• New accounts will normally be approved within 24 hours.
    Note: We're currently having issues with our e-mail system, anything requiring e-mail validation (2FA, forgotten passwords, etc.) must be changed manually by an Admin. Please reach out via the Contact Us form if you require any assistance.

What Was The First Manga You Ever Read?

BambooGarden101

現実逃避
Aug 10, 2018
61
La-La Land
School Rumble. I'd read about it in a pop culture magazine and felt drawn by Tenma's adorable hairstyle (at least that's what I thought), so when I saw the first volume in a bookstore I begged my parents to buy it for me. I was only 10 and a lot of the "adult" humour went right over my head... also I wasn't aware that manga is read from left to right (meaning that I would read the panels from right to left like in Western comics...:yohioloid_lili:), so the story must not have made a whole lot of sense LMAO. It wasn't until later that I read it in the proper order and all of a sudden it did click.
 
Last edited:
  • Haha
Reactions: uncreepy

jasmin00

Aspiring Fan
Jul 26, 2020
38
Finland
I think my very first manga which I ever read was Yotsubato when I was around 8 or so? I found it translated into Finnish from my small country side town's library, and that's how I fell in love with that series.It's really wholesome and cute. Years later I bought some copies of the manga for myself and at the age of 19 I still read it sometimes. :D
 

Krathia

Aspiring Fan
Apr 10, 2018
32
Neverland
www.youtube.com
My first ever manga was Random Walk or Detective Conan, I don't remember.
Funny thing, I was able to get the 3rd and the last tome of Random Walk past month xD..... for some reason the shop I was going to take them never had the last one available.

If only back in the day I had amazon, mandarake, and all these websites. It was so difficult to find just comics, imagine manga.
 
  • Like
Reactions: MillyAqualine

gutter rat

🦷🦷🦷🦷
Mar 10, 2025
34
14
Wuhu Island
i think the first manga i ever read was either Cowa or some Pokemon book, when I was in 4th or 5th grade. i don't rlly remember anything from either of them, but there was this cool guy in my grade who read manga, and I just wanted him to like me lol
 

MezzoKkuma

"Monsters...? They look like monsters to you?"
Mar 13, 2026
11
Silent Hill
My first manga was Kingdom. When I was 6 my mom traveled to Japan for a business that was setting up new locations, as she was the boss of one food chain she took the offer for the flight ticket and a rental house. I came with her and after landing she had to go open the store and set up, so she bought me some popular books at the time and sat me in the corner and told me to read. I truly loved this manga and how entertaining it was to me, a young boy at that time and years later, I went into secondary school with my manga in my hand and I made friends over connecting about the panels.:mew_lili:
 

Grzesiek11

Aspiring Fan
Aug 6, 2025
36
21
Poland
grzesiek11.stary.pc.pl
In 7th grade (in the Polish schooling system, not sure how that tracks worldwide), back when I was in my "weeb in denial" phase, I've read a bit (and really a bit, a few chapters at most) of the many Oh My Goddess! volumes that were dumped in the comic book part of the school library.

First I've properly read and finished was, of all things, The Manga Guide to Databases. It really is a good textbook, explains table normal forms very well. I finished the databases class with an A :P

First non-stupid one would be Delicious in Dungeon, which I started because I really liked the first season of the anime adaptation. I didn't finish it though, I want to see the second season unspoiled.

Now, the first I own a physical copy of is the Unofficial Hatsune Mix, which I just got around a month ago!
 

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Users: 0, Guests: 1)