Best Fantasy Manga of 2025

Fresh out of a breakup, game developer Woojin has little going for him. So when he hears that the middle boss of their game is based on him, he can't resist adding a few traits to make his virtual alter ego a tad more noble. Little did he know, he would soon end up trapped in said villain's skin! With a 1 in 1,000 chance of survival, Woojin now has to navigate the countless variables leading him to his impending doom. Will the tweaks he made to the character tip the scales in his favor?

One day, I woke up as a noble inside the game I used to play. Unfortunately, the game ends in an apocalypse. With ten years left, I track down the future villains while they’re still kids and decide to raise them myself, hoping that a better childhood could stop them from destroying the world. Now, with criminals dropping like flies, the kingdom thinks I’m the terrifying mastermind pulling all the strings. What on earth is happening? I just wanted to enjoy the sweet noble life!

Who was that guy that once said, "An army marches on its stomach?" When hapless agricultural science student Jangcheol Kim starts playing the fantasy MMORPG "Paladins of Blood" to escape the stress of school life, he never imagined he would end up inside the game, much less as its final boss. How can a ruthless demon overlord win over his subjects? Perhaps with potatoes.

Is infinite regression a blessing—or a curse? For Eunhyeon, it is a fate that he desperately wishes to escape. Seven beings fall into the world of cultivators. Each has rare talents, but Eunhyeon appears to have none and struggles to survive in this strange world. Yet after his death, he finds himself back at the start of it all, realizing that his talent is the ability of infinite regression. Here begins Eunhyeon's relentless struggle to break free.

Da-in, ended up possessing the villain of a story. To make Stardust—the story's protagonist and his favorite character in a dystopian manga—happy, he resolves to become the villain Egoistic for her growth. Da-in deliberately causes terror to enhance Stardust's abilities and preemptively prevents all the tragic events from the original story, but in the process, he gains public support while also drawing Stardust's suspicion. Stardust, who initially opposed him, gradually opens her heart, and soon even begins to show signs of obsession toward him...?

You know him as the legendary Ranker, Urek Mazino—but once, he was just another Regular, climbing the Tower alongside both teammates and enemies. What awaits him after charging into the Tower, chasing after Phantaminum? Whatever it is he desires... will he find it there?

At 4, Groo is undoubtedly the youngest S-ranked awakened in the country. But as her kindergarten class's (self-proclaimed) ace, she can take a challenge! So when her first quest window tells her to find a grown-up who'll take her in, she marches down to the top guild in Korea and demands to be recruited. Sensing that this overpowered orphan shouldn't fall into the wrong hands, the guildmaster has no choice but to adopt her. But he has no idea this tiny girl is about to turn his life upside down!

The popular action RPG series is finally being adapted into a manga! Set in Edo in the fourth year of Keian, seven riders engage in a deadly battle—the curtain rises on “The Ritual of the Full Moon.” Minamoto Iori, the son of the legendary samurai, is selected for this bloody war, where he meets and fights along an alternate version of his father, Miyamoto Musashi.