10 Longest Manga Series Of All Time

10. Haguregumo (浮浪雲)

Number of Chapters: 1,039

Number of Volumes: 112

Haguregumo, or "Vagrant Cloud" in English, was a series written and illustrated by George Akiyama from 1973 until 2017. By the time the series came to an end, 1,039 chapters were published by Big Comic Original, which amounted to an impressive 112 tankōbon volumes.

The series takes place at the end of the Edo period in Japan and follows Cloud and his family, which consists of his wife Turtle, their eleven-year-old son Shinnosuke, and eight-year-old daughter Flower. Everyone in the Cloud family prefers to avoid work so that they can play, and Cloud is a notorious womaniser.

The series was adapted into an anime film in 1982, but thus far no anime series has been adapted from Haguregumo. In 1979, George Akiyama's work was recognised with the Shogakukan Manga Award for the general category, and while it wasn't his only manga, Haguregumo was easily his most popular series.

Sadly, George Akiyama passed away in May of 2020 of unspecified causes. Fortunately, he was able to bring his seminal work to a proper conclusion in 2017, ending a 44-year run as one of the most popular weekly manga of its time.