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....
Manga
In my middle school library, a small shelf of graphic novels was placed in the reference section, far away from the regular young adult fiction. I spotted them when I was browsing encyclopedias, and the cover that caught my eye first was volume one of Aqua by Amano Kozue. Picked it up and immediately fell in love with the idyllic world and gorgeous art. I've reread Aqua/Aria a few times now and despite having read thousands of manga at this point, it's still my top favorite today.
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.
Waiting for season 2 of Dorohedoro...
The good old Doraemon (ドラえもん) haha
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
I wanted to know how the story of Onepunch Man continued after the first season!
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.
Anime, but manga is less tiring and i can read at my pace. Also there is way less fillers in mangas.
Kaguya-sama Love is War. I loved the anime and couldn't wait for another season.
I was unhappy with how samurai x ended. I found the manga when searching samurai x in Google. After I finished that, I remembered my friend in elementary school had a pencil box which had cool pictures with slam dunk written on it. So I looked for slam dunk "comics" next. These are the first two manga I read.
What's Samurai X? I've never heard of that one.
I should read Slam Dunk one day, one of the grand daddies of sports manga.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/45/Rurouni_Kenshin__Meiji_Kenkaku_Romantan
I also recommend GTO if you haven't read it.
Holy hell, am I uninformed??? Since when was Kenshin called Samurai X? Is it some old, out of date localization name I don't know about, or what?
Another one on the list, many thanks.
I also grew up with it being called samurai x. But I also started reading Manga before I could read it online so I only got translated Mangas from publishers (professional translators) instead of reading fan translations that you can find more easily today. I actually had a very hard time with all of the Japanese names because they are typically very long and back then did I not know any Japanese 😂