Similar to me, i was strictly an anime watcher and didn't really sit down and go through a whole manga, seeing manga panels at best, but CSM is the first manga i decided to read fully. So happy i did, i managed to finish the whole volume in one sitting just because of how addicting it was. Now i have dozens of manga in my catalogue that i'm planning on catching up on
@@broccoliman5003 Amazing. I had some expectations, but even they were blown away. Fujimoto really knows how to deliver, i can’t wait for the rest of the manga. How about you?
@@stevemojang8736 Yeah i really like that we get a new perspective on the csm world from a normal persons view and the art style just looks a lot more clean now
my manga story was a bit interesting: in early November of 2008, I transferred school (family moved to a different school district) and so when I entered the school library, it was the thing that I would spend a lot of my free time in, as it had so many volumes. I picked up a Naruto volume and read it. I got into anime over a year later, so I might be a rarity for that regard as everyone else I have met got into anime before getting into manga.
That's a great story! I wonder how many others also got into manga that way. It reminded me that I actually left out that I did read manga before anime because of the Kingdom Hearts II manga that my middle school library had.
i read my first manga, aot, in spring of 2020. i had gotten caught up on the show (which was what got me into anime) just a couple months earlier and i was dying to not only know more but to re-experience everything that had happened in the show. i was ecstatic that the show was actually faithful to the source since being a novel-turned-movie (harry potter, divergent, percy jackson, the hunger games) fan in elementary and middle school had made me wary of any video adaptation of literature- i would often tell my friends to "just read the book". for a few weeks, i tracked down the volumes at nearby libraries and would read them during down time at school. one time, i got so used to reading manga that when i went to read a novel in english class, i turned the page backwards. my friends and i had a good laugh about that. once covid shut stuff down, i resorted to reading online since i couldn't go into libraries anymore, which was fine because i was pretty much out of officially released volumes anyways. however, i wouldn't say that reading aot was when i became a manga reader- i was just an aot fan. i'd say around june of 2020 was when i actually became a manga reader. i finished watching jojo and decided that i couldn't wait for the rest of the parts to become anime, because it took 20 years for golden wind to be animated. i read from the beginning of stone ocean until i got caught up on jojolion. as i read, i realized how much i liked the manga medium- my family wouldn't complain about it being loud, or ugly, or whatever, because i wasn't watching it on the tv, i read it on my laptop. it was easier to not get distracted from it while also being easier to put down and pick up when i needed to. now, i (usually) prefer manga over anime, especially for ongoing series. and there are so many mangas that are good, but just haven't been picked up, or were butchered in the anime. whenever my anime-only friends complains about wanting to know what's next, i tell them to "just read the manga". i'm glad i came full circle on that. i actually recently got my first physical manga volume back in march! my dad bought me volume 1 of chainsaw man as a gift because i was rereading it and got super hyped about it. i'm a much newer manga fan, and i have a vastly different experience than manga fans that have been around since the 2000's, but it's been the best two years of my life. i can't say anything for sure, but i at least *hope* that i can continue appreciating manga for a long, long time to come.
Super glad to hear your story! There's something special about falling in love with a new medium! You're totally in your golden age of being able to find countless new and fun things, and that time period is something I'd kill to relive. Still, I love manga 9 years after I started so I'm sure you will as well :)
I could have been into manga since 2007 with shaman king at least curiosity but I really got into it in June 2009 with Shonen jump from my grocery store. Pretty wild how it's different back than compare nowadays. It's much easier to get into manga
I wasn't around the most for the Shonen Jump magazines but I own a ton of them and Shoujo Beat, super cool things to own. I almost kinda wish they'd come back, even if it's not quite as profitable.
@@NINJAMUSHI Oh yeah, they pretty great stuff to look back. It's like a small time capsules of different mangaka during their course. Same, it would be amazing to see them again but hey what can you do lol
I actually started reading manhwa first. It was when solo leveling still had 24 chapters I have watched a lot of anime but was running out of shit to watch so my brother recommended manga, with nothing else to do I did. And here I am now reading anything manga/manwha/manhua related I dont watch anime that often because reading is easier you can read an entire episode for half the time. I think that finding new and reallyy enjoyable manga is probably one of the best feelings out there.
The first manga and anime i watched was the orginal Naruto like 5 years ago and for some odd reason I still havent read or watched shippudon. To be honest I don't read manga, I just skip the manga and read the light novel if it has one. Also thank you for the great video.
Light novels are interesting because they're not really for me but I have a friend who is super into them (I have even picked up volumes for her when they're on sale at my local shop). Thank you for watching! :)
Back when MHA season 2 came out I watched it along with Season 1 and I loved it. In-between Seasons 2 and 3 I bought every volume I could read at the time and read through everything. Since then I’ve tried to read as much as I could. Also your video on Asa helped me understand my feelings on her character immensely, shes one of my favorite characters now.
I was an anime boy, but what pulled me into manga was the failure of Tokyo Ghoul anime I'm not talking about the 1st season, of course. Tokyo Ghoul was my 1st manga after Re S2 ended and now I finished dozens of one-shots and long or short run manga.
I think the Covid lockdown really pushed alot of casuals(like myself)into seeking out more anime & manga, or even getting new fans to try it. For me, I thought about manga the same way I used to with certain anime: I dont have time. One day I'm watching this anime called Deadman Wonderland during lockdown & someone linked the manga in the comments. Was off from my job at the time, so I started off just reading a few chapters every few days. Suddenly im binging all night Told myself that was dope but I'm not gonna do that again. Then I find out the site also had other popular series I recently got into like AOT & Demon Slayer. I read those. I tell myself no more. But I end up watching Berserk in lockdown, heard the manga was dope. Now I'm reading that. Then it's Chainsaw Man, then Jujutsu, then My Hero,etc. Just crazy considering before 2020 the only anime I watched was literally Naruto, DBZ, & One Punch Man(And DBZ was the onky one i was big on). Nothing else interested me. Now I'm reading shit like Solo Leveling or Vinland Saga during lunch breaks half the time. Lockdown also gave made me less hesitant to try longer series. In like 4 months I read thru series like Kingdom & One Piece with 500+ chapters. And shows like HxH or JoJo me & my brother would binge in two weeks. I was playing longer games, watching more sports,etc. Life really works mysteriously lmao
Started in March of 2021 with finding out AoT was finishing its final season (not really, lol). I watched all of it and got into tons more anime and that eventually led me to manga. First manga volume I ever read was AoT volume 29 and from then on I have gotten into loads of different series: Kaguya-sama, Evangelion, FMA, AoT, Dorohedoro, JJK, Jojo So far my favorite has been Berserk. As someone who did read a lot and watched a lot of tv but felt things were starting to lack in western media, manga was immensely refreshing to start reading.
Ive read close to 3000 chapters of manga overall, since i started reading it last year. Its kinda insane to sometimes think about the fact that ive never ever read a single physical or paper version of a manga or a comic like they are originally intended.
I first got into manga in 2002 when I was 11 with the release of monthly shounen jump in the states. It was a phsyical magazine that came every month with about 7 series in it (dragon ball, yu-gi-oh, shaman king, naruto, bleach, and one piece were the ones I remember best, the lineup changed throughout the years) and I thought it was the most mind blowing thing I'd ever read! I begged my mom to get me a substription, which I had for about 7 years. Reading manga was very niche at the time, quite hard to get your hands on stuff and plenty of series would get dropped. I think the dedication of fan scanlations was critical to the current success of manga overseas. I got back into reading shounen jump with the new online subscription a few years ago and it's so cool how accessible manga is now!
Comics came first because walking up to the library with my older brother, and I loved reading all sorts of books Comic books were iffy quality in comparison; The way manga is drawn looks a lot more, consistent in quality rather then roughly drawn stand stills of comics; more fluid with actions and panel layout (at least to me anyway) I went into sailor moon dub anime much after looking at super hero comics Then I got fed up with how slow the episodes were and went to manga itself Usually I’m a bit of a mix of Manga and anime If I watched an anime and am getting hyped or impatient, I read the manga In fma’s case I definitely read the manga first before the dvd rentals of Brotherhood and 2003 at my local library (heck, before I read it my older brother got me to watch one of the spin off movies) Or in a rare case reading a manga and hoping for an anime adaption I haven’t gotten much time to read lately, but I’m definitely looking forward to Jobless reincarnation light novels I cannot read on the web as much as I’d like because I’d get headaches Mangas were appealing because of the fluidity of actions as well as the way of how scenes and characters look like; just words can be interpreted rather differently and I want to be close to how the author had envisioned their story much more Mostly how I got into manga was just by purely reading.
I first started really reading manga around 2019, with one punch man, then others followed. I had a few volumes before that but not the collection I have today. I was mostly anime first, because being a little older, manga wasn't really that accessible as it is today. Hell, anime wasn't either when I first started watching. My high school watching of anime was Dragonball Z, Neon Genesis Evangelion, to name a few. It was expensive to buy anime then too. Like people complain about prices now, well be thankful it's not what we use to pay for just a few episodes😕 streaming sites and manga apps have helped fuel these 2 mediums. I was more into comics then because they were more accessible.
Man, my go-to place to buy manga used to be full of shelves with different series, I would go there and spend my time exploring it, it was so much fun. Nowadays they basically only sell naruto, op, jnk, mha and chainsaw man. The shelves which I used to love so much don't exist anymore, because they now sell anime tshirts (of the same series btw) And I got into manga recently, in early 2017. I can just imagine how older fans must feel.
It's a big bummer when things start to get replaced but it's just the nature of any kind of entertainment, I suppose. I used to have a store I went to that eventually got bought out and it just hasn't been quite the same since, even if I still like it overall.
lmao nice use of the Metagame doc music! I got into manga a decent amount in 2014 when I got really into Gantz. I watched/read a good mix of anime/manga but eventually manga won out. I don't watch anime much but I will read manga, though not as frequently as I'd like. Keep it up brotha
I got into manga not too long ago. The first manga I read was 'Blood on the Tracks' by Oshimi Shuzou after watching the super eyepatchwolf video titled "This manga breaks people". Then I read another one called 'Flowers of Evil'. After that, I read my favourite manga 'Goodnight Punpun' by Inio Asano and have been reading manga since.
Got into manga when a couple friends spoiled me sasha's death in snk, automatically went to read marley. Then Steel ball run happened to me and i fell in love with manga, after that went for vinland saga, 20th century boys... (yeah i took the elitist route without noticing). Now i'm trying a much more shonen route, recently fell for fujimoto, i just love his job. My favorite mangakas are araki, fujimoto and isayama.
I got into manga in middle school which would be sometime around 2014. I got into it through anime and while I'm not certain I believe the first manga I read was Astro Boy. I definitely do know however that the first manga I ever owned was the Speed Racer manga, Mach GoGoGo.
I was watching 7 deadly sins, and because i was curious about the show i went to youtube, and watched these powerscale videos and saw the true magic forms and everything which weren’t shown in the anime at that point in time, so i googled my way to to the manga. Then i went on to read aot, naruto, bleach and now manga is my main source of entertainment
I remember that my journey with anime begun when, 4 years ago, I binge watched the entirety of Kobayashi's Dragon Maid on youtube in a day, after that, I kept regularly watching anime, and eventually wanted more from the stories I was watching, so I started looking them up online to get my fill, to this day I keep it up, just because of the great stories that haven't had a chance to get animated
yea I never had massive issues with getting manga or watching anime since I watched it and read this stuff but I did watch it about 2 years before ig it became a trend you could say since I believe tiktok made it massive over quarentine so i def watched it before it was too massively accepted but it prob wasnt as bad is it was when u started reading/ watching.
The manga that made me get into manga was Hell Warden Higuma when there was only 1 chapter of it. It was right when Viz made manga more accessible with the vault. I was like super invested in it and wanted to see where it went. It got canceled 19 chapters in. It later got an extra chapter but I was still sad. I think it's funny now tho how the thing that got me into this wonderful medium was unsuccessful.
Been watching anime for a long time but only ever dabbled with some naruto manga here and there. Eventually became obsessed with jojo’a during the part 4 anime run and immediately ran to binge all of part 5. Been into manga ever since and I’m glad since a lot of my favorite works haven’t or may never be adapted. Plus even if they are experiencing the manga form feels different in a way that’s sometimes better depending on the story
Well for me. Manga already found good number of fans since 80s in my country. I started with Doraemon back when i was 8 or 10 like everyone from my genereration. the number of manga titles published in Indonesia is BIG, i dare to say we have more selection than USA. Sometime when i visit bookstore i was surprised when i saw very niche seinen manga. Heck It's not rare that i see official Indonesian manga publication even before they get fan scanlations.
Obviously I made this video with an American perspective, but it's super interesting to hear that. I'm sure some countries took to manga a lot quicker and easier than we did
French and Italy probably the biggest and oldest manga consumer from overseas. Even some mangaka get knighted in France. I actually jealous with Italian because almost all Jojo book sold over there haha.
in 2020 there was a anime that i wanted to continue to watch but since the season ended i decided to go read the manga so i search it up on youtube then slowly after i started to actually read manga but every now and then i like watching a youtube video of a chapter makes me feel happy
I first began to consume Japanese popular culture in the early 2000s when I was a preteen. At that time manga was actually more popular in Finland than anime since numerous serieses were translated into Finnish and you could easily follow them with a couple of coins by buying the newest book at a grocery store magazine section. Where's nowhere as many animes were dubbed in Finnish, and the majority of the fans were too young to properly follow the English monologue + the dvds were way more expensive than the mangas + you'd have to have a region free dvd player to watch any publication outside Europe (or Japan or Australia, as we share the same region code). However, for over a decade, manga was the mainstream media here everyone followed, and anime was consumed by the wealthier and often pretty snobbish elder elite who could also understand English and had the money and the machines to watch it. It's interesting to see how the fandom changes and grows, and how the Internet has changed it completely.
I got into it last october. Now I wonder why I never took a closer look earlier. Baffles my mind honestly as I've been an anime fan much longer and was actually a fan of books ever since I was a child. It seems obvious that I'd like this medium but apparently that never occurred to me until that time. I've been able to experience many more stories this way. But since I like reading physical volumes it's also quite expensive. Let's see how I look at manga in 10 years.
It's always interesting to hear stories from people who didn't get into anime and manga at the same time, because they've always been interconnected for me. Let me know in 10 years!!
I started watching anime as a kid back on Cartoon Network when they aired Naruto, I also watched dbz Kai on nicktoons. I was an anime only up until my freshman year of high school where I noticed that my school library had a LOT of manga, like entire series. I decided to start with fairy tail since I heard that was a popular one and once I went down that rabbit hole I I just kept on falling. I read fairy tail, akame ga kill, death note, assassination classroom, full metal alchemist, claymore, one piece, attack on Titan, Naruto, up to volume 15 of one punch man, and several others. That was just what my high school had, I eventually started reading the more recent manga like demon slayer and chainsaw man online and I still do now
I keep noticing libraries being mentioned in these stories, so that's an interesting pattern. I didn't mention it in the video-because it really predates me getting into manga-but I was also introduced to manga by my middle school library with the Kingdom Hearts II manga. That was before I had watched any anime too. Had no idea why the hell it was backwards, though.
early 2000s I remember catching bits and pieces of Toonami anime when I was around 5 yo. Spirited Away and Howls Moving Castle, bits of DBZ and Bleach, intros for Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: SAC when it was bedtime, Toonami ads particularly for Naruto and watching the episode where the kids try to see under Kakashi's mask, etc. The thing is I never felt like watching any of them because I didn't really like the anime artsyle and just the character designs or aesthetic (is that the right word?) felt very strange and weird to me, similar to when I watched the Miyazaki movies I mentioned earlier. 2009ish LMAOd at some Naruto YTPs and Naruto Shippuden adverts where all over Disney XD when it was a few weeks from airing. Watched the fifth episode, got hooked and wanted to start with the original series. OG series wasn't airing anymore, didn't know about free anime streaming sites or Naruto DVDs (I was a dumb 9YO) so I started with the Manga when I found and bought vol 46 (plenty spoilers and had no context to any of it) and read the manga from vol1 - 40 out of order since the books would already be borrowed and I didn't have the money or patience to buy more than vols 42-47 off of Amazon. I started reading every Shonen Jump Magazine from the library and eagerly awaited each new issue (I still have my collection of 13 issues after over a decade). That's also how I got into Ultimo, Bleach (and watching bits of episodes on tv), One Piece, Death Note, Blue Exorcist, etc. 2011 Seen ads for Death Note live action movies in Shonen Jump and skimmed through ch3 or 4 that was included in a 2011 SJ issue and thought "ok so wtf's this about", borrowed vol1 shortly after, got hooked, kept reading. Same happened with Blue Exorcist got dropped off after I couldn't find anything after vol3 (that was as far as english print went at the time i think?), started again in 2013 but dropped it shortly after. Started watching anime on free streaming sites, got hooked on animes adaptions for Naruto, Death Note, Heaven's Lost Property, Sekirei. 2014 Read the ''last'' few vols for Bleach, the last couple Naruto chapters on a manga reading website, got hooked on reading other manga like Heaven's Lost property, Maga Tsuki, Countrouble. 2016-19 Watched some DBZ Kai on Toonami, loved it , wanted to watch all of DBZ start to finish (og Funimation dub with Bruce Faulconers music, still havent found a way to watch it in an official full series release and didn't feel like taking all day to download each episode from whereverz). started getting into (Slice of Life?) anime like Shomin Sample. One Piece, Hunter x Hunter, Parasyte, Lupin III, Cowboy Bebop, JoJo, Akame ga Kill, nearly everything on Toonami at the time. 2020-2021 Started dropping anime almost completely aside from some Hunter x Hunter tha. Didn't care much for Bleach anymore, didn't like Naruto past volume 54 (start of the Great Ninja war I think?), the Toonami shows I cared for either finished airing or the story was long past where I left off. Fell back in a bit with Berserk, absolutely amazing. 2022-2023 Fell back into Naruto, Bleach, DBZ, got super Into Chainsaw Man, enjoying anime again and still have a list of shows I still need to finish or start and shows I want to rewatch.
My first time reading manga was reading an old volume of soul eater in my public library 8 years ago I think when I was 10 and that’s how I got into anime/manga and it has been a major hobby of mine to read and each it ever since
I remember having a computer class in highschool and the first thing id do is check for a new chapter of bleach or naruto shippuden. That was the only way i could read it since i didint have a computer or wifi at home
I started 3 years ago when I was 16 during the summer of 2019. I had just watched the first 3 seasons of My Hero Academia and was hooked. Not wanting to wait until that fall for the 4th season to come out, I decided to start reading the manga. I went online and bought the first 5 volumes of My Hero Academia and the first volume of MHA: Vigilantes, the vigilantes volume got my attention because I had no idea that MHA had a spinoff and it grabbed my interest. When I got the volumes in the mail, I read through them really fast and a few days later, I bought the first few volumes of Attack on Titan, since I also really enjoyed that anime at the time. After that I fell in love and the first actually complete manga series I read soon after was Parasyte, which was incredible. In present day, I have been reading and collecting manga as my main hobby. I have over 500 volumes in my collection and I don't see myself stopping anytime soon.
I got into manga seriously in 2020 when I read the spin off to my hero academia which was only in manga form. After I read it and loved it, I went on to the My Hero manga and found that I loved it way more than the anime. And since then it’s just been my passion
The first manga I stumbled upon is Blame! didn't understand it until im grown up and now, I somehow liked Tsutomu nihei and his other works. But the first manga I got into and the very first manga I owned is the first volume of Death Note. Wasn't a fan but it helped appreciate and love manga and anime as well. I definitely love shonen titles but If you are into something seinen recommend reading some works of Naoki Urasawa and some works of Shuzo oshimi
I started getting into anime at around 16 17 because a friend recommended some shows and the whole reaction (ooh so this is what yugioh and pokemon was) a year or two goes by then i started to read manga (on shady sites ofc) of animes that weren't completed (i think it started with me not wanting to wait a week for the next episode of shield hero or something) and now I've started a small physical collection (around 10 or so volumes)
nice and humble origin story! I didn't really get into it because of a friend, but I did have a close friend who watched Naruto all the time in our middle school years
I got into Manga around 2012, before anime became a thing you would see anybody and everybody talking about online. I originally started to read the Naruto manga, but eventually ended up moving on to others as well. Honestly, i wish that i had started to read sooner.
Yeah, back then it was a bit of a rarity to be an anime/manga fan in general (especially finding fans irl) and now you really don't have to look far at all
I got into manga last year I think. I originally did it solely to read Berserk, but I've read a lot more since then. I got into anime in 2016 with Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. It's kind of sad, but neither of the manga I recommended in your community post have an official English release. With Tomorrow's Joe, I understand because it's old and fairly obscure today, especially outside of Japan, but if Osamu Tezuka's works can get English releases, why not Tomorrow's Joe? Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun is more surprising, as it's a recent series with an anime adaptation that does have an English release, even a dub! (I haven't actually read the manga yet but I love the anime and I've heard good things about the manga)
Ah, JoJo must have been a fun place to start! Joe should absolutely be bought overseas. I can imagine it in a nice hardcover release but what can you do, I guess. Perhaps Iruma-kun will have a shot at being brought over in the future. I remember I used to be a mega fan of Kuroko no Basket and for years-long after the anime came out-it didn't have an English release for either anime or manga. Eventually it happened, though, so maybe Iruma-kun will when you least expect it.
I got into manga around 2017 because I watched all of the Bleach/HxH anime and found out there was more so off I went to read and blitz through them been more of a manga lover ever since then
Got to manga when i was around 4 y.o (1999-2000), it was flame of recca, one piece, yuyu hakusho, rave masters. had the first edition print of each (back then my currency was about 1-1 with USD, hence manga is cheap). Been a huge weeb since then
2007 with Naruto. I was tired of waiting for the latest episodes since I binged lots of Naruto filler before Shippuden (my first experience with filler). Funny enough at that time I thought the Naruto manga was actually since i heard they always stayed ahead of the anime. The new chapters used to be released on CZcams in an AMV format by several CZcamsrs & rick rollers. Good times. I've expanded to One Piece in 08' and many others since that time.
A friend of mine bought the first volume of Hunter x Hunter, read it in the wrong order and gave up After like 5 years I got into Jojo, and wanted to read Part 7 in a *totally official manga site*, but, seaching for it, I saw Chainsaw Man as one of the new manga added, got me interested from the title and cover art, it was on its 10th chapter, read it weekly. Still haven't read HxH tho, but I'll certently try it, planning to start today.
First manga: fifth grade found in a scholastic magazine: Yu-gi-oh! Volume one. Wow!! Words cannot describe the feelings I had while reading that. I had such a great time but that experience definitely ruined me for future manga readings. Bought the first Naruto manga book and…. What do you mean it’s the same plot as the anime?? How boring! 😅 (don’t talk to me the tohei version btw I didn’t even know it existed lol)
The first manga I bought was a Shonen Jump Magazine. I saw it had a free Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon so I bought it without knowing what a manga even was. Don't know if I still have it or if it was thrown out but twas the first. The first manga volume I owned I have told you specifically was Berserk Volume 16 because I got it free at a mini con so why would I turn down a free thing. Finally the first manga I read for being a manga was the final few arcs of Naruto. So technically I have 3 origin stories. Also great video my friend. It's a great convo piece
Thank you! I actually didn't know you started with a shonen jump magazine. Either I forgot or you never told me. But it's still a pretty neat way to start!
it's really interesting, yeah. I remember even when I got in, it had a pretty solid fanbase. Maybe that's because I was in the circles of what remained from the 2000s emo phase but I met a ton of people that loved it back then, both anime and manga
watch alot fo anime but never got in to manga as getting the ones I wanted was so hard, soul eater, bakemonogatari, and a complete english set of fairytail. still waiting for the 100 year quest but from what I heard is was coming then covid hit and they switched to edens zero.
I don't remember the year. But it was like 5-6 years ago. I read Naruto Shippuden because then the anime wasn't finished. Then I got into Berserk, and after that read many more.
My first manga was Katekyo Hitman Reborn, I had no choice but to read the manga because they stopped adapting it into anime. I'm glad I did because I found out how I enjoy manga more than anime, it has way better art style and pacing. I'll still watch the anime even if I've read the manga of a series, but never have I found an anime that was better than it's manga counterpart. I have high hopes for Chainsaw Man though.
You've been around awhile! It's interesting because I kind of lived the late 2000s anime/manga vicariously through fans I knew that had been around longer (plus my brother watched anime since the 90s). Though, I feel like even in the early 2010s you were kinda expected to see the most popular of the 2000s.
my very first manga was when I was 10 years old and I got the manga Kare Kano and then dragonball z and now I am still reading manga. I am looking for the whole series of chainsaw man
Firat i read manga was back in mid 2000s That manga is Doraemon and yes i've been watching the anime since early 2000s And then The first 2 manga that i read by weekly are Naruto and Bleach back in 2009 or 2010 And began to read One Piece by weekly in 2013 I've been watching anime since 2000 or 2001 on tv so it's pretty long to start read manga But again to be fair access to Internet is pretty expansive back then And also English is not my first language so it's pretty imposible to read manga back then lol
Damn how time flies. Don’t remember what Manga exactly I first read but it was because I couldn’t wait for the next season of the Anime to come out. It’s like a cheat code being able to see what happens next lol. Anyways, I think your mic sounds great. What mic are you using?
Yeah, time goes by quick! Sometimes I think about how much of my life has went by since I got into manga/anime and it's pretty surreal. And thank you! I'm using a Shure SM7B now! I used a Blue Yeti for over 10 years and it served me well but it's dying on me (consistent audio problems and turns off with the slightest static electricity). Hoping to use this new mic for another 10 years.
I was always around manga but i started to take it more seriously after renting black butler from my library about six years ago. after reading it i just kept renting more manga to the point my mom would stop me. I remember i reading all the attack on titan volumes my library had at the time and i saved as much money so i could buy each new volume when they were released. i also remember downloading a bunch of manga reading apps on my old phone when i wanted to read a manga that my library or bookstore didn't have. my favorite manga at the time were one piece, soul eater, attack on titan, elfen lied, deadman wonderland, akira, jojo's bizarre adventure and prison school. i stopped reading manga when i entered highschool mostly because i wanted to get into new things, i only got back into it when quarantine hit and i ended up reading attack on titan again and kept up with it until its conclusion. since then the only manga i read were chainsaw man and berserk. I honestly also feel sort of old and i really can't into this new generation of manga and anime, it definitely feels weird seeing manga being more popular than back then. it makes me happy tho, so many people like the medium now and series i once had to look for scans online now are in book shelves at barnes and noble and at my library. only story but yea my nostalgia for those series hit.
Definitely Chainsaw Man. I’ve only been watching anime for a year and a half. I’ve never had an interest in reading but when I saw the trailer for Chainsaw Man something just clicked and I wanted to read the series. After reading chainsaw man and 11 other finished series and 3 ongoing ones. I now I prefer manga over anime.
I think the first volumn of manga I ever read was Naruto vol. 42? From there I remember reading manga in my local library. Read the first couple of arcs of Bleach, the last arc of og Dragon Ball and the, then latest, volumes of Naruto. Been a fan ever since......
Funnily enough the first manga I started reading was One piece in the age of 11 . But my fist anime that I watched was One punch man one year later. So I started with manga not with anime.
I've always loved anime as a child, my father was the one to introduce me to it, he'd always make Yu Yu Hakusho references lmaoo. I got into Manga in 2013 or 2014 because I was getting impatient of FairyTail episodes and I wanted to consume more FT content. Back then I didn't even know most anime are just adaptations of it. After discovering manga, I started reading series I used to watch as a kid then it just became my standard way to consume anime content because its "easier". I'd read almost anything back then, I even remember reading some lesbian and BL because I didn't know what they meant lol. Iris Zero was one of the first series I read and I kinda forgot about it and just recently I came across it and reread it, I didn't even know it was still ongoing and in hiatus. Looking back, I feel like I've read a lot of obscure series that I never finished because at the time it was ongoing and those series relied on fan scanlations. I actually remember reading a couple chapters of Fire Punch back in its release but I stopped because I didn't see more of it in the website I used to go. Your mention of Vampire Knights brought me back to nostalgia too. I remember reading and it being popular in forums that I used to browse back then but I can't remember why I stopped reading it. I really wish I actually made a list of what I read back then. I really am thankful for the boom of manga because more info on the author or series gets news where back then you'd have to rely on the scanlations for announcements of the series. And god bless for Shonen Jump, Manga Plus, and more legal websites being available now because I get to see new series grow and have consistent scanlations while being legally free too.
This is an awesome story! My father didn't get me into anime/manga, but I got him into it somehow (he's watched at least a few dozen anime by this point). My brother had quite a bit of influence on me getting into anime, or at least what shows I checked out early on. He's 20 years older than me and watched anime during the 90s, so he's where I learned about Dragon Ball, FLCL, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Lain, Bleach, etc.
I'm dying to pay for a suscription "netflix" type service to read in high quality scans multiple manga is there any ? mangaplus is free and only have the three first and last chapters
Uhh, Bleach was my 2nd anime. I saw it like 10 years ago, so I have a lot of nostalgia for it. Kubo is also one of my favorite character artists and a big inspiration for my own art. Soul Society is still a top tier shonen arc. Even some of the stuff past it is pretty decent too. Not a GOAT to me, when only one arc is incredible, but I still appreciate and love it all the same. And again, can't overstate how much I love Kubo's art
I've read some manga here and there over the years but Chainsaw Man is what really pulled me in. I just started Berserk today.
I imagine that applies to quite a few people, CSM really made those kinds of waves. Have fun with Berserk, it is one heck of a journey!
Similar to me, i was strictly an anime watcher and didn't really sit down and go through a whole manga, seeing manga panels at best, but CSM is the first manga i decided to read fully. So happy i did, i managed to finish the whole volume in one sitting just because of how addicting it was. Now i have dozens of manga in my catalogue that i'm planning on catching up on
@@stevemojang8736 what’s your opinion on the part 2 of csm
@@broccoliman5003 Amazing. I had some expectations, but even they were blown away. Fujimoto really knows how to deliver, i can’t wait for the rest of the manga. How about you?
@@stevemojang8736 Yeah i really like that we get a new perspective on the csm world from a normal persons view and the art style just looks a lot more clean now
my manga story was a bit interesting:
in early November of 2008, I transferred school (family moved to a different school district) and so when I entered the school library, it was the thing that I would spend a lot of my free time in, as it had so many volumes. I picked up a Naruto volume and read it. I got into anime over a year later, so I might be a rarity for that regard as everyone else I have met got into anime before getting into manga.
That's a great story! I wonder how many others also got into manga that way. It reminded me that I actually left out that I did read manga before anime because of the Kingdom Hearts II manga that my middle school library had.
i read my first manga, aot, in spring of 2020. i had gotten caught up on the show (which was what got me into anime) just a couple months earlier and i was dying to not only know more but to re-experience everything that had happened in the show. i was ecstatic that the show was actually faithful to the source since being a novel-turned-movie (harry potter, divergent, percy jackson, the hunger games) fan in elementary and middle school had made me wary of any video adaptation of literature- i would often tell my friends to "just read the book". for a few weeks, i tracked down the volumes at nearby libraries and would read them during down time at school. one time, i got so used to reading manga that when i went to read a novel in english class, i turned the page backwards. my friends and i had a good laugh about that. once covid shut stuff down, i resorted to reading online since i couldn't go into libraries anymore, which was fine because i was pretty much out of officially released volumes anyways. however, i wouldn't say that reading aot was when i became a manga reader- i was just an aot fan. i'd say around june of 2020 was when i actually became a manga reader. i finished watching jojo and decided that i couldn't wait for the rest of the parts to become anime, because it took 20 years for golden wind to be animated. i read from the beginning of stone ocean until i got caught up on jojolion. as i read, i realized how much i liked the manga medium- my family wouldn't complain about it being loud, or ugly, or whatever, because i wasn't watching it on the tv, i read it on my laptop. it was easier to not get distracted from it while also being easier to put down and pick up when i needed to. now, i (usually) prefer manga over anime, especially for ongoing series. and there are so many mangas that are good, but just haven't been picked up, or were butchered in the anime. whenever my anime-only friends complains about wanting to know what's next, i tell them to "just read the manga". i'm glad i came full circle on that. i actually recently got my first physical manga volume back in march! my dad bought me volume 1 of chainsaw man as a gift because i was rereading it and got super hyped about it.
i'm a much newer manga fan, and i have a vastly different experience than manga fans that have been around since the 2000's, but it's been the best two years of my life. i can't say anything for sure, but i at least *hope* that i can continue appreciating manga for a long, long time to come.
Super glad to hear your story! There's something special about falling in love with a new medium! You're totally in your golden age of being able to find countless new and fun things, and that time period is something I'd kill to relive. Still, I love manga 9 years after I started so I'm sure you will as well :)
I could have been into manga since 2007 with shaman king at least curiosity but I really got into it in June 2009 with Shonen jump from my grocery store. Pretty wild how it's different back than compare nowadays. It's much easier to get into manga
I wasn't around the most for the Shonen Jump magazines but I own a ton of them and Shoujo Beat, super cool things to own. I almost kinda wish they'd come back, even if it's not quite as profitable.
@@NINJAMUSHI Oh yeah, they pretty great stuff to look back. It's like a small time capsules of different mangaka during their course. Same, it would be amazing to see them again but hey what can you do lol
I actually started reading manhwa first. It was when solo leveling still had 24 chapters I have watched a lot of anime but was running out of shit to watch so my brother recommended manga, with nothing else to do I did. And here I am now reading anything manga/manwha/manhua related I dont watch anime that often because reading is easier you can read an entire episode for half the time. I think that finding new and reallyy enjoyable manga is probably one of the best feelings out there.
The first manga and anime i watched was the orginal Naruto like 5 years ago and for some odd reason I still havent read or watched shippudon. To be honest I don't read manga, I just skip the manga and read the light novel if it has one. Also thank you for the great video.
Light novels are interesting because they're not really for me but I have a friend who is super into them (I have even picked up volumes for her when they're on sale at my local shop). Thank you for watching! :)
Back when MHA season 2 came out I watched it along with Season 1 and I loved it. In-between Seasons 2 and 3 I bought every volume I could read at the time and read through everything. Since then I’ve tried to read as much as I could. Also your video on Asa helped me understand my feelings on her character immensely, shes one of my favorite characters now.
I was an anime boy, but what pulled me into manga was the failure of Tokyo Ghoul anime
I'm not talking about the 1st season, of course.
Tokyo Ghoul was my 1st manga after Re S2 ended and now I finished dozens of one-shots and long or short run manga.
I think the Covid lockdown really pushed alot of casuals(like myself)into seeking out more anime & manga, or even getting new fans to try it. For me, I thought about manga the same way I used to with certain anime: I dont have time. One day I'm watching this anime called Deadman Wonderland during lockdown & someone linked the manga in the comments. Was off from my job at the time, so I started off just reading a few chapters every few days. Suddenly im binging all night
Told myself that was dope but I'm not gonna do that again. Then I find out the site also had other popular series I recently got into like AOT & Demon Slayer. I read those. I tell myself no more. But I end up watching Berserk in lockdown, heard the manga was dope. Now I'm reading that. Then it's Chainsaw Man, then Jujutsu, then My Hero,etc.
Just crazy considering before 2020 the only anime I watched was literally Naruto, DBZ, & One Punch Man(And DBZ was the onky one i was big on). Nothing else interested me. Now I'm reading shit like Solo Leveling or Vinland Saga during lunch breaks half the time. Lockdown also gave made me less hesitant to try longer series. In like 4 months I read thru series like Kingdom & One Piece with 500+ chapters. And shows like HxH or JoJo me & my brother would binge in two weeks. I was playing longer games, watching more sports,etc. Life really works mysteriously lmao
Started in March of 2021 with finding out AoT was finishing its final season (not really, lol). I watched all of it and got into tons more anime and that eventually led me to manga. First manga volume I ever read was AoT volume 29 and from then on I have gotten into loads of different series: Kaguya-sama, Evangelion, FMA, AoT, Dorohedoro, JJK, Jojo So far my favorite has been Berserk. As someone who did read a lot and watched a lot of tv but felt things were starting to lack in western media, manga was immensely refreshing to start reading.
Ive read close to 3000 chapters of manga overall, since i started reading it last year. Its kinda insane to sometimes think about the fact that ive never ever read a single physical or paper version of a manga or a comic like they are originally intended.
I first got into manga in 2002 when I was 11 with the release of monthly shounen jump in the states. It was a phsyical magazine that came every month with about 7 series in it (dragon ball, yu-gi-oh, shaman king, naruto, bleach, and one piece were the ones I remember best, the lineup changed throughout the years) and I thought it was the most mind blowing thing I'd ever read! I begged my mom to get me a substription, which I had for about 7 years. Reading manga was very niche at the time, quite hard to get your hands on stuff and plenty of series would get dropped. I think the dedication of fan scanlations was critical to the current success of manga overseas. I got back into reading shounen jump with the new online subscription a few years ago and it's so cool how accessible manga is now!
Comics came first because walking up to the library with my older brother, and I loved reading all sorts of books
Comic books were iffy quality in comparison;
The way manga is drawn looks a lot more, consistent in quality rather then roughly drawn stand stills of comics; more fluid with actions and panel layout (at least to me anyway)
I went into sailor moon dub anime much after looking at super hero comics
Then I got fed up with how slow the episodes were and went to manga itself
Usually I’m a bit of a mix of Manga and anime
If I watched an anime and am getting hyped or impatient, I read the manga
In fma’s case I definitely read the manga first before the dvd rentals of Brotherhood and 2003 at my local library (heck, before I read it my older brother got me to watch one of the spin off movies)
Or in a rare case reading a manga and hoping for an anime adaption
I haven’t gotten much time to read lately, but I’m definitely looking forward to Jobless reincarnation light novels
I cannot read on the web as much as I’d like because I’d get headaches
Mangas were appealing because of the fluidity of actions as well as the way of how scenes and characters look like; just words can be interpreted rather differently and I want to be close to how the author had envisioned their story much more
Mostly how I got into manga was just by purely reading.
I first started really reading manga around 2019, with one punch man, then others followed. I had a few volumes before that but not the collection I have today. I was mostly anime first, because being a little older, manga wasn't really that accessible as it is today. Hell, anime wasn't either when I first started watching. My high school watching of anime was Dragonball Z, Neon Genesis Evangelion, to name a few. It was expensive to buy anime then too. Like people complain about prices now, well be thankful it's not what we use to pay for just a few episodes😕 streaming sites and manga apps have helped fuel these 2 mediums. I was more into comics then because they were more accessible.
Man, my go-to place to buy manga used to be full of shelves with different series, I would go there and spend my time exploring it, it was so much fun.
Nowadays they basically only sell naruto, op, jnk, mha and chainsaw man. The shelves which I used to love so much don't exist anymore, because they now sell anime tshirts (of the same series btw)
And I got into manga recently, in early 2017. I can just imagine how older fans must feel.
It's a big bummer when things start to get replaced but it's just the nature of any kind of entertainment, I suppose. I used to have a store I went to that eventually got bought out and it just hasn't been quite the same since, even if I still like it overall.
lmao nice use of the Metagame doc music! I got into manga a decent amount in 2014 when I got really into Gantz. I watched/read a good mix of anime/manga but eventually manga won out. I don't watch anime much but I will read manga, though not as frequently as I'd like. Keep it up brotha
there's a good few tracks from Metagame that I like using lmao. and Gantz is a wild start to manga haha
I got into manga not too long ago. The first manga I read was 'Blood on the Tracks' by Oshimi Shuzou after watching the super eyepatchwolf video titled "This manga breaks people".
Then I read another one called 'Flowers of Evil'. After that, I read my favourite manga 'Goodnight Punpun' by Inio Asano and have been reading manga since.
Man, oh man. You sure do like to torture yourself, don't cha? :^)
Got into manga when a couple friends spoiled me sasha's death in snk, automatically went to read marley. Then Steel ball run happened to me and i fell in love with manga, after that went for vinland saga, 20th century boys... (yeah i took the elitist route without noticing). Now i'm trying a much more shonen route, recently fell for fujimoto, i just love his job. My favorite mangakas are araki, fujimoto and isayama.
I got into manga in middle school which would be sometime around 2014. I got into it through anime and while I'm not certain I believe the first manga I read was Astro Boy. I definitely do know however that the first manga I ever owned was the Speed Racer manga, Mach GoGoGo.
Oh, neat! Astro Boy is a unique first manga
@@NINJAMUSHI Definitely, to this day my manga library is mostly composed of works from the 50s,60s, and 70's.
I got into Manga with Berserk and One Punch Man, kinda ruined my standards for a lot of other manga, but I’m cruising with Jujutsu Kaisen right now
I was watching 7 deadly sins, and because i was curious about the show i went to youtube, and watched these powerscale videos and saw the true magic forms and everything which weren’t shown in the anime at that point in time, so i googled my way to to the manga.
Then i went on to read aot, naruto, bleach and now manga is my main source of entertainment
I remember that my journey with anime begun when, 4 years ago, I binge watched the entirety of Kobayashi's Dragon Maid on youtube in a day, after that, I kept regularly watching anime, and eventually wanted more from the stories I was watching, so I started looking them up online to get my fill, to this day I keep it up, just because of the great stories that haven't had a chance to get animated
That's a great reason to read manga! There's so many stories to see out there!
yea I never had massive issues with getting manga or watching anime since I watched it and read this stuff but I did watch it about 2 years before ig it became a trend you could say since I believe tiktok made it massive over quarentine so i def watched it before it was too massively accepted but it prob wasnt as bad is it was when u started reading/ watching.
The manga that made me get into manga was Hell Warden Higuma when there was only 1 chapter of it. It was right when Viz made manga more accessible with the vault. I was like super invested in it and wanted to see where it went. It got canceled 19 chapters in. It later got an extra chapter but I was still sad. I think it's funny now tho how the thing that got me into this wonderful medium was unsuccessful.
The mic sounds good
great to know!
Been watching anime for a long time but only ever dabbled with some naruto manga here and there. Eventually became obsessed with jojo’a during the part 4 anime run and immediately ran to binge all of part 5. Been into manga ever since and I’m glad since a lot of my favorite works haven’t or may never be adapted. Plus even if they are experiencing the manga form feels different in a way that’s sometimes better depending on the story
Attack on titan is what got me into manga I didn’t want to be spoiled so I just started reading lol
Well for me. Manga already found good number of fans since 80s in my country. I started with Doraemon back when i was 8 or 10 like everyone from my genereration. the number of manga titles published in Indonesia is BIG, i dare to say we have more selection than USA. Sometime when i visit bookstore i was surprised when i saw very niche seinen manga. Heck It's not rare that i see official Indonesian manga publication even before they get fan scanlations.
Obviously I made this video with an American perspective, but it's super interesting to hear that. I'm sure some countries took to manga a lot quicker and easier than we did
French and Italy probably the biggest and oldest manga consumer from overseas. Even some mangaka get knighted in France. I actually jealous with Italian because almost all Jojo book sold over there haha.
in 2020 there was a anime that i wanted to continue to watch but since the season ended i decided to go read the manga so i search it up on youtube then slowly after i started to actually read manga but every now and then i like watching a youtube video of a chapter makes me feel happy
Ah, the classic "go read the manga" ending haha
I first began to consume Japanese popular culture in the early 2000s when I was a preteen. At that time manga was actually more popular in Finland than anime since numerous serieses were translated into Finnish and you could easily follow them with a couple of coins by buying the newest book at a grocery store magazine section. Where's nowhere as many animes were dubbed in Finnish, and the majority of the fans were too young to properly follow the English monologue + the dvds were way more expensive than the mangas + you'd have to have a region free dvd player to watch any publication outside Europe (or Japan or Australia, as we share the same region code). However, for over a decade, manga was the mainstream media here everyone followed, and anime was consumed by the wealthier and often pretty snobbish elder elite who could also understand English and had the money and the machines to watch it.
It's interesting to see how the fandom changes and grows, and how the Internet has changed it completely.
I got into it last october. Now I wonder why I never took a closer look earlier. Baffles my mind honestly as I've been an anime fan much longer and was actually a fan of books ever since I was a child. It seems obvious that I'd like this medium but apparently that never occurred to me until that time. I've been able to experience many more stories this way. But since I like reading physical volumes it's also quite expensive. Let's see how I look at manga in 10 years.
It's always interesting to hear stories from people who didn't get into anime and manga at the same time, because they've always been interconnected for me. Let me know in 10 years!!
@@NINJAMUSHI Yeah it makes sense to explore them simultaneously doesn't it.
I started watching anime as a kid back on Cartoon Network when they aired Naruto, I also watched dbz Kai on nicktoons. I was an anime only up until my freshman year of high school where I noticed that my school library had a LOT of manga, like entire series. I decided to start with fairy tail since I heard that was a popular one and once I went down that rabbit hole I I just kept on falling. I read fairy tail, akame ga kill, death note, assassination classroom, full metal alchemist, claymore, one piece, attack on Titan, Naruto, up to volume 15 of one punch man, and several others. That was just what my high school had, I eventually started reading the more recent manga like demon slayer and chainsaw man online and I still do now
I keep noticing libraries being mentioned in these stories, so that's an interesting pattern. I didn't mention it in the video-because it really predates me getting into manga-but I was also introduced to manga by my middle school library with the Kingdom Hearts II manga. That was before I had watched any anime too. Had no idea why the hell it was backwards, though.
early 2000s
I remember catching bits and pieces of Toonami anime when I was around 5 yo. Spirited Away and Howls Moving Castle, bits of DBZ and Bleach, intros for Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: SAC when it was bedtime, Toonami ads particularly for Naruto and watching the episode where the kids try to see under Kakashi's mask, etc. The thing is I never felt like watching any of them because I didn't really like the anime artsyle and just the character designs or aesthetic (is that the right word?) felt very strange and weird to me, similar to when I watched the Miyazaki movies I mentioned earlier.
2009ish
LMAOd at some Naruto YTPs and Naruto Shippuden adverts where all over Disney XD when it was a few weeks from airing. Watched the fifth episode, got hooked and wanted to start with the original series. OG series wasn't airing anymore, didn't know about free anime streaming sites or Naruto DVDs (I was a dumb 9YO) so I started with the Manga when I found and bought vol 46 (plenty spoilers and had no context to any of it) and read the manga from vol1 - 40 out of order since the books would already be borrowed and I didn't have the money or patience to buy more than vols 42-47 off of Amazon. I started reading every Shonen Jump Magazine from the library and eagerly awaited each new issue (I still have my collection of 13 issues after over a decade). That's also how I got into Ultimo, Bleach (and watching bits of episodes on tv), One Piece, Death Note, Blue Exorcist, etc.
2011
Seen ads for Death Note live action movies in Shonen Jump and skimmed through ch3 or 4 that was included in a 2011 SJ issue and thought "ok so wtf's this about", borrowed vol1 shortly after, got hooked, kept reading. Same happened with Blue Exorcist got dropped off after I couldn't find anything after vol3 (that was as far as english print went at the time i think?), started again in 2013 but dropped it shortly after. Started watching anime on free streaming sites, got hooked on animes adaptions for Naruto, Death Note, Heaven's Lost Property, Sekirei.
2014
Read the ''last'' few vols for Bleach, the last couple Naruto chapters on a manga reading website, got hooked on reading other manga like Heaven's Lost property, Maga Tsuki, Countrouble.
2016-19
Watched some DBZ Kai on Toonami, loved it , wanted to watch all of DBZ start to finish (og Funimation dub with Bruce Faulconers music, still havent found a way to watch it in an official full series release and didn't feel like taking all day to download each episode from whereverz). started getting into (Slice of Life?) anime like Shomin Sample.
One Piece, Hunter x Hunter, Parasyte, Lupin III, Cowboy Bebop, JoJo, Akame ga Kill, nearly everything on Toonami at the time.
2020-2021
Started dropping anime almost completely aside from some Hunter x Hunter tha. Didn't care much for Bleach anymore, didn't like Naruto past volume 54 (start of the Great Ninja war I think?), the Toonami shows I cared for either finished airing or the story was long past where I left off. Fell back in a bit with Berserk, absolutely amazing.
2022-2023
Fell back into Naruto, Bleach, DBZ, got super Into Chainsaw Man, enjoying anime again and still have a list of shows I still need to finish or start and shows I want to rewatch.
it was Berserk for me then JJk and now i just finished chainsaw man.
My first time reading manga was reading an old volume of soul eater in my public library 8 years ago I think when I was 10 and that’s how I got into anime/manga and it has been a major hobby of mine to read and each it ever since
My middle school library is where I read my first manga, Kingdom Hearts II, as well. I'm sure lots of kids got into manga that way
1:21 i think our Viz Media subscriptions might look a lil different🤔
twin star exorcists is goated :^)
Your voice sounds really nice in these videos
Thank you, I'm glad to hear that!
I remember having a computer class in highschool and the first thing id do is check for a new chapter of bleach or naruto shippuden. That was the only way i could read it since i didint have a computer or wifi at home
I started 3 years ago when I was 16 during the summer of 2019. I had just watched the first 3 seasons of My Hero Academia and was hooked. Not wanting to wait until that fall for the 4th season to come out, I decided to start reading the manga. I went online and bought the first 5 volumes of My Hero Academia and the first volume of MHA: Vigilantes, the vigilantes volume got my attention because I had no idea that MHA had a spinoff and it grabbed my interest. When I got the volumes in the mail, I read through them really fast and a few days later, I bought the first few volumes of Attack on Titan, since I also really enjoyed that anime at the time. After that I fell in love and the first actually complete manga series I read soon after was Parasyte, which was incredible. In present day, I have been reading and collecting manga as my main hobby. I have over 500 volumes in my collection and I don't see myself stopping anytime soon.
I got into manga seriously in 2020 when I read the spin off to my hero academia which was only in manga form. After I read it and loved it, I went on to the My Hero manga and found that I loved it way more than the anime. And since then it’s just been my passion
Pretty new fan but full of passion, you've got a lot of manga ahead of you!
@@NINJAMUSHI I’m currently encroaching on my 100th manga. But I have like 2000 on my list so I’ll be doing this for awhile
The first manga I stumbled upon is Blame! didn't understand it until im grown up and now, I somehow liked Tsutomu nihei and his other works. But the first manga I got into and the very first manga I owned is the first volume of Death Note. Wasn't a fan but it helped appreciate and love manga and anime as well. I definitely love shonen titles but If you are into something seinen recommend reading some works of Naoki Urasawa and some works of Shuzo oshimi
Got into manga a few years after getting into anime. Saw an InuYasha collection at my local library.
I started getting into anime at around 16 17 because a friend recommended some shows and the whole reaction (ooh so this is what yugioh and pokemon was)
a year or two goes by then i started to read manga (on shady sites ofc) of animes that weren't completed (i think it started with me not wanting to wait a week for the next episode of shield hero or something)
and now I've started a small physical collection (around 10 or so volumes)
nice and humble origin story! I didn't really get into it because of a friend, but I did have a close friend who watched Naruto all the time in our middle school years
I got into Manga around 2012, before anime became a thing you would see anybody and everybody talking about online. I originally started to read the Naruto manga, but eventually ended up moving on to others as well. Honestly, i wish that i had started to read sooner.
Yeah, back then it was a bit of a rarity to be an anime/manga fan in general (especially finding fans irl) and now you really don't have to look far at all
I got into manga last year I think. I originally did it solely to read Berserk, but I've read a lot more since then. I got into anime in 2016 with Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
It's kind of sad, but neither of the manga I recommended in your community post have an official English release. With Tomorrow's Joe, I understand because it's old and fairly obscure today, especially outside of Japan, but if Osamu Tezuka's works can get English releases, why not Tomorrow's Joe?
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun is more surprising, as it's a recent series with an anime adaptation that does have an English release, even a dub! (I haven't actually read the manga yet but I love the anime and I've heard good things about the manga)
Ah, JoJo must have been a fun place to start! Joe should absolutely be bought overseas. I can imagine it in a nice hardcover release but what can you do, I guess. Perhaps Iruma-kun will have a shot at being brought over in the future. I remember I used to be a mega fan of Kuroko no Basket and for years-long after the anime came out-it didn't have an English release for either anime or manga. Eventually it happened, though, so maybe Iruma-kun will when you least expect it.
@@NINJAMUSHI
Iruma-kun's first volume is getting an English release April 2023!
When you’ve been reading manga since you were 10 (0.0 )……..
After a certain Attack on Titan season 4 episode I had to read ahead, and thus my manga journey started.
Death Note was the first manga that i bought, I watched the anime in 2018 and then bought the manga in 2019.
Seems to be that it never stops being a gateway series, no matter how old it is!
@@NINJAMUSHI agreed!
I got into manga around 2017 because I watched all of the Bleach/HxH anime and found out there was more so off I went to read and blitz through them been more of a manga lover ever since then
I finished the JoJo anime last year when i was 15 and then decided to read the part 6,7 and 8 manga
JoJo is a heck of a journey to take, hope you enjoyed parts 6-8!
Got to manga when i was around 4 y.o (1999-2000), it was flame of recca, one piece, yuyu hakusho, rave masters. had the first edition print of each (back then my currency was about 1-1 with USD, hence manga is cheap). Been a huge weeb since then
Also, shaman king
2007 with Naruto. I was tired of waiting for the latest episodes since I binged lots of Naruto filler before Shippuden (my first experience with filler). Funny enough at that time I thought the Naruto manga was actually since i heard they always stayed ahead of the anime. The new chapters used to be released on CZcams in an AMV format by several CZcamsrs & rick rollers. Good times. I've expanded to One Piece in 08' and many others since that time.
A friend of mine bought the first volume of Hunter x Hunter, read it in the wrong order and gave up
After like 5 years I got into Jojo, and wanted to read Part 7 in a *totally official manga site*, but, seaching for it, I saw Chainsaw Man as one of the new manga added, got me interested from the title and cover art, it was on its 10th chapter, read it weekly.
Still haven't read HxH tho, but I'll certently try it, planning to start today.
First manga: fifth grade found in a scholastic magazine: Yu-gi-oh! Volume one. Wow!! Words cannot describe the feelings I had while reading that. I had such a great time but that experience definitely ruined me for future manga readings. Bought the first Naruto manga book and…. What do you mean it’s the same plot as the anime?? How boring! 😅 (don’t talk to me the tohei version btw I didn’t even know it existed lol)
Hi Geart video man 👍
Hello! Thanks!
I’ve been watching anime for a while and only got into manga almost 2 years ago because of the hype behind chainsaw man.
I seems CSM introduced a lot of new fans to manga!
The first manga I bought was a Shonen Jump Magazine. I saw it had a free Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon so I bought it without knowing what a manga even was. Don't know if I still have it or if it was thrown out but twas the first. The first manga volume I owned I have told you specifically was Berserk Volume 16 because I got it free at a mini con so why would I turn down a free thing. Finally the first manga I read for being a manga was the final few arcs of Naruto. So technically I have 3 origin stories. Also great video my friend. It's a great convo piece
Thank you! I actually didn't know you started with a shonen jump magazine. Either I forgot or you never told me. But it's still a pretty neat way to start!
I can't remember exactly what it was but my first manga was either seven deadly sins or fairy tail.
Elfen Lied was huge in 2000s. But 20 years later people hardly even talk nostalgically, let alone as a new fan.
it's really interesting, yeah. I remember even when I got in, it had a pretty solid fanbase. Maybe that's because I was in the circles of what remained from the 2000s emo phase but I met a ton of people that loved it back then, both anime and manga
My friend showed me his brothers collection of 3 in 1 viz bigs of dragonball in 2013 and i bought them myself and then it started from there. :)
watch alot fo anime but never got in to manga as getting the ones I wanted was so hard, soul eater, bakemonogatari, and a complete english set of fairytail. still waiting for the 100 year quest but from what I heard is was coming then covid hit and they switched to edens zero.
Oh yeah, if you're only reading physically then it takes a lot of effort/money
I don't remember the year. But it was like 5-6 years ago. I read Naruto Shippuden because then the anime wasn't finished. Then I got into Berserk, and after that read many more.
Even 5-6 years feels like a long time ago for me. Going from Naruto to Berserk is quite the jump!
@@NINJAMUSHI Yeah, funnily enough, in both cases, I started watching the anime and then jumped to the manga.
My first manga was Katekyo Hitman Reborn, I had no choice but to read the manga because they stopped adapting it into anime. I'm glad I did because I found out how I enjoy manga more than anime, it has way better art style and pacing. I'll still watch the anime even if I've read the manga of a series, but never have I found an anime that was better than it's manga counterpart. I have high hopes for Chainsaw Man though.
Always have been interested in Hitman Reborn, tried reading it like 6-7 years ago but didn't get super far into it.
Started watching anime 2 ears ago and collecting 1 and a half already 20 volumes most of them jojo's
My first manga was at 12-13. (Around 2007/2008) With Pet Shop of Horrors. But only recently I am reading more manga than watching anime.
You've been around awhile! It's interesting because I kind of lived the late 2000s anime/manga vicariously through fans I knew that had been around longer (plus my brother watched anime since the 90s). Though, I feel like even in the early 2010s you were kinda expected to see the most popular of the 2000s.
@@NINJAMUSHI true
I got into manga in 2016 when I read all of One Punch Man in a single sitting.
my very first manga was when I was 10 years old and I got the manga Kare Kano
and then dragonball z and now I am still reading manga. I am looking for the whole series of chainsaw man
Kare Kano is a very neat first manga to start with!
The first manga I ever read was uzumaki by junji Ito
It wasn't scary but it was somewhat disturbing
That's an interesting first, but I guess it makes sense because it's the most iconic horror manga and has no anime (yet)
Firat i read manga was back in mid 2000s
That manga is Doraemon and yes i've been watching the anime since early 2000s
And then The first 2 manga that i read by weekly are Naruto and Bleach back in 2009 or 2010
And began to read One Piece by weekly in 2013
I've been watching anime since 2000 or 2001 on tv so it's pretty long to start read manga
But again to be fair access to Internet is pretty expansive back then
And also English is not my first language so it's pretty imposible to read manga back then lol
Damn how time flies. Don’t remember what Manga exactly I first read but it was because I couldn’t wait for the next season of the Anime to come out. It’s like a cheat code being able to see what happens next lol. Anyways, I think your mic sounds great. What mic are you using?
Yeah, time goes by quick! Sometimes I think about how much of my life has went by since I got into manga/anime and it's pretty surreal. And thank you! I'm using a Shure SM7B now! I used a Blue Yeti for over 10 years and it served me well but it's dying on me (consistent audio problems and turns off with the slightest static electricity). Hoping to use this new mic for another 10 years.
I was always around manga but i started to take it more seriously after renting black butler from my library about six years ago. after reading it i just kept renting more manga to the point my mom would stop me. I remember i reading all the attack on titan volumes my library had at the time and i saved as much money so i could buy each new volume when they were released. i also remember downloading a bunch of manga reading apps on my old phone when i wanted to read a manga that my library or bookstore didn't have. my favorite manga at the time were one piece, soul eater, attack on titan, elfen lied, deadman wonderland, akira, jojo's bizarre adventure and prison school.
i stopped reading manga when i entered highschool mostly because i wanted to get into new things, i only got back into it when quarantine hit and i ended up reading attack on titan again and kept up with it until its conclusion. since then the only manga i read were chainsaw man and berserk.
I honestly also feel sort of old and i really can't into this new generation of manga and anime, it definitely feels weird seeing manga being more popular than back then. it makes me happy tho, so many people like the medium now and series i once had to look for scans online now are in book shelves at barnes and noble and at my library.
only story but yea my nostalgia for those series hit.
Definitely Chainsaw Man. I’ve only been watching anime for a year and a half. I’ve never had an interest in reading but when I saw the trailer for Chainsaw Man something just clicked and I wanted to read the series. After reading chainsaw man and 11 other finished series and 3 ongoing ones. I now I prefer manga over anime.
Good luck going forward! You have an absolute ton of options out there
I think the first volumn of manga I ever read was Naruto vol. 42? From there I remember reading manga in my local library. Read the first couple of arcs of Bleach, the last arc of og Dragon Ball and the, then latest, volumes of Naruto. Been a fan ever since......
this was like 2010? I believe.......
your journey has definitely been all over the place, but glad it made you a fan!
Funnily enough the first manga I started reading was One piece in the age of 11 . But my fist anime that I watched was One punch man one year later. So I started with manga not with anime.
Dang, that's fairly young! You've practically grown up on manga/anime!
@@NINJAMUSHI Yea you can say that.
I've always loved anime as a child, my father was the one to introduce me to it, he'd always make Yu Yu Hakusho references lmaoo. I got into Manga in 2013 or 2014 because I was getting impatient of FairyTail episodes and I wanted to consume more FT content. Back then I didn't even know most anime are just adaptations of it. After discovering manga, I started reading series I used to watch as a kid then it just became my standard way to consume anime content because its "easier". I'd read almost anything back then, I even remember reading some lesbian and BL because I didn't know what they meant lol. Iris Zero was one of the first series I read and I kinda forgot about it and just recently I came across it and reread it, I didn't even know it was still ongoing and in hiatus.
Looking back, I feel like I've read a lot of obscure series that I never finished because at the time it was ongoing and those series relied on fan scanlations. I actually remember reading a couple chapters of Fire Punch back in its release but I stopped because I didn't see more of it in the website I used to go. Your mention of Vampire Knights brought me back to nostalgia too. I remember reading and it being popular in forums that I used to browse back then but I can't remember why I stopped reading it. I really wish I actually made a list of what I read back then.
I really am thankful for the boom of manga because more info on the author or series gets news where back then you'd have to rely on the scanlations for announcements of the series. And god bless for Shonen Jump, Manga Plus, and more legal websites being available now because I get to see new series grow and have consistent scanlations while being legally free too.
This is an awesome story! My father didn't get me into anime/manga, but I got him into it somehow (he's watched at least a few dozen anime by this point). My brother had quite a bit of influence on me getting into anime, or at least what shows I checked out early on. He's 20 years older than me and watched anime during the 90s, so he's where I learned about Dragon Ball, FLCL, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Lain, Bleach, etc.
When 20 minutes took way too long.
I'm dying to pay for a suscription "netflix" type service to read in high quality scans multiple manga
is there any ?
mangaplus is free and only have the three first and last chapters
What do U think about Bleach Manga? Is it GOAT?
Uhh, Bleach was my 2nd anime. I saw it like 10 years ago, so I have a lot of nostalgia for it. Kubo is also one of my favorite character artists and a big inspiration for my own art. Soul Society is still a top tier shonen arc. Even some of the stuff past it is pretty decent too. Not a GOAT to me, when only one arc is incredible, but I still appreciate and love it all the same. And again, can't overstate how much I love Kubo's art
I started in 2003
I started in 2023 with berserk
One piece in 2021
My first manga is Uzumaki by Junji Ito. I have watched anime before so thought I would try something which does not have an anime adaptation.
You should read berserk.