What was your first manga?

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:32 am

As the subject line asks, what was your first manga?

I only started reading a few years ago and still haven't read that many. But believe it or not, my first manga was the same as my first true anime introduction - Sailor Moon.

The differences between what I had watched on television vs reading intrigued me enough to buy the Card Captor Sakura manga. And then I got Fushigi Yuugi, X/1999, Tokyo Babylon and the list goes on.

Blaster · Post by **Blaster** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:15 am

Shakugan no Shana. I enjoyed the anime, so I started buying the manga to see how it compared.

kathpatty · Post by **kathpatty** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:03 am

The beginning.....it also started with an anime

Fushigi Yugi
Basara
Rurouni Kenshin

Cordelia · Post by **Cordelia** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:34 am

Slamdunk!

Post by **JWR** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:38 am

Lone Wolf & Cub

Deadly Whispers · Post by **Deadly Whispers** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:43 am

Heh, my first was Naruto, and it was Sith-Krillin's fault. First he made me watch the first episode of the anime. Then he brought over all these Japanese Shonen Jump and we stumbled through quite a few! I had so much fun that I think I moved to the first English books at the time, Dragon Knights, Chobits, and RagnarÃ¶k.

~ DW

crackpot27 · Post by **crackpot27** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:56 am

I think mine was actually One Piece, unless you count the Shounen Jump magazines that I started with

jcaliff · Post by **jcaliff** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:18 am

Area 88, when they were being released as comic books. Also, Mai the Psychic Girl at around the same time.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:31 am

I'm not sure which manga was my first. But long ago I used to subscribe to Animanga so I ended up being able to read X, Fushigi Yuugi and Video Girl Ai since they came with it (or the free sample they sent). But now that I think about it since JWR brought it up, I perused Lone Wolf and Cub in the bookstore a long time ago in the bookstore. Not sure how far back that was though.

My sister showed me her Super Dimensional Century Orguss and Candy Candy manga back in the Seventies and Eighties, but obviously I couldn't read any of it since the text was only in Japanese.

ReiTheJelly · Post by **ReiTheJelly** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:18 am

Sailor Moon. I watched the TV show when it was first on here in the USA; my friend knew how much I liked it, so gave me all of her Chinese-language SM manga (and graciously translated them for me).

After that, I got myself a subscription to MixxZine (which later became TokyoPop). At one point I had calculated that it would take them 12 years to finish translating Magic Knight Rayearth!

I'm glad that manga became popular in the US, so it didn't take nearly that long.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:32 pm

Hmm...wait a minute. I just remembered that I bought those Akira and Magnetic Rose English graphic novels back in the ?mid/late 1980s.

I know I bought that Magnetic Rose graphic novel before that "The Royale" Star Trek the Next Generation episode aired because I can recall how similar the two stories appeared to me. And "The Royale" aired March 27, 1989:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Roy ... episode%29

syan · Post by **syan** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:49 pm

Clover - it had those pretty slip covers! Then I moved onto Wish and other CLAMP.

GuyvarIII · Post by **GuyvarIII** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:16 pm

The first Manga I read were BAOH, Crying Freeman, Guyver, Lone Wolf and Cub, Orion, Ranma 1/2, and Sanctuary. Iâ€™m not sure which one I looked at first. I was either in Middle School or High School, and they were all being traded back and forth between my friends and me, along with American comics, magazines, and various other things, on our school bus ride.

samiamew · Post by **samiamew** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:20 pm

Mine would be .....*drumroll please* Inuyasha!!

I'm a late bloomer -- I figured out what manga was when all AdultSwim had was those first friggin' 36 episodes of IY that they played over and Over and OVER again.

I had to know what was going to happen when Kagome was taken by that 'obnoxious, cocky wolf guy' ... and some googlin' around later found me Chris Rijk's site and the rest was history .......

litl_x · Post by **litl_x** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:55 pm

Mine was Ramna 1/2, I actually watched the anime first and then had to buy the manga just to see what the ending was