Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
The Apothecary Diaries

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- No Fully Gag or iyashikei Manga
- I Will Allow a few others of those series if there is dramatic scenes in them even if its sparse.
- There can be male protagonists in the series, but at least 75% of the manga has to revolve around the Female Lead.
- I Will also not include SOME harem/romance manga, but only some, a bit abitary but again dont wanna conflate the list
- I May count genderbent manga

(Mainly) Shoujo manga featuring characters who are royalty or filthy rich

*often times it's the love interest who is the royal/rich character

Worldbuilding - "the process of constructing a world, originally an imaginary one, sometimes associated with a fictional universe." These kinds of manga are usually set in a fantasy and/or sci-fi world, and excel at establishing & showcasing the rules/history/economy of their fictional universe. List was created through collective data from multiple websites of people's answers as to what manga are considered to have great world building.

The main characters in these stories are bought at an auction, sold at a slave market, or exchanged for cash or other goods in a private sale. This is a common plot device in ecchi and smutty romance stories but is certainly not limited to them. Many purchased protagonists are victims of human trafficking or forced marriages, although some people willingly sell themselves to pay a debt, help someone they love, or escape what they feel is an even worse fate. Characters can be bought for a variety of different reasons, including cases where good samaritans pay specifically to rescue slaves and liberate them from slavery.

Features a rich x poor relationship. This may include sex for money turned into a relationship, Daddy Long legs, royalty, boss x subordinate, etc.

This will exclude any arranged marriage couples as they are listed in my other interest stack here: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/7212

Manga that I believe are highly underrated and deserve more attention.

The second poll organized by AnimeJapan to know which manga would people like to see animated. There were approximately 190,000 votes. Only the top 10 were publicly announced.

(Source: https://www.anime-japan.jp/2019/main/ajranking/)

Note: "Shoboshobo Man" (しょぼしょぼマン) is currently not in the database. This series ranked fourth.

The third poll organized by AnimeJapan to know which manga would people like to see animated. There were approximately 180,000 votes. Only the top 10 were publicly announced.

(Source: https://www.anime-japan.jp/2020/main/ajranking/)

The fourth poll organized by AnimeJapan to know which manga would people like to see animated. There were approximately 250,000 votes. Only the top 10 were publicly announced.

(Source: https://www.anime-japan.jp/2021/main/ajranking/)

what is the hottest manga to read this year? Today, I’d like to introduce 13 most popular manga of 2022 including the worldly less-known but domestically trendy series and the must-read comic books newly serialized.

Titles with female leads.

Excludes fictional medicine (like using magic to heal someone) and animal health care. Both
have their own stacks.

Please do check out Part 2 if you want more! https://myanimelist.net/stacks/14189

(Ignore my ratings, you should dictate the enjoyment yourself)

What definitely makes manga great would be that it goes over a broad range of themes/topics. Manga isn't afraid of addressing taboo topics, nor does it avoid concepts that most other entertainment mediums WOULDN'T DARE to touch. They also provide an imaginative exploration of how the Japanese perceive these topics. We rarely get cultural perspectives on certain topics.
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Includes topics that are rare in animanga compared to other mediums.

Manga depicting the daily life/religion/historical events/just culture overall of different parts of the world.

Doesn't include Japanese culture since most of the manga have a Japanese setting anyway.

Stories of girls and women who pursue a passion

While it might look like you don't really need to know all of this, you never know when it will be useful: for instance with quizzes, random questions that you wouldn't know the answer to otherwise, fun facts to tell someone else, or if there's trouble or necessity of intervention in your vicinity.

When this stack gets full, I'll make #2 with the links in both descriptions, no manga in here will be swapped out (or in).
=> Stack (2/2): https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18672

(Also thanks to stelllan, need to add Baki and Akagi later)

This is the original The Knuckleheads' Hall of Fame.

These manga have been judged by The Knuckleheads and found to be good. This taste in manga is 1000% more correct than the elitists. Legends says that if you watch and like all of these manga, you have good taste ,and your IQ is in the negatives.
Any of these manga can be voted out of the list, and if that happens, they will be removed from the stack.
Link to the knuckleheads: https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=85217
Link to 2024-2025 version: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47083

They would have gotten away with it too, If it weren't for these meddling protagonists.

A list of manga about solving a big mystery, solving individual cases that are unrelated to each other or solving individual cases which are linked to solving a bigger mystery.

The mysteries solved are either a mystery to both the protagonist and the reader or just the protagonist with the reader knowing most of what's going on, it may also be a mystery to whoever is trying to solve the mystery which could be supporting characters or the protagonists antagonist.

Manga included are set in real historical settings & does not include those set in a made up world but may include fictional things in the setting.

Folks doing/talking about stuff they're passionate about!

New Stack:
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/52198

The Next Manga Award (次にくるマンガ大賞 / Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō) is an annual award for the best new manga series presented by Kadokawa Corporation's Da Vinci magazine and the Niconico streaming website. It is divided into two categories: one for print manga, and one for web manga.
Winners are announced every year at the end of August.

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Manga_Award
Website:
https://tsugimanga.jp/en


* - unofficial translation of the title