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Xff34 said:
I am going to give a serious answer,

You cannot learn to draw anime well without learning how to draw realism.
Therefore, you need to start with the absolute basics. Drawing is all about the flow, the shapes and the story.

However, it all depends how seriously you treat it.

If you want to get good, it will take years of VERY hard work, heavy breakdowns and tears. Therefore, I won't go in this direction. If you ever have the need to become more than average - I am sure you will know where to find it, by then.

If you want to draw on the side as a non-demanding hobby, you technically can omit most of theory. It has its price, but unless you have very high expectations for yourself, you should be still very happy with your art, many others will enjoy looking at it too.

There is a series called "Sketching Manga-Style" from Hikaru Hayashi, Takehiko Matsumoto, Kazuaki Morita. They were published in English, I'm not sure if they're uploaded on yande.re, but you can easily find pdfs online. I've looked into them and strongly recommend them.
Even you draw manga
Try to understand some sort of fundamentals
Those contents you can find inside a bridgman book

Mangaka usually sketch out the postures within a very short period
Because they're familiar with the knowledge behind it, inside it

Manga is still a type of drawing style

Meanwhile, they're not as complicated as the realism
Realism requires in-depth understanding of anatomy and other thing of anatomy stuff
like gesture thing etc