My first anime was probably either Naruto, Bleach, or Yu-Gi-Oh!. Unless I'm forgetting some anime that played either on Saturday mornings or during the days. One of my first for sure was Case Closed (at least I think it was), and the episode I happened to catch featured a dismembered body... Yeah, not really a good thing for a child to see.
However, when I was in middle school the school had a decent collection of graphic novels and manga. I had watched plenty anime before this point (FMA, Naruto, Bleach, some One Piece) and I decided to read some of the manga that the school had.
My first was either Ai Kora, a harem manga about a guy who fell in love with specific parts of the female anatomy (certain shape of legs, size of breasts, voice)... It was weird. Or it might have been Bitter Virgin, a manga about a young lady who was raped when she was a preteen/early teen and had a child by her rapist.
So, yeah, while Ai Kora might not have been so bad, why would a MIDDLE SCHOOL have Bitter Virgin...
So.... yeah.... How bout you Hubski? What was you first anime/manga? Any similarly bad beginnings?
My first anime would have probably been Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh, and then graduated to Dragon Ball Z at around age 11. At the time, I had no concept that it was any different than our (American) tv shows, or that anime was a thing. I think the show that got me hooked was the show that, for the first time, I realized there was no way an American had thought it up and made it. That show was FLCL, and I had stayed up passed my bedtime to watch Adult Swim. I was hooked after that, but had no real medium or way to watch anime. I grew up on a farm in rural Missouri, so it wasn't as simple as going to school. None of my friends even knew what anime was. Hell, by the time I graduated only a close circle of my friends were aware of it's existence.
To this day, I will not watch anime in front of other people, unless I am absolutely comfortable with them. There was such a stigma of, I don't know.. I was looked down on for watching cartoons, I think.
Never have read a manga.