Almost regularly in Japan manga and anime surveys are organized through news sites, social networks and magazines and often the results allow us to assess the situation in which the industry is at that particular moment and this time it was TV Asashi beat a gigantic top 100 of the best shonen.
Get the survey more than 150,000 answers, it is therefore a rather small part compared to the readers and enthusiasts present around the world and if some answers have met expectations, others could surprise, both positively and negatively. Below is the full ranking as well as the votes each work received.
- one piece (33,600)
- Demon Slayer (29,100)
- Slam dunks (26,700)
- Detective Conan (25,400)
- Dragon Ball (22,400)
- attack on Titan (21,900)
- Naruto (19,800)
- Haikyu!! (18,700)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (18,500)
- Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (17,100)
- Hunter X Hunter (16,200)
- Gintama (16,100)
- Kingdom (15,200)
- World Triggers (11,700)
- Doraemon (11,300)
- My Hero Academy (10,900)
- Yu of Spirits (8,600)
- Black Jack (8,200)
- Jujutsu Kaisen (8,000)
- Natsume of Ghosts (7,400)
- Maya’s Big Dream (7,100)
- ken the warrior (7,000)
- Bleach (6,950)
- Touch (6,900)
- Phoenix (6,700)
- Banana Fish (5,800)
- The Rose of Versailles (5,600)
- Inuyasha (5,300)
- Rocky Joe (5,100)
- Dai – The Great Adventure (4,950)
- Kenshin – Wanderer Samurai (4,900)
- Maison Ikkoku (4,600)
- Zatch bell! (4,400)
- The Poe Clan (4,100)
- Cooking Came (4,080)
- Golgo 13 (4,060)
- Sazae-san (4,040)
- Tommy the Big Star (4,020)
- AstroBoy (4,000)
- Golden Kamuy (3,950)
- Tokyo Ghoul (3,900)
- Dokaben (3,850)
- The Quintessential Quintuplets (3,800)
- Jenny the tennis player (3,600)
- Dobutsu no Oisha-san (3,450)
- The Promised Neverland (3,400)
- Hajime no Ippo (3,100)
- Ushio and Torah (3,000)
- Master Keaton (2,900)
- Kaguya-sama: Love is War (2,850)
- Assassination Classroom (2,800)
- Kuroko’s Basketball (2,750)
- Black Butler (2,700)
- The Prince of Tennis (2,650)
- Haikara-san: Here Comes Miss Modern (2,600)
- Sweets Sweets (2,300)
- City Hunters (2,290)
- chainsaw man (2,260)
- Nodame Cantabile (2,230)
- Parasite (2,200)
- Lumens (2,000)
- Card Captor Sakura (1,900)
- Kinniku Man (1,850)
- Bungo Stray Dogs (1,800)
- Fairy Tail (1,790)
- Night Heartbeat – Ransie the Witch (1,760)
- reborn! (1,730)
- Hoshin Engi (1,700)
- Cyborg 009 (1,550)
- Boys About Flowers (1,500)
- Tetsujin 28-Go (1,300)
- H2 (1,250)
- Galaxy Express 999 (1,200)
- devil man (1,160)
- Mage: The Labyrinth of Magic (1,130)
- Oishinbo (1,100)
- Abu-san (1,050)
- Battleship Yamato (1,000)
- Basara (990)
- Captain (980)
- Barbarian Legend (960)
- Hikaru no Go (950)
- Major (930)
- Fire Department (920)
- Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (900)
- Circus Karakuri (890)
- Fruit basket (860)
- Kaze no Daichi (830)
- Yukan Club (800)
- air (780)
- berserk (760)
- Spinach Macaroni (740)
- Knight Princess (720)
- Rent A Girlfriend (700)
- D. Grauman (690)
- Squettance (660)
- Captain Tsubasa (630)
- I’m not an angel (600)
- March for Lions (580)
- dr stone (560)
Without big surprises, the pirate epic by Eiichiro Oda, ONE PIECE deserves first place with more than a fifth of the total votes, followed shortly thereafter by Demon Slayer, a recent shonen marked by overwhelming anime success, and Takehiko Inoue’s slam dunk, proving to many to be the best spokon ever made became. It is interesting to note Dragon Ball’s closeness to Attack on Titan, two exponents of the same category but extremely different.
However, there is also a glimpse into the past, with Manga God Osamu Tezuka’s Blackjack at No. 18, Ken the Warrior at No. 22, and the extraordinary Devilman from Go Nagai only at number 74while Berserk, Master Miura’s masterpiece, in the 91. Let us know in the comments if you agree with the poll results or if thanks to them you have discovered new series to read.
