How I Discovered Manga --- Digi Daily #15

[@phothewin6019]

I'll never forget reading Shonen Jump magazines while taking a shit. Some of the best moments of my childhood.

[@SushiStriker]

Shonen Jump at the Scholastic book fair...good times.

[@onimaxblade8988]

How I discovered manga was that I was thinking of getting back into anime in middle school and we visited the town's library and when we came back from the library and got to school I saw he had a manga and asked him which one it was. It was Bakuman. I then asked if I could read it and I went online that night to continue reading it. That was a really good manga to start off with.

[@ZachCG]

i listen to these while doing busywork around the house (dishes, laundry, repairing stuff, re-lacing my shoes) they're the perfect length for these activities, whereas with a longer podcast i'd be stopping and starting again whenever i had something to do. love this format.

[@ChibiChubbyRobo]

here's MY story about how I discovered manga. I saw my bro reading a manga in middle school, now granted this is purely factual and a memory based story, if you put things in perspective and take some critical thinking and logic based analysis into play...he was reading a manga. So I ask him ,"Whats that?" , and then he, said to me, he said ,"A manga".

[@keybladespirit2814]

How could you expect anyone to believe such an insane story?

[@JambleBramble]

Bro

[@kikiash2425]

Manga magazines have always had an appeal to me, kind of wish Monthly Shonen Jump didn't fucking die.

[@willywitchdoctor]

MY STORY (an aussie): Watched one piece and naruto, etc on toasted tv (morning kids cartoon program) but they had so many reruns and never finished so i eventually forgot about them. Cut to highschool in Albany, and came across a copy of naruto vol 1 in a bookstore. Bought it because i remembered the cartoons and read it a million times, and from then on would try to buy more

[@InvaderTrond]

I discovered manga back in 2004 when I was in a Walmart. They used to have a two row section near the cash registers for books and magazines, and one day I stumbled upon volume 9 for "Rave Master" and picked it up thinking it was a comicbook and instantly loved it and got my mom to buy it for me. Ended up going to Barnes and Noble and finding they had other copies for the series and other series. My cousin was the one who bought and subbed to Viz's Shonen Jump books and I used to read some of them whenever I got the chance but I never subbed myself. It wasn't until I picked up Death Note in 2006, that I truly became a fan of the medium.

[@nika8620]

You really need to go back and finish One Piece. It's so good literally stopped me from killing myself.

[@y0689]

C. 3301 im watching one piece, its so long something i want to drop it

[@nika8620]

W3ABOO999 Read the manga it's 10x better and you'll catch up 10x faster reading it. Have you gotten to Arlong Park yet?

[@Granetdud]

Good ol Shonen Jump. It was huge where I was as well. I thought One Piece was called "Nepic" back then because Oda, or whoever, disguised his letter's too well in the title logo. Ah, the memories.

[@nika8620]

It is (a)N epic

[@victordietrich]

In Argentina the anime/manga boom was in the year 97 a magazine called Lazer came with information and details of diferent mangas and animes at the time unknown for me, the next year the editorial of Lazer made the announcement of the Manga version of Ranma 1/2 they adquire the rights in my country for publishing and they start, now Lazer dosnt exist anymore but the Editorial of Lazer, Ivrea is one of the most important editorials of Manga and Comics of Argentina and España

[@shinigamiryuk]

Shonen Jump is how I discovered manga as well. (In terms of anime I was into Pokemon, Digimon, Medabots, and Yugioh around that time. I didn't have cable so I only ever got to see Toonami when I was visiting others.) I happened upon the first issue in a Walgreens in Nov/Dec 2002 and bought it solely because it had a Yugioh card. Ended up collecting every single print issue. I used to be proud of discovering Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece before they became the big 3. When it went digital I stopped buying it for a while because in the beginning the issues would expire after a year. After that I fell behind in most series and am only really current on a few.

[@drainedeyes4268]

I remember picking up manga for the first time - April 2003 issue of Shonen Jump with One Piece on the front cover. I remember seeing Yugioh and YuYu Hakusho listed as being a part of the roster and being super excited (I'm typing this realizing Digi just cited the exact same franchises). I literally remember walking to the check out with my dad at the local Food World I bought it from saying, "YuYu Hakusho!! Whoa!". I went on to collect several issues, having eventually amassed a small collection of 47 of them. I remember really enjoying Sandland before it ended as well as being introduced to Death Note via its sneak peek in Shonen Jump. I remember, soon after my first couple magazines, getting into Naruto through SJ and finding the subbed anime online; and couple years later my dad bought me a bootlegged version of the subbed anime on physical dvds in a seven disc set from eBay - complete with stretched pixelated art on the cover as well as the discs - which included seasons 1-7 and all the movies at the time. I mention that Naruto DVD set because it was the tipping point in me discovering manga and anime, because from there I realized I could find whatever I wanted through the internet (I discovered torrenting very soon after as well), so I was set thanks to Shonen Jump and early Naruto. Speaking of, I, too, was very turned off by the English dub of Naruto and missed the Japanese OP on the first season, and of course when "believe it" became a thing I became nauseated for the rest of my life. But yeah, I had a similar story with SJ, and loved every second of my experiences with the, now retired, magazine. May she RIP.

[@thynErro]

I miss physical Shonen Jump in America. ;~;

[@Nkanyiso_K]

I remember reading King of Bandits Jing & Ravemaster when I was in New Zealand

[@FinlayFosterReviews]

For me I was on holiday in Indonesia when I was around 12 and caught an episode of Azumanga Daioh on the tv channel named "Animax" I instantly fell in love with the character designs and weird sense of humour and just had to google it to find out more. I later found a website with scanlations of the manga and instantly became hooked after just the first page. I remember reading chapters of it late at night in secret. This was because I was so embarrassed about liking a show centred around cute highschool girls. Nowadays I show off the dvds for the anime on my shelf for the whole world to see and couldn't give any less of a fuck. Oh How times change

[@FackuIkari]

I discovered manga by accident when I was 11 / 12 years old, one day when I went to school and I passed by a newspaper stand and I saw a book that had Sakura Card Captor on the cover and a number 7, and I asked what is that because I was watching something like that on television and I bought it with the little money I had and that was the first volume I bought in 2001... fuck I'm getting old

[@Gamsterjeff600]

I discovered manga as gifts from cousins, I got Naruto Volumes 5 and 6. I collected more naruto volumes a few years after and I own the first omnibus of rurouni kenshin. I did read a few volumes of gantz and I got to a certain point in dragon ball. Sadly I have to read later parts of jojo online (5+ onwards). Luckily there are hardcovers for all the parts releasing so I can read them without the clutter of owning small ones

[@jotaku7783]

My Story: I was at my local grocery store and was in the magazine section and I saw the first issue of Shōnen Jump. It had a picture of Cell from DBZ inside and I was like “Oh I recognize that character.” so I bought it and from then on it was a monthly hunt for the next issue until I finally had the good sense to subscribe and have them delivered. But, as you said, eventually the internet took over and the issues were taking up too much space in my room lol. But I loved getting those issues, they were what brought me into the anime & manga world.

[@Kissislove17]

I wanna show this to a friend who didn't get to experience this.

[@TheMuffinMan1894]

My first owned manga was NGE after being obsessed with the anime and finding out the plot diverged; while my first completed series was Death Note IIRC

[@notesscrotes4360]

I got an issue 0 from Suncoast, subscribed that Summer, and in fall I got issue 1 with a special edition Blue Eyes White Dragon that I sold to a rich friend for $100.

[@SaberStash]

this whole print WSJ thing in the US sure feels weird

[@Eternalbuysafish]

Yu-Gi-oh's history is actually a bit more interesting than that. From my understanding of stuff that I've read over the years, Kazuki Takahashi's original concept for the manga was a shonen horror series, where in the characters used games to do battle rather than the usual shonen tropes (like battle manga like DBZ and Naruto). This concept was popular enough for the series to get its own anime done by Toei. There was another card game released at the same time as the Toei anime, except this card game was done by bandai (the game was garbage and more or less functioned like a game of war). Eventually the card battle aspect of the manga overshadowed the other stuff, and Takahashi's editor pushed him to focus more on the Duel Monsters card game. The Toei anime get's scrapped for a new anime done by Studio Gallop where in the entirety of Kaiba's early character arc spanning across a couple of volumes get's truncated into the first episode. Other early arcs get redone in various ways that kind of ruin a lot of the early foreshadowing of the series (Bakura's dark RPG game get's changed into the episode of Duelist Kingdom where they play Duel Monsters instead, removing early references to Zorc entirely). It's certainly a lot of interesting history to this stuff, and kind of shows how important changing course can be sometimes towards a works success and popularity. Even weirder, Yu-gi-oh's recent movie, the Dark Side of Dimensions, is actually a continuation for the Manga rather than the original anime, a full 13 years after the Manga's ending (the entire plot of the movie doesn't make sense as a continuation of the anime, plus this is confirmed via Takahashi). Of course, this is just stuff I've heard, the thing I'm not sure about is how much impact Takahashi's editor had in the Manga changing directions, but the other stuff is pretty accurate I think.

[@digitsdigitsdigits808]

Exactly what happened with me, and I actually remember the exact issue: Shonen Jump 23. It had the mansion-raid scene from Yu Yu Hakusho, the start of the Chuunin Exam pt 2, Goku fighting Cell, and so on. Got me hooked on Yu Yu Hakusho and it all went downhill from there lmao

[@vaginalarthritis1753]

How so?

[@digitsdigitsdigits808]

Is jomke

[@ChickenCast100]

Day 14! Seeya tomorrow!

[@sweetmouse9870]

day #15, i draw a couple lines then basically just listened. what? i don't gotta draw every day. you're not my mum. nah i'll do something more substantial when i get home later. most of the manga i've read has basically been an attempt to get more out of an anime i liked. berserk back when there was only the good one; made in abyss recently. that kinda thing.

[@barto_ts]

How my father discovered manga: He took the first volume of Naruto, that my mother bought for me, and said: Wait, this book is backwards

[@NickCapricorn]

How I discovered manga. Around the time when Naruto was becoming an important name but before it got dubbed and broadcasted where I lived, I wanted to know more about it, someone had also hooked me with one of the early episodes UNSUBBED (the one where Naruto tries to pass off as Sasuke to get close to Sakura but ends up with diarrhea due to spoiled milk). I didn't have internet at home at the time so I had to go pay for internet time outside, and downloading just one episode would take hours, so, no chance. I ended up finding a Naruto fansite that had the manga scanlation for download, found the fucking gold mine. How I got into the habit of reading manga instead of watching anime? Berserk, of course. Ironically, I haven't finished the Naruto manga, fucking Neji dying and Naruto using the Genkidama was enough for me.

[@JDMBlackout]

My story, no one asked for: Got into anime/manga super late and ruined my highschool GPA catching up on Anime classics.

[@C1NDR0N3]

Day 15 Magical

[@8r4u1i0]

Same happened to me that knowing that anime had any relation with this comics blew my mind.

[@ryangmilam]

Good ol Shonen Jump i remember when i got the first one i was amazed and confused at the same time.

[@sherkchild1550]

One piece was in the first run

[@lumakirbyrocks]

>big Nintendo fan when Sony was big. Yes.

[@AshitanoJonas]

4kids? I think you meant Studio Gallop. ^^ 4Kids don't produce anime, they only censor them...

[@A11sopp]

4Kids dropped the pre-duel monsters stuff when localizing the Yu-Gi-Oh show because it was all a seperate anime by a different production company. That anime was also a pretty terrible adaptation of those arcs.

[@notesscrotes4360]

Yu-Gi-Oh was way better in the beginning when it was a Jojo D'Arby arc ripoff.