Discussion My first manga was...and why

[Keyshaaa]

For me my first manga was Naruto but then i hated manga alot that time (idk why i liked anime better lol) so i didnt continue untill i met this friend of mine who got me into manga lol it started with Fairy Tail when i continued to look for more manga to read ^^

 

[Mushashi]

thats like wat happend with me to

 

[Akiyama]

/me sighs

I have to admit my first series I started reading was Naruto. It's a good starter manga for anyone interested in shonen I would say. The easiest series to find scans and plenty of websites dedicated where you could talk about the series. Of course once you start you can't stop, it's an addiction and you find more and more different series to read. It's an endless cycle of doom.

 

[hibar90]

Back then when I was 5-6 I can't really afford to collect or buy manga. So my first anime was doraemon and DBZ. And they were really hot. There were other anime, but I don't think they're from manga.

But the first manga I've collected was Ninja Hattori-kun, by Fujkio Fujio. It was pretty good and more accurate portrayal of ninja than naruto lol.

 

[Asarii]

I first started reading manga from a shoujo magazine, Nakayoshi. Any series that ran in the 2001 issues would be the first manga I've read.

 

[Nii]

My first series was Dragon Ball that was around 1999/2000 when the manga hype in Germany started and began to grow. Everyone was reading it or at least watched the anime

 

[Niirouge]

My first was (Pretty Fighter) Sailor Moon

Why? Because my sister was a huge fan and as siblings, sometimes it just rubs off on you... Sigh...

 

[Iceiphoenix]

My first manga was actually Fruits Basket When I was a kid I watched all sorts of anime (without knowing it was actually anime ) and my uncle bought me Fruits Basket DVDs, but with Chinese dub and subs It became my favourite anime even though I only knew a little bit of what they were saying.

And then one day, in 2007, I saw Fruits Basket manga at a bookshop and I bought it because I wanted to know exactly what they were saying in the anime (In the town that I lived in before, we didn't have any manga, and I didn't actually know about manga and anime until I moved to Melbourne (the state capital) in 2007 )

So that's my story

 

[saladesu]

My first was either Flame of Recca or Rurouni Kenshin back in 1998 or so. Used to pick up the Chinese volumes at a small bookstore near my house after getting sucked in by their animes on TV ^^ My Chinese was pretty terrible (I feel you, Iceiphoenix!) although it's technically my mother tongue, and I was like 7 then, so obviously my vocabulary was pretty shaky, but I was more than content to look at the pictures XD

Of course when I grew older I re-read all of them (either the Chinese volumes I had or Edited Mangas)

 

[M3J]

My first manga was either Dragon Ball, Naruto, or Yu Yu Hakusho. I saw the anime version first and liked it, but I heard manga version was more canon and had less fillers and etc so I decided to try it out, and decided I liked it better. I was initially confused at first from the lack of Garlic Jr. Saga and Naruto not meeting Konohamaru and being late before his match with Neji but found out the meaning of fillers. I enjoyed Yu Yu Hakusho and thought manga was way less censored and gave it a try. I forgot if it is or isn't, but liked that as well.

 

[Roflkopt3r]

Hmmm... thinking way back...
I think it was Ranma 1/2. My childhood was, just like that of many people of my age, closely accompanied by several animes becoming famous in Germany at that time - Pokémon, Dragon Ball and such.
However, this always was restricted on card games, Gameboy and TV. So the first time I got my hands on an actual manga was when I was in a hospital very frequently for a couple of days each (3 days per 2-4 weeks) for the treatment of an auto-immune disease.
The hospital had an own library which one day sold alot of stuff, including those Ranma 1/2 mangas for a really cheap price, I think 0,50€ per volume, so I bought those available (Around vol. #1-8 approximately) to have something to read. I think I was around 11-13 yrs old back then, couldn't put that on a precise timing.
That would be 2002-2004 then.

The one after that most likely was Naruto, which I started reading this year. Had quite some time after finishing German abitur (a levels) in may and didn't start working right away, so I thought "hm, Naruto is a famous name, wanna check out what's behind that". Only read the manga after I saw all anime episodes though, because I was curious what would happen next

 

[Bromamura]

My first manga was Saint Seiya/one volume of Doraemon(Think it was the manga of one of its movies, where a tiny alien who is being persecuted by his own people escaped to earth). I just happened to have them in my house for some reason. Now that I think about it my father bought tons of books for me before I even knew how to read, so I'd assume they were part of those purchases. Sadly no longer in my possession as i gave them to a friend prior to moving. Still hopeful of seeing them again eventually.

 

[saladesu]

My first manga was Rurouni Kenshin, I think. That, or Slam Dunk or Flame of Recca, back when I was like, 8 or so. I was watching the anime for these series on TV and that was when my brother and I first got interested in them and my brother started buying the Chinese volumes from a small bookstore near our place. I still have them on the shelf next to me right now Not the complete sets, but they still bring back lots of fond memories!

 

[murasakii23]

My first manga was Naruto! In Japanese no less

This was when Naruto was the only anime I had ever know... (and when I found out there were anime books I went *squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee* XD) I was 12, I'm pretty sure <lolz kinda late, but I didn't realise manga actually existed until then D:>

 

[phio_chan]

The first two comic books I have, I can't remember the titles anymore. I bet they are not popular at all; the name of the author looks like an Indonesian, the names of the characters sound like in Indonesian, so those were not impressive at all. So I mentioned it as "comic", as I'm not sure if it's from Japan or not. XD

So I'd say my first manga was Cardcaptor Sakura. I was captured by the anime, and then with my friend I found it at a small manga/manhua library near my junior high school. I only read half of the series, I think (around six or seven books), but then after a while I found the continuation, finished it, fell in love with CLAMP and manga in general.

 

[ZayCon]

My first manga was Naruto, which I started reading in 2007. The reason for this was that I watched the Naruto anime (which also was my first on that field), and I wanted to know more about the plot (it was at the time the anime was only fillers). I actually think the reason that really made me start was the need of reading Kakashi's Gaiden (which I heard wouldn't be in the anime for a while).

The first manga I finished was Love Hina. Still one of my favorites, so I got a good start with manga.

 

[BakaHaze]

First manga I've ever actually started reading must have been Naruto.

How sad.
Should have given it to Full Metal Alchemist or something...
Although I can claim that my first anime was something good: NGE ^^

 

[Cyber34]

My first manga was Naruto back in 04 or 05. I use to be really interested in it till Naruto developed some kind of homosexual obsession with Sasuke after their little confrontation. It fell off my radar after that.

 

[fullmoon]

Re: My first manga was...

My first manga was Doraemon

I first read it when I was about four years old, so Doraemon would be the only one i can understand at that time.
I remember that I could only understand the pics when playing alone with the comic book, and I always asked my mum to read it for me whenever I saw her


[c]wb - you been gone forever~[/c]

 

[ashher]

Rurouni kenshin. Still love that manga.