Screen Rant Anime has published its picks for the 25 greatest new-generation manga to read in 2026, arguing that the landscape of anime and manga fandom has utterly changed in the post-pandemic years — and that readers' next obsessions should change with it.

The list leans into the new wave rather than legacy titans. Among the series featured are The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, the breakout romance that became a social-media phenomenon, along with Ichi the Witch and The Bugle Call, two of the most talked-about newer serializations.

Rankings like this have become a useful signal of where the medium is heading as the generation that grew up on Naruto and One Piece hands the spotlight to fresh creators. For readers who fell off manga during the pandemic era, the roundup doubles as a re-entry guide to what the fandom is actually reading now.