Top 10 Manga: Drama
The highest-graded drama manga we have reviewed, best first.
BerserkThree decades of ink poured into one question about whether a man can outrun what he agreed to.Read the review
VagabondBrush-and-ink swordsmanship drawn better than anything else in the medium, serving a man learning to stop.
Vinland SagaA revenge saga that talks its own protagonist out of revenge, then has to find out what is left.
Slam DunkA sports manga that gets funnier as it gets more serious, and ends on the only note available to it.
Death NoteA deduction contest drawn with immaculate control, and a second half that survives losing half the contest.
Goodnight PunpunA boy drawn as a scribbled bird inside a world traced from photographs, and the gap is the whole book.
RealWheelchair basketball from the author of Slam Dunk, and the more serious of the two by a distance.
MonsterA surgeon saves the wrong child and spends eighteen volumes trying to correct the arithmetic.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the WindMiyazaki spent twelve years turning his own film into the thing the film could not say.
PlutoUrasawa rebuilds a forty page Tezuka story as an eight volume murder investigation and loses nothing.
