My first experience with anime started with the original Pokémon anime. Which really isn’t what did it for me, sure I watched it before school but it wasnt a big part of my life or anything. Watching Pokémon I didn’t even know what anime was.
Not until I was introduced to Naruto by a friend. Then I began to understand that anime was its own thing. I enjoyed Naruto for a season, which led into my introduction to manga. My first manga was Naruto volume 2. Because volume 1 was sold out. (I eventually bought vol 1 later) and I read the first few volumes but never stuck with it. I needed to find an anime or manga that felt my own. Not a friend’s. After Naruto I shopped around with a little bit of this and a little bit of that. There was too much Dragon Ball for me to want to invest, and I just didn’t seem to really click with anything.
Until I discovered Death Note. Death Note became an obsession of mine, I eventually watched the anime to completion and proceeded to read the manga to completion along with anything else Death Note.
Next came Witchblade. Another one of my favorite anime.
Now I shop around for any new anime or manga I come across that seems interesting to me and have found Junji Ito is one of the best horror creators of all time, and I enjoy heavily character driven stories.
Back in the day I would subscribe to Shonen Jump magazine and flip through series that are already hundreds of chapters along trying to find a new series I could try to follow, and listening for any mainstream anime i could try to watch.
But today with the help of the, digital Shonen Jump, among other manga apps, Crunchyroll, and Netflix it seems odd if I can’t find a series I enjoy. All to say my anime and manga journey can finally begin.
Now following a dozen manga series and binging multiple anime series and films, it’s become life.
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