Assassination Classroom

One-Punch Man

One-Punch Man takes the entire superhero power-fantasy and detonates it with a single joke: what if the strongest hero alive were so overpowered that nothing was a challenge anymore? Saitama trained until he could end any fight with one punch — and got exactly what he wished for, along with a crushing boredom no victory can cure. Bald, unbothered, and secretly the mightiest being on the planet, he shuffles through a world of monster attacks and hero rankings looking for one opponent who can make him feel something again. The genius is that it's both a razor-sharp parody and, whenever it wants to be, a genuinely jaw-dropping action series — the fights around Saitama are enormous, and the artwork (in the webcomic-turned-manga by ONE and Yusuke Murata) is astonishing. His deadpan indifference only makes the spectacle funnier. The Murata manga is the visual showcase; the anime's first season is one of the best-looking adaptations ever made and a perfect introduction. Come for the punchline, stay for how beautifully a series can send up its own genre while outclassing most of it.

Dandadan

Dandadan is what you get when aliens and ghosts crash into the same story and neither backs down. High schooler Momo believes in ghosts but not aliens; her classmate Okarun believes in aliens but not ghosts. To settle the argument they each visit a haunted site — and both are spectacularly proven right, with Momo awakening psychic powers and Okarun getting possessed by a cursed spirit. Now they're stuck chasing UFOs and vengeful yokai together while nursing a very awkward crush. Yukinobu Tatsu draws it at a full sprint, with some of the most kinetic, imaginative art in current manga and a tone that flips from genuine horror to gross-out comedy to sweet teenage romance without missing a beat. It's chaotic on purpose, and that chaos is the point — you never know whether the next page brings a monster, a joke, or a heartfelt confession. The manga is ongoing and the anime adaptation brings its manic energy roaring to life. If you want something loud, weird, funny, and secretly tender all at once, Dandadan is one of the freshest series around.

Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball follows the adventures of Son Goku from his childhood through adulthood as he trains in martial arts and explores the world in search of the seven mystical orbs known as the Dragon Balls, which can summon a wish-granting dragon when gathered. Along his journey, Goku makes several friends and battles a wide variety of villains, many of whom also seek the Dragon Balls for their own desires. Along the way becoming the strongest warrior in the universe. Part II of Dragon Ball is also known as "Dragon Ball Z" in North America. Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Undead Unluck

What happens when an unlucky girl meets an undead guy? Pure chaos! All Fuuko wants is a passionate romance like the one in her favorite shojo manga. Unfortunately, her Unluck ability makes that impossible. But just as Fuuko hits rock bottom, Andy sweeps her off her feet—literally! Now she’s become Andy’s unwilling test subject as he works to find a way to trigger a stroke of Unluck big enough to kill him for good. However, when the pair discovers a secret organization is hunting them, it puts Andy’s burial plans on hold. (Source: VIZ Media) Notes: - Winner of the 6th Next Manga Award in the Print Manga Category in 2020. - Includes five extra chapters.

Chainsaw Man

Chainsaw Man is what happens when a shonen battle series stops pretending it has any manners. Denji is a broke teenager drowning in debt, kept alive by his chainsaw-devil pet Pochita — until a betrayal fuses them into a creature who can pull a cord in his chest and turn into the Chainsaw Devil. Recruited by a government devil-hunting agency, he discovers his dreams are almost insultingly small: food, sleep, and maybe someone to touch him. The horror around him has other plans. Tatsuki Fujimoto writes it with a manic, unpredictable energy that swings from grotesque body-horror to deadpan comedy to sudden, genuine heartbreak, often in the same chapter. Nothing is safe and no one is protected by plot armor, which is exactly why it hooks so hard. The manga's first arc is complete and its second is ongoing; the anime adaptation covers the early story and is the gentlest way in. Read or watch — just know that Chainsaw Man is at its best when you have no idea what it's about to do next. It rarely does.

SPY x FAMILY

Spy x Family runs on one perfect premise: a master spy has to build a fake family for a mission, and every member is secretly hiding a life of their own. Codename "Twilight" needs a wife and child within days, so he adopts a young orphan and marries in a hurry — never realizing his new daughter Anya is a telepath who can read every mind in the room, and his new wife Yor is a professional assassin. None of them knows the others' secret. All of them are trying, clumsily, to be a real family anyway. Tatsuya Endo balances slick espionage, sudden bursts of action, and genuinely warm domestic comedy, with the wildly expressive Anya stealing nearly every scene. The tension between the danger of their jobs and the tenderness of their pretend home is what makes it sing — it's a spy thriller and a family sitcom that keep making each other better. The manga is ongoing and the anime is a faithful, gorgeous adaptation you can jump into cold. Funny, heartfelt, and endlessly rewatchable, Spy x Family is one of the easiest series on the site to fall for.

Dr. STONE

High-school student [Taiju Oki](/characters/taiju-oki) is about to confess his feelings to [Yuzuriha Ogawa](/characters/yuzuriha-ogawa) when a strange light sweeps across the planet and petrifies humanity. Thousands of years pass before Taiju finally breaks free. Civilization has vanished, but he soon finds that his friend Senku awakened earlier and has already begun experimenting with ways to survive — and, more importantly, to reverse the petrification. Their first attempts to revive humanity bring them into conflict with [Tsukasa Shishio](/characters/tsukasa-shishio), an extraordinarily powerful young man whose idea of rebuilding the world is fundamentally different from Senku's. Senku wants the knowledge and technology of the old world restored for everyone. Tsukasa sees humanity's reset as an opportunity to prevent the old social order from returning. A survival problem therefore becomes a struggle over what kind of civilization should replace the one that disappeared. The scope grows quickly once Senku encounters people who have built lives in the post-petrification world. [Kohaku](/characters/kohaku), [Chrome](/characters/chrome), [Ruri](/characters/ruri) and the inhabitants of Ishigami Village turn his one-man reconstruction project into a community effort. From there, each breakthrough creates the possibility of the next: medicine leads into engineering, engineering opens new routes of travel and communication, and those advances gradually allow the cast to investigate the petrification itself. Dr. STONE keeps widening its map without abandoning the basic progression that began with Senku gathering materials by hand.

Gantz

Tokyo teens Kei and Masaru are killed by a subway train but awaken in a room with an ominous black orb that gives them weapons, suits and orders. Fighting bizarre alien monstrosities in a deadly game, will they win their freedom or die for the final time? (Source: Dark Horse)

Soul Eater

Maka is a scythe meister, working to perfect one particular scythe until it is good enough to become Death's Weapon -- the weapon used by Shinigami-sama, the spirit of Death himself. As if that wasn't unusual enough, her scythe is a demon scythe called Soul Eater, which can change form from a scythe to a human-looking boy. In order to make Soul Eater powerful enough to be Death's Weapon, he must eat the souls of 99 humans and 1 witch. Along the way, the two of them face many different challenges, including a cat witch named Blair (who happens to have a thing for Soul) and a teacher who's been turned into a zombie (and wants him to join her!). Her fellow students, like the shadow ninja weapon meister named Black Star who always needs to be the center of attention, aren't much help, either. It'll be a miracle if Maka even survives, let alone manages to make Soul Eater into the Death Scythe. (Source: Yen Press) Note: Includes four extra chapters.