Tldr; i re read a lot of classics in the library because of lack of Mangas 20 years ago. I remember the names of all of them and have found cozy feelings for them but after starting reading online did I stop remembering the names and not enjoying reading as much as before.

Story time:

I found a small selection of Manga in my local library when I was maybe 8(?) and fell in love. I went to the library almost every day and read all of the Mangas there until they asked me to leave (which was pretty much every time… Sorry 🙏 ) There was love Hina, detective Conan, dragon ball, yu gi oh, Evangelion and d.n angel. I read almost all of them. Why not all you ask. Well for some reason was there a HUGE gap between dragon balls volumes, it was fine in the beginning then 50 of them was always not there! And some random ones. So I missed out so much info…

When there were no more to read did I stop visiting and started buying. The thing is my country didn’t have that many translated Mangas so I pretty much bought all of the volumes of the few Mangas I found. So that is how I ended up with hits and misses like one yaoi batch with maybe 13 volumes (the only Mangas name I can’t remember). I was very surprised to find out men could fall in love 😂 I thought it would be about two guys making a band together… That is what the bio said 😂 I also got really boring Mangas like kill me kiss me, the first volume was pretty good, the rest wasn’t. Same with hack… I also had problems finding fully finished volumes for example I bought only the second volume of samurai deeper kyo. Loved that Manga so much that all of my accounts in many years had kyo in its username 😂 why didn’t I buy the first volume? Well I kinda read the whole thing in a store without realizing how much the time flew by haha. A Manga magazine started out around this time and I jumpt on it, they had one chapter every month from x Mangas. I read air gear, negiman, gtfo, hima… Sorry all of the other Mangas I can’t remember. It is amazing i even remember all of these. Manga had really made a great impact on me. I actually hated reading before I found Manga, I think it is manly because of my dyslexia. There were some western comics I read but I never enjoyed them as much.

Anyway. Around this time do I think I was 13 or 14 and found out there were Manga online! I was thrilled because for the first time didn’t I have to worry about there being no more volumes or having problems finding Mangas. The magazine had problem financially because Manga wasn’t really a thing. And after this I pretty much do not remember what the names of the Mangas was. I had looooong list of Mangas I read. keeping track of them on mangafox by bookmarking them. The sad thing tho about this is since I started reading digitally have I never felt as much joy as the physical thing. Back then did I reread the same Manga over and over but I would never do that with a Manga I read online. But I do not think it is because it is online, I think it is because online is both on demand and also got pretty much everything that has ever been made.

Now days am I on and off about reading. Mainly because many Mangas I do enjoy update very slowly (if at all, I wonder sometimes if they have been axed) and not many Mangas out there is of my taste anymore. I may have grown out of the age group Manga is vastly targeting :(

But no worries I will find my way back, I always do :D