...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

[hyperjirou.livejournal.com]

Who does he think runs the anime conventions. Or the magazines. Or the companies. Older fans. As someone who's staffed a major anime convention for years, I should know: there are lots of anime fans years older than you are. Actually, look at yaoicon, that's a whole con of adult fans.

On another note. I've discovered your fics and they are amazing. I'm a huge Zack/Cloud fan, and I love Blood Brothers an It runs in the family.

[cleflink.livejournal.com]

*shakes head* Some people, I don't know. Though further exposure to this student has revealed that he's generally a prat, so it doesn't really surprise me that he talks so confidently about things he doesn't understand.

And I'm glad you've been enjoying them! I've been really quiet recently, but I still love these guys to distraction. *squishes them*

[hyperjirou.livejournal.com]

The nice thing about working with younger elementary kids, is they just think liking anime and video games makes you awesome.

And I apparently forgot all about question marks with my last comment >_