What was the first manga you read

[oneiros.fox.studios]

The first manga I've ever read has to be Kitchen Princess. It was the only I could get my hands on at the time it has so many nostalgic energy attached to it

[Key Visual]

Ranma 1/2 pulled it off a irc bot over dialup. Fun times!

[specialtogod]

inuyasha

[Kleiner]

It was a manga volume my mom checked out for my sister from the public library when we were in elementary school. I can't remember the title for the love of me, but it was a shoujo manga about a girl being friends with another girl who was a witch, and all the shenanigans that entailed. There was one scene the normal girl walked in to a house and the inside was coated in snow caused by the witch. I reread it like 3 times in one day because it wasn't like anything else I read at the time. Definately got me more invested in manga than I would have otherwise. Good times.

[Chrollo]

My first time ever was Dragon ball, they had those in my local library. I read it before i ever watched anime. After i watched anime it was probably Soul Eater. 

[Animedragon]

While not the first manga I bought it is the first, and only, original Japanese manga I've bought. I got all five volumes from a Japanese bookshop in London and each has a nice glossy full colour card dust jacket. I can't read Japanese but I did find the English translations for each volume on the Net and printed them out.
This must have been before the English version was available as I wouldn't have brought them if I'd already got the English version. I did subsequently buy the English editions, I think they came out about a year later.

[amboxer21]

Deadman wonderland

[J_24]

JoJo's bizarre adventure. I saw the anime when I was 13 and the next year I decided to get started on the manga.

[Wickett]

Can't remember if it was Bleach or Gantz, but both were awful as manga in my opinion. 

[sid rob0t]

my fast manga i read is black clover

[Kikyou]

My first manga was InuYasha ~ 

[417Unlocked]

When I was in the 6th grade a close friend had heard me talking about watching inuyasha on toonami So on my birthday that year they had bought me the whole boxset of inuyasha manga volumes.  And it began!

[corvi]

I found Whistle! in my city's public library when I was ten or so and loved it to death. I recently found a few volumes of it at a con for cheap, made my day!

[Sarada]

Fruits Basket was the first manga I read. My cousin had the set and let me read them. 

[DylanMax]

It definitely has to be Black Clover same as my second Anime

[Moxie]

PokemonThe Electric Tale of Pikachu

[FidelityBoss]

Ah, my first manga was actually *Hikaru no Go* by Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata! It’s not as flashy as some of the big shonen titles, but it totally captivated me. I mean, who would’ve thought a story about a board game could be so intense and emotional? The way it blends strategy, rivalry, and personal growth really stuck with me. Plus, it lowkey made me want to learn how to play Go, even though I quickly realized I had zero talent for it. 

On 8/16/2024 at 7:38 PM, sid rob0t said:

my fast manga i read is black clover

that's a good choice there man I really love Black Clover

[Colu]

The first manga I ever read was After School Nightmare

I don’t remember anything from it because it was so long ago, but I do know that the reason I picked it was because at the time it was the most complete series that our public library had available for manga, which meant I could read more of it. 
 

I was actually at the library the other day and it looks like their manga and comic selection has expanded quite a bit since I was in school, though I didn’t look to see what they had.