8.79 (666 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #117 
(-1)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Smut, Yaoi
On his way home from picking up a matching set of rings for himself and his lover, Fuji Takahiro is hit by a car. The following amnesia degrades his live-in lover Kotou Tarou to a mere flatmate, and a series of misunderstandings threatens to tear the couple apart. Tossed around by desperation and confusion, can Tarou and Takahiro rebuild their once blissful relationship?
Official English Translation
Rating: 8.48 (302 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3164 (-21)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Mature, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life
From Kodansha USA:
When you’re the infamous prodigy hitman known only as “Fable,” many things come easy. Being a normal person, however, isn’t one of them. In fact, being told that he can’t kill anyone for a while may just be the hardest job Fable’s ever taken.
Note: Won the 41st Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 2017.
Rating: 8.41 (220 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1408 
(+460)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Yaoi
On the way home from work on Christmas Eve, 26-year-old blue-collar worker Yamada stumbles upon a drunk and crying high school boy and takes him in for the night. This boy, Chihiro, is polite, a good housekeeper, and lives quite close by, so he ends up coming over to Yamada's place from time-to-time to cook for him as thanks for the rescue. Yamada finds out later that the reason Chihiro was so miserable on the day they first met is because he was mulling over being in love with his best friend...
English translation:
INKR, Mangaplanet
Rating: 8.33 (362 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3246 (+8)
Genre: Comedy, Josei, Romance, Slice of Life
From Kodansha:
Narumi Momose has had it rough: Every boyfriend she’s had dumped her once they found out she was an otaku, so she’s gone to great lengths to hide it. When a chance meeting at her new job with childhood friend, fellow otaku, and now coworker Hirotaka Nifuji almost gets her secret outed at work, she comes up with a plan to make sure he never speaks up. But he comes up with a counter-proposal: Why doesn’t she just date him instead? In love, there are no save points.
Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii is a web manga that was released on the author's pixiv account from April 17, 2014 to February 24, 2015, and published in print by Ichijinsha as volume 1 on April 30, 2015. Official serialization started in Comic POOL on November 6, 2015.
Official English
Rating: 8.29 (545 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1432 (-175)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
From Viz:
Three months have passed since the Demon Lord was struck down, and the Demon Realm is holding a tournament to select his replacement. The leading contestant is Helck, a human hero who claims to hate his own kind. Some aren’t happy with the idea of a human becoming the next Demon Lord. Especially Vermilio the Red. She wants nothing more than to protect demonkind and prove Helck to be their enemy, even if she has to rig the competition to do it.
Original Web Manga
Rating: 8.29 (530 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1972 (-385)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Psychological, Sci-fi, Seinen, Slice of Life, Tragedy
From Yen Press:
Civilization is dead, but not Chito and Yuuri. Time to hop aboard their beloved Kettenkrad motorbike and wander what's left of the world! Sharing a can of soup or scouting for spare parts might not be the experience they were hoping for, but all in all, life isn't too bad.
Note: Won Seiun Award in 2019 for Best Comic.
Rating: 8.28 (269 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2409 (-77)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Harem, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Slice of Life
From Kodansha:
After graduating from an all-boys’ high school, Iori Kitahara moves away from home to go to college in a seaside town. He’s eager to start a new chapter in his life–one filled with dreams of reinventing himself, meeting beautiful girls, and reveling in his youth. But when his new abode is his uncle’s dive shop, Iori’s college debut doesn’t turn out as glamorously as he planned! Can Iori keep himself afloat, or will the booze-fueled antics of his university’s diving club wash him away?! A coming-of-age tale with beer, bums, and the Grand Blue.
Official English: INKR Comics, Azuki
Rating: 8.28 (502 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #753 (-67)
Genre: Drama, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life
From Seraphic Deviltry:
A story told in the form of a monologue by a father who discovers some aspects of his son's life that are intricately linked to his own hidden past and the experiences he had when he was young.
Rating: 8.26 (132 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3720 (-226)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Historical, Mature, Mystery, Seinen
From Viz:
In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.
Note: Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016 and the 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018.
Was nominated for the 20th and 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016. Won the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards Social Impact Award in 2021. Won the 51st Nihon Mangaka Kyoukai-shou Grand Prize for Comic and the Cartoonists Association Award in 2022.
Rating: 8.25 (385 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1094 (-183)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Psychological, Romance, Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
From Kodansha:
Despite being a scaredy-cat and crybaby, high schooler Tetsu Misato finds himself working at the eerie estate on the hill, where Shizu, the only child of the Karasawa family, is secreted away. However, his friendship with Shizu quickly turns to fear when several spirits of the dead appear before him, borrowing her appearance. As he struggles to find the humanity in her supernatural condition, Tetsu must also face a question at once terrifying and heartbreaking: What if the true Shizu never returns?
Official English:
Azuki, INKR
Rating: 8.22 (151 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2715 (+92)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Yaoi
The novelist Shun decides to travel to his hometown of Hokkaido with his younger boyfriend, Mio. Once he escaped an arranged marriage with his childhood friend by saying he was gay, he had been estranged from his parents. But once he heard that his father was sick, Shun decided to go home. It was an awkward homecoming for Shun, but to Mio who lost his parents.
Note: Seven Seas published the prequel, Umibe no Etranger, as "Seaside Stranger Vol. 1," and the first volume of Harukaze no Etranger as Vol. 2 of the same series.
Rating: 8.18 (134 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1880 (+159)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Yaoi
Friendly everyman Honda is just as scared of loner Kaidou's dyed blond hair, piercings and rumoured yakuza connections as the rest of their class, but he somehow ends up approaching the other boy at a children's live action event. They will soon discover that Kaidou's not as scary as he looks...and that Honda's not as all-loving as he believes himself to be.
A bittersweet tale about mismatched appearances and the desire to monopolize.
Oko-sama Star Afterstory
3 part sequel serialized on gateau issues 2017-10, 2017-12, and 2018-02.
Also included on vol3 special edition tankoubon.
Rating: 8.17 (246 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2960 (+83)
Genre: Action, Mature, Mecha, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-fi, Seinen, Tragedy
From MangaHelpers:
The world is in a war against an alien race called "Mimics," who have taken over most of the world with a mission to eliminate the human race. Keiji Kiriya is a new recruit in the United Defense Force, which is battling against these "Mimics." On his first day of deployment, Keiji and his unit encounter "Mimics" and are all killed... Or was it all a dream? For some inexplicable reason, after every time he dies, he is resurrected and returned back to the day before the battle. Why does this happen to Keiji and how can he escape from this never ending cycle?
Note: Nominated for the Eisner award for the "Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia" in 2015.
Rating: 8.16 (1352 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2393 (-9)
Genre: Comedy, Mature, Romance, Yaoi
From Ikemen Scans:
University employee Ryouichirou is ordered by the Chairman to take in an exchange student.
That exchange student, Qaltaqa, is a native from a developing country who can't understand Japanese!! Though he is a warrior of his tribe and a man of great beauty, seeing him afraid of the phone and the TV, and even the toilet, Ryouichirou gets fed up…
But while being called "Ryouichirou" in such a clumsy manner, he has a change of heart!?
Rating: 8.13 (320 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2842 (+131)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shoujo, Slice of Life
Hanazono is feared due to his grim reaper-like face. However, college student Suzuki Hiyori confessed to him and they started going out! While Hanazono is pretty much bewildered about it, seems like Hiyori is the only one who notices his "real face."
Rating: 8.11 (184 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2770 (-42)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Seinen
From One Peace Books:
THE NEW GATE, an online game transformed into a life-and-death struggle for its players. Thanks to the valiant efforts of Shin, the most powerful of them all, an end to the game and freedom for everyone seemed within reach. But just moments after Shin defeats the game’s final boss, he finds himself bathed in an unknown light and transported some 500 years into the future of the in-game world. Thrown from a simple game gone wrong into a strange new land, one young swordsman of unrivaled strength is about to embark on a legendary journey.
Original Web Manga
Official English
Rating: 8.1 (517 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1026 (+156)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural
From Yen Press:
“Hanako-san, Hanako-san are you there?”
At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school’s Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third-floor girls’ bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing as she imagined. Kamome Academy’s Hanako-san is a boy!
Rating: 8.1 (135 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1436 (-95)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Seinen, Slice of Life
Ten years ago Yaichi's twin brother moved to Canada and married a man called Mike. A month ago, he died.
Now Mike has arrived to Japan to meet Yaichi and his daughter Kana. Yaichi has to face his own preconceptions and come to terms about who his brother really was.
Note: Received an Excellence Prize at the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2015. The French edition was nominated for the "Best Comic" at the 44th annual Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2016. Received the Excellence Award at the 47th Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 2018. Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material at the Eisner Awards in 2018.
Rating: 8.09 (129 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3060 (-35)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Supernatural
From Kodansha:
Call them “demis”. Vampires, dullahans, succubi, snow women. These are just a few of those beings once known as “demi-humans,” and high school Biology teacher Testsuo Takahashi has always wanted to meet them. He gets his chance when the new term starts, and there are four “demis” in his school! Join the caring, bumbling Tetsuo in his quest to get to know these adorable monster girls, while helping them navigate the highs and lows of high school.
Official English: Azuki, INKR Comics
Note: Won the DaVinchi x NicoNico Tsugi 2016 Manga Awards by taking 2nd place.
Rating: 8.08 (238 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2252 (-100)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Shoujo, Supernatural
Sumi is a girl who wants to be needed. After desperately chasing the acceptance of her classmates she somehow finds herself drifting away in a river. For unknown reasons, the dream seller Shirogane finds her and gives Sumi a new life as a yokai by placing a butterfly’s dream inside her. As Sumi explores the world of yokai she begins to gain confidence in who she is.
(From Indie Comic Database)
Original Webtoon
Rating: 8.07 (100 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3188 (-58)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Yaoi
"I was drawn to the gaze of the man who rode ahead of everyone." Toranosuke, 16, tired of the monotony of everyday life, takes a walk one night and is beckoned over by the charismatic leader of the town's motorcycle gang. Riding behind Tetsuya is his pride and joy. But in a gang with the implicit rule of "no favorites", after being doted on by Tetsuya, Toranosuke finds trouble brewing between himself and some members of the gang.
Rating: 8.05 (212 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2855 (-63)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mature, Mystery, Psychological, Seinen, Supernatural, Tragedy
From Viz:
Haise Sasaki has been tasked with teaching Qs Squad how to be outstanding investigators, but his assignment is complicated by the troublesome personalities of his students and his own uncertain grasp of his Ghoul powers. Can he pull them together as a team, or will Qs Squad first assignment be their last?
Rating: 8.04 (844 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2283 (-67)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Gender Bender, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life
Keitarou Itsuki is a junior high school student unhappy about the menacing look of his eyes. Keitarou tries to confess to the girl he likes, Aoi Tokujira, but she rejects him flat out. Thinking that his eyes were the reason why she rejected him, he confides in his older sister about it at her salon, who helps by giving him a complete makeover...as a pretty girl! Forced to head home like this, he runs into Aoi in town, but she doesn't recognize him and thinks he's a somewhat manly girl. Before he can leave, Aoi asks him to help her overcome a problem she's had for many years: an intense fear of men.
Rating: 8.03 (307 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2870 (-1)
Genre: Romance, School Life, Shounen Ai, Supernatural
Yuuki is a university student bored with his ordinary life. One day after returning home after class, he finds a strange chocolate tin in his bag. Inside it is a letter with "I want a friend" written on it by an unknown sender. When he writes a reply as a joke, the next morning another letter is inside it...
Also included is Haru, Hinata no Koi and Koiiro Milky Way.
Rating: 8.02 (181 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2207 (+1055)
