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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Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life
From Yen Press:
It all started like a typical old-school boys’ love plotline-bad-boy senior meets an adorably awkward underclassman, one of them falls in love, and so on and so forth. But although Miyano is a self-proclaimed boys’ love expert, he hasn’t quite realized he’s in one himself. This means it’s up to Sasaki to make sure their story has a happily ever after.
Original Web Manga
Rating: 8.64 (196 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #869 
(+146)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Tragedy, Yaoi
The serious Ito and the child-like Nishi meet by chance during a single player game of "White Line Game" on the way home from school. Falling in-love, Ito gets frustrated over the fact that they only get to rendezvous on the white line and suddenly kisses Nishi. From high school, college and then to adulthood, a deeply moving work depicting the lives of two men who are madly in love with unchanging feelings within changing realities.
Official English Translation
Official Japanese
Rating: 8.49 (317 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2273 (+345)
Genre: Psychological, Romance, Shounen, Slice of Life, Supernatural, Tragedy
A twenty-year-old with little hope for the future discovers a shop that buys lifespan, time, and health. This is a story dealing with the ensuing consequences.
Rating: 8.48 (535 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2034 (+273)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Yaoi
Masaki is a male Omega married to Hiromu a male Alpha. They have a child together named Hikari and they've just moved in to a new neighborhood. The story revolves around the everyday lives of this couple and how they raise their son Hikari.
Vol. 1: Tadaima, Okaeri
Vol. 2: Tadaima, Okaeri - Kagayaku Hi
Vol. 3: Tadaima, Okaeri - Mata Ashita
Vol. 4: Tadaima, Okaeri - Hitoyasumi
Vol. 5: Tadaima, Okaeri - Hare no Hi
Official Japanese: Renta, cmoa
Rating: 8.44 (177 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #184 (+90)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mature, Romance, Smut, Supernatural, Yaoi
From Sublime:
In order to conceal that he’s a werewolf, Coyote avoids getting too involved with humans. But Marleen, a pianist at a bar he frequents, is interested in him and just won’t take no for an answer. When Coyote unexpectedly goes into heat for the first time, Marleen catches him while he’s unable to maintain his human form and offers up a tempting invitation. Coyote wants to resist, but can he?
Rating: 8.33 (130 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2058 (+274)
Genre: Romance, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life
Yutaka is a businessman who has a hard time eating with others. One day, while having lunch alone in a park, he meets two brothers with a big age gap, Minoru and Tane, who suddenly ask him, “Please teach us how to make onigiri!”. From that day onward, Yutaka begins sharing food with them, and quickly begins to look forward to their meals together.
Rating: 8.28 (268 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2377 (+253)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, School Life, Seinen, Slice of Life
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.
Note: Nominated for the 11th Manga Taishou Award in 2018. Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia, together with Cats of the Louvre, at the Eisner Awards in 2020. Won the Best Manga Award at the Harvey Awards in 2020.
Comic Days releases
Comic Days releases in English
Rating: 8.19 (269 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #682 (+112)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Shounen Ai
From September Scanlations:
Hirono Yuusa always believed he was special and destined for greatness–until tragedy struck in his final year of middle school. Now, jaded and disillusioned, he’s completely given up on ever trying to be anything more than ordinary. But when he starts to notice classmate Himekawa Ichigo struggling to do his best against all odds, he can’t help but want to cheer him on.
Volume release includes Yorimichi (KAZUKI Rai).
Rating: 8.18 (174 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3130 (+205)
Genre: Romance, Smut, Yaoi
From Exiled Rebels Scans:
Thirty-two year old Suwa Misumi is a Master of Sake and has just recently been fired from his job due to causing trouble from being "too friendly" since he doesn't like to refuse requests. At the lowest point in his life, he now finds a restaurant he desperately wants to work at. Only problem is that his latest drunken one night stand is the owner!!
Rating: 8.14 (155 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3792 (No change)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural
From Kodansha:
A new manga from the creator of the acclaimed A Silent Voice, featuring intimate, emotional drama and 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: 8.14 (343 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1427 (+138)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
From Viz:
She decides to while away the hours by sleeping, but getting a good night’s rest turns out to be a lot of work! She begins by fashioning a DIY pillow out of the fur of her Teddy Demon guards and an “air mattress” from the magical Shield of the Wind. The princess’s hapless demonic guards soon discover that their captive expects to be treated like, well, a princess. Things go from bad to worse, for her captors, when some of Princess Syalis’s schemes end in her untimely, if temporary, demise and she chooses the Forbidden Grimoire for her bedtime reading.
Rating: 8.14 (214 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #812 
(-38)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life, Yaoi
Liquor, cigarettes, and grapefruit-scented shampoo...
In a sleepy Southern town, two men have always lived in each other’s company: Camilo, the cigarette store owner and Teo, the liquor store owner. While Camilo smokes like a chimney, light-weight Teo struggles to uphold his reputation in a town full of liquor enthusiasts.
When the annual grape harvest festival draws near Teo dreads the obligatory wine-tasting contest. His only hope is to train with Camilo, who holds his liquor well. But what will happen to them when, one evening, Camilo confesses his love to his childhood friend?
Rating: 8.13 (202 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3261 (No change)
Genre: Romance, Slice of Life, Yaoi
“If I ever get brave enough to say I like you from the top of my lungs–”
Bessho coincidentally meets Makita in a university lecture they share, finding out that they both like cute things. While Bessho hides his preferences like a dirty little secret, Makita makes no excuses for who he is and what he likes. Despite the twists and turns they encounter along the way, the pair of lovers deal with their possessive and jealous urges on their slow journey to answering the age-old question: what is the best way to fall in love?
Official English
Rating: 8.11 (109 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3235 (No change)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Yaoi
Pickpocket Jimmy is captured by the middle-aged Reese at the scene of the crime. In revenge, Jimmy breaks into Reese’s home when he is out, but he finds out that Reese is an ex-cop who furthermore is suffering from PTSD. Curious about this adult man with his complicated past, the closer he gets to him, the more rapidly his feelings change to love…
In addition to the passion-filled extras for the title story, there is a one-shot of a prideful performing arts agent x a washed-up middle-aged actor, “Lucky Bill.” This is a volume full of the real lives of adult men.
Original Webcomic
Rating: 8.1 (273 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2387 (+155)
Genre: Action, Adult, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Harem, Horror, Mature, Seinen, Tragedy
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: 8.09 (488 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1546 (-219)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Shounen Ai
Ebihara gets mugged by Tashiro, his junior in college. They somehow end up hanging out together after that, and Ebihara slowly begins to realise that Tashiro may not be as frightening or as weird as he appears at first glance.
Original Pixiv
Official English
Rating: 8.07 (73 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1077 (-328)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Gender Bender, Mature
From 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.
Official English
Rating: 8.07 (160 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #763 (+268)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Mature, Psychological, Romance, School Life, Shounen
From Viz:
One night at Cherryton Academy, an herbivore student is brutally murdered. Among the members of the Drama Club, the herbivores’ suspicions naturally turn to their carnivore classmates. The prime suspect? Gray wolf Legoshi. But he wouldn’t hurt a fly. Or would he? Will dwarf rabbit Haru bring out the beast in him? Or are his feelings for her something else?
Note: Won the 11th Manga Taishou Award in 2018, the 22nd Tezuka Osamu New Creator Prize in 2018, the 2018 Kodansha manga award in the shonen category, and the 2017 Japan Media arts festival new face award.
Rating: 8.06 (387 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2162 (+195)
Genre: Drama, Mature, Psychological, School Life, Seinen, Slice of Life
Ethics is a term used to describe principles that aim to determine whether a person's behavior and actions can be justified as right or wrong. Takayanagi is a high school teacher who is in charge of an elective course that focuses on ethics. Despite not having a full class, he aims to teach his students about the importance of moral philosophy. Many students that attend Takayanagi's class are dealing with their own issues, and by engaging in his lessons, they learn to approach their problems from a different perspective.
Rating: 8.06 (121 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2308 (+358)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Shounen, Supernatural
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.
Original Manga
Official English
Note: Won the Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 2021.
Rating: 8.04 (876 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #978 (+40)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Yaoi
From Renta!
The kind, smitten Chiaki and the scary yet reliable Kazuma are a long-term gay couple. Tomoe, the tomboy who knows of their relationship, asks to see them, and they find her with a large tummy and another life growing inside her. The father is unknown, and although Chiaki and Kazuma are exasperated with the chipper Tomoe, they help her out. Before they know it, the baby is born. The two men are relieved that Tomoe is acting like a proper mother, but one day, Tomoe comes to them with tears in her eyes and says, "Take care of her for me...!" The bubbling motherly instincts, the increasing motherly skills, and the interrupted sex!?
Rating: 8.04 (199 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2594 (+404)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life
Yukishiro Nanako is a cute, cheerful high school girl with one peculiar trait - instead of verbal communication, she writes senryu (a type of haiku) poems to relay her thoughts. Together with ex-delinquent Busujima Eiji, they are budding freshmen of the school's Literature Club.
Even though Nanako doesn't talk, with the power of senryu, the adorable pair has no problem enjoying their fun school-life through the tune of 5-7-5 syllables.
Rating: 8.01 (175 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2477 (+517)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life
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.
Rating: 8.01 (571 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #710 (-60)
Genre: Romance, Slice of Life, Smut, Yaoi
Shohei loves bunnies! He loves them so much he’s even taken to volunteering at a local pet shop. Store owner Mito is as sweet and kind as the fuzzy critters he cares for, and it’s not long before Shohei finds himself wanting to cuddle with him as much as the bunnies! But Shohei is hiding a dangerous secret, one that makes this dream an unlikely reality. (Source: Sublime)
Series Order:
1. Secret XXX
2. Therapy Game
3. Therapy Game Restart
Note:
- XXX Allergy is occasionally listed as ch.1, with Secret XXX as ch.2 to 5.5.
- XXX Allergy, or ch.1, is technically a oneshot that was continued due to popular demand.
Rating: 8 (250 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2527 (+286)
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Slice of Life
Looking for peace, Gen Suda decided to attend high school somewhere far from his home, in another prefecture, where his distant relatives run the local temple, which will become Gen’s new home and the start of his new life shared with his formerly tomboyish older female cousin, Chion Koterasawa: hardworking, numb and indifferent - at least seemingly, and can appearances be trusted?
Big Comics Release
Rating: 7.99 (166 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2474 (+440)
