New Manga Series for the Year 2019
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, Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Slice of Life, Supernatural
From Viz:
Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head!
Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn’t know is that the wife he’s chosen is an assassin and the child he’s adopted is a telepath!
Original Web Manga:
Shonenjump, Mechacomic
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Note: Nominated for the 12th Manga Taishou Award in 2019, for the 24th and the 27th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020 and 2023, the Best Shounen Manga of the 44th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2020 and the Harvey Awards in 2023.
Won the Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 2023.
Rating: 8.62 (829 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #29 
(-7)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life, Smut, Yaoi
Yiyoung is building a startup with his college friends. They get a chance to present their proposal to SJ Corporation, one of the leading companies in the country. But in the meeting room he sees Kang Daehyung, the extremely handsome company big shot that's so very much his type, and Yiyoung's heart starts to race...
Can pretty-faced Yiyoung win both in love and his career?
[Winner of Ridibooks 2019 BL Awards]
Official Webtoon:
Bomtoon, BookCube, Lezhin, Mr.Blue, Ridibooks
Official Translations:
•R19: English, French (LeBontoon, Delitoon), German, Thai (Comico, Boomtoon)
•R15: English, French, German, Thai
•Print: Italian, T.Chinese*, German*, Portuguese*, English*, Thai*
Notes:
•English publishers Tappytoon (Digital) and Tokyopop (Digital + Print) use different translations. The (*) means these editions are uncensored.
•A spin-off was released on Feb 2023 titled Love Work Balance
Rating: 8.58 (211 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1168 
(+86)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Historical, Romance, Shoujo
Leah, the eldest daughter of the Hildebrandt family, is very popular in society for her beautiful appearance and good manners, but she has a problem she can’t tell anyone about. Her brother, Richt, who was the heir to the family, left behind a letter saying he would come back after becoming a great man. As it is not known whether Richt is dead or alive, and since her father suddenly dies, Leah decides to find a partner for a political marriage in order to support herself and retain her family’s position. However, something that starts as a mere political trick turns out to be fate!
Original Webtoon:
Naver Series, KakaoPage, MComics, MrBlue, Ridibooks, Bomtoon, Comico, Lezhin
Official Translations:
English: Lezhin, NetComics, Pocket Comics, TappyToon, Renta!
French: TappyToon, Pocket Comics, Delitoon
Other: German, Indonesian, S.Chinese, Thai, Japanese
Rating: 8.56 (196 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #773 (+139)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Seinen, Slice of Life
From Viz:
Dark rumors about what befell the members of the astronomy club keep people away from the school observatory, and that’s what makes it the perfect sanctuary for Nakami and Magari to get some much-needed rest. Unfortunately, the school faculty can’t allow its unsanctioned use. But if there were a new astronomy club, maybe these two insomniacs could have a place to call home.
Rating: 8.5 (216 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1072 (+79)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Romance, Shounen
When the world was plunged into darkness, martial artists gathered to form the ‘Northern Heavenly Sect’. With the help of the Northern Heavenly Sect, people began to enjoy peace again. However, as time passed, the martial artists began to conspire against the ‘Northern Heavenly Sect’, and eventually caused the DEATH of the Sect Leader, Jin Kwan-Ho, destroying the sect with it. As everyone left the sect, Jin Kwan-Ho’s only son, Jin Mu-Won was left behind. Mu-Won has never learned martial arts, but he finds the Secret Techniques which are left behind by The Former Leaders and his Father and begins to acquire the Martial Arts of The Northern Heavenly Sect.
Original Novel:
KakaoPage, Naver Series, Ridibooks
Original Webtoon:
KakaoPage, Daum
Official Translations:
English, French, German, S.Chinese
Rating: 8.48 (297 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #318 (+57)
Genre: Drama, Josei, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Supernatural
Chae-a Han and Yunsu Park may be perfect angels at church, but Chae-a is really a foul-mouthed ex-convict, and Yunsu is...a vampire? When Yunsu blackmails Chae-a with a murder she didn’t commit, she begins searching for ways to escape the situation until the perfect opportunity presents itself. With Yunsu’s life now at her mercy, the two begin a life-or-death game of cat and mouse, only to find themselves falling deeper and deeper into each other’s traps...
Original Webtoon:
Naver Webtoon, Naver Series
Official Translations:
English, T.Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese
Rating: 8.43 (95 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #221 (+61)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance, Shoujo
They called her the Iron Widow. When her husband died, he left her to manage not only his vast holdings but also his four children. Young and inexperienced, Shuri nonetheless tried her best to raise them, despite their bitter attitude towards her. She is finally free to live her own life as her eldest son marries... only to find herself mysteriously reset to seven years ago—the night of her husband's funeral. Can Shuri find happiness with this second chance at a new destiny?
Original Webtoon
Official Translations:
English: Tapas, Radish
Other: French, Indonesian, Thai, Japanese, S.Chinese, T.Chinese
Note: The English print editions published by Seven Seas use a new translation.
Rating: 8.41 (330 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #128 (-12)
Genre: Drama, Romance, School Life, Slice of Life, Yaoi
Film enthusiast Mao Tsuchiya and his lone wolf roommate Hisashi Otomo make three promises:
(1) That Mao will never tell anyone that Hisashi is gay and has a boyfriend,
(2) That Hisashi will never approach Mao "in that way," and
(3) That they’ll respect each other's "private time."
The second-years' ground rules should ensure a peaceful life together in their dorm, but reality is never as simple as it seems in the movies, and some things are not so easily promised...
Note:
The second volume (Tasogare Outfocus Overlap) is a compilation of various extra chapters, including the doujinshi "Koiiro Soft Focus" and it was included as Volume 0 in the official English release. The spin-off "Zanzou Slow Motion" was included as Volume 2 in the English release, as well.
Official English: MangaPlanet, Kodansha US
Rating: 8.34 (234 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1328 (+181)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Shounen Ai
“Aoki, I didn’t know you thought about me that way.” Aoki has a crush on Hashimoto, the girl in the seat next to him in class. But he despairs when he borrows her eraser and sees she’s written the name of another boy—Ida—on it. To make matters more confusing, Ida sees Aoki holding that very eraser and thinks Aoki has a crush on him!
Rating: 8.32 (158 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1666 (+268)
Genre: Comedy, School Life, Shounen, Slice of Life
A comedy about two ordinary high school boys and the fujoshi classmate (who is also one of the boys' crush) who loves shipping them.
Original Webcomic
Official Translations:
Japanese
Rating: 8.32 (160 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1211 (+256)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Shounen Ai, Supernatural, Tragedy
There are a lot of things that Kouki doesn't have—no hobbies, no friends, no lover, no stable job, and no will to live. So when a random tussle with some kids gets him stabbed, he thinks maybe this is finally his ticket out of this crappy life. But just as he's about to pass out he sees a beautiful "angel"... How is Kouki supposed to cope when less than a month later, he's mysteriously healed, has astronomical bills to pay, and suddenly has the same beautiful angel as his amnesiac roommate?
Original Manga
Official Translations:
English, Spanish
The series got turned into a JDrama live action adaption in 2023
Rating: 8.31 (123 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2045 (+745)
Genre: Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life
From Kodansha:
Yuki is a college student who’s into friends and fashion. She’s also deaf. A chance meeting on a train leads to a serious crush but can it grow into something more? A sweet and touching manga romance from the creator of Shortcake Cake. Yuki, who’s always been deaf, is used to communicating with sign language and her phone. But she’s not used to English, so when a tourist from overseas asks for directions, she nearly panics until a handsome stranger steps in to help.
His name is Itsuomi, and it turns out he’s a friend of a friend. A charismatic globetrotter, Itsuomi speaks three languages, but he’s never had a deaf friend. The two feel drawn to each other and plan a date on a romantic winter’s night but Yuki’s friend is afraid that she might be setting herself up to get hurt. Could this be something real? Or will these feelings melt away with the snow?
INKR
Note: Nominated for the first Ebook Japan manga award in 2020 and the 45th to 48th Kodansha Manga Awards in the Shojo category from 2021 to 2024. Won the grand prize at the eleventh An An manga award in 2021. Nominated for the 68th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shojo category in 2022.
Rating: 8.26 (172 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #197 (-53)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Yaoi
Volume 1: Shizuma and Minato are officially a couple. But Shizuma—now a resident veterinarian—is so busy he barely has time to catch his breath, let alone go on a date. When he finally manages to find time for Minato, the universe intervenes once again, and he learns quickly that his feisty new beau is not to be ignored! (Source: Sublime)
Volume 2: Shizuma has proposed living together and couldn’t be more gung ho about it! Minato, on the other hand, is a little more reserved and wants to think things through first. Will apartment hunting give Minato the push he needs to take the next step in their relationship? Or will Shizuma’s sometimes heavy-handed love get in the way of his big decision? (Source: Sublime)
Series Order:
1. Secret XXX
2. Therapy Game
3. Therapy Game Restart
Rating: 8.24 (68 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1797 (-373)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Smut, Yaoi
Shihyeon, aka “Red Candy,” is a secret agent whose code name comes from bathing in the blood of his marks on dangerous missions. Shihyeon’s tasked with seducing and obtaining intel from Hajun, a hot college professor. Shihyeon can disarm enemies, but didn’t expect to be disarmed himself by Hajun’s own tight body. Now Shihyeon’s caught between loyalty to his spy agency and Hajun. Can Red Candy survive the incoming wave of enemies and still indulge in the sweet ecstasy of Hajun’s embrace?
Original Webtoon:
R19: Bomtoon, Lezhin
R15: Bomtoon
Official Translations:
English: Tapas, Lezhin US
Thai, French, German, T.Chinese (Print)
Spanish: R19, Uncensored
Notes:
•The Taiwanese (T.Chinese) print edition is uncensored, with fully drawn genitals. The Spanish translation has two R19 versions, censored and uncensored.
•The English translation on Lezhin US is uncensored.
•The translation on Lezhin US was stopped after 13 episodes and is no longer available, due to conflict with Tapas' current license (which expired 9/19/23).
The author has confirmed the Lezhin US version will be sold again in 2024.
•On September 22, 2023, Red Candy was renewed for an additional year in Tapas.
Rating: 8.22 (153 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1156 (+552)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Yaoi
Suk-yun is Mr. Perfect from head to toe with crisp creases in his suit, a handsome and fit figure... and an expensive wristwatch dominating his timetable. Woo-in fell for him HARD, because he’s just so... perfect. But over time, the beep of the wristwatch had more power over Suk-yun than his feelings for Woo-in, so he left. To get over the breakup, Woo-in starts working for a cleaning company and just who is his first customer? The crazy messy junk-filled home of Suk-yun, Mr. (Not 100%) Perfect.
Original Webtoon:
Bomtoon, Lezhin
Official Translation:
R19: English, Japanese, Thai, French, Arabic, German
R15: English
Rating: 8.2 (94 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2072 (+646)
Genre: Romance, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life
Hot-headed Kozuka Mitsuomi left his home in the country to try to lead a sophisticated life in Tokyo. Unfortunately, at age 25, he returns home in disgrace, having been fired from his job. As he tries to rediscover himself in the rural area he once called home, he meets Kumai Yamato, a man about his age who was adopted into his community while Mitsuomi was away. The sweet and even-tempered Yamato is hiding his own pain, and as the two men connect, they start a journey together.
Rating: 8.19 (137 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3126 (No change)
Genre: Romance, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life, Sports
This is the story between a young innocent ballet boy and a passionate, determined boxing boy. The two met at the children's palace, and since then, they have grown up together supporting each other. May there be hardships, may there be obstacles, yet they never stopped pursuing their dreams. The beauty of the salad days is the sweat from the hard work and the bonding of friendship.
Although they have completely different paths set up for them, what never changes is their beautiful friendship...
Original Webcomic:
KuaiKan, AC.QQ, BiliBili
Official Translations:
•French, B.Portuguese, German
•English: Tapas, Lalatoon, Toomics
•Spanish: Toomics, Tapas
Note: Salad Days; a Shakespearean idiomatic expression meaning a youthful time, accompanied by the inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence, or indiscretion that one associates with a young person.
Rating: 8.18 (61 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #2031 (+628)
Genre: Drama, Historical, Josei, Romance, Tragedy
"The year is 1926 in this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”, and Joseon (present-day Korea), is under colonial Japanese rule. Su-a Heo is a handmaiden who spends her days working and swimming in the sea. Her work is her whole life, until one day, when she discovers a wounded independence fighter named Uihyeon Kang washed up on the shore. She nurses him back to health, only to lose her ability to speak in a botched murder attempt by Uihyeon’s comrade, Haesu Song. As she travels to the capital, Gyeongseong (present-day Seoul), to get revenge, she finds herself growing more and more intertwined with a strange, brave new world and the people within it."
Original Webtoon:
Naver Webtoon, Naver Series
Official Translation:
English
Rating: 8.15 (58 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1995 (+615)
Genre: Action, Drama, Martial Arts, Shounen, Sports
You’ve got the raw talent. Or you’re the underdog. But do you have the heart? Do you have what it takes? Let’s see what you’re made of. The real fight starts now!
(Line Webtoons)
Original Webtoon:
Naver, Naver Series
Official Translations:
English, Japanese (IP block), Spanish, S.Chinese, T.Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, French, German
Rating: 8.14 (155 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1550 (+318)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Yaoi
At 39 years old, Nozue lives a routine, if not melancholic, life of sleep and work. Togawa, his younger subordinate, finds it troubling and takes it upon himself to shake up Nozue's routine. During a lunch outing, the two go to a pancake shop full of exuberant young ladies to "do what girls do," and it's just the thing to breathe life into Nozue. The two men start an unlikely friendship—and perhaps something a little sweeter!
Official Translations:
Print: English, French, Polish, Spanish
Rating: 8.14 (99 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1907 (+586)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life
Yuya Aida (25) and Rio Aihara (28) are in their second month of living together. More than lovers but less than married, they're still more or less content.
Original Webmanga
Rating: 8.1 (180 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1719 (+634)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Supernatural, Yaoi
After meeting in a seaside town during their solo-travels, Kazushi Kimijima and Tatsumi Higaki find themselves as patrons of the same inn. The friendly Kazushi invites the pensive Tatsumi for a drink as a favor for his help during a prior sand-in-eye plight. Kazushi finds out little by little why his new acquaintance is so apprehensive. What will he do when Tatsumi unveils his deepest secret and with it, his deepest fear?
Official English Translation
Rating: 8.08 (128 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #3189 (No change)
Genre: Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life
Basketball players. Bad boys who aren't really bad boys. Roommates. Senpai-kouhai BL romance. It all started when Kagiura moved into the school dorms with what seemed to be a bad-boy upperclassman. But after he's left in the tender care of his mother hen of a roommate, Hirano, it's too much to ask for Kagiura not to fall in love…right?!
Note: Set about six months after the events in the novel.
Rating: 8.06 (46 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1683 (+493)
Genre: Adult, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Josei, Romance
So I've become Yunifer Magnolia, the villainess who's crazed with jealousy because Duke Ishid Lucrenze, the devastatingly handsome hero, has eyes only for Raelle, Yunifer's best friend. Yunifer torments Raelle so much that Yunifer's killed off at the end. But...I'M Yunifer now. UGH! Good news is, I've transmigrated before her tragic end, so there's time to make sure Ishid and Raelle have a fairy tale ending (and I stay alive). The bad news is, I got drunk and woke up with Ishid next to me. Crap.
Original Webtoon
R15 | R19
Official Translations:
English (Radish, Tapas), S.Chinese, T.Chinese, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Thai
Rating: 8.05 (341 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #892 (-83)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Historical, Romance, Shounen Ai
A company president diagnosed with cancer accidentally transmigrated into a novel, and became the villainous emperor the male lead is going to kill?! On top of that, this male lead is the prince of the enemy kingdom that is being imprisoned by him at this moment…. Feels like he just took a step closer to death! No way! To live, I must please him, but I never knew that it wasn’t just simply hatred between us….
Original Manhua
Official Translation:
Japanese, Vietnamese
•English: Tapas, INKR, Comikey, Mangatoon, WebComics, Pocket Comics, Webnovel
Tapas and Webcomics have different translations, all other platforms have the webcomics translation
Rating: 8.05 (96 votes)
Activity: Stats Pos #1857 (+706)
