# Anime > Comics and manga first, then Death Note showed me what an animated story could make me feel. Anime · Stories and new worlds Category: Beyond work [Open in the interactive portfolio]() [Français]() ## From manga to watching a story in order Growing up, reading mostly meant school to me. I preferred comics and manga. I also caught Naruto on television, but the episodes were out of order, which made the story hard to follow. Finding anime online changed that. I could start at the beginning and actually follow a story from one episode to the next. ## Death Note was the turning point Death Note blew me away. I hadn’t expected an animated series to draw me in like that: the storytelling, the music, the tension and the emotions. Until then, my references for animation were mostly films like Toy Story and cartoons like SpongeBob. Death Note showed me another side of what animation could do, and anime became a big part of what I watched. ## Five favourites My top five are Hunter × Hunter, Jujutsu Kaisen, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and Attack on Titan. ## Giving Haikyu!! a chance I didn’t think sports anime were for me. Then the friend who introduced me to volleyball at Decathlon recommended Haikyu!!. I gave it a chance, and it became my favourite sports anime. It made me want to play even more, at a time when we were starting to meet up for volleyball outside work too.