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Convention Events and Programming => Anime, Manga, and Japanese Media and Culture => Topic started by: Mr Silmero on April 19, 2010, 09:59:39 pm
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This was one of my first topics and my most popular so I am bringing it back!
How do your parents/family feel about anime? Do they like it or do they not care? Do they even hate it and wish you did not watch it?
My parents did not care about anime when I first started (many years ago) but when we all watched Princess Mononoke together they gained much more respect for the medium and even nowadays enjoy the ocassional Miyazaki film.
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My mom supports my hobby and trys to help out when she can.
but mostly I do things on my own. Mom plays pokemon with me occasionally too.
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My father doesn't care much for it. But he does sometimes sit and watch it, if I have it on the TV.
My mother on the other hand, tries to get into it.
But then she has to walk away, because most of the stuff I watch has too much violence. :3
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When my mom first found out i watched anime she asked me if i was gay because i was watching haruhi.But now she really does not care because she watched some anime (gantz) and found out its not all like haruhi.
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My parents don't care. Then again, my dad once told me he'd love me even if he found out I was in love with the dog. So, they're pretty easy going. (And for the record, I'm more of a cat guy.)
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My parents honestly didn't really know or for that matter care lol...watched it mostly when I wasn't home since I didn't have any of my own. On another note though, I did live with my G/F & her parents for a while & found that they enjoyed anime...they even owned all of DBZ themselves lol. That was kinda cool since we ended up watching the occasional anime with them.
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I am married with three kids and we all watch tons of anime. It's family bonding in our house.
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My wife will watch good movies, but she really doesn't want to bother watching series. And she doesn't like it if/when I go to Anime Friday. sigh.
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my dad dosent shun me but cant get into it. my bro likes it too but cant get too involved with work+college.
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My mom thinks I'm stupid and need to get a life, of course that's with me aspiring for art too. "What does an artist get paid..." I get so angry I just wanna snap and be, "Probably more than an unemployed elementary school teacher..." -___-
My dad... O.o Frightens me.
His favorite is InuYasha xD
I always see him playing with the cat and he says, "I learned this from Igu Washa" (spelled wrong on purpose) and he keep harping me about seeing the end of the first arc of Bleach on the computer cause he missed it on the T.V. And When I told him about FMA brotherhood and the new Inuyasha he kept bugging me about that too. Sometimes when I have alot of homework, he'll get to watch more anime then me in a week. xD LOL I still laugh at him when I remind him what he said to me when I was small that I would grow out of Sailor Moon... HAH!
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Mom is semi-supportive. Dad hates it. Brother Chris hates it. Brother Scott just teases. :(
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Honestly, I really don't understand why most peoples' parents would care. ^_^; My parents never cared. I'm to the age now where I suppose they could express concern, but they can't stop me from doing anything, so ..
I'd rather my kid dress up like an anime character instead of going out and doing drugs. :/
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Haha well my dad doesn't see the point in it xD And my mother would rather me spend money on something else than cosplay but all in all, she helps me if I ask~ ^^
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I've converted them all! (Except a sister whose love stops with FMA.)
My mom thinks I'm stupid and need to get a life, of course that's with me aspiring for art too. "What does an artist get paid..." I get so angry I just wanna snap and be, "Probably more than an unemployed elementary school teacher..." -___-
It's a valid question to keep in mind (most artists still have to keep day jobs), but it shouldn't necessarily stop you from pursuing it.
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It's still pretty much the same. My mother thinks I'm crazy and thinks she knows just about everything there is about cosplay and conventions when she's never done any. :/
My dad's pretty supportive, tries to help me when he can but won't give me anything and everything and he's willing to except that I like to completely change how I look for a weekend.
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My mom's becoming more involved with helping me with sewing and some otherthings, she's also staring to get into anime.
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actually i'm gonna be a japanese teacher <.< >.> in japan! lolol so that comment about artists and teachers isn't quite true <.< even though my part time job is gonna be a manga artist >.< (i still draw atm just haven't gotten much inspiration)
my parents (when i was little) just thought we were watching cartoons lawl (which is true lol) but what we watched back then was pokemon, dijimon, hamtaro, and sailor moon (classics i must say XD) and then i slowly started to dive into in around 6th grade, cuz of the asian influence around me XD woot cerritos!
but yea. i'm in love with miyasaki's work! <33333 my favorite so far is howl's moving castle my first was kiki's delivery service, but my first "anime" (that i knew was anime) was mononoke
now my dad thinks i'm crazy (me and my sister both lol) for the cosplay part of the otaku part of us. my sister is a yaoi freak (lol) i'm in love with yaoi (paring) not the books (occasionally XD).
my mom thinks that it's great that i have a hobby, but not one that takes up most of my study/school time >.< and that i should study and not worry about dressing up and AN-E-MEH lolol (she actually says it right lol) BUT she did like watching with me sometimes (like she would out of the blue come into the living room and watch what i'm watching outta curiousity and then she'd ask what's going on)
my parents are curious, but at the same time don't care (my dad was born in the 50's and my mom in the 60's) so they don't really care much about video games, or animated cartoons (unless it's like scooby doo, flintstones, jetsons, etc love them <3) but yea. my parents are old school but they just wonder why i watch such violent and odd things.
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I've converted them all! (Except a sister whose love stops with FMA.)
My mom thinks I'm stupid and need to get a life, of course that's with me aspiring for art too. "What does an artist get paid..." I get so angry I just wanna snap and be, "Probably more than an unemployed elementary school teacher..." -___-
It's a valid question to keep in mind (most artists still have to keep day jobs), but it shouldn't necessarily stop you from pursuing it.
I know what pursuing art means. That's also the reason I am getting degrees in Writing, English and some type of theater as well. And I'm not kidding, I'm killing myself with 20 credits at the moment, 12 being full time. Yet apprently I'm still a kid that can't handle the real world or understand what it takes to survive in it... yet Im an honor student...still in school.. doing this much... -____- Evil
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O_O holycrapsticklez! @.@ i'd be dead with that many credits! x.x and i thought 14 was bad!
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Yeah... I have no social life.... xD
*is looking forward to her year off after this spring term*
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nice. ima probably do the same thing after this year too. after fall i mean though >.< so ima work for about a year, and just take half time or 3/4 time.
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My dad is clueless when he waltzes in seeing his fourteen year old son doing the hare hare yukai or cross dressing....
My mom has fallen in love with it and watched seven episodes straight of Sailor Moon. For some reason she likes to dress up in weird clothes she finds and walks around con. She got a punch of steampunk stuff and got fairy wings, so I consider her a success.
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*looks in utter dismay* that might be me in 10 years ._.
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ugh... when i was 14 my highly religious mother picked up one of my volumes of death note... banned the stuff until my parents divorced and she stopped caring about stuff like that TT-TT
Shes not the jerk she used to be though... actually like, acknowledged it as my hobby the other day...
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o.o wow that's ... weird o.o my parents don't really care anymore. they "gave up" on me XDDD
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yea. lol, i think theres a point where they give in, or give up. Either they stop being startled by the sound of caramelldansen, or they start dancing themselves :)
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lol my dad just says it's "chong-chang-ching" music >.< so racist i tell u! well he sings along with the song by saying "chong-chang-ching" lol -D-"
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lol, my parents came to my favorite anime store with me once. They actually had fun, after they stopped feeling excluded everytime i started spouting off about the show from which the plushie they had examined was from...
Mom: OH, look at this! Its cute!
Me: THAT, is mokona, who was given to syaoran by the dimensional witch in exchange for sakura's memories of him. It has the ability to travel between dimensions, sense sakura's "feathers", and much more, which makes it infinitely useful in.....*rest of long rant omitted*
Mom: ........oh.....kay? *puts plushie back*
>.<
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lol that's why u say "it's from xxxholic, tsubasa, and Magic Knight Rayearth. created by a collaboration of girl artists called CLAMP"
XDDDDDDd
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XP clamp got me in trouble once... Tried to show my dad chobits.... was a bad idea... Preeeeetty sure he thinks im some sissy pervert now TT-TT
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lolololol wow that made my night XDDD never show parents chobits XD
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on the bright side, i can instantly freak my dad out by chirping "CHI!~" at him :P
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LOL i used to do that to all my bf's (that knew about chobits) XD and they look at me like o.o O_O >:D
then i go ._. chi? o.o ch.. O_O CHI!
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lol, might want to be careful saying that. They might take it as an excuse to reset you... -.-
EDIT: BLAAAAH.... sorry if that comment creeped chu out >.< *facepalm* this always happens when chobits comes up...
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AHAHAAAA!! nooNO! that's hilarous!!! XDDD that's why i would do it in the first place XDDDD
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XP i had a GF once who loved chobits before i knew what it was. Only AFTER we were long over did i read it and finally get all the comments about "resetting" and random chorus's of "CHI?" she had made...
makes me realize what an awesome otaku girl i had lost *regret*
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hey what's wrong with chobits D: Haha. Um. I dunno. I showed my dad the Chobits AMV I made a few years ago. ^_^; And actually the original version had the sequence where he first powers on Chii. I kind of edited it for the version I submitted to Kumoricon since if you're not familiar w/ the series it comes across as perverted. ^_^;
Also, after getting hugged a bunch at Kumoricon while crossplaying as Chii .. I developed this habit of wanting to say "chiiii~!" any time someone gives me a hug. It's bad.
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XP i know people who call it hentai.
Sexual humor maybe, but... meh. Its CLAMP, for gods sake. They did Cardcaptor Sakura and stuff. Porn isnt exactly in their repertoire.
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lol right? i mean they have a lot of sexual innuendos though ._. like xxxholic is kinda ish? i guess ._. i donno >~<
but yea. and I SAW U!!! LAST YEAR!!! u were so WEIRD! @.@ i was like O_O wtf?! a guy in chi??!?! "i have seen otaku" XD
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crossplaying ftw.
i congratulate your courage, kind sir. Most wouldn't be so brave to do so commendably *salute*
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One of my friends at work was looking through my pictures on Facebook .. where I have my Chii crossplay up. And he said his girlfriend was like "OH! HE'S DRESSED UP LIKE CHII! SHE'S A SEX BOT! BECOMES FRIENDS WITH HIM!"
And I got my nerd rage going like "WTF? SHE AIN'T NO SEX BOT, PUNK!"
*is very protective of Chii* I better not find out any of you is drawing Chii hentai. >:(
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CHI??? A SEX BOT???
....who says this? *begins to glow ominously*
FER GODS SAKE, THE WHOLE POINT OF CHI IS THAT SHE CAN NEVER HAVE SEX! *locks on to blasphemers*
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AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES THEIR LOVE SO SWEET ><
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but...you're crossplaying..chi o.o how is that not smexual? XDDD i love it btw (and i don't do hentai i do yuri/yaoi XDDD)
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*high five* yey for yaoi/yuri pairings.
and yea... it IS really sweet that they not only willing to break the social taboo of not dating a persocom, but that he loves her so much as to spend the rest of his days with her without receiving sexual gratification *heart throb*
......and i wonder why people ask me if im gay... >.<
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awww no ur not gay! ur just the very few guys that end up with the sweetest girls in the end <3~
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but...you're crossplaying..chi o.o how is that not smexual? XDDD i love it btw (and i don't do hentai i do yuri/yaoi XDDD)
I dunno. Just so happens all my favorite anime characters are girls? XD And, .. anyone can dress up like their favorite male anime character? Like I say.. It takes balls to crossplay. ^_^
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lol yes it does! lots of balls~ or should i say nots so much of balls XD
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yea... i think its a common misconception that male to female crossplaying is a strictly sexual thing.
Noone says that to the legions of female to male crossplayers... Its more about freely being any character despite gender...
Besides, am i the only one who thinks its absolutely stupid that while females have fought their way out of gender stereotypes and be whoever they want, men have locked themselves into the masculine aesthetic?
....idk. its just kinda weird to me that while women are praised as being strong when they wear what was once strictly for men, its some taboo pervert thing if men try it. *terminate rant*
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lolol no~ it's SOOO true~ and i just think it's kinda gross to see really um... bigger guys/girls in crossplays or cosplay for that matter >.< as long as they look good (or they do it for fun lol) it's fine with me. just sometimes... it's just not good for my eyes >.<
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Can I help it if frills, bows, and lace are so damn cute?
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lolol no~ it's SOOO true~ and i just think it's kinda gross to see really um... bigger guys/girls in crossplays or cosplay for that matter >.< as long as they look good (or they do it for fun lol) it's fine with me. just sometimes... it's just not good for my eyes >.<
I definitely feel if you're a guy and you plan on crossplaying in public.. you need to shave all appropriate areas. Heck, I even went and had my eyebrows waxed. (OK, I have that done regularly now regardless since it looks nice.. but you get my point.)
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*nods* i know what you talking about
I hate to be mean, but i remember feeling... certain degrees of discomfort when i saw a group of sailor moon cosplayers of assorted genders all above the three hundred pound line...
*feels awful*
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lolol uggghzz i know i feel bad too but yea ...
lol reppy~ that's awesome! i wish my fiance would wax! XDD
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Can I help it if frills, bows, and lace are so damn cute?
Lol, no you cant.
Ive never actually crossplayed in any form, but i recently found a goth/lolita boutique in san fran whilst visiting that, while it also carried male apparel, couldn't help but make my mind fly far away 8D
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I really, really dig all the goth/lolita outfits.
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*nod*
very cute. I was so excited when i found them... Baby the Stars Shine Bright AND Black Peace Now were in the same building owo
*sigh* now i see where my parents fears come from TT-TT What is it about being an otaku that makes straight guys wanna crossdress?
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lolol why don't i dress up in goth lolita then? and walk around with u guys while u qawk at meh? XD
lol instead of xplaying or u guys can be my escorts XDD
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lol, everyone assumes the guys hanging out with the lolitas incessantly are pervs.
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Hm, you know.. gawking at a girl.. gosh.. I guess I could make a one time exception... ;D
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XP while im enjoying this conversation, i cant help but realize just how off topic its getting *points to name of thread*
May i suggest a whole new thread to carry this on?
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haha. yeah. I noticed that too. oops, sorry. ^_^; Um, sure, if you want, start a new thread. XD
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http://www.kumoricon.org/forums/index.php?topic=12881.0
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[sorta bringing back the topic]
My parents are actually happy I now have a hobby [cosplaying]
But my siblings are pretty disgusted with me, its almost funny. The priceless look on my sisters face when I came out of the bathroom with Kabuki inspired makeup.
Never grew up with anime though, so I just watch it with friends, my parents don't even try to join in. My dad last around one minute watching Paprika with me.
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BAAHAHAHA! that's funny ^
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My parents semi-support (A.K.A feed my anime adiction) But beyond that they don't care for it and wish I would move on. My dad is half-way interested in it, But my parents don't really care as long as its not horrid.