Its been 84 years...

Nah haha but it’s been a long time surely. I remember at first I was reluctant to reading manga because I was affrajd it would affect me negatively on my writing and drawing since I drew comics and I still do. But oh boy I was wrong. It actually helped me with improving my art and storytelling since the story telling on anime is of course, different than the manga.
I was around 12 or 13 probably (stupid cocky self). I got into manga probably because there was some anime that didn’t have a continuation and you could only know the rest of the story by reading the manga. Probably something like Fruit Basket. It’s been at least 10 years since then and I don’t regret any of it!