I’ve been a huge fan of anime, Japanese animation, and manga, Japanese comics, for as long as I can remember.
The first anime I remember watching was Dragon Ball Z (DBZ for short). DBZ had a lot of action and drama that made me want to keep watching as a kid. Characters held the power to fly, shoot energy out of their hands, and destroy planets! There was so much more they could do. The anime is epic. As a kid watching on TV, I had to wait a week in between each episode to air. Fights would last several episodes, so you can imagine how I anticipated each episode.
Mangas were a new world for me, when I was still in Elementary School. Being a bookworm, it took a bit to get used to reading mangas, due to having to read it from right to left, instead of the tradition left to right. Lucky each manga I read had an example at the beginning. Something that look kind of like this.
My first manga was part of a Shonen Jump issue, which had several popular manga chapters in it. Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, and Yugioh were notable titles.
Over the years, my tastes in the two have changed a bit. I started to collect less mangas, and really only watch anime (next to any of my favourite super wholock shows). Death Note and Black Butler are probably my top favourite with both anime and manga. Black Butler is probably my most favourite. It is about a kid who loses his parents and sells his soul to a demon to become his butler and take care of him. It takes place in England around the Victorian age I believe. What is interesting is that the manga form of Black Butler is pretty different from the anime, which is more reason for fans to read it. DNAngel seemed to be going that approach, being one of my favourite animes of my childhood. I could never find more than the first 5 volumes of the manga sadly. Now Death Note was an iinteresting concept as well. It was my kick start back into anime during high school. It was about a guy finding a book that whoevers name that is written in it dies. The anime covers on how that power can change people and the world around you.
I have seen a few authors make their novels into mangas quite a bit. It would be cool to have such a chance. If a manga writer every asked me about my book (or soon to be series), I would be more than happy to see my work come to life in manga form.