10 Shonen Manga To Binge (That Aren't One Piece) | CBR - CBR

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Thanks to streaming services, binging has become the new method of consuming series. No one wants to wait a week to see the next episode when they can experience it all at once, even if it means catching up to something still running. When it comes to One Piece, the series is over a thousand chapters and counting, and Oda-sensei shows no signs of bringing it to a close very shortly.

But for those who have already finished One Piece or find the fact that it's still running despite being so long somewhat daunting, there are many other shonen manga that deserve more attention. None of them can be One Piece, but they're all great series from some of the manga's best creators.

10 Naruto Set The Tone For Shonen Manga For The Next Two Decades

If any shonen manga fans haven’t read Naruto yet, they’re missing out on one of the best battles shonen ever created. Masashi Kishimoto gives millennials a unique take on Goku with his main character Naruto: while he’s not a skilled genius starting like Goku was, he’s got the power of the Nine-Tails, a powerful being made of pure energy, dwelling inside of him. With seven hundred chapters and finished, even those looking for a re-read will find plenty to love all over again with this manga.

9 Yu Yu Hakusho Is A Concise Masterpiece

With four major arcs and four main villains, Yu Yu Hakusho is one of the most concise battle shonen masterpieces. Yoshihiro Togashi wrapped this series up a bit earlier than most people might have wanted him to, but that doesn’t make it any less amazing of a read. Yusuke learning to master the job of Spirit Detective isn’t just a great read. It’s a quick one for people used to the usual 50 plus volumes, as it only has nineteen volumes.

8 Touch Is A Beautiful Slice Of Life Shonen Romance

Mitsuru Adachi created one of the greatest shonen romance anime series when they started Touch in 1981. The series follows a pair of twin brothers in love with the same woman and their shared love of baseball.

This series isn’t about the main characters gaining near-superhuman abilities to win a national tournament—this is from an era where character development is emphasized more and manages to be just as compelling with regards to the romance as the development of the characters and their friendships.

7 My Hero Academia Shows The Growth Of Teenage Superheroes

There’s nothing more binge-able than getting to see a character’s growth over time. And the entire point of My Hero Academia is seeing how the characters in the story grow into becoming more capable heroes. They all start as first-year students starting high school at U.A., learning how to become better heroes. Deku, in particular, has to learn to master his abilities if he’s going to have a hope of becoming an even greater hero than All Might. With over twenty volumes in, My Hero is more interesting than ever, and there isn’t a better time to start.

6 Fullmetal Alchemist Is A Compelling Mystery With Plenty Of Action

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Fullmetal Alchemist is one of the most beloved anime series of the last decade. But the manga is also amazing—Hiromu Arakawa created something so great the series got remade so that fans could see the planned ending animated. The series runs for twenty-seven volumes and is an exciting read all the way through. Multiple mysteries are set up as Edward and his younger brother Al explore the continent in search of a way to restore their bodies with the power of the mysterious Philosopher’s Stone.

5 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Has The Most Likable Siblings In Manga

One of the most popular series of Weekly Shonen Jump, Demon Slayer, wrapped up in 2020, even though it was still at the height of its popularity when it ended and might have ended just a little faster than people expected.

That said, it might actually read better now that it’s finished, as fans who followed along had problems with how the storyline had been paced as it was being written. The final arc felt somewhat rushed for people reading it weekly, but it seems to be a superior experience for people who are binge-reading it.

4 Air Gear Takes Sports Shonen To Higher Levels

Air Gear is one of Oh! Great’s best works, with the “gimmick” focusing on motorized skates known as Air Treks. It seems like a straightforward series to start with, but the longer the manga goes, the more absurd the tricks and the backstory become. Eventually, the characters are literally superhuman, with Minami Itsuki and his clan of skaters aiming for the top of the Trophaeum, the goal of everyone in their community.

3 Noragami Is The Story Of A Forgotten God

Noragami was actually a fairly popular series when it premiered on television in 2014. The series starts simply enough, with Delivery God Yato trying to take on odd jobs to earn enough money to buy his own shrine. The series has been running since 2010, coming out monthly. While it feels like an Inuyasha clone early on, the more it develops its own lore, the more exciting a read becomes, becoming impossible to put down.

2 Magi Had Incredible Visuals, But Can Only Be Finished As A Manga

Magi was one of the more popular fantasy shonen from the 2010 era. Unfortunately, it never got a proper finish, even though the manga has long since wrapped up. Aladdin and Alibaba's story gets a proper finish in the manga, which ran for thirty-seven volumes. With the first season not being wholly accurate, readers are in for a unique reading experience from the very beginning. Even better, readers can finally get closure on Aladdin’s growth into the best Magi and the blossoming relationship between Alibaba and Morgiana.

1 Dr. Stone Is A Modern Classic In The Making With One Of The Best Mysteries Ever

Dr. Stone has received multiple seasons with the interesting plot of returning a stone world to normal with science instead of brute force—something the shonen genre rarely does. However, there is still a mystery in the air: who turned the Earth to stone, to begin with? With his tall, green hair and easily excitable interest in returning the current world to its former civilized glory, Senku Ishigami sets upon a long path to bring back the modern worlds' inventions as well as figure out the mystery behind who exactly turned the world—and it's inhabitants—into stone.

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