...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*

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[cleflink.livejournal.com]

*nods* I think that's one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to people dismissing anime as something just for kids - 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.

(I wonder if he'd have had an apoplexy if I showed him some of my cosplay pictures...) *evil*

[armina-skitty.livejournal.com]

DOO EET!! Also, tell him that a lovely 60+ year old lady with a loving husband has fallen in love with Death Note, FMA and Naruto, because that is my wonderful, wonderful aunt.

[cleflink.livejournal.com]

*grin* I approve very much. Your aunt sounds like an awesome lady.