Anime Does anyone's parents (Other than mine) Disapprove of their child watching anime?

[Vash IDK]

LOL!!!!!! That was exactly how my parents were (except they aren't divorced) It was the same character too from Dot Hack. My mom didn't like the way she was dressed. But she didn't stop me from watching it. She's really cool about things like this. :)

[natetron46]

When I lived at home, my parents didnt care, they were suprisingly cool about it. They didnt care for it, but they knew I liked it, so they wouldnt turn it off or anything like that when I was watching it, and occaisionally they would buy me mangas or something for my birthday.
I had a good experience :)

[k9-Girl]

My parents just think its crap and don't understand it at all. I think they're more concerned with my sexual orientation though than what I watch. No doubt they probably attribute the two to one another.

[Dark Sakura]

My mother is japanese so she doesn't care what kind of anime i watch,unless it's porn. She's really cool about the whole anime obsession i have.My father's a different story though. He always has to check the rating on my books and dvd's like they contain porn.

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[Guest Garnett Lenoia]

[FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=DarkRed]My mother plays dumb to my obsessions of anime. She does not care aslong as it is not sex or mass amounts of violence and I keep it away from other family members.

My father on the other hand hates it. Any and all anime he dispises. He refuses to have it in his house, on his tv, in his computer or in my room! He thinks all anime is is sex scenes and blood, this is due to the fact he walked in as I was watching Hellsing during a very unopertune time.

All of my family dissagrees with anime due to thie highly religious upbrinings. I am the only hardcore anime lover, my bother likes it a little bit.

No one is alone when they know their parents hate anime, we all suffer![/COLOR][/FONT]

[Angel_Kiss]

[COLOR=Red]my mom doesnt stay up long enough to know i watch anime but if she saw inuyasha she might disapprove with the cusing but other than that she might be fine with it. same with my dad at his house.[/COLOR]

[Orcus]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=Blue]Heh, heh, I didn't know that so many parents dissaproved of anime. My mon doesn't really care, she let's me watch anything that's not porn or that doesn't have massive bloodshed. I can slide with some bloody animes, though :D .

I don't understand my dad's reaction to anime. Before my dad really just wouldn't let me watch any shows with foul language in it (can you believe that?!?) but...well let's just say I think it's different with anime. I was watching Dirty Pair and one of the characters cussed. My dad laughed and started making jokes about it. My dad's just the joking type, anyway. Another time, my bud Anthony and I were watching this Japanese trailer for an Inuyasha movie, when Inuyasha's blade started rattling. My dad walked by and said,"I have just farted. And now my blade is rattling." Then all this other stuff happened, and when it ended my dad said,"See what happens when ypu let loose a wet one...." then walked away. The worlds a funny place sometimes....[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[Random Fan Girl]

no, my parents couldnt care less that i watched anime. but they purposly make fun of the names. like one time my dad Called 'Yu Yu Hakusho' Yu Yu ho ho sho. he only dose that casue he knows i'll get kinda mad. but they dont really care that i watch it. and sometimes my dad will watch it with me. he likes InuYasha and all the ones with Fighting. casue we both like Finghting so, i get along with my dad. :)

[Camlaren]

Well to sum up my parents thoughts on me watching anime...

My dad thinks I spend way too much time watching anime, which it sort of true, other than that he doesn't have a problem with it, at first -- years and years ago -- when I first started watching anime he was under the impression I was seriously regressing or something, watching baby shows, it took a while to get him to realise they weren't ALL the same, though he still can't stand watching the stuff, the only thing I've shown him that he's shown any interest in is Samurai Champloo -__-

My mom knew I was into Sailor Moon -- long long ago (though I still love the series, out of all series I've seen it's ending affected me the most, it was like the end of an era o_o) -- and didn't think I was regressing, but thought it was ALL kids stuff, sort of like Sailor Moon. Then I asked her one night if she wanted to watch Inuyasha with me (no, NOT on the Cartoon Network - which I don't even get here, on the computer) and she agreed, it was hilarious, she was like "I'll watch one episode, but I may not like it..." after it was over she went running back the the computer and started episode two ^-^; So now my mom has seen around 60 episodes of Inuyasha, around half of Juuni Kokki (The Twelve Kingdoms), around 15 episodes of Full Moon wo Sagashite, some of Kenshin, and then maybe an episode or two of random other things like Kodomo no Omocha & Naruto. So, she obviously has no problem with it :D haha, maybe I should show her Gravitation, I made my dad watch the first episode of Gravitation once, I think he blocked out the experience... that, or thought Shuichi was a female.

[EVA Unit 100]

I'm allowed to watch anime on a case by case basis. Of course, at age 11 I can't watch Cutey Honey, but that's obvious and I don't even want to. The only animes I like that my parents have issues with are Excel Saga and Chobits. Not only do they let me watch anime, but they like to as well! Everyone in my family loves Miyazaki's stuff, Evangelion, Inu-Yasha, Fruits Basket, and Rouroni Kenshin. My mom loves Cowboy Bebop, Tenchi Muyo, Lupin 3rd, Wolf's Rain, Witch Hunter Robin, Love Hina, Kino's Journey, The Big O, FLCL, and Trigun. My dad isn't huge on anything but will watch anything good that's on. Overall, I'm pretty lucky.

[natetron46]

[quote name='EVA Unit 100']I'm allowed to watch anime on a case by case basis. [/quote]

That is really the best way to do it imo. You can't generalize animes, parents should look at everyone and make a choice on every single one, not just group them into "anime is bad", or "no anime".

[Akieen Cloud]

mY MOM GETS some of it but not all and I wanna know if anyone else has ever had the joy of seeing the look of 'what the hell?' on your parents face when you try to explain Inuyasha or Wolf's Rain to them...better yet...Case Closed. LOL. But I mean really how had can it be?

[keisuke shuuken]

What the frick?! Your parents WANT to know the storylines of anime? Wow, that's cool...my folks only remember the old school Dragonball Z and after the Gt series, they know nothing...anyways, make them watch several of the anime shows, might help.

[Sephiroth]

[COLOR=DarkRed][FONT=Times New Roman]My parent's did have a problem with it, but I'm going back 9-10 years here (that just made me feel old :sweat:

They would keep calling anime "cartoons", and say stuff like "how can you still watch cartoons, act like a grown up, etc" and I'd have to keep listening to it at least once a week

Fortunately I don't have to hear that anymore [/FONT] [/COLOR]

[BlackShadowmon]

I explain what anime is to my parents the way I explain it to every other person who doesn't know what anime is. Although anime shows are cartoons, they are created for a teen/adult audience, meaning there could be some bad language, gore, and occassionally nudity. But that doesn't make them bad shows. I tell them that it's similar to the Simpsons: even though it's a cartoon, you probably wouldn't want your ten-year-old watching it.

And my parents are OK with me watching anime. Although they "don't get it," they trust me enough to let me watch what I want to.

[DetectiveMikeRS]

My mom has nothing against me watching anime at all. She even watching the uncut episodes of Yu Yu Hakusho with me at times. My dad lets me watch it but he makes fun of it because he still has a grudge on Japan after Pearl Harbor even though it happend 11 years before he was born and all that, he doesn't like Japan for that one incident. Then he goes on making fun of the names of characters, the title of the show, the character design, etc.

[Akira Shadow]

Oh. My. God. I'm 10, I feel so small...NE way, I got my dad to watch Trigun. Ya know what?? We were in a hotel. And we only had 1 TV in the room, ya know! And it was really early in the morning. Dad let me pick the channel. Oh joy! Cartoonnetwork [Adultswim].When Midvalley was battling Vash with, what I call the "Very scary mystical saxaphone that resembles Kingdom Hearts stuff"(O.o) and started flipping out abot the B-Flat, I could tell dad was going O.O [I]who is that?!?![/I] in his mind. But it was interesting that our car roof flew off when dad told mom they cussed in TRIGUN later that day. XD XD But dad told me to turn the TV off when he heard "Dammit!" in InuYasha >.< That sucked. At least he didn't tell mom this time.

[EVA Unit 100]

[quote name='DetectiveMikeRS']My mom has nothing against me watching anime at all. She even watching the uncut episodes of Yu Yu Hakusho with me at times. My dad lets me watch it but he makes fun of it because he still has a grudge on Japan after Pearl Harbor even though it happend 11 years before he was born and all that, he doesn't like Japan for that one incident. Then he goes on making fun of the names of characters, the title of the show, the character design, etc.[/quote]

I wonder how your dad would react to Grave of the Fireflies or (although it would be a bit more of longshot) Gundam with their anti-war messages and stuff.

[roxybudgy]

My parents' main problem with anime is that they say it distracts my sister from doing school work. I'm at university now, lots of free time, so my mum doesn't have a problem with me watching anime, but recently, she's been trying to make me stop because when I watch, my sister watches (she's still in primary school). My sister would suddenly say that she finished her homework when I start to watch anime. Also, when I have manga, my sister would read it rather than study.

My dad doesn't approve of anime, he says that cartoons are for kids, so I never watch anime when dad is home. He is really nuts when it comes to good grades. He says that my sister will have bad grades if she wastes time watching/reading anime/manga. It annoys me how he always compare me with his friend's daughter (Jennifer), who like me, is aiming to be an accountant. Recently he keeps telling me about how Jennifer got a high distinction in Accounting.

[James P. Galvatron]

To bad for you all my mom has no problems with me watching anime she sometimes watches it with me. My Great Grandfather watches Witch Hunter Robin, Wolf's Rain, and Inuyasha with me sometimes he likes shows like that.

[natetron46]

Wow thats cool, your great grandfather actually watchs it. My grandfather is like DetectiveMike's dad. He fought in WW2 and he holds something, I dont know why, against the Japanese for that. :(

[poo62.2]

my parents don't mind me watching anime, but my dad usualy says stuff like "how can you watch rubbish like this!" or calls it "babyish" its realy annoing, but then he usualy falls asleep!!

[Guest Spud_Hed]

i been watching all sorts of anime since i was about eight (now 20), my parents never really had a problem with me watching anything, they just said it was "rubbish" but my aunt came round one day while i was watching akira, she got hooked and borrowed my entire collection :p :D

[Guest Alex Row]

[color=brown][B][i]My step father had once told me that watching anime is bad for you and that anime is for children. I responded by telling him that if he really believes that, he should be rendered sterile to protect the gene pool.[/i][/B][/color]

[Raiyuu]

If they start looking apprehensive about me wasting my money on DVDs full of what they see as cartoons, I tell my parents these things:

1) Anime is made for an older audience than Western cartoons. They are not cartoons at all, they are [I]animated series[/I].

2) It's my money :tasty:

3) They're foreign, therefore I'm experiencing [I]culture[/I].

Usually they'll see reason then.