New Manga Series for the Year 2004
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, Drama, Historical, Mature, Mystery, Seinen, Sports, Supernatural, Tragedy
Set in the U.S. in 1890, the story follows Johnny Joestar, a paraplegic ex-jockey, and Gyro Zeppeli, master in a mystic art named the Spin, as they compete with a vast number of others in the Steel Ball Run race: a mad-dash across America for a grand prize of 50 million dollars.
The first part of the new timeline. Features many changes, such as the new Joestar family line, but retaining core features of the series as Stands.
Rating: 8.98 (668 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2348 
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Slice of Life
Based on a real story which was posted on 2ch, Molester Man is the story of how Molester Man is mistaken for a stalker by Miss Understanding, and how they overcome their personal challenges while slowly growing closer to each other.
Rating: 8.64 (1075 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2591 (+218)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Historical, Mature, Psychological, Seinen, Tragedy
Historie takes place in ancient Greece and follows the childhood and adult life of Eumenes, who would grow up to be the secretary and general to Alexander the Great.
Note: Won the 16th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's Grand Prize in 2012. Won the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga.
Rating: 8.63 (1009 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1251 (+173)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Smut, Supernatural, Yaoi
In order to protect his people from attacking demons, Prince Val uses a demonic sword and curses himself in the process. He leaves his kingdom to find a cure, and his search leads him to Hallwil, the person rumored to be the only one who knows how to break the curse. Hallwil agrees to help Val... for a price.
Rating: 8.53 (926 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2087 (+221)
Genre: Comedy, Seinen, Slice of Life
Chi is a mischievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Separated from the warmth and protection of her mother, feels distraught. Overcome with loneliness she breaks into tears in a large urban park meadow, when she is suddenly rescued by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. The kitty is then quickly and quietly whisked away into the warm and inviting Yamada family apartment... where pets are strictly not permitted.
Rating: 8.51 (356 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2797 (+366)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mature, Romance, Slice of Life, Supernatural, Yaoi
People are starting to act very odd around Norio. This average, normal boy is suddenly getting a lot of unwanted romantic attention and he can’t figure out why! A broken leg and a fall down the stairs into the arms of a handsome stranger set off the beginnings of an explanation, and it is one Norio never could have possibly imagined. Soon a whole new world opens up for Norio, revealing a secret society of special people evolved from animals other than monkeys. This society has a complex structure and its members are ranked by rarity and desirability, and it turns out that Norio is a particularly rare breed and his DNA is in much demand! How will he survive in this modern jungle where he’s suddenly the prey?
Volume 2 contains a short story called, "The Cursed Lamp." It's about a genie that keeps returning to his master.
Rating: 8.49 (593 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2129 (+275)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Gender Bender, Historical, Romance, Smut, Supernatural, Yaoi
After the death of his grandmother and only remaining relative, Shinakawa Raizou moves in with the mysterious Mitou family as their housekeeper. He soon learns the Mitou family's secret: the Mitou can use great power with only their words. But because this power harms the body of the user, the Mitou pair up with human-like paper dolls to transfer their wounds to them through bodily fluid contact.
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Ze gashuu iro no hon - Artbook
Rating: 8.47 (499 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2597 (+266)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Psychological, Shounen, Supernatural, Tragedy
From Viz:
A born exorcist, Walker's primary anti-akuma weapon is the cross that's embossed on his red, disfigured left hand, which contains Innocence. But not only does Walker destroy akuma, he sees the akuma hiding inside a person's soul! Together with his fellow exorcists fighting under the command of the Black Order, Walker leads the battle against the Millennium Earl, the evil being out to destroy mankind.
Rating: 8.47 (2159 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1167 (+42)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural
From Viz:
Yoshimori couldn't care less about catching demons. Until he realizes that his apathetic attitude is taking a toll on his friendship with Tokine. Just as he decides to take matters into his own hands, a couple of amphibious demons and the pesky ghost of a pastry-chef show up to complicate matters.
Note: Won the 52nd Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category.
Rating: 8.46 (1618 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2300 (+200)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life
From Viz:
Although a truly gifted hairstylist, Kiri Koshiba has no interest in using her talent to pursue fame and fortune, unlike the three popular boys in the "Scissors Project" at school. Determined to become the best makeover team in Japan, they give showy makeovers to handpicked girls. As much as Kiri tries to shy away from the Scissors Project spotlight, she finds herself responding to beauty's call...
Note: Beauty Pop Stage 2 is from volume 7 to 10. It is a continuation of Beauty Pop. This is because they were published after the hiatus. The whole series ends with 10 volumes.
Rating: 8.46 (1727 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2235 (+189)
Genre: Action, Drama, Harem, Horror, Mature, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural
The story follows Tohno Shiki, a teenage boy who, after a near-fatal accident in his childhood, gained the mysterious power to perceive lines covering everything around him. When he cuts along these lines, whatever it was immediately falls apart with a clean cut; in other words, killing it. He would have quickly gone insane from living in a world that could fall apart so easily, had it not been for a wandering self-proclaimed magician who gave him a pair of glasses that blocked his unnatural perception when worn.
Soon afterwards, he was disinherited from his family and sent to live with some relatives. For eight years he lived a normal life, hiding his special eyes, until one day he receives a letter inviting him to come back home. Shiki suddenly becomes caught up in strange and life-threatening series of events, ones that are somehow linked to his childhood accident and a forgotten past...
Rating: 8.44 (1025 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2525 (+141)
Genre: Adult, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Smut, Yaoi
Being in love with your straight senpai isn't easy, but being in love with your straight, homophobic, and tyrannical senpai can be hell! And that's something Tetsuhiro Morinaga can relate to... especially now that he's had a taste of the forbidden fruit!
Features the same homophobic brother from Challengers, but this time as the main character!
Contains an extra story called Bokutachi no Shippai in v.5 featuring Masaki and Morinaga's big brother Kunihiro.
Takanaga Hinako confirmed on her Twitter account that her manga Koisuru Boukun will resume serialization in the February's 2015 issue of Kaiohsha's Gush magazine.
Rating: 8.44 (1068 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1222 
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Smut, Yaoi
Volume 1:
1-2. Punch Up (act 1-2)
Motoharu is an openly gay, elite architect whose preference is the athletic, pretty boy type. While checking out the well-built construction workers at his favourite hunting ground?the construction site?he found his missing wayward cat Shinobu. A hot-tempered, sarcastic, bratty iron-worker named Kouta insists Shinobu is Nyata his cat. Will Maki be able to tame the vicious pet(s)? (features Misono from Mayou Otoko)
3. Punch Up (act 3)
Kouta feels uneasy after finding out about Motoharu and Shinobu's one night stand.
4. Sweet Train
Junsuke presents Shinobu a trip to Sapporo by train as a belated birthday gift. (features Shinobu and Junsuke from Play Boy Blues)
Volume 2:
1-2. Punch Up (act 4-5)
Motoharu learns a little bit more about Kouta's past from the youth's ex-classmate.
3. Ohki Kouta's Interview
A little interview detailing Kouta's job.
4. Punch Up (act 6)
Kouta runs into his brother's ex-partner and is made to remember his painful past.
5. Honeymoon
Fukazu Yuya is going out with Kouta's brother who is a cross-dresser. This chapter focuses on Kouta's little known complicated past.
Volume 3
1-3 Punch Up (act 7-9)
Kouta and Maki happily living together. Are they? Maki feels insecurity about sudden re-appearance of Kouta's first love, Yuya. While Maki tried to let confused Kouta sort out his feelings, catastrophe strikes...!
4. Maki Motoharu's Consolation
Volume 4
1-3 Punch Up (act 10-12)
15 years old Kouta is fighting to differentiate himself from his 19-year-old self! Will he ever regain his memories? Does he want to?
4. My Motoharu is not like this XXX
Kouta is worried because Motoharu seems to be less perverted than before.
Volume 5
Punch Up (act 13-16)
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Separate extras:
'Punch Up Returns 2015' - oneshot from Pink Gold 6
'Hontoni Atta Kowai Punch↑' - oneshot from Pink Gold 7
'Punch↑×P.B.B.'
Rating: 8.44 (388 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2739 (+266)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Shoujo
A miniseries prequel about the encounter between Rain and Zol.
Rating: 8.43 (240 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2185 (+1040)
Genre: Drama, Mecha, Psychological, Romance, Sci-fi, Seinen
To what distance would you go for your one true love?
In a future filled with a boundless potential for interstellar peace and prosperity, Mikako joins a research team to explore the recent contact between humans and alien races. She ventures out into space, leaving behind Noboru, the one young man she loves. As she travels deeper into this new frontier, her only connection with her boyfriend is through cell-phone text messages. But the years pass, and Mikako barely ages in the timelessness of space--while Noboru grows older and considers moving on with his life.
In this timeless romance between star-crossed lovers in the most tragic of settings, there are some places man may not be ready to go.
English Translations: INKR Comics
Rating: 8.43 (921 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2642 (+323)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Yaoi
From Forever More:
This story is about Kaoru's friend Masato, who seems to be chasing after Kaoru by going out with the girls who Kaoru is interested in, and then breaking up with them. One day, after getting dumped by a girl, Masato visited Kaoru's apartment and forcefully embraced Kaoru with the request of "comfort me". Although it's a relationship which started without any destruction...
Rating: 8.42 (356 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2205 (+1050)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Slice of Life, Sports, Yaoi
Toono Satoru was just asked to go on a date by Tamiya Keigo, but all Satoru does is stare blankly at him without saying a word. The truth is that Satoru is so happy right now he could burst! He's had a crush on Tamiya for the longest time and never thought the feelings might be mutual. Unfortunately for Satoru, his emotions never show on his face and he barely ever talks. Naturally, this causes all sorts of misunderstandings. Will he be able to express his true feelings for Tamiya? Will Tamiya ever learn to read Satoru's expressionless face?
Rating: 8.41 (741 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2601 (+350)
Genre: Comedy, Josei, Slice of Life
From Manga Art:
Youko spends her days as the primary target of her demonic sister. But how is it that her sister's evil deeds manage to bring happiness to those around her!? Is her sister really an angel, an ally of Justice?
Rating: 8.39 (293 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2923 (+367)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Romance, Shoujo, Supernatural
From Aerandria Scans:
In this grim and realistic take on classic fairy tales, Prince Ludwig, a female corpse collector, is ordered by his father to find himself a wife more suitable than the women he often brings into the castle. Along with his servant Wilhelm, they travel across the land in search of fair maidens from classic stories in hopes of finding Ludwig a wife.
Rating: 8.32 (806 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2649 (+281)
Genre: Comedy, Gender Bender, Romance, School Life, Shoujo
Naka is an aspiring young model with a problem: her face tenses up into a terrifying spectacle whenever she gets nervous on photo shoots! Naka's rival is Umi, the hottest model at their agency. But Naka soon discovers Umi's secret--and hilarity ensues behind the cameras! [TokyoPop]
Rating: 8.31 (651 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2709 (+263)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Shounen
The demon queen subdued enormous and powerful monsters and slaughtered over half of the world's population. Surviving members of the human race elected a hero to slay the demon queen, beseeching release from her oppressive rule. However, he questions his mission to eradicate the monsters: in his opinion, they too are conscious and alive, and so he anguishes over that fact. Sheila the Demon Queen became interested in him and decides to join his journey, hiding her identity and planning to kill him after she has gained his trust. Immediately, however, she realizes that she's fallen in love with the hero, and hence their journey begins...
Rating: 8.27 (1846 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1648 (+286)
Genre: Action, Adult, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mature, Seinen
When the black blade roars, all who stand in its path shall be torn asunder…! What is it that Koinzell, the mysterious young boy who wields the sword with such exceptional skill, desires? The fight against the “Lances of Betrayal,” who were thought to have been defeated by the Seven Heroes, begins--And at battle’s end, only the shocking truth will remain amid the pools of blood.
Rating: 8.26 (1641 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #886 (-21)
Genre: Comedy, Harem, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life
Hayate Ayasaki, 16, the world's unluckiest boy. Working hard as a child for food and school fees, his unemployed and indebted parents sold him to the yakuza for his internal organs. After temporarily escaping the criminals and contemplating the benefits of a life of crime, he was saved by a wealthy young girl; who now employs him as a live-in butler.
Rating: 8.25 (1178 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2121 (+286)
Genre: Drama, Gender Bender, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Supernatural, Tragedy
From Go! Comi:
Like most teenagers, Mashiro Ichijo has a secret. But Mashiro's secret is that he’s neither fully male nor female! So far, Mashiro's been able to live his life as a boy, but all this changes when he's informed of a new class he must take in order to graduate from his elite prep school. To pass, he must find the “Key”…and the only way to find it is to enter into a nightmare world where his body and soul are put at the mercy of the worst kind of enemies: his classmates!
Rating: 8.24 (970 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2471 (+220)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mature, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life
Satoshi Yanagawa is working part-time controlling traffic at work sites and works with a beautiful girl that he likes at first sight. But she has a pretty bad character. Are there any prospects for romance? Read on to find out, the story is hilarious at certain moments, and touching at others.
Note: Won the 48th Chiba Tetsuya Grand Prize Award in the Seinen category.
Rating: 8.23 (210 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #821 (-44)
