Best manga artists

982 duels later, Eiichiro Oda – One Piece is still #1 in the Mangaka ranking, with Masashi Kishimoto – Naruto close behind at 1267 ELO points.

Oda edges out Kishimoto by 20 ELO points at the top, a narrow margin that reflects the tight competition among shonen titans. Akira Toriyama – Dragon Ball claims third place with 1247 points, while Hajime Isayama – Attack on Titan and Yoshihiro Togashi – Hunter X Hunter round out the top 5, separated by just 4 points. The podium concentrates creators behind enduring franchises that shaped modern manga, all sharing win rates between 55% and 64%. Oda himself wins 64% of his duels across 203 matchups, the strongest performance at the summit. Further down, the ranking reveals a community that favors action-driven storytelling: Naoko Takeuchi – Sailor Moon sits at rank 10 with 1112 points and a 35% win rate, while Rumiko Takahashi – Inuyasha holds rank 8 with 1127 points. The gap between top and bottom suggests clear preferences, but no runaway favorite.

This ranking draws on 982 duels submitted by 46 players across 10 contenders, updated on 11 October 2026. The clustering of scores keeps every matchup open. Head to VAINKEURZ to vote and reshape the hierarchy, or nominate a mangaka missing from the current field.

Updated on October 11, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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