i bet i watched anime first but i didnt realize it was ..
just thought it were kewl commics .. that would've been ranma1/2 , detective conan, drSlump (arale) and shin chan i guess ^^ probably pokemon as well but i started with the game and also liked it way more than the anime

the first manga i read was dragon ball
some kind of a big brther of mine took them to a haliday trip and so he let me read it .. i started with number 17 =) and i first read it the wrong way .. didnt see the site where the "read backwards" is written
.. so goku had a hole in his chest suddenly and then after a beam it vanished xD
well i was small back then ..
after i finished he told me i read it backwards .. so that was the time when i got interested in them and i went into the town to read all dragon ball manga .. since i was only seeng that "brother" pretty seldom..

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oh yeah and tsubasa was also something i watched when i was young .. yould actually be the very first one

MANGA: +Anima
Anime: Pokemon

hmm the first manga i read was Yu-Gi-Oh and my first dubbed anime's was Pokemon and Digimon first anime i saw whit japanese dialogue was Love Hina

It's hard to name only 1 favorite anime/manga :P
I started with Dragon Ball, Saber Rider and Star Sheriffs, Mado King Granzort it's always nice to return to those good old anime series.

I'd mention only few anime out of dozen of others i like, and i can't really chose which is my favorite:
Both anime and manga: Clamp's X, Angel Sanctuary, Berserk
Anime: Wolf's Rain, Elfen Lied, Gungrave, Neon Genesis Evangelion

I personally like anime with deep involving storyline and dark atmosphere, with action elements; noble/aristocrats, vampires, serious themes etc. On the contrary I sometimes kill time with bright anime such as Great Teacher Onizuka, Yakitate Japan, Golden Boy...

Millenium Actress is the first anime I remember actually sitting and watching, but I would have preferred live actors for that work. It wasn't until Descendants of Darkness that I actually began to enjoy the anime.

I am still not into manga. The only one I have read was only because the author handed me a copy of one of his books. When it comes to reading fiction I am even older than my years. Give me Asimov, Huxley, Balzac, Maupassant, or something my buddy Robin Bailey.

naruto;.;, buts gotten me to find a great hobby^.^

Don't kill me...
 

:eek: "Robotech" (1985)...followed by "Project A-Ko" (1986) and "Tonari No Totoro" (1988)...

For manga-Wish by Clamp
For anime-Pokemon,digimon,and DBZ

Manga: It was either Naruto or Rurouni Kenshin
Anime: DBZ and Sailor Moon (wonderful combo, right?)

probably Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, I got homeschooled one year and it would come on in the afternoon