going to china without a vpn and only being able to access mangadex

now i have like 760 manga on tachiyomi

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 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.

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.

It started with just wanting to know what happens beyond where the anime was (Naruto at the time), then became my preferred medium.

I feel like reading Manga is faster, the action is always paced to my imagination, and it’s just easier to pick up and put down.

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

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…

For me, it was Chainsaw Man. I’d read a few manga years ago, most of Berserk, some Junji Ito, and Naruto way back as a kid, but none of it really stuck for me. And then I stumbled unto the Chainsaw Man anime, loved it and checked the subreddit, saw a ton of manga spoiler memes that made me feel like i was missing out, so I read the entirety of what was out, figured out manga is pretty dope, and now I’m working on reading Monster and One Piece

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.

Tldr; i re read a lot of classics in the library because of lack of Mangas 20 years ago. I remember the names of all of them and have found cozy feelings for them but after starting reading online did I stop remembering the names and not enjoying reading as much as before.

Story time:

I found a small selection of Manga in my local library when I was maybe 8(?) and fell in love. I went to the library almost every day and read all of the Mangas there until they asked me to leave (which was pretty much every time… Sorry 🙏 ) There was love Hina, detective Conan, dragon ball, yu gi oh, Evangelion and d.n angel. I read almost all of them. Why not all you ask. Well for some reason was there a HUGE gap between dragon balls volumes, it was fine in the beginning then 50 of them was always not there! And some random ones. So I missed out so much info…

When there were no more to read did I stop visiting and started buying. The thing is my country didn’t have that many translated Mangas so I pretty much bought all of the volumes of the few Mangas I found. So that is how I ended up with hits and misses like one yaoi batch with maybe 13 volumes (the only Mangas name I can’t remember). I was very surprised to find out men could fall in love 😂 I thought it would be about two guys making a band together… That is what the bio said 😂 I also got really boring Mangas like kill me kiss me, the first volume was pretty good, the rest wasn’t. Same with hack… I also had problems finding fully finished volumes for example I bought only the second volume of samurai deeper kyo. Loved that Manga so much that all of my accounts in many years had kyo in its username 😂 why didn’t I buy the first volume? Well I kinda read the whole thing in a store without realizing how much the time flew by haha. A Manga magazine started out around this time and I jumpt on it, they had one chapter every month from x Mangas. I read air gear, negiman, gtfo, hima… Sorry all of the other Mangas I can’t remember. It is amazing i even remember all of these. Manga had really made a great impact on me. I actually hated reading before I found Manga, I think it is manly because of my dyslexia. There were some western comics I read but I never enjoyed them as much.

Anyway. Around this time do I think I was 13 or 14 and found out there were Manga online! I was thrilled because for the first time didn’t I have to worry about there being no more volumes or having problems finding Mangas. The magazine had problem financially because Manga wasn’t really a thing. And after this I pretty much do not remember what the names of the Mangas was. I had looooong list of Mangas I read. keeping track of them on mangafox by bookmarking them. The sad thing tho about this is since I started reading digitally have I never felt as much joy as the physical thing. Back then did I reread the same Manga over and over but I would never do that with a Manga I read online. But I do not think it is because it is online, I think it is because online is both on demand and also got pretty much everything that has ever been made.

Now days am I on and off about reading. Mainly because many Mangas I do enjoy update very slowly (if at all, I wonder sometimes if they have been axed) and not many Mangas out there is of my taste anymore. I may have grown out of the age group Manga is vastly targeting :(

But no worries I will find my way back, I always do :D

When I was younger, anime was my way to go but now that I’m older, with less available time, I find reading mangas to be more time-efficient, filling my idle time.

Waiting for season 2 of Dorohedoro…

Was not really into manga but got tired of watching anime and now just read manga.

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.