25 Best Shounen Manhua of All Time | Manga Recommendations

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25. Back from Immortal World

Alt Name: Return From the World of Immortals
Return of the World of the Celestials
Xian Jie Gui Lai
Authors: Jing Ye Ji Si (Story), Mobius (Art)
Year: 2018 - 2020

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Drama, Cultivation, Full Color, Xianxia, Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

The Great Emperor Xingxiu in the Immortal World, whose name on the earth was Tang Xiu, died in a disaster. After his death, part of his soul comes back to his body on the earth. To his surprise, ten thousand years in the Immortal World is only equivalent to one year on the earth.

24. Swallowed Star

Alt Name: Star Devourer

The Legend of Spacewalker
Authors: I Eat Tomatoes
Year: 2020 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Supernatural, Full Color, Martial Arts, Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

Year 2056, in a city in the Yuan Jiang Su Jin area. On top of a ruined, shattered six story residential apartment sits a teenager wearing a combat vest, militaristic trousers, and alloyed battle boots. On his back is a hexagonal shield and equipped is a blood-shadow battle knife. He sits there silently on the edge of the roof. At this time, the sparkling sky was shining and there was a refreshing breath within the air that blew towards him. However, there was only silence within the ruined, deserted city, with an occasional howl that makes your heart skip a beat.

23. Otherworldly Evil Monarch

Alt Name: Yi Shi Xie Jun
Authors: Fengling Tianxia
Year: 2019 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Harem, Comedy, Fantasy, Ancient China, Full Color, Martial Arts, Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

Jun Xie was the number one assassin in modern earth. His skills and knowledge in the field of assassination were unparalleled, his accomplishments unprecedented, his reputation terrified the entire underworld. However, during a mission to retrieve a mystical treasure, a mishap occurred… He is now Jun Moxie, a sixteen year old super level debauchee, sole heir to the declining Jun family. A family of valiant heroes, left with an old grandpa, a crippled uncle and a debauchee as the sole heir! Accepting the world’s criticism and cold stares with a smile, his new journey begins! His life will be carved by his own will! Rise to the top! Evil Monarch Jun Xie!

22. Everlasting God of Sword

Alt Name: Wangu Jian Shen
Authors: Meng Bai
Year: 2018 - 2020

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Full Color, Hiatus, Xianxia, Based on a Novel

Synopsis:

He stood at the pinnacle of the world. Surpassing all since birth in the art of the sword. But fate has left him crippled moments before reaching the apex. But the story continues and the legend will rise again...

21. Rebirth of The Urban Immortal Cultivator

Alt Name: Rebirth: City Cultivation
Chongsheng Zhi Dushi Xiuxian
Authors: Daxingdao Dongman, Shili Jianshen (Story), Uncle Zhong (Art)
Year: 2018 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life, Supernatural, Age Transformation, Cultivation, Full Color, Second Chance, Time Travel, Xianxia, Based on a Novel

Synopsis:

During the anti-cataclysm period, the monk Chen Fanyu fell into the catastrophe of the day, but he dreamed of returning to the earth's young age in five hundred years. In the last life, I was on the top of the universe, overlooking the world, but no one was accompanied. This world is only willing to live with the right person. After 500 years, the immortal reborn and returned to the city, to make up for the regret and play the story of pretending to be the weak.

20. Apotheosis

Alt Name: Principles of Heavens
Apotheosis - Ascension to Godhood
Apotheosis - Elevation to the Status of a God
Bai Lian Cheng Shen
Bách Luyện Thành Thần
Forged Success
Principles of Heavens—Zen’s Cultivation of Immortality
The Endless Road to Divinity Authors: Gift Of Liberation (Story), Ranzai Studio(Art)
Year: 2015 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Cultivation, Fantasy, Full Color, Harem, Martial Arts,Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

Apotheosis - Elevation to the status of a God. Luo Zheng, now a humble slave was born as the eldest son of a wealthy family. Due to his family's decline, the kidnapping of his sister by a powerful force, he can now only be stepped upon by others. However, heaven never seals off all exits. An ancient book left by his father reveals a secret divine technique, giving the reader immense power! But what is behind this power? This is a contest against fate.

19. The Magic Chef of Ice and Fire

Alt Name: Fire-and-Ice Magic Cookery
Bing Huo Mo Chu
Authors: Tang Jia San Shao
Year: 2014 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Cooking, Elemental Powers, Full Color, Magic, Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

Magicians use elements such as ice, fire, wind, earth, light, and darkness to project miracles in the magic world while chef masters use their magical culinary skills to play with people's tastes...Nathaniel, a powerful magician can control ice and fire whose true identity is...a cook? What kind of delicate dish can he make to impress the nobles in Snow City? Is he coming to this city simply for cultivating his cooking skills or he having other intentions?

18. Cultivation Chat Group

Alt Name: Dank Cultivator Memes
Xiu Zhen Liao Tian Qun
Authors: Legend of the Paladin (Story), Firepower Panda (Art)
Year: 2017 - Present

Genres: Action, Comedy, Martial Arts, School Life, Webtoon, Cultivation, Full Color, Xianxia, Based on a Novel

Synopsis:

One day, Song Shuhang accidentally joined an online chat group filled with Xianxia-obsessed chuunis. They called each other "fellow daoists", had all sorts of strange usernames, and even referred to one their pets as a "demon dog". Some time later, however, Shuhang came to a realization. The other members of the group were actually real-life cultivators—the kind that move mountains and can live for thousands of years! Ahhhhh! His worldview was shattered overnight!

17. I'm an Evil God

Alt Name: Wo Wei Xie Di
Authors: Shidai Man Wang
Year: 2019 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Seinen, Webtoon Full Color, Isekai, Person in a Strange World, Reincarnation, RPG

Synopsis:

Across the realms, is the manliest and most handsome evil god in history! The peerless beautiful man Xie Yan crossed over and fell into the vixen's lair. In order not to be drained of his entire life-force, he travels between various realms, cuts down a son of god, and repels the confederacy Yang Yi... This is the story of how he eventually becomes an evil god.

16. Star Martial God Technique

Alt Name: Astral Sutra
Godly Star Martial Arts
Xing Wu Shen Jue
Authors: Mad Snail
Year: 2016 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, Cultivation, Full Color, Martial Arts, Weak to Strong, Xianxia, Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

In the whole world there lay twelve paths to climb Tower of God, and in legends, these twelve pathways lead toward the legendary road of immortality. However, these paths in the Tower of God, are far too long, without end. In ancient times there once were many types of martial arts, sadly the world underwent terrible changes, and only three were left: Flame, Dragon and Star Martial Arts. Generations of experts of those three martial arts are searching for the road to immortality. A Star Martial Arts practitioner on his journey of a lifetime, in becoming the Highest God.

15. Release That Witch

Alt Name: Fang Kai Na Ge Nu Wu
Authors: Er Mu (Story), Dr Woodman, Yuè Wén Mànhuà (Art)
Year: 2017 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, Supernatural, Webtoon, Demons, Full Color, Guns, Isekai, Kingdom Building, Magic, Management, Medieval, Modern Knowledge, Nobility, Person in a Strange World, Political, Reincarnation, Religion, Royalty, War, Witches, Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

A modern-day engineer is transmigrated to a different world... where he becomes a prince. His surroundings remind him of medieval Europe, but it's not quite the same. In this world, witches actually exist, and they have real magic powers! Magic powers... that can be used as a productive force! The witches must be saved. Their powers must be liberated! We must open our map, fight off demons, solve the conspiracy, and climb the tree of technology!

14. Zui Wu Dao

Alt Name: Peak of Martial Arts
The First 1
Authors: Han Yan
Year: 2014 - 2015

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Manhua, Full Color

Synopsis:

In a world of martial arts, a young boy namned Wu was unable to practice martial arts due to his special body, will he accept his fate and live his life bullied and looked down by others or will he rise and become a master?

13. Shanliang de Sishen

Alt Name: Ah Dai is a Yes-Man
The Kind Death God
Authors: Tang Jia San Shao (Story), Han Chao (Art)
Year: 2012 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Full Color, Based on a Novel

Synopsis:

Ah Dai is a very kind and soft-hearted kid. His favourite thing is steamed bun and his favourite girl is Ya Tou. But steamed buns are always in shortage and Ya Tou left him, never coming back. "What is wrong and what is right", even someone as silly as Ah Dai sometimes asks this question, especially when he forced by a gangster to pickpocket others on the street. One day, he got a money bag full of amethyst coins from a passerby, and the coins started to talk and shine with mysterious light. "Do you want to go with me?" That rather strange handsome passerby asked him. "Can I have steamed buns everyday." "Yes, you can." And our Ah Dai joined this mysterious magician to start his fantasy cultivation journey...and eat steamed buns everyday...

12. The Great Ruler

Alt Name: The Great Dictator
Da Zhu Zai
Authors: Tian Can Tu Dou (Story), Zhou Hongbin (Art)
Year: 2014 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Romance, Supernatural, Cultivation, Full Color, Xianxia, Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

The Great Thousand World. It is a place where numerous planes intersect, a place where many clans live and a place where a group of lords assemble. The Heavenly Sovereigns appear one by one from the Lower Planes and they will all display a legend that others would desire as they pursue the road of being a ruler in this boundless world. A boy from the Northern Spiritual Realm comes out, riding on a Nine Netherworld Bird, as he charges into the brilliant and diverse world. Just who can rule over their destiny of their path on becoming a Great Ruler? In the Great Thousand World, many strive to become a Great Ruler.

11. Sealed Divine Throne

Alt Name: Shen Yin Wang Zuo
Authors: Tang Jia San Shao (Story), Sariel (Art)
Year: 2014 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Full Color, Xianxia

Synopsis:

While the demons were rising, mankind was about to become extinct. Six temples rose, and protected the last of mankind. A young boy joins the temple as a knight to save his mother. During his journey of wonders and mischief in the world of temples and demons, will he be able to ascend to become the strongest knight and inherit the throne?

10. Panlong

Alt Name: Coiling Dragon
Crouching Dragon
Authors: I Eat Tomatoes (Story), Coolam (Art)
Year: 2014 - 2016

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Full Color, Xianxia

Synopsis:

Linley is a young noble of a declining, once-powerful clan which once dominated the world. He has large aspirations and wants to save his clan. Linley's journey begins with an accident when he discovers a ring. He took a liking to this ring, which had a dragon carved coiling around it. Upon being injured during a battle between two powerful fighters he discovers that his ring is not what he thought it was and possesses powers beyond his imagination.

9. Dragon Prince Yuan

Alt Name: Yuan Zun
Authors: Tian Can Tu Dou (Story), Dr.Da Ji (Art)
Year: 2017 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Romance, Ancient China, Cultivation, Full Color, Based on a Novel

Synopsis:

A young man with his brush plunges into a chaotic world and lights up the heavens. In a world where cultivators are paramount, will the vermilion bird swallow the dragon, or will the dragon transcend beyond all else?!

8. Martial Universe

Alt Name: Wu Dong Qian Kun
Authors: Tian Can Tu Dou
Year: 2013 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Harem, Martial Arts, Cultivation, Full Color

Synopsis:

Lin Dong, the unfavored borderline disciple of the small town family, went through countless difficulties and dangers. He defeated evil people one step at a time and eventually transformed into a hero who saved the world and reaped the passion and inspiration story of love and friendship.

7. Spirit Blade Mountain

Alt Name: Once Upon A Time There Was A Spirit Sword Mountain
There Was a Spiritual Sword Mountain
Cong Qian You Zuo Ling Jian Shan
Authors: His Majesty the King (Story), 猪画&菌小莫 (Art)
Year: 2014 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Martial Arts, Supernatural, Full Color, Xianxia, Adapted to Anime, Based on a Novel

Synopsis:

There’s a mountain called Spirit Blade Mountain. Inside or by the mountain resides Wizards, also known as Spirit Blade Masters. Together they form the Spirit Blade clan. Spirit Blade is synonymous with magic, as it’s the Blade your Spirit forms. The current relation between the Mountain and the actual Spirit Blade is unknown. How the Spirit Blade manifests itself and how it is used is also unknown. However, not everyone can learn magic. Only those with the “Spirit Base” can learn the basics of magic, and even then, you have to practice it to become good.

6. Nan Hao & Shang Feng

Alt Name:
Authors: Brownie
Year: 2019 - Present

Genres: Comedy, School Life, Slice of Life, Full Color

Synopsis:

A comedy about two ordinary high school boys.

5. Demonic Emperor

Alt Name: Housekeeper is the Magic Emperor
Magic Emperor
Mo Huang Da Guan Jia
Authors: Wuer Manhua, Ye Xiao
Year: 2019 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Supernatural, Webtoon, Full Color, Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

Zhuo Yifan was a Magic Emperor or could be called a Demon Emperor because he had an ancient Emperor’s book called the Book of the Nine Secrets. He was targeted by all the experts and he was even betrayed and killed by his student. Then his soul cames back to life in a family servant boy named Zhuo Fan. Because some demonic magic is holding him back, he must unite the child’s memories and cannot ignore the family and the mistress he serves. How can he lead this descending family back to the pinnacle of this continent!

4. Quan Zhi Gao Shou

Alt Name: Full-time Expert
Master of Skill
The King's Avatar
Authors: Chang Pan Yongzhe, Hudie Lan (Story), D.LAN Cang Lan (Art)
Year: 2015 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Seinen, Slice of Life, Fantasy, Hiatus, MMORPG, Tournaments, Adapted to Anime, Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

In the multiplayer online game Glory, Ye Xiu, is well known as the Textbook level expert and a top-tier player. Due to a series of circumstances, he was forcefully expelled out of his professional team. After leaving the pro gaming scene, he resides at an Internet Café employed as one of the managers. When Glory launches the tenth server, he throws himself into the game once more, equipped with ten years of gaming experience, memories of the past and an incomplete self-made weapon. His journey back to the top begins. After plotting and scheming, who took away my glory? Under the influence of the storm, my hopes will never be shattered. In its magnificence, the path will not be lost, for I, will return!

3. Soul Land Series

Alt Name: Douluo Dalu
Combat Continent
Authors: Tang Jia San Shao (Story), Mu Feng Chun (Art)
Year: 2011 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Shounen, Full Color, Superpowers, Xianxia, Adapted to Anime, Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

Douluo Dalu:
Towns spent his prelife in the Tang Clan. He stole the secret from the Inner Clan to reach the peak of martial arts. In the end, he had to commit suicide for such action. Then he was reborn in a different world-Soul Land. This world is filled with powerful soul masters. Each master has their own martial souls. The martial soul of Towns is a useless Blue Silver Grass. Can he bring the glory of the Tang Clan into this new world?

Douluo Dalu II - Jueshi Tangmen:
A land with out magic, dou-qi, martial arts, but have essence spirits. This is the combat continent 10 000 years after the formation of Tang Sect. A new hero and his friend walks the land, a new "Seven Monsters of Shrek", will they keep up the name of the Tang Sect? Or will it crumble due to a new essence system?

Douluo Dalu 3 - The Legend of the Dragon King:
Following the advancement of spirit technology, the humans of Douluo Continent conquered the ocean and discovered two new continents. After being hunted by spirit masters excessively, the spirit beasts are nearly extinct. After countless years of lying dormant, the King of the Spirit Beasts has awakened in the Great Star Dou Forest. It will lead its remaining clansmen in taking vengeance against humanity! Tang Wu Lin is determined to become a powerful Spirit Master. However, when he awakened his martial spirit, it was actually an… Incomparable talent. The battle of the Dragon King. The Legend of our Dragon King hereby begins.

Douluo Dalu 4 - Zhongji Douluo:
Following with nearly extinct Spirit Beasts and Soul Masters Joint force and archieve peace. 10,000 years have passed since the end of the battle of the Douluo plane with the Abyss plane. The abundant energy of the Abyss opened the door for soul masters and spirit beasts in the Douluo plane to reach knowledges, power, and ranks that were once impossible to achieve. The humans of Douluo Plane conquered the space and discovered the other planes. The expedition of scientists from the Federal Research Institute roaming the northern ice land found an egg with wavering light of gold and silver. A kind man, Lan Xiao who lead the expedition hatched that egg and a cute baby boy came out. He decided to adopted the child and named is Lan Xuanyu.

2. Battle Through the Heavens

Alt Name: Doupo Cangqiong
Authors: Tian Can Tu Dou (Story), Ren Xiang (Art)
Year: 2012 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, Cultivation, Full Color, Magic, Xianxia, Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

Life is filled with rises and falls, and no one knows what the future will bring. But Xiao Yan, the 15-year-old shame of the Xiao Family, makes himself an oath -- starting today, he will rise, step by step, to the very peak of this Great Continent of Combat Qi! In this world of cultivation, of the never-ending struggle to strengthen oneself, he sets off on a journey to achieve ultimate power.

1. Tales of Demons and Gods

Alt Name: Yaoshenji
Authors: Mad Snail (Story), Jiang Ruotai (Art)
Year: 2015 - Present

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, Age Transformation, Cultivation, Demons, Full Color, Martial Arts, Second Chance, Time Travel, Weak to Strong, Xianxia, Based on a Web Novel

Synopsis:

A warp in space-time occured because of the Space-Time Demon Spirit Book, and Ni Li, who should have died in an ambush by God-rank Demon Beasts, awoke to find himself sitting in a classroom. He had returned to his 13-year-oid self. Everything had been reset. How will he protect his true love now?