Underrated manga: hidden gems with great scores

Manga that score as well as the famous ones but were read by a fraction of the people. Big enough audience that the score means something, small enough that most readers skipped it.

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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Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray
Manga · 2020 · 211 ch
4.5 / 5
Uma Musume Cinderella Gray is a spin-off title of the Uma Musume project by Cygames. It follows Oguri Cap through her time at Kasamatsu Training Center Academy and on her journey of becoming a legendary horse girl. Note: Includes the…
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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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Koimonogatari: Love Tale
Koimonogatari
Light Novel · 2011 · 39 ch
4.5 / 5
Circling back to a middle school girl’s apotheosis, if we can call it that, in OTORIMONOGATARI, and the mortal threat it poses to the hero and his girl, this “Season Two” finale is narrated, for the first time in the series, by a…
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Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5
Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen Dai 5-bu - Megami no Keshin
Light Novel · 2020 · 256 ch
4.5 / 5
Part 5 of Honzuki no Gekokujou . Ehrenfest’s first winter without Ferdinand is colder and more oppressive than usual. A surprise betrayal within the former Veronica faction makes the purge even more urgent, and the few who know about…
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Medalist
Manga · 2020
4.4 / 5
Inori is a little girl who dreams of becoming a figure skater. Yet, the obstacles to this dream feel insurmountable: Inori’s already “too old” (she’s 11); she’s always had trouble at school; and, worst of all, her older sister’s skating…
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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…