Thread 282272834

Did your parents approve your anime hobby?

In the 2000s, when Haruhi and Gurren Lagann were new, they didn't and I stopped watching for years out of shame lol

>>282272834 (OP)
They know I'm a failure so why would they care

>>282272834 (OP)
Why would parents care if you watch anime or read manga?

>>282272834 (OP)
I have liberal parents, they did not care

>>282273031
You must be young. It was seen as a weird hobby back in the day

>>282272834 (OP)
I have literally never cared about what my parents thought about my hobbies are and they are proud I am unabashedly my own man

>>282272908
Haruhi was a tough one to justify to a random.
Even though it was the best. Or one of the best.
Hare Hare Yukai...

>>282272834 (OP)
Your picrel was the most violent and grotesque scene of the season, all shows included.

>>282272834 (OP)
They were fine with it. I hid the sexier ones though.

>>282273050
>You must be young
I'm 28

>>282272834 (OP)
i'm asian, it was expected i watch it

>>282272834 (OP)
Nah, but whenever they complained I humiliated them by reminding my pedantic mom she spent all day watching mexican soap operas about women like her getting cheated on (kinda like messing with NTR fans), and my racist dad by reminding him he spent his time watching 20 nignogs running after a ball on the field because he was too pudgy to do it himself. Since I was in better shape than both ever were in their lives, was more well adjusted socially than my father, and more academically successful than my mother, they just couldn't really talk back, especially considering my older brothers were all kinds of messed-up (alcoholism and drug abuse).
I think the most humiliating anecdotes for each were when my mom caught me watching Kamen Rider W on the main screen and started laughing, so I spent a week or so repeating the cringiest lines from her favorite show with my younger brother; and when my dad tried to say some bullshit about anime and vidya causing violence, only to be shown numerical stats about how soccer organized supporter riots were way more dangerous in my country... I even called him a cuck because he said he didn't play because he "prefers to watch".

>>282273165
That's young bro, I'm 35, watching anime in 2005 is was way different from watching it in 2012.

>>282273256
tl;dr

>>282273282
They complained, but I called them cucks for liking soap operas and soccer.

>>282272834 (OP)
Probably 95% chance they wouldn't give a shit but I still hide it from them (and everyone else) out of fear anyway

>>282272834 (OP)
I only watch old anime sometimes

>>282273296
Sounds like a bitch move

>>282272834 (OP)
My parents were watching anime before I was even born and watched anime with me when I was growing up. My mom doesn't really watch it much anymore, but my dad still watches a lot.

>>282272834 (OP)
My dad watched DBZ and Eva with me when I was a kid so he was cool with it, my mom mostly just ignored it.

>>282272834 (OP)
They really didn't mind it, and me and my siblings still watched it even during the satanic panic period with dragon ball saint seya and pokemon

>>282273279
>watching anime in 2005 is was way different from watching it in 2012.
When did I say I started watching in 2012? I've been watching it since I was 4-5 which was in 2001-2002. My parents never cared.

>>282272834 (OP)
My dad didn't like them but in the end he bought me and my sisters bootleg DVDs of naruto and pretty cure, in the end he tried to talk with us about dragon ball super because some scenes were funny for him and he even weent to a con with my sisters, but never liked it that much and usually made fun of it. My mom was always fine with it and still is fine about it but she doesnt watch it. Both of them watched Mazinger Z and Candy candy when they were kids though

>>282273040
I'm sorry

>>282272834 (OP)
They just got used too.
But they don't even quite understand what anime is.
For them, it's just animation.

>>282272834 (OP)
I dont think either of my parents have ever known that I watch anime.

I'm 38. My dad is dead now, but he would have thought it was pathetic loser shit. He was a blue collar brodude that bounced between low skill labour jobs until he gave up and just went back to live with his mom at 45 until he died.

My mom was always handsoff parenting other than drugs and school, so she wouldn't have done anything about it.

Goddamn, a bunch of whippersnappers in here. I was going in anime conventions back in aught-2 to buys Slayers merch.

>>282273256
>my mom caught me watching Kamen Rider W on the main screen and started laughing

Too late to undo your autism battle but you should try to get her to watch an episode
She likes soaps, she laughed, there was something interesting enough about it for her to watch and poke at you for

>>282272834 (OP)
Yeah, my mom would hear it, come in, sit down on the bed while I'm at the desk and watch with me while asking what the show is about. We watched the entirety of wangan midnight together.

>>282273628
Awww, that's really sweet

>>282272834 (OP)
>It's another episode of nothing happens

>>282273165
Yeah, our generation was the first to make anime mainstream with thinfs like Naruto, but I grew with older brothers and everyone of that age (late millennials and older) have a big negative stigma towards anime

>>282272834 (OP)
My mom keeps a Miku figure that I gifted her in her room and my dad has accidentally watched anime before since he watches things almost randomly on netflix
so they’re fine with it since I usually control my powerlevel

>>282273050
>>282273279
>You must be young. It was seen as a weird hobby back in the day
Nah, it wasn't. What was and still is seen as weird is allowing yourself to be alienated by a hobby (or maybe your family was too conservative).

I'm 36 btw.

>>282272834 (OP)
Yes, they're very neglectful :D

>>282273761
I'm 32. They literally associated it with me being unable to make friends and me regressing since they showed me anime when I was like 4 lol.

They likely don't know much about what I watch and read. They did buy me manga when I was a kid though. But that was stuff like Rurouni Kenshin and Naruto and nothing too out there. I sometimes order manga though (more recently mostly in Japanese) and sometimes they comment on it, mostly about how it's not in English. I have relatives that are still obsessed with Dragon Ball in a pretty cringy way, which probably draws more attention than anything I do since I don't project it as much.

>>282273804
I started watching it when I was 5. For them it was always "just another cartoon" and since it made me enjoy drawing and making friends because of it, it was never a big deal. My dad even used to take me to anime conventions when I was a teenager. Fun times.

I'm not sure my parents ever knew I watched it, I was more of an MMO nerd. As long as I had good grades and wasn't doing dumb shit shit my life they never cared much about my hobbies.
I'm 35 btw

>>282272834 (OP)
My mom listens to vocaloid, ado, and comes with me to anime conventions.

>>282272834 (OP)
I didn't have an anime hobby when I was a kid. I remember asking my dad to record some Pokemon, Digimon and Dragon Ball but I don't remember what he really thought about those. I was very small so he probably just thought they were cartoons for little kids.

>>282272908
>Haruhi
They were right

>>282272834 (OP)
I live in animeland, you get laughed at if you are not watching anime.

>>282272834 (OP)
I think my parents never had an opinion about my hobbies. When i was a teenager they only had a problem with me going out, that was a struggle every time, so they never said anything about what i did at home, and whenever i talk to them about anime, they just look bored, just as how they look whenever i talk to them about any stuff they don't know, but they never have an opinion.

>>282273606
>>282273357
I don't know which kind of parents you had that you can reason with.

>>282274184
It's called "good parents" anon. I am legitimately saddened when I am reminded the vast majority of people didn't get to experience it

>>282274045
>Anon-san how many shows are you keeping up with this season
>I-im not watching anything right now
>*GASP* ANON GO TO YOUR ROOM AND DONT YOU DARE LEAVE UNTIL YOU ARE CAUGHT UP ON AT LEAST 4 SHOWS AND I EXPECT A REVIEW ON EVERY EPISODE

>>282274230
What the fuck is that compression God I hate Google images

>>282274230
I don't think mine are bad, I've seen them recognize mistakes, act and talk logically and learn, from other people, they just shut off those skills when it comes to their kids.

>>282274269
That makes them good citizens or people not inherently good parents. Also bad parents are a huge spectrum between your situation all the way down to beating the shit out of them for looking at them weird

>>282272834 (OP)
My mom doesn't mind, but my dad always thought it was childish and pathetic, but since he's a Chad and someone more successful and social than I will ever be I could never really contradict him (it doesn't help that my older brother who was a full otaku is a loser).

Why the fuck is the previous generation so bigoted. My dad also had extremely strict "definition" of what a man was and would belt me if I showed any sign of behaviour he deemed effeminate or interests that weren't sports and partying. I almost trooned out when I was young to rebel against him, glad I didn't follow through, but him and his group of people are just so fucking difficult to deal with.

>>282274256
Kind of happened me once
>anon DBZ is on the TV!
>nah I'm fine, playing supaplex right now
>BUT FREEZER IS ABOUT TO GO FULL POWER LET'S GO
>sigh ok

>>282274444
Bait or merely pretending?

when people talk about anime or manga at work i pretend i dont even know what the words mean
ive been hiding my power level since the late 90s and i dont ever plan on revealing it to anyone

>>282274520
Based. I know I just let it slide anon

>>282272834 (OP)
My mother was pretty fine with it. Dragon Ball Z is big in Latin America and my older sister was into Sailor Moon when she was younger.

My dad always made fun of me watching anime. Just teasing me about my manga collection or drawings from time to time. Also used to say how a lot of the boys looked like girls (He saw i bought a figure of Kaworu and said he looked super feminine)

I always managed to hide the more intense stuff away from them, though. I don’t think they would’ve been as accepting for their 13 year old kid watching EoE. It was so much easier to pirate back then. I also started to use this site when Lucky Star, Kill La Kill and Oreimo would get threads here pretty often. (so about early to mid 2010s).

Back when I was in middle and early high school, liking anime got you made fun of and bullied. I remember making my own flash cards to learn Japanese in middle school and some bastard took them out of my hands and threw them in the trash. Nowadays EVERYONE wants to learn Japanese. It became cool towards the end of high school with the whole “aesthetic” trend and was greatly accelerated by the pandemic.

Nowadays? I still get embarrassed about liking my Japanese cartoons but anime is so big that I think it’s pretty normal for the younger generation to at least see something. The community has lost a bit of its charm given there isn’t as big of a filter. i will say that anime has at least affected me in a positive way even if I was cringe. I got into drawing and watched all of Hetalia cause of some cute Filipina girl who was a bit of a freak.

>>282274601
>It was so much easier to pirate back the
As apposed to the literal one click it is today?

>>282274520
Revealing your powerlevel is a big variable.
best not to start with the loli.

>>282274626
Sites would actually last years and have comment sections. The problem was having too many sites. Perhaps I’m being clouded by the past but I find pirating sites to be harder to find and more prone to being shut down quickly

>>282273256
based schizo post

>>282274740
Nigger nyaa has existed since you started using this site
Range ban latin America and Israel already gook moot

>>282272834 (OP)
Sauce ?

>>282272834 (OP)
My parents were both nerds, so they were at least partly understanding.
My mom thought I spent too much money on manga. I did - I had hundreds of volumes by 2008
My dad didn't give me trouble for that (he didn't have room to talk, he collected comics), but he didn't know why I wouldn't sell them (his justification to my mom for collecting comics was resale).
I had a bunch of anime and figures too, to which my parents reacted the same.

>>282274094
this except I didn't have parents and sometimes my mom would go into a drunken rage and violently seethe at anything she saw

>>282272834 (OP)
no
They pressured me and my sister so hard that she eventually broke down and developed a mental illness. Even now, they’ve never accepted my hobbies and still telling me to touch grass. So after I moved out, I stopped talking to them.

>>282274893
He didn't take correct his mum
Pathetic

>>282273502
>I've been watching it since I was 4-5 which was in 2001-2002.
You were just watching cartoons, retard. Pokemon and whatever else weren't "anime" for you back then, it was just another cartoon along with Nickelodeon toons, Monster Inc. and so on.

>>282272834 (OP)
Yes, my dad also watches sometimes.

>>282274354
I guess, I could see this going south if I was the only kid.
>>282274759
Glad you liked it. I sperged out other times too. I really like going for the low blow when it's older people, otherwise they pretend you're not making sense.

Yes and no?
if you are younger than 45ish, anime has been such an integral part of children's TV especially on the weekends for so long in just about every country in the world that is even remotely civilized, you would have had some exposure to it in some form or another from a very young age and it stayed with you until your teens when you started seeking it actively...
and for some reason parents were okay when it was consumed weekly on TV.

only when you started binging it and watching weird series and cut yourself off from the outside world to finish yet another 12-13 episode season of some new anime you downloaded through IRC, Kazaa or LimeWire did they ever start to complain.

Japanamation

>>282272834 (OP)
I grew up watching Pokemon Sailormoon, toonami etc so it wasn't seen as unusual. Around 12 I liked drawing shoujo girls in sailor uniforms but was really shy about showing them to people so I always hid them. My dad assumed I was drawing porn and that started ruining my view of him big time.

>>282274520
This is the way to do it
When they do it at my work its about basic bitch ones like solo leveling at best

>>282272834 (OP)
my dad might not have but I didn't let either of them know about what I did with my time

why do I feel like this scene is an author self-project

>>282274444
>quads wasted on a troon simp
kys

My parents didn't really care enough about me to approve or disapprove of any of my interests. As long as I didn't cause them any problems they didn't care what I did. At the time I enjoyed the freedom but looking back I just feel sad.

>>282277688
>my parents did not parent me
sad. did you do your daily dilation sis?

>>282272834 (OP)
No. My father looked at me with disgust. Yeah, like that Tony Soprano and AJ scene.

>>282272925
second post literally me

>>282273508
>he bought me and my sisters bootleg DVDs of naruto and pretty cure
Nice. Which of these were for you?

I told them about it and now I am homeless because something about dishonor and the family and becoming a doctor or lawyer or whatever.

>>282277886
based, get dunked on. I'd do the same to my kid if he brought to me faggy shit

My mom watched a little anime during pokemania mostly to find out if it was anti christian since there was a hysteria around that time.
My dad never was into anime mostly because he had issues with his attention span but he'd buy random stuff on VHS and DVD for me, which is how I watched stuff like Perfect Blue and Metropolis as a youngster.
I was pretty jealous of other people's parents who were actually into anime and manga.

>>282277906
im sorry bro but look at how you turned out. A complete failure.

40+ people are not allowed to talk about anime, its social suicide

>>282278118
This

>>282272834 (OP)
Approve? My dad basically got me started by renting DVDS from Blockbuster and recording anime movies from the movie channels. Then FMA came a long and that was when I was pretty hooked on the stuff.

>>282272834 (OP)
You're supposed to grow out of anime, but still lurk online forums and insist that old anime is better despite not watching it for 10+ years.

Dad got me into anime. Mom hated it.

>>282279362
did dad also rape u

My mom doesn't really like it but it's not like she has any say about what I consume. She mostly disapproves of my titty anime figs now because its "clutter" to her.

I share a lot of my tastes with my dad and watch sci-fi and horror movies with him in the cinema or when I visit, sometimes we also used to watch some anime. We watched Netflix one piss together, it was alright.

>>282278118
At age 45, you ascend from wizard to faerie.

>>282279638
We shared a prostitute on my 20th birthday. Your mom will do anything, man.

>>282274656
I have a friend and colleague who is into anime, in order to not spook her I've been only talking about normie anime with her and leave out the mecha and lolis.

>>282272834 (OP)
Not until a few years ago, so I spent my first few years of anime watching naruto, dragonball, basically only the stuff they'd be fine watching also

I got more grief over video games than anime.

>>282272834 (OP)
My parents don't approve of me being unemployed more than my choice of hobbies.

>>282274998
Nah, this is always retarded when people say it, though I guess it depends. I knew what I was watching was from Japan. And I knew people who imported merch from Japan of these series.

>>282272834 (OP)
They tease me for still watching "cartoons" and playing video games but it's just friendly banter between us.

>>282272834 (OP)
They don't know about it.

I mean I know they would prefer I didn't but it's more or less the only thing they can critiquise me.

>>282280968
>7 months till gook overtakes moot
There is no fucking way.

I've shown some (carefully selected) manga to family members and they thought it was cool.

>>282279799
What if this is what basically everyone is doing when they talk about their hobbies at work?

>>282281007
Habeeb it

>>282272834 (OP)
my dad was downloading shaman king episodes at his work for us when we didn't have the internet access at home yet

>>282272834 (OP)
My dad didn't want me to watch Daimos, but mostly because of how brutal it was. Anime this days is so sanitized compared to 30 years ago.

>>282274740
wtf i share /a/ with retards like this?!?

>>282281007
>01/15 to Today: 10y 8m - 128m
>10/03 to 01/15: 11y 3m - 135m

I tried to watch lotr with my dad once but it was too much for him.
Needless to say i never ever show anime to my old man.

>>282281064
>>282281178
I would say this was inevitable, but I suppose it was not a given that hiro would still be the owner today.

>>282272834 (OP)
I never really showed my parents watching anime.
My mother is fine with games as she puzzles all the time. Okay with anime.
My dad resents both. He thinks every waking second should be spent working, studying, sporting, kissing either your boss or your friends ass. He would work 13 hr days (despite getting paid 8hrs), come home, fall asleep in the chair with his mouth open with a drool trail forming. Every single day. What a retarded cuck.

>>282281272
I wager the only reason he still is is that he completely forgot he owns this place.

>>282281298
Same. I like to imagine it's probably like Bezos and Twitch
>what, I own that?

>>282272834 (OP)
Both my parents watch anime. Instead of bashing me for watching anime, I bash them for their shit taste.
We have fun.

>>282281298
did he even bother to post something anywhere when the hack happened?

True story my parents walked in on me reading ecchi manga (not outright hentai, think it was prison school) when I was 14 and they've been against me consuming animanga since
They've walked in on me watching porn and didn't care

>>282281124
You just aren't seeking out brutality anymore.

>>282272834 (OP)
Back in childhood (90's, early 2000)my parent thought anime (except movie like Ghibli, GitS) they were against it (my mother mostly) because they thought it has dumb because the main stuff show back then was DBZ or Pokemon.
During my teenage years it we watched the Cowboy Bebop movie and they like it.

During my highschool years my father decided to buy the GTO but I highly suspect that he was expecting raunchy stuff because somehow a new channel in France managed to diffuse (censored) hentai at 22 pm and I KNOW he was aware of it.
I was watching GTO, Excel Saga, GiTS: SAC, Noir and FMA 2003, around the same time because it was broadcasted and started buying manga/ DVD by myself.
Then it was the glorious era of the late 2000/2010 and reliable torrenting.
Now my parent are retired and my mother watch the Apothecary Diaries and for some reason liked the first season of Rising of the Shield Hero.

I wish my parents were cool. My dad just watch my country's equivalence of fox news and sports, while my mom watches soap operas and those talent contest shows.

>>282281800
Same, but my dad also got into short video spam on his phone and my mom watches every travel show under the sun.

My parents know nothing about my hobbies and I have nothing in common with them

>>282272834 (OP)
Parents will do things like this and then wonder why their kids don't want to spend time with them.

>>282281982
>be parents
>accept son's hobby
>doesn't want to spend time with me because he's hobbying
>don't accept son hobby
>doesn't want to spend time with me because he's angry
lose-lose

Anonymous is my dad so he told me all about anime but he also molests me.

>>282282142
win?

>>282281058
At least I'm not vulnerable that way, women can be two faced