Nonsense & Parody

The crude, extreme gags of Komawari-kun, a boy policeman. His death-sentence pose came to stand for the gag revolution of the 1970s.

The chaos around Kankichi Ryotsu, an outrageous downtown policeman. Forty years and 200 volumes run to completion — a record-holding long-lived gag manga.

Frenzied comedy packed with high tension and parody. A legendary work that shaped the speed of the gag manga that followed.

The gags Patalliro, the eternally young king, sets off, and his beautiful spies. Known as a long-running comedy in a girls' magazine and a forerunner of BL.

Gags and pro-wrestling battles following the growth of a hopeless superhuman. Its cast of odd superhumans and their eraser figures became a social phenomenon.

Bottomlessly cheerful gags with an inventor and the robot girl Arale. Toriyama's drawing and taste laid the ground for Jump in the 1980s.

Let Saitama people eat the grass by the roadside! Affectionate hometown mockery that broke out all over again when it was filmed 30 years later.

School gags with the five distinct members of the Kimengumi. A favourite that carried Jump's comedy line through the 1980s.

A martial-arts romantic comedy around Ranma, a boy who becomes a girl when splashed with water. Takahashi's signature work, with an enormous following at home and abroad.

A slack-limbed comedy set in a Hokkaido veterinary faculty. An unusual entry for a girls' magazine, and the cause of a Siberian husky boom.

Delinquent gags about two boys who debut as thugs after transferring schools. Well-timed comedy and fights have kept it loved.

The crude, precocious gags of the five-year-old Shinnosuke. A national anime and the standard-bearer of everyday gag manga, loved across generations.

Masaru and his cheerful club devote themselves to a mysterious martial art, Sexy Commando. Its surreal timing, cutting every thread of logic, was a gag revolution in 1990s Jump.

A slack-limbed gag manga about being dragged around by Jaguar, a man who has given his life to the recorder. Ten years of run on the slow-burning wrongness of its dialogue — Usuta's gag form perfected.

Slack-limbed short gags built on historical figures and the like. Its particular rhythm and surrealism earned it an anime too.

The absurdist gags of Bobobo, who fights with nose-hair techniques. High tension beyond all reason, and a cult following.

The odd-jobs man Gintoki Sakata, in an Edo the aliens have arrived in. The gap between all-out crude comedy and genuine seriousness earned it a fervent following.

An easygoing comedy in which Buddha and Jesus share a flat down here on earth. Its light touch with religion made it popular.

Gags in which a flat everyday suddenly collapses into surrealism. Its particular timing and absurdity have devoted fans.

Lucius, a bath engineer of ancient Rome, keeps slipping forward into modern Japanese baths. Flattened by the flat-faced tribe's technology, he takes each idea home — a comparative-culture comedy that does history and civilisation entirely through bathing.

A school story about assassinating Koro-sensei, a mysterious creature who has announced he will destroy the earth. An unusual work built on teaching and growth.

Other-world comedy with a set of useless goddesses. The standard slack comedy parodying the web-novel genre itself.

A spy, a telepath and an assassin play at being a family. A web serial that became an enormous hit across every age group.