What's the best way to get into (manga-styled) art?

Hi guys, I'm someone who possess partially zero artistic ability. My sketching is about that of a 1st grader. However, I've always been amazed by the distinctiveness of manga art and I was wondering if you guys had any pointers to at least learning some of the basics of manga styled art.

Any good tutorials or YouTubers out there?

I think the most valuable advice I can give you, is to just start drawing. Don´t worry about how you stack up compared to other artists , that can be quite frustrating.

I started to draw like one and a half year ago and I started just copying existing drawings. That´s what I would recommend you to do ,too. In my opinion there is no point in trying to develope an own unique style right off the bat, and there´s nothing wrong with copying drawings for practice.

Now before I continue, just for good measure ,here is a drawing of Luffy from one piece I did 1,5 years ago when I just started (drawn off of a reference pic):

and this one is Toka from Tokyo Ghoul from Dez. 2014 (completely drawn by myself):


Now tell my the first one doesn´t look like a 1st grader´s ,too :)

As you can see, everybody sucks, but over time you suck less.
As for talent I´d say it is of minor importance, the most important thing is a strong sense of aesthetics. If you´re the kind of person that draws a hand with four fingers and thinks "ahh, good enough" , your progress will be a lot slower than with a healthy amount of self-criticism.

I just copied (sometimes even traced) artworks for over half a year before I started to make up my own ones. Just choose artworks that you really like and use them to learn about symmetry angles and all that stuff, since every artist does that differently.(I remember I drew a pic of boa hancock from OP I found in one of the doujins here about 20 times , at least)

If you´re looking for any video tutorials I´d prbably recommend the tutorials from mark crilley, for they are the only ones that actually have what you could call an explanation :) Most "how to draw" video´s are more like : this is how you draw it (draws it) done.

Not helpful at all.

Well I hope that is at least a little helpful to you.
Just start out copying from artists whose style you enjoy and get a feel for it I guess.
Soon you´ll be able to do your own drawings in their style, and then go off of that.

Holy :o Wow that's some amazing improvement. Congratulations.

I guess what's really discouraging me the most is that my sketches just look so bad I get embarrassed at myself for even trying :C I probably never improves because I never actually tried.

Thank you for taking the time to write this, it really did give me a lot of motivation to take the time to learn. I always assumed artistic ability was one of those things people were born with. I guess there is hope :D

the best way is to grab lots of paper, grab lots of pencil lead and a comfortable mechanical pencil, and just try to draw the things you want to draw. keep drawing over and over, and do a variety. people, animals, machines, vehicles, food, tools, instruments, whatever there is to draw. eventually it'll start coalescing in your head exactly how your lines should look and how they get put down. you then become the master eyeball-er for measuring lol.

just lots and lots of practice. and a goal that you want to reach. copying others' work isn't a bad idea either in terms of learning how shapes are supposed to look and feel when you draw them.

Like Hybris and retfir said, the best way to get into art and anything creative in general is to just do it. I would also strongly advise against actually copying others work line for line, nothing will throw you off more in solidifying your own artistic ability and way of speaking with a drawing tool than to copy someone elses work.
as for actual advice, (while I'm in no place to be giving advice >_<)
BASICS BASICS BASICS! Shape and form!! Learn and imprint the basics shapes (cube,sphere,cylinder,pyramid,etc) into your brain and know in and out how they look in different angles and perspectives, how they feel when you draw them. everything and anything (to a certain point) that you can draw will be some form and combination of those basic shapes.
Learn to look at things and think in shape and form instead of the complicated mess reality can be. simplify,simplify, simplify and then build on top of that.
and to paraphrase andrew loomis - "learn perspective, you cannot go anywhere without it"
although i wouldn't make it sound that dire, just practicing simple perspectives (1point,2point,3point) and making just boxes and shapes in them will go a long way.
also, learning what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to put in.-something I'm struggling with -_-
the internet is a great wealth of information if you're getting into art and there are countless tutorials that will teach you anything and everything, just don't get lost in them.
I don't know about videos but I strongly recommend a few books (which you can find online)
Michael Hampton - Figure drawing, design and invention (amazing book that uses the human figure as a means to teach you shape form and line)
any book by Andrew Loomis ("figure drawing for what it's worth, successful drawing.)
George bridgman - Constructive Anatomy (great for anatomy and his wedging concept)
sorry for the long post, theres so much more I can go on about learning to draw as It's something I started 3 years ago and have been infatuated with discovering all the little things that make it what it is.
to finish with a quote (can't remember who said it -_-)
"art lives in the scribbles"
I'm excited that you want to get into art, start and don't stop! :)
edit: i forgot to say,
never get discouraged when your work turns out "bad" I'd say for every drawing/sketch I make that I like, I do about 20-30 that I dislike.
I remember someone saying along the lines of "you have about 1000 bad pictures to make before you make something "good", so the sooner you get those out, the better"
:)