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marie-antoinette
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I noticed the "First manga" thread title and, not knowing what it was, thought maybe it would be a thread about what the first manga you ever read was. Since this wasn't the case, I thought it might be interesting to see what everyone read first! Also it's something that I don't think has been asked before, at least not while I've been on the boards.
Anyway, the first manga I ever read was vol 1 of Gravitation. It actually belonged to my friend but she brought it over and I stole it from her (and I think I actually read the thing before she did). Though it did take me awhile to get used to the right-to-left reading style (though now I'm so used to it that I have on occasion tried to read North American comic strips the wrong way!) I really enjoyed the experience and soon started collecting Gravitation myself, along with other series. I think the first series that I completed was Mars (I'm about 95% sure that was it). Oh, angsty shoujo-y goodness. |
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jgreen
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My first manga was Ranma 1/2. I had watched the first 4 episodes of TV series (the only ones available at my local Blockbuster way back in those halcyon days of 1995), and the friend who showed them to me had the first two volumes of the manga. He let me read them and I was hooked.
Within the next month or two, I started buying the following in monthly comics format: - Ranma 1/2 - Adam Warren's Dirty Pair: Fatal But Not Serious - Gunsmith Cats - Oh My Goddess! Those were the days.... |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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1995....When boy bands were big and 90's pop music reigned supreme. Oh 90's where have you gone!!!???? I also got my start in 1995. My first manga was Oh My Goddess. I was fresh from watching Anime Invasion on cartoon network late at night. I got broken in with Project A-Ko, Vampire Hunter D, and Akira, followed shortly by the original Appleseed. After that I wanted everything anime and manga. Since my local stores hardly had anything I had to go to local comic shops, which in the 90's roamed like majestic animals in an open plain.......
 ..anywho, without a soruce of anime I turned to manga and picked up Oh My Goddess. It didn't even seem all that great at first but it just grew on me like a happy kind of parasite. Right after volume 2 I started reading Ranma, Gunsmith Cats, Appleseed, and Dragonball. Those are some of my first titles. I also can't forget Lone Wolf and Cub.
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jgreen
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Hey, buddy, don't besmirch the name of 1995 like that! 1995 was just before the boy band/crappy pop music meltdown. The first albums by the Backstreet Boys and Spice Girlscame out in '96, but the takeover didn't happen until *NSYNC'sfirst record in '98 and Britney's in '99. 1995 was still the glory days of Weezer, Toadies, and PotUSA. Now THOSE were the days...
I'm surprised the original Appleseed didn't turn you off anime entirely.  The manga's great, though...
I don't think the domestic version of the Dragon Ball manga was out until a few years after that, maybe around '97 or '98? Not sure, I don't have the issues handy, but I'm almost positive. |
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FeralKat
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My very first manga was Pokemon, but I don't think that counts since it was just another comic to me at the time. I would say that Magic Knight Rayearth was the very first manga that made me sit up and take notice. (And suddenly, an otaku was born.)
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Richard J.
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My first manga was Gunslinger Girl. I had watched the entire anime series and was eager to see more, so I immediately bought all three volumes and read them the same day.
Imagine my anger when I found out that ADV couldn't be bothered to finish the series. 
I keep hoping that Viz or Tokyopop or someone will buy the rights from them and finish it, but I'm not holding my breath. (Maybe the anime airing on IFC will save it.) The first manga that I read which had no anime was Remote. Very different from my usual tastes and I passed on it early on, but it's ended up being pretty darn good. I'm waiting to get the last three volumes together (I think it's supposed to be other at ten.) |
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hagakure|returns
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This question was ask in the intro thread right? Or at least I already answer there.
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Wolverine Princess
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Inuyasha closely followed by Ranma 1/2 at age nine or so, which also taught me the word "pervert". They say it quite a bit in Ranma, and I didn't really have any ides of what the word meant so I went around calling everyone in school I didn't like a perv until I finally looked it up in a dictionary. Thanks to Akane-chan, I now use that handy-dandy word in almost every conversation.
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LydiaDianne
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Sailor Moon! I got into the manga because I got into the TV series. I tend to be one of those people that buy EVERYTHING concerning the series. The only drawback to it is that it is the left to right version instead of the right to left.
The second manga I got was Fushigi Yugi. Again because I was into the anime. Last edited by LydiaDianne on Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:15 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Love Hina vol. 1. I watched the anime first and though I ended up being displeased with it, the series seemed to me to have alot of wasted potentials and when I found out that the the anime was actually a poor translation of the manga and that the manga had more interesting events and a more conclusive ending, I decided to give it a try and liked it. Now I always make sure to check whether the manga came before the anime before trying any series.
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marie-antoinette
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Maybe, but who actually reads the intro thread, really? |
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SharinganEyes92
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Very true. I never look at the stickies. The only time I ever accessed one was when I joined and back then I didn't really know much about forums in general. For my first manga I ever read was volume 15 of Inuyasha that I got from a Borders in London while on my way to India to visit family. It was kinda' boring, but it ended with some excitement, so I saw some more promise in reading manga. I haven't completed a series yet, but I am very close to finishing Rurouni Kenshin and I plan on collecting the whole Death Note series. I'm about to preorder volume 8 of Death Note on Amazon right now, after recently finishing volume 7 last night. It was amazing. It was so exciting. But I spoiler[can't believe that L dies!] Well, I knew it was coming. It was ruined for me on the Youtube comments page for a DN movie preview. Anyway, still pretty powerful, and I really wanna see how this series turns out. I have to say that Takeshi Obata is probably the most gifted manga-ka I've ever seen. He's has such a large repertiore (did I spell that right?) of character designs. Hikaru no Go has such a contrast in designs from Death Note that it's almost impossible to think they were illustrated by the same man. I don't care if he got arrested. It just proves that he's a gifted badass. |
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hagakure|returns
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"39230 view" means nobody? Ridiculous, that's the most on the manga forum. But whatever float ur boats. |
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Wolverine Princess
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99.9999999999% of the people that post in and view that thread are introducing themselves. No one reads that thread other than forum newbies. |
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Wakaiba
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Sailor Moon. It's so embarassing nowadays, but I feel very prominent with my old, $20 volumes of "pocket-sized" manga by Smile!, I think. After Sailor Moon I moved onto Miracle Girls, from which I quickly strayed and found AMG!.
Man, am I glad I moved on. Have to respect the roots, though... |
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