With impressive well-choreographed fight scenes, strong protagonists, and somewhat cliche storylines that suck the reader in, it’s no wonder that the shonen genre is one of the most popular genres of manga today. Every month, amazing shonen manga, manga that are marketed towards young teen males between the ages of 12-18, are released.
However, they can be read, viewed, and enjoyed by anyone due to their core values of friendship, family, and the protagonist being a well-rounded and honorable person. There are several monthly Shonen manga that deserve an anime adaption.
10 Chainsaw Man - The Fusion Of A Demon Dog And A Man In Debt
With a debut manga release on October 6, 2020, Chainsaw Man has become an incredibly popular and highly anticipated monthly shonen manga that will be finally receiving an anime adaptation later this year. This series follows Denji, a poor young man under a mountain of debt who will do anything for money—even make deals with a chainsaw demon dog, Pochita.
However, when someone close to Denji betrays him, his world is forever changed. When fused, Pochita and Denji are able to survive by taking odd jobs and killing devils for an organized crime group.
9 Call of the Night - A Teenage Vampire Love Story
In this supernatural romance and comedy series, a young man named Ko slips out to walk the streets late at night, only to meet a flirty young woman named Nazuma. He agrees to her invitation of going to her place, which is an abandoned building.
After spending the night, he wakes to bite marks on his neck and discovers Nazuma’s vampiric nature. With little prompting, Ko becomes friends with the mysterious girl. Each night, they experience new adventures together while their young love blossoms.
8 Blue Flag - Unrequited High School Love
High school love and romance can be both bitter and sweet. After years of friendship that has grown into something more, it’s their third and final year of high school and time to confess those feelings of love.
In Blue Flag, Taichi Ichinose’s classmate Futaba Kuze seeks his help, even though he doesn’t like her. She is in love with his childhood best friend, Toma Mita, a star athlete, and wants to confess her feelings. This sparks a sweet and heartbreaking romance for the two in their last year of high school.
7 The King’s Beast - Genderbending To Avenge Her Brother
This fantasy and romance manga series is set in a world known as the Dawn of the Arcana. When boys show signs of having special abilities, they are conscripted to serve the royal palace as beast servants—a status symbol and shield for the royals, but they have little to no value.
When Rangetsu’s twin brother Sogetsu is conscripted, he is killed while attending Prince Tenyou. In her anger, she vows to seek revenge on those that killed her brother by disguising herself as a man and finding a way into the palace.
6 Hell’s Paradise - Where Life And Death Is A Coinflip
Created by Yuji Kaku, Hell’s Paradise is a fantasy and horror shonen filled with gripping scenes and an abundance of adventure. One of the most vicious assassins to come from Iwagakure village is Gabimaru the Hollow—a ruthless and efficient ninja assassin.
But when a betrayal results in him being sentenced to death, the shogun offers him a deal. If he travels to a hidden island to recover an elixir that will make the shogun immortal, Gabimaru will become a free man. This island is known as Hell’s Paradise, where death and life are a breath apart.
5 Zom 100: Bucket List Of The Dead - A Zombie Apocalypse Story
In Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Akira Tendo has spent the past 3 years working for a company that has crushed his soul, broken his spirit, and caused him to lose his spark for life. He can’t even work up the courage to ask out a beautiful co-worker either, even though he has feelings for her.
But the onslaught of an ill-fated zombie apocalypse is all it takes for him to feel the desire to live again. Instead, of wallowing in despair, Akira sets out on a mission to complete 100 items on his bucket list before he too gets eaten.
4 A Tropical Fish Yearns For Snow - Konatsu Finds What Her Heart Has Been Yearning For
A Tropical Fish Years For Snow is an incredibly sweet romance and comedy manga. For a teenage girl who has trouble with change, moving to a small, seaside town where she has to start at a new high school and is surrounded by strangers is difficult.
But on Konatsu Amano’s very first day, she is drawn to the sole member of the Aquarium Club, an older girl named Koyuki. To her, Koyuki is like the sun that shines through the dark clouds and is the reason why Konatsu feels like she can begin to overcome her introverted tendencies.
3 Spy X Family - A Spy And A Family With Secrets
When a fake family includes a spy, a telepath, and an assassin, things can get a little out of control. In Spy x Family, Twilight, a master spy who is the best at going undercover to protect and better the world, is given an almost impossible assignment, to get married and have a kid to infiltrate an elite private school.
The problem? Twilight doesn’t realize that the woman he’s chosen as his wife is an assassin and that the child he’s adopted is a telepath. This shonen manga is filled with action and comedy, and a unique storyline that deserves an anime adaption.
2 Queen’s Quality - A Girl With A Dangerous Power
From the creator of Beast Master and QQ Sweeper, Kyousuke Motomi delivers another supernatural romance manga series in need of an anime adaption. In Queen’s Quality, Fumi Nishioka lives with Kyutaro Horikita and his family, who are Sweepers, people who cleanse the mind of negative energy and harmful spirits.
Fumi, however, displays mysterious abilities that could either be used for good or evil as she awakens as Queen. With Kyutaro’s help, Fumi may be able to control her dangerous new power as it continues to grow, much like her blossoming love for Kyutaro.
1 Platinum End - Mirai Is Saved From Death, But At What Cost?
In this supernatural thriller manga from Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata that just had an anime adaptation announced as well, Mirai is shrouded in darkness as he graduates from middle school and he makes a deathly decision that he can’t come back from.
His salvation comes in the form of an angel, or so it appears. Now, Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans in a battle to become the next God, and he’s not the only one with an angel in his corner. Mirai may need to become a devil in order to survive.