Alternatively if you have never bought a volume, what is first on your wishlist to kickstart your collection?

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      A Doraemon movie was actually my first anime movie that I had, on cassette, when I was a child.

      Are you a big Doraemon fan or was it just by chance that you got that?

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        I had those too, on VHS. Loved it as a kid, but just an average fan now lol. I recently watched the movies on Netflix (Stand By Me) and saw some episodes randomly on YouTube, but didn’t really like them. I would still occasionally read manga though

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    Funnily enough, the first volume of Tour Lie in April was gifted to me and was my very first volume.

    I’m more of a digital person, but I still have the volume.

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      I’m definitely a digital person too, I have never read a series physical first nor do I have a complete one. But I do like owning volumes, it kind of allows me to think I support the author regardless of how little money actually comes their way from my purchase jeje

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    Dragonball issue 5 and 34. Every other issue in my area was sold out. This was my first introduction to manga/anime, except maybe Pokemon anime I grew up with.

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    For me, technically it was green blood volume 1 which I received as a gift, I didn’t like it at all tbh, art was pretry but this kind of seinen wasn’t my style.

    First one I bought myself was Jojo’s volume 4, battle tendency.

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      Shame you didn’t really like Green Blood, not an enormous fan of it, but I was always enjoyed reading it. I guess more accurately I’m just a sucker for the art style.

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    It was 25 years ago, so I don’t remember. Blade of the Immortal was one of the first, if not the very first, graphic novels I bought. Back then, graphic novels were only for back releases, and new releases were typically two or three chapters combined into a monthly Western style issue, so I’m sure I bought some of those before getting graphic novels.

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    I found the second volume of the old Tokyopop Blame! release in some secondhand bookstore. I was DEEPLY confused after reading it.

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      I can definitely see why! It would have been really weird to read blame with 0 prior context.

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    Dragonball Z, I remember being given the volume with the arrival of Trunks by a friend of mine

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        Agree. Although I much prefer Dragon Ball over Dragon Ball Z or Super. I think Toriyama shines the most when he goes with action comedy. I like Dr. Slump the most out of all his work.

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          Yep, Dragon Ball actually felt like an adventure. Also being inspired by journey to the west, at least in aesthetics and cast, is a huge plus for me.

          Og Dragon Ball has so much charm, and it avoids the infinite scaling of power the series would later be known for

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    My friend’s sister gave me the whole Sailor Moon series and most of Inuyasha when she was getting ready to go to university. I eventually bought the rest of Inuyasha.

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    My first volume was one of those special printings done of the first volume of naruto back in the early 2000s.

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    For me it was Mahou Sensei Negima. I was also into Naruto at the same time so there was a lot of that mixed in.

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    The only physical manga I own is the berserk deluxe editions. I’m still missing two volumes. I would love to own the jojo series in hardcover as well.

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      Nice, that is my favorite volume release of all time, it should be more common to do releases of that size (the cover is also nice, but I really like how big they are)

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    The first manga I bought was volume 31 of Berserk, the scanlations I was using had a huge gap that started at that chapter so I said wtf why not.

    My first full series purchase was the full box set of A Silent Voice, top 10 all time for me so I had to have it, sadly got ruined when my old home flooded but hey what can you do lol

    E: Actually if you count issues of Shonen Jump as physicals then I’d been sporadically reading chapters off those when I was younger, they used to sell them in the local blockbuster I believe, though it was never consecutive so I couldn’t actually follow any stories lmao. I vividly remember reading chapter #504 of Naruto and being very, VERY confused lmao