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Let's start off this series of questions with a big one:

What got you into Mangas in the first place?

For me, it was Neon Genesis Evangelion. I loved the Anime and it, naturally, left my still developing young teenage brain very confused. So when I learned that there was a "Comic" about it, I was convinced that it was going to provide some additional info the show left out (like books usually do). I didn't like the black/white aesthetic at all at first and stopped reading halfway through the first volume initially, but picked it up again a few weeks later and practically devoured the whole series over the course of the next few days.

It didn't really give me any of the answers I initially hoped for, but it definitely hooked me onto this whole "black and white comics for adults"-vibe I got from it back then. And I just never stopped picking up new ones for close to 20 years now.

Now, let's hear your own background stories!

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[–] kessleragain 2 points 1 year ago

Hmmm. I think it was years ago after rewatching the 2001 version of Fruits Basket and wanting to know what happened next. I'd watched some mainstream anime as a kid growing up, but hadn't watched any in years. My wife got me to check out Fruits Basket because she loved it, so it's kind of fitting that anime got me back into anime and also introduced me to manga.