I actually don’t typically read manga, but I’m writing this comment because I have two exceptions that hooked me somewhat. +Anima, and Oyasumi Punpun. I’m hoping these combined with webtoons will get me to read more.

My first exposure to “true” manga was definitely Nisekoi. That’s of course a direct effect from having watched its anime and Plastic Memories. Now all of my manga catalogs are full of romantic comedy. No ragrets.

Hell, I even read Berserk because there’s a bit of romance in it. If there were no sexy scene between Guts and Casca, I wouldn’t even touch it.

I watched the “Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody”. It ended, but I was very interested in the story, so I ended up on mangadex…

In my middle school library, a small shelf of graphic novels was placed in the reference section, far away from the regular young adult fiction. I spotted them when I was browsing encyclopedias, and the cover that caught my eye first was volume one of Aqua by Amano Kozue. Picked it up and immediately fell in love with the idyllic world and gorgeous art. I’ve reread Aqua/Aria a few times now and despite having read thousands of manga at this point, it’s still my top favorite today.

I watched the ReLIFE anime in a particular point of my life where I really needed it - it truly changed my path forward. The issue is though, the ReLIFE anime end at roughly half of the manga… So I had to read it to learn the rest. Now I prefer manga in general because I can sneak in some reading time pretty much everywhere on my phone.

One piece was my first manga because reading it was faster than watching 700 episodes 😂

Don’t have any particular first memory, but i think my first complete manga was Gotoubun no Hanayome / Quintessential Quintuplets?

Watched the anime for it and didn’t feel like waiting for new seasons, so i started buying it.

Think my first actual manga was some random volumes of Konosuba, 1 from QQ and one MHA volume.

The good old Doraemon (ドラえもん) haha

Kaguya-sama Love is War. I loved the anime and couldn’t wait for another season.

I had been watching anime for a few years, and a Humble Bundle with Kodansha manga came out. I picked it up and have been reading since then.

Watched the original anime of Fullmetal Alchemist and found out it was originally a manga that was still ongoing, so I just had to read it any way I could.

I was into western comics. Then I got into anime. Seemed like a pretty natural progression to try out manga too after being fully immersed in anime. The exact reason I don’t really remember though.

I was unhappy with how samurai x ended. I found the manga when searching samurai x in Google. After I finished that, I remembered my friend in elementary school had a pencil box which had cool pictures with slam dunk written on it. So I looked for slam dunk “comics” next. These are the first two manga I read.