Interested in reading something different? Take a look at our favourite YA Manga series for teens and young adults, including My Hero Academia! Perfect to get you started on your National Year of Reading journey.
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Jujutsu Kaisen
Gege Akutami
Yuji Itadori is high schooler who spends his days visiting his bedridden grandfather. Although he looks like your average teenager, his immense physical strength is something to behold! Every sports club wants him to join, but Itadori would rather hang out with the school outcasts in the Occult Club.
One day, the club manages to get their hands on a sealed cursed object, but little do they know the terror they’ll unleash when they break the seal.
Assassination Classroom
Yusei Matsui
The would-be assassin students in Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High have a new teacher: an alien octopus with bizarre powers and unlimited strength, who’s just destroyed the moon and is threatening to destroy the earth – unless they can kill him first!
Sugino, who let his grades slip and got kicked off the baseball team. Karma, who’s doing well in his classes but keeps getting suspended for fighting. And Okuda, who lacks both academic and social skills, yet excels at one subject: chemistry.
Who has the best chance of winning that reward? Will the deed be accomplished through pity, brute force or poison…? And what chance does their teacher have of repairing his students’ tattered self-esteem?
The Apothecary Diaries
Natsu Hyūga
Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she isn’t long for a life of drudgery!
Using her wits to break a ‘curse’ afflicting the imperial heirs, Maomao attracts the attentions of the handsome eunuch Jinshi and is promoted to attendant food taster. But Jinshi has other plans for the erstwhile apothecary, and soon Maomao is back to brewing potions and… solving mysteries?!
Chainsaw Man
Tatsuki Fujimoto
Denji was a small-time devil hunter just trying to survive in a harsh world. After being killed on a job, Denji is revived by his pet devil-dog Pochita and becomes something new and dangerous – Chainsaw Man.
Denji’s a poor young man who’ll do anything for money, even hunting down devils with his pet devil-dog Pochita. He’s a simple man with simple dreams, drowning under a mountain of debt. But his sad life gets turned upside down one day when he’s betrayed by someone he trusts.
Now with the power of a devil inside him, Denji’s become a whole new man-Chainsaw Man.
Hunter X Hunter
Yoshiihiro Togashi
Plucky Gon’s quest to find his dad leads him into a whole world of crazy adventure. Hunters dedicate their lives to tracking down treasures, magical beasts, and even other people.
But such pursuits require a license, and less than one in a hundred thousand can pass the grueling qualification exam. Those who do pass earn the right to call themselves Hunters. When country boy Gon decides to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a legendary Hunter, he embarks across the perilous sea to take the Hunter Exam.
After he finally finds the elusive Exam Hall, the other Hunter hopefuls prove deadly serious, and the tests are wild and wicked. Will Gon’s plucky spirit and courageous heart be enough to carry him closer to his dream?
Haikyu!!
Haruichi Furudate
Ever since he saw the legendary player known as the ‘Little Giant’ compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever!
He decides to join the team at the high school the Little Giant went to – and then surpass him. Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else?
After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, the King of the Court, Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy who is supposed to be his rival ends up being his teammate?
Delicious in Dungeon
Ryoko Kui
When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions. They’re eager to get right back to it, but there’s just one problem: if they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they’re sure to eat it on the way!
But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: ‘Let’s eat the monsters!’ Slimes, basilisks, mimics, and even dragons…none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!
One-Punch Man
Yusuke Murata
Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressive physique.
However, this average-looking guy has a not-so-average problem – he just can’t seem to find an opponent strong enough to take on! Every time a promising villain appears, he beats the snot out of them with just one punch!
Can Saitama finally find an opponent who can go toe-to-toe with him and give his life some meaning? Or is he doomed to a life of superpowered boredom?
Komi Can’t Communicate
Tomohito Oda
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi’s greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve!
With the whole student body keeping their distance and Komi unable to utter a single word, friendship might be forever beyond her reach.
Timid Tadanao is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. He lives to blend in with the background. All that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly realizes she isn’t aloof, she’s just super awkward.
Now he’s made it his mission to help her on her quest to make 100 friends!
My Hero Academia
Kohei Horikoshi
What would the world be like if 80% of the population gained superpowers called Quirks at age four? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20% who were born Quirkless?
Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn’t got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end.
Then an encounter with the greatest hero of them all gives him a chance to change his destiny.
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