A group of comics and manga bloggers provide their picks for the best new and continuing manga series of 2017-2018. Categories include Best New Manga for Kids/Teens, Best Continuing Manga Series for Grown-ups, Most Anticipated Manga, Most Wanted (but unlicensed) Manga, and of course, Worst Manga.

1. Best and Worst
Manga
San Diego Comic-Con 2018

2. Meet our panelists!
Deb Aoki
Publishers Weekly,
ANN
Brigid Alverson
School Library Journal,
ICV2, Smash Pages
Zac Bertschy
Anime News
Network
Chris Butcher
Toronto Comic Arts
Festival
Rob McMonigal
PanelPatter.com
Megan Peters
ComicBook.com
Rachel Thorn
Kyoto Seika
University

3. Best New Manga
for Kids/Teens

4. Dead Dead Demon’s
Dededede
Destruction
Asano Inio
Print and digital
SDCC #2813

5. To Your Eternity
Yoshitoki Oima
(A Silent Voice)
Print and digital

6. My Hero
Academia:
Vigilantes
Hideyuki Furuhashi, Betten Court
(Original concept by Kohei Horikoshi)
Print and digital
SDCC #2813

7. Again!!
Mitsurou Kubo
(Yuri on Ice!!)
Print and digital

8. Laid-Back Camp
Afro
Print and digital

9. Elegant Yokai
Apartment Life
Hinowa Kouzuki and Waka Miyama
Digital only

10. Best New Manga
for Grown-ups

11. Golden Kamuy
Satoru Noda
Print and digital
SDCC #2813

12. Devilman:
The Classic Collection
Go Nagai
Print (hardcover)
SDCC #2701

13. HP Lovecraft’s
The Hound and
Other Stories
Gou Tanabe
Print and digital
SDCC #2615

14. Dementia 21
Shintaro Kago
SDCC #1721

15. Wotakoi: Love
is Hard for
Otaku
Fujita
Print and digital

16. My Solo Exchange
Diary
Nagata Kabi
Print and digital
SDCC #2701

17. The Life-
Changing
Manga of
Tidying Up
Marie Kondo and Yuko Uramoto
Print and digital
SDCC #1514, 1515, 1623

18. Best Continuing
Series Manga
for Kids/Teens

19. My Hero Academia
Kohei Horikoshi
Shonen Jump
Print & digital
SDCC #2813

20. Land of the Lustrous
Haruko Ichikawa
Print & digital

21. The Promised
Neverland
Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu
Shonen Jump
Print and digital
SDCC #2813

22. Delicious
in Dungeon
Ryoko Kui
Yen Press
Print & digital

23. Welcome to the
Ballroom
Tomo Takeuchi
Kodansha Comics
Print and digital

24. Water Dragon’s Bride
Rei Toma
Shojo Beat
Print and digital
SDCC #2813

25. Best Continuing
Series Manga
for Grown-ups

26. Tokyo Tarareba Girls
Akiko Higashimura
Print and digital

27. Kakegurui:
Compulsive
Gambler
Homura Kawamoto
Toru Naomura
Print and digital + simulpub

28. My Brother’s Husband
Gengoroh Tagame
Volume 2: September 2018

29. Descending
Stories:
Showa Genroku
Rakugo Shinju
Haruko Kumota
Print and digital

30. Otherworld
Barbara
Moto Hagio
Available now
SDCC #1721

31. Silver Spoon
Hiromu Arakawa

32. Case Closed
Gosho Aoyama
Shonen Sunday

33. Worst Manga
(for anyone, any age)

34. GOLOSSEUM
Yasushi Baba
Print and digital

35. Dissolving
Classroom
Junji Ito
Vertical Comics

36. Fire Punch
Tatsuki Fujimoto
Print and digital

37. Baccano!
Ryohgo Narita, Shinta Fujimoto and
Katsumi Enami
Print and digital

38. Wadanohara
and the Great
Blue Sea
Kaitei Shujin
Print and digital

39. Fruits Basket
Another
Natsuki Takaya

40. Most-
Anticipated New
Manga
(coming soon in 2018-
2019)

41. That Blue Sky Feeling
Okura and Coma Hashii
VIZ Media
August 2018

42. Witch Hat Atelier
Kamome Shirahama
March 2019

43. Kino’s Journey:
The Beautiful
World
Keiichi Sigsawa and Iruka Shiomiya
February 2019

44. Junji Ito’s
Frankenstein
Junji Ito
October 2018

45. Shimanami
Tasogare
Yuhki Kamatani
May 2019
SDCC #1721

46. Cutey Honey:
The Classic Edition
Go Nagai
August 2018

47. Slum Wolf
Tadao Tsuge
August 2018

48. Yoshiharu Tsuge
Yoshiharu Tsuge
7 volumes
Fall 2019

49. Most Wanted
(but not yet licensed)
Manga

50. Urusei Yatsura
(Lum)
Rumiko Takahashi
Shogakukan
34 volumes (complete)
Coming in 2019 from VIZ Media

51. Tomorrow’s Joe
(Ashita no Jo)
Ikki Kajiwara and Tetsuya Chiba
Kodansha
20 volumes (complete)

52. The Lonely Gourmet
(Kodoku no
Gurume)
Masayuki Qusumi and Jiro
Taniguchi
Fusosha Publishing
2 volumes (complete)

53. Sora no Manimani
Mami Kashiwabara
Kodansha
10 volumes (complete)

54. Yokohama
Shopping Log
(Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō)
Hitoshi Ashinano
Kodansha
14 volumes (complete)

55. Fist of the North
Star
(Hokuto no Ken)
Buronson and Tetsuo Hara
Shueisha
27 volumes (complete)

56. Underrated But
Awesome Manga
(that you should be
reading)

57. Queen Emeraldas
Leiji Matsumoto
Print and digital

58. In This Corner
of the World
Fumiyo Kouno
Print and digital

59. I Hear the Sunspot
Yuki Fumino

60. Giant Killing
Masaya Tsunamoto
and Tsujitomo
Digital only

61. Monthly Girls’
Nozaki-Kun
Izumi Tsubaki
Print and digital

62. More Manga at SDCC 2017
Manga Publishers at the
SDCC Exhibit Hall
Abrams – 1216
Dark Horse – 2615
Drawn & Quarterly – 1629
Fanfare Ponent Mon - 5541
Fantagraphics - 1721
Seven Seas – 2701
TokyoPop– 1737
Udon Entertainment – 4529
VIZ Media – 2813
Manga Publishers’ Panels
FRIDAY
7:00 – 8:00 UDON Art of Video Games: Art Jam | Rm
25ABC
SATURDAY
11:15 am – 12:15 pm – My Hero Academia panel / Rm 6a
11:30 – 12:30 – Kodansha Comics: Battle Angel Alita &
Ghost in the Shell / Rm 8
2:30 – 3:30 pm – Spotlight on Yoshitaka Amano / Rm.
24ABC
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Manga: An Intro for Comics Fans | Rm
28DE
6:00 – 7:00 pm – TokyoPop / Rm 28DE
8:30 – 9:30 – Crunchyroll Industry Panel / Rm 7AB
SUNDAY
11:15-12:15 – Shonen Jump with Kohei Horikoshi | Rm