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Ok guys! What was the first manga ever to get you into reading it? Aside from mainstream comics like x-men, my first was Zoids! Yea, they have it for those who don't know! I never finished the series becuase I couldn't find them all, but it was very good! I love zoids! ^_^

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Gundam Wing: Episode Zero. I bought it in the chapter-a-month paper version from Viz, so imagine my suprise in seeing a graphic novel!

The first manga for me would probably be Dragonball that I read from one of my friends house who has all of them (and all of the Z ones released too).

Oh, mine was so weird. It was like the 9th volume of Sailor Moon. Totally out of order. I had no idea what had happened before or what happened after. You wanna know the odd thing? I LOVED IT!!! I mean I loved the art and what of the story I could decifer. And-- well, who wouldn't love Darien.

*looks around*...er...Pokemon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu...
hey, its a good book~! ....>.> <.<....ehehe...^.^''

Same here, Ren_sama. I actually have that and Electric Pikachu...um...Boogaloo.

Dragonball Z. I know... I know... I don't like DBZ either but for all you DBZ hater here, don't you think the Dragonball with the kid goku isn't all that bad?

A few years ago, I didn't even know what Manga was! Then one day when we were at Barnes & Noble, I saw some Gundam graphic Novel in the comic book section, I was like, COOL! I went on Ebay and bought it, and then I was totally hooked on manga! At first I didn't get why it was in B&W, but I know now that it's better that way and more artistic.

Dragonball vol. 12. ^^x The back of it cracked me up; I had to buy it...

My first manga was DBZ, I do like it still. The manga is much better than the anime, and I think it ok. ( means it's not my favorite but it's not terrable) I'm proud to say I still read it.

I don't collect much manga, but the first one I ever bought was Ranma 1/2 Volume 1 after seeing the anime.

I was browsing a SunCoast at my cousin's mall actually looking at the anime, I stumbled across the graphic novels. But they were all more expensive than I cared to pay at the time so I bought the July issue of Shonen Jump, and that was the first manga I ever read... I guess technically the first title would be "One Piece", since I just read the magazine from cover to cover. ^^ After that I subscribed to SJ, and have been hooked on manga ever since.

That must have been recently, how long have you been interested in manga?

Oh, I should have said July of last year. So I've been into manga for almost a year now... but I was into anime a year or two before that.

Wow. . . that ain't long.

Nope, guess not, compared to most people here.... Looking back it seems like an eternity though XD

AngelSakura wrote:Same here, Ren_sama. I actually have that and Electric Pikachu...um...Boogaloo.

Lol,I have that one too~! and I have Surf's Up, Pikachu as well...^O^''

Same here, Ren_sama. I actually have that and Electric Pikachu...um...Boogaloo.

... me too...

I knew about manga before I read it, but the first manga I ever read was The Flipside. I didn't like it, and I don't think many other christains would either. Read Steelblood, an online manga. You'll love it.

I may not like Pokemon anymore, but I thought Satoshi Ono's art style was nice.....^_^'

Yeah, it's so sad when an artist has a style you like and a story you don't.

Hehe, yea I had those pokemon comics too, lol.

My first was (finnish) Ranma½ 4, but i think that isn't counted so I say Pita Ten 1 ^^

KisaTohru wrote:Ok guys! What was the first manga ever to get you into reading it? Aside from mainstream comics like x-men, my first was Zoids! Yea, they have it for those who don't know! I never finished the series becuase I couldn't find them all, but it was very good! I love zoids! ^_^

Zoids is a lot older than the first one they showed on CN... It started off, I believe, as a video game on the Famicom.

The first manga I remember seeing was "Bubblegum Crisis" It was very bloody, if I remember correctly... It was more violent than the anime. The first manga that I bought? I bought a bunch of issues at one time: 3 issues of Sailormoon, 1 of Nadesico, 1 or maybe 3 of Evangelion, and 3 of Pokemon... I later bought 2 more nadesico ones, and a TPB of Sailormoon SuperS. I was on an anti-anime phase, and threw them all away... I wish I hadn't, but now I have but one lowly TPB... No, I have two... I forgot about "Empire Strikes Back" but my primary one is Kodocha 1. I want to get them all, because that's the only way I'll get the whole story... I don't trust Funimation... I mean, Tokyopop can be bad, but they did a good job with Kodocha... I'm not so confident that Funimation will treat it with the same respect...

I prolly would throw away the sailormoon mixx comics if I had them now... I'll never forgive Mixx/Tokyopop for using the DiC names... I hope they get re-released with more accurate translations and the real names... Though, I thought that calling her "bunny" was rather clever... Still, I mean, what if we had CCS over here, and we called her "Cherry Blossom"? It would just sound weird... No need to translate the names... It's just not right. Besides, she's princess serenity, not princess serena... ok, I'll quit ranting... (BTW< I hate naoko's drawing style... The anime looked much better...)

my first was Ceres: Celestial Legend Vol.1.... followed quickily by

Fushigi yugi1
kenshin1
naruto1
x/1999
... basicly i read a whole bunch of vol.1s and then picked up a bunch more afterwords. my entire collection goes like this

Ceres:1-4
Fushigi Yugi 1
X/1999 1-6
Ranma 1/2 1-8
Kenshin 1-4
Naruto 1-3
Trigun 1&2

umh... that about does it i guess lol... good stuff.

you guys may not believe this but i finished my first manga like 3 days ago... and it was cardcaptures.... yah... i know... then i read the first 2 sailor moons in like 1 day so...yah

Actually I read some of a Sailor Moon manga once, forever ago, before I even read DragonBall. But it was only one page. ;^^x (I mean, I only read one page. Oro.)

Yay!! Other-people-who-started-on-Pokemon!! ^________^ I have to admit I really liked the art style of the manga (still do), and though it's not the most complex story, I still have a weakness for the nostalgia of Pokemon. *sigh*