...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

[armina-skitty.livejournal.com]

Damned straight you should watch/read/play what you like! And as far as I'm aware, FMA is LIGHTYEARS ahead of twilight in terms of maturity and adult themes, particularly the manga, IMO. Plus there are other anime series that are so not for children that it's not even funny. So if this dipshit didn't even know that, then he knows nothing of anime and therefore has no right to an opinion.

[animegoil.livejournal.com]

but you know, even though I can rationally say age has nothing to do with hobbies, and why shouldn't a fifty-year-old lady like anime, I have to admit that the idea does weird me out. Probably because I've never encountered anyone who wasn't, still in their twenties liking anime. :/

[cloudy-chan.livejournal.com]

I've been told on several occasions that after I leave college...or maybe even really right now I need to "grow up" Im thinking to myself when im told these things that hell I am already grown up. People can like whatever the hell they want to. If a 42 year old women wants to be in love with a vampire that dosnt exist then I can sure as hell sit on my ass and write fan fics when im not scrambling around doing stressful things.

Also see this post the mean that kids are getting stupider.

[meowwl.livejournal.com]

It's because people still think that anime=cartoons...and cartoons are for kids.

Never mind that my 75 year old dad still watches pink panther and bugs bunny all the time.

[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.