Late summer/early fall I asked yall for some manga recommendations for my nieces for Christmas and I got a bunch. They really love Attack on Titan so I got them the first volume omnibus and I’m told they absolutely love it. I got them some others but I like the fact that I’ve been able to bond with them over manga/anime. If only I could get them into old school super hero comics.
I love all the book and manga recommendations here but I probably will still be reading them well into retirement
Surprisingly no. It was built from the ground up as an anime, which is a bit unusual within the medium. I recall Miyazaki at the outset of his film career wanted to make Nausicaa straight away but all the publishers/studios/whoever controlled the purse strings basically told him "lol, no. There's no manga to base it on, get fucked." So he proceeded to write the manga version first in order to get them off his back and let him actually make the film. Now I'm of the opinion that the manga he put together was the better of the two works, but it demonstrates just how ingrained that pattern is within that medium.