...huh

[cleflink]

Well that was a strange experience.

I have a necklace of the symbol off Ed's coat from Fullmetal Alchemist (the name of which escapes me), and I was wearing it today at school because I'm a nerd like that. One of my students asked me what it was and when I told him that it was from the anime, his response was: "Anime? But you're like 29." Which is, first of all, wrong on the practical level, but I'm more interested by the inference on his part that I'm too old to like anime. Because, really? That makes no sense to me. I mean, if my mum's friends can like 'Twilight', why shouldn't I like anime? And when he clearly knows very little about anime (I consider FMA decently mainstream enough that most anime-types would at least recognize the name, which he didn't), how is it his right to judge?

Besides, I'm technically 'an adult' which I think means that I can choose to like whatever the hell I damn well please. *makes immature face*

Comments

[mitsuhachi]

There seems to be a steriotype that 'the annie mays' are a think that 'the kids' watch. Kids who aren't even into anime seem to have picked this up--from parents and grandparents, which weirds me out no end. It leads to some weird situations.

But yeah, you totally have the right to like whatever you want; there are adult-only anime cons, I think that's pretty clear cultural ok on liking it as an adult.

[cleflink]

*nods* I think that's one of my biggest pet peeves about the understanding of anime - they're so much variety and so much depth that seems to get subsumed under the DBZ Yu-Gi-Oh craze. Which is not to say there's anything wrong with those shows - I've watched far too much of both, I freely admit - but I think people miss out because of the fact that they blanket identify anime by the most visible references to it in Western society (And I watch/read rather a lot of stuff that is very much not for kids).

*throws up hands* People sometimes, geez.