What got you into Manga/Comics

[samuraiotaku]

For Manga, i got started with Rurouni Kenshin when I was in 6th Grade in 2002 I think. Anime, I started back with Speed Racer, Pokemon, Digimon, Dragonball, Tenchi, Slayers, whatever i could watch on Tech TV, International Channel, and saturday morning cartoons.

[joannekwan]

Well I started drawing sequential art when I was really young, I was trying to create my own stories because I thought the ones I watched on TV were so awesome.

But I never really read any manga/comics until I watched Shaman King and sought out the manga. I still read more manga than comics but my style is definitely more western.

[kazukitakamura126]

Comics was so woven in out DNA we couldn't leave it behind. The second story you plan with the animation I would to scale it down just a little so it doesn't take a long to animate. I have first hand experience animation takes time and my brother also and animator so I know the time and dedication required for it. I would gather a team of animators through KichStarter or any other team recruitment website. If you don't have the funds for you could make a short that describes the comic you want to animate.

[kazukitakamura126]

Alot can change in a span of ten years. I was making gag comics and didn't consider a serious comic 10 years ago.

[kazukitakamura126]

Video games can also be a powerful motivator to writing comics in my opinion. My favorite video game Baten Kaitos Origins inspired me to make a comic with the protagonist that was similar to the video games protagonist. My three favorite characters I have encountered are all from video games. (excluding my own characters)

[kazukitakamura126]

I started making comics in middle school where I made gag comics. Eventually in 2006 I wanted to make a serious story so Darkness Within my first comic was born. I didn't share my comic with the public until 2012.

[kazukitakamura126]

Creating comics in my opinion is pretty fun and its the best way I can express myself because it is my favorite storytelling medium. My brother and I made dual comics (set in the same world in two different perspectives) but, in 2011 he decided comics didn't really make him as happy as animation so that is when started down his path to animation.

[kazukitakamura126]

Anime and Manga are a very expressive medium that most of us have been influenced by. My mom supported my interests and hobbies. I remember in 2006 she got my brother and I out first set of prisma markers. I still have them and I use them sometimes.

[Stellamari]

That's amazing how supportive your family were! I was born and bred in a typical Asian culture that placed more emphasized on science and math and it didn't help that my grades were actually good enough to pursue those subjects. She must be so proud to see your improvement over the years!

[lilymitchell]

I grew up in France which has quite a strong comic culture so we read a lot of Franco-Belgian publications like Asterix, Boule et Bill, Lucky Luke, and Tintin as kids, and that lead to more epic sci-fi stuff like The Obscure Cities and the Metabarons. Anime and Manga was starting to get popular back then as well, so that was something I got into when I was about 12 or 13. And ironically (since they're like the biggest publishers in the world right now) I didn't really get into Marvel and DC comics until I was in college.

[kazukitakamura126]

Math and Science isn't interesting in my opinion so it good you pursued that you wanted. Parents play an important role in how we perceive our dreams.

[kazukitakamura126]

You got into anime/manga around the same age I did, teenagers are very impressible.

[Doubtcent]

I used to read a lot of Marvel comics, starting from the bottom with the first Spiderman and forward with the fantastic four.
At some point, I got bored reading them. Even when I looked at some of the most recent stuff, and again, after reading it all the way through, I got bored reading them. There was just something about American Comics that seemed... generic. Even though it has an enormous universe to it, both DC and Marvel, it felt like they were just telling the same story of superheroes over and over with different variations, all dark, all brooding, all intense with violence, and almost the same looking characters throughout. Big, beefy men and curvaceous women. Maybe some children and normal people, but there was nothing involved that I could relate to. And that was the end of me reading DC and Marvel, and comics, in general.

That was until I stumbled upon something different.
Toonami, and reading Bleach.
I watched a bit of anime and was surprised at how different it was. It had some of the same superhero tropes, but with all the right kind of stuff. Not to bag on American comics, but anime, which lead to me finding out that it came from Manga, seemed a lot more interesting and diverse. It wasn't all about superheros all the time. It could be about two brothers and their tragedy (FullMetal Alchemist), Pirates and friendship (One Piece), a notebook that kills people with a lot of mindgames (Death Note), and so much more. Plus, there was less of a reader burn involved. If I wanted, I could read one series and one series alone. I didn't have to know anything other than that one thing by itself. Of course, there were some generic stuff in the anime/manga pile, now don't get me wrong, but there was still a lot of interesting and fascinating concepts in-between those generics.

No offense to American comics, but I just like Manga better.

[kazukitakamura126]

I have to agree with you on manga/anime. I have seen superhero cartoons but, it is rare that it catches my fancy. mango and anime on the other hand has an easier time relating to readers and their stories are all self contained so you don't need to read Series A to understand Series B.

[BitStrange]

I wasn't even planning on the animation for a long time and trust me I know what and how long stuff goes into animation. Animation is my backbone and comics is my blood so I got it hehehe. Plus it is just going to be a 2 min skit type thing anyways =D

[mappypaint]

Getting to watch Dragon Ball Z when I was a young boy made me draw comics. I still remember the first comic that I made where the characters have awesome powers just like DBZ characters. Then my interests changed and switched to the racing genre. So thats how my comics nowadays have a lot of cars in them.

[Vikiro_Hop]

Saw shonen jump in a local grocery store when I was twelve. Before that I was into DBZ, but that issue had Shaman king, One Piece, Naruto, Sand Land, and a bunch of other shit. Pretty much sold me on that.

[kazukitakamura126]

Oh, sorry about the misunderstanding. The 2 min skit sounds more reasonable for one person to do.

[allenthomas]

Simply, when I discovered comics and mangas of my favorite cartoons was when I got into them. I had no idea that I could have caught up more on DBZ by reading the mangas. What got me hooked was when I discovered comics based on videogames, specifically the old Mortal Kombat comics.

[kazukitakamura126]

That's the one thing I like about the mangas of popular anime is it doesn't have fillers. I think fillers and unnecessary and they should go on hiatus until the next season.