Short manga you can finish in a day

Finished manga with 60 chapters or fewer, roughly six volumes. Ranked by community score among titles with a real audience, so a perfect score from ten votes does not make the list.

Number one right now: Umineko When They Cry Episode 8: Twilight of the Golden Witch.

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Umineko When They Cry Episode 8: Twilight of the Golden Witch
Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru Episode 8: Twilight of the Golden Witch
Manga · 2012 · 42 ch
4.5 / 5
It's time once again for the annual family gathering on Rokkenjima! Ange Ushiromiya is just getting over a cold, but that won't dampen her excitement at seeing her cousins again! Granddad couldn't be more thrilled to see his beloved…
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Fata Morgana no Yakata: Anata no Genten ni Itaru Monogatari
Light Novel · 2014 · 21 ch
4.5 / 5
You awaken in a decrepit old mansion. A woman with eyes of jade stands before You, informing You that You are the Master of the house, and she Your Maid. However, You have no memories, no concept of self—or, indeed, any certainty that You…
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Three Days of Happiness
Mikkakan no Koufuku
Light Novel · 2013 · 15 ch
4.4 / 5
HOW MUCH IS LIFE TRULY WORTH? Kusunoki used to believe he was destined for great things. Ostracized as a child, he held on to a belief that a good life was waiting for him in the years ahead. Now approaching the age of twenty, he's a…
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On the Way to Meet Mom
Eommareul Mannareo Ganeun Gil
Manga · 2024 · 53 ch
4.4 / 5
One day, after being discovered in an abandoned house by a rescue team, Mori suddenly finds himself in a children's protection center. Here, he begins to learn a new way of life – one that includes grand care packages sent by a mysterious…
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Vagabond: Saigo no Manga-ten
Manga · 2008 · 2 ch
4.4 / 5
Telling the later life of Vagabond's Musashi Miyamoto, it was depicted through 140 hand-drawn drawings with ink and brush. It was released at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo in May 2008, and since then it has been displayed at three other…
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Nekomonogatari: Cat Tale (White)
Nekomonogatari: Shiro
Light Novel · 2010 · 40 ch
4.4 / 5
A tale of heroine Tsubasa Hanekawa from her own perspective, in her own voice—if that can hold true for a damaged soul who, depending on who you’re asking, suffers from a split personality or a supernatural aberration. The bone-chilling…
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Kizumonogatari: Wound Tale
Kizumonogatari
Light Novel · 2008 · 18 ch
4.4 / 5
Around midnight, under a lonely street lamp in a provincial town in Japan, lies a white woman, a blonde, alone, robbed of all four limbs, yet undead. Indeed, a rumour’s been circulating among the local girls that a vampire has come to…
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The Summer You Were There
Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata
Manga · 2020 · 32 ch
4.3 / 5
Shizuku is a shy girl who hardly talks to other people. Instead, she loses herself in creative writing, crafting a novel that she never plans to show anyone. But when Kaori–Shizuku’s cute, popular classmate–gets her hands on Shizuku’s…
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Bakemonogatari: Monster Tale
Bakemonogatari
Light Novel · 2006 · 41 ch
4.3 / 5
The first part of the Monogatari Series. There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to…
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Ikoku Nikki
Manga · 2017 · 59 ch
4.3 / 5
The manga centers on 35-year-old novelist Makio Koudai and her 15-year-old niece Asa, who live together under one roof. Makio took Asa in on a sudden impulse after Asa's parents, which included Makio's older sister, passed away. The next…