Thinking of showing a friend the Berserk anime (90's) in an attempt to get them to read the manga. Do you guys reckon it's best to start with the first episode or skip it and go to the second?
If you ask me, just skip the anime and show him the manga directly. I don't really get the point of showing something worse first in order for him to be interested.
If you have to, show him from the first episode.
Getting people to pick up a comic rather than a cartoon is hard. I would just try to get him to read it, because once he watches some he won't want to start reading.