anime are not cartoon

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Malificus
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Post by Malificus » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:25 pm

You're taking what people pretty strongly for someone who doesn't care. And what does someone's sexuality have to do with them teasing you about anime? Are you projecting?

Whenever someone teases me about reading hentai, I just flip to the closest fanservice page and show them it. If they tease me about reading kiddie stuff, I flip to the nearest cute page. If I don't have the appropriate page availiable... I have no clue, I've always had a book with either of those types of scenes close at hand. Most of them actually know what anime of manga's like, but are just having fun.

Of course some people actually mean it, I don't care about that fact alone too much, but it more depends on the person. If it's one of the few people's opinions I actually care about, then yes, it does hurt me when those people call anime/manga kiddie (I would prefer them calling it perverted, but they just use kiddie). Not because of the pure fact of them calling anime kiddie, but they fact that them thinking this means they think less of me, or think I need to change purely because I like something they don't approve of.

So generally, no, people calling manga/anime doesn't bother me.

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Post by ShinMasaki » Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:53 am

Personally, I have no trouble with people I know / don't know that question me and anime. I've seen quite a number of them and have several handy on my laptop which I carry everywhere. It's like "OMG, you watch cartoons and read comics?! Grow up! You're trying to be a teacher, after all!!!" Then I ask them what their favorite type of whatever to watch is. I have samples on my laptop of tons of different genres to fit the bill. Just ask them to sit and be mindful of what they are watching...and 10 min later, I have them hooked on whatever they just watched or not so pessimistic about it.

My parents buy me manga and anime for christmas and my birthday, they know it's what I like and they don't mind. I mean, I've collected enough that adding in more is only going to increase the value at this point.

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