Moor_Child Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 I figure most of you people here in the OB are young, and by young I mean in school. I figure everyone likes anime or else they wouldn't be here. Well, I was wondering (I do that a lot) if you people are considered a dork for watching anime. I mean, I am. It's not a big thing where I live. It's hard to find it in movie rental places or even places to buy it. Only little kids watch it; sure there are others of course but if you're over ten you're consider a weirdo. My friends just don't get it. They think I'm really weird for watching it. They like to watch stuff like Sponge Bob (nothing against him), but they don't like the japanese cartoons. I personally don't care what they think. Is it like this for anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narius Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 You learn to realize they don't care as much as you would think they do. But I'll leave that for you to figure out. An no its not huge but it does have its cult following. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noodleboy Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 ratarr for the most part i don't care... i'm considered strange because i'm a "goth" so for the most part it's normal for ppl to call me names. for u though u may just want to get past it. learn to understand that they have different views then u, understand this and no one should bother u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moor_Child Posted August 1, 2003 Author Share Posted August 1, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by ReTarr [/i] [B]I personally don't care what they think.[/B][/QUOTE I thank you both, Narius and Noodleboy, for you're advice but I guess I wrote my thread different than how I wanted it to sound. I was simply curious if my peers here in OB had problems finding good anime where they live too, or they had friends that don't like anime either. I realize now how imature I sounded, I suppose I should have explained myself better, sorry bout that. Besides my friends consider me weird anyway, and they still love me none the less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noodleboy Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 no... i didn't mean it to come off as i was bashing u for being young... but yes i do have problems finding certain anime....well at least with kazaa and my local blockbuster but for the most part u just have to know where to look there are many places that are ment for anime such as a comic book store Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtakuSennen Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Anime.. Is not that big where I live. I'm in the suburbs, and we don't get The Anime Channel here. The only places you can really get your anime in stores are the basic places.. Best Buy, Game Stores and the like. -_- We have no speciality stores all about anime.. I took a survey, and only 10 in 200 students in my grade actually knew what manga was. o_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinji-Kun Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Well, at my school, we have like 2 - 3 avid anime watchers. We really like anime, and our friends are cool with it. (We are in the same group). But somepeople don't understand that anime has a lot of things that make them more than cartoons. Plus the ignorant people think anime is just DBZ. *Sigh* With those kinda people around, I fear for this world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 When I ask my friends, "Do you wacth anime" They are all like "Whats that?" So no Im the only one here.. *Sigh* and I was really hoping to find a chick anime fan, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spikey Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Where I live we have one anime store, and then we have stores that just sell stuff like DBZ GT .hack//SIGN Vampire Hunter D Gundam Argentosoma and Chobits. Right around here where I like, I say that's not all that popular, because when I go to the store to buy it every single on of the copies they had of those anime DvDs are still there. And then they sit there until someone comes like me comes and buys one. That's just sad. I am not considered a dork, for one reason they don't know what the heck it is. Another reason is because I don't try to show them so they could call me a dork. I don't get called a dork, I just am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eleanor Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 [size=1] I also live in the suburbs, and the only places I can buy anime is Best Buy, Media Play. or Waldenbooks for manga. There aren't any stores dedicated to anime or anything. In my whole school, I think there are about three-four people who really watch various animes. All the others just watch DBZ and nothing else.[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegeta rocker Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 it was popular where i live but only the mainstream ones. Over here in dallas where i go to college now everybody likes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Were i live, and if your found watching or drawing anime, people say that you like Yu-Gi-Oh and DBZ. I hate both to the fullest extent. But i can't blame them seeing as how i'm the only anime fan in my school who doesn't like or play Yu-Gi-Oh. Damn you YGO, Damn you too hell! But there is a group of girls who like other anime's, but there mostly just inlove with InuYasha and RayEarth and write hentai stories. (I said write, not draw.) They handed me one and it was, interesting.(Gohan and Videl, Goku and Chichi are away, hot monkey love.) So if i want too hang with the popular crowd, i hide my anime fandom and speak about it with my closest freinds. So, no, its looked down uppon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fyxe Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Well, in small towns like this *waves around* either no one knows what it is or they think it is dumb... I have found very few ppl that watch anime here... well there is always the little ones who like DBZ or Pokemon. My friend used to watch anime, but her parents disaproved of it since they are against "violence".. but some of my friends watch Yu Yu Hakusho and Inuyasha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xai Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 [COLOR=orangered]I honestly don't know of many people in my town that watch anime. Or even know what it IS for that matter. >_< There really aren't many stores that sell anime other than mainstream titles like DBZ or Pokemon. And the rental places don't have much either. I think the only place we have is Radio Shack... and Waldenbooks. I hate living in a small town...:mad:[/COLOR] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Well, I live in NYC, so you can find fandom for just about anything here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Bebop Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 Xai i totaly agree with u on that living in a small or in my case backwash town in my opioion sucks its hard to find people who even like anime or even no what Anime is plus u have to drive like 10 miles to get to a place the sells anime and the main problem is where i am most people think like this Anime = Only Pokemon = stuip kiddy stuff Which really gets me ticked we had to dew a power piont thing for class last year on a hobbie or whatever so me and my friends did ours on anime we had to stop every 3 seconds to explain somthing to a person with a question but there was one good side to it i got one of the "populer" girls on my bus to listen to my Lupin the 3rd CD and she wanted me to make her a copy scary no? and getting back to the whole people likeing anime its like finding gold when that happens to me in my school last year there were only like 5 people who knew and like anime its really a shame caues anime is the best way to tell a story with all the character develoment and the great soundtracks well thats all for me sry for any mispellings and i think i went a bit off topic oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IwakuraLain Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 i live in NYC too and many many people in my school are into anime. my friends make fun of me but that's only because they think i'm unhealthily obsessed, and everybody who did consider us dorks had never seen anime before and have since been sucked in. Our club is now one of the largest in our school with over forty members and it was just started a year ago! i'm the president-in-training :bow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwai Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 My case is a bit different. I know, yes I KNOW that people are into anime, but the hard part is finding them, and making them admit. I really don't know why people do that. Is anime something to be ashamed of if you're obsessed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeSpiegel Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 yeah NYC=the place to be. i lived there for quite a while(19yrs) an every where u went by me there was some store that sold some kind of anime. wether it be mainstream or not they sold it. yeah i watch it alot, but my friends watch some of it too, even my older bros friends who used say im still a kid for watchin it, do watch abit themselves thanks to me. so i guess the answer would be its highly accpeted by me. it kinda helps ya know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillieFan Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 The San Diego area and Southern California in general is pretty cool. Sure, there are people who REALLY don't like and many more who don't even understand (LOL, all my anime fan friends are online aside from one, and the club at SDSU is a bunch of hentai freaks, so if I eventually go to SDSU in the next five years-kind of my plan-I'm either forming my own club or remaining totally unaffiliated) Nevertheless, I like it here, and if you could be completely open about your interests without all the trouble that brings, it would be even better. -^.^- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Fou Lu Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 People around this area don't like anime that much. people here always tell us to grow up and act our age. but since they only think all anime is either DBZ or Pokemon they think all anime is for younger people. however, i know that some of the people that claim that they hate anime, don't really :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Levoy Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 Where I am every body who is 12 and up thinks that anime is very stupid and any one who watches anime must be pretty dumb. After so many years of living on this planet you learn to ignore what people say and just do what is most natural to you. Besides, most of them watch it as well. Even if they say they don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 I failed too mention that a few of my popular freinds (I know i sound snobby, but theres no other way to put it.) like Ruroini Kenshin, YuYu Hakusho, Cowboy Bebop, and Big O, but its becasue those animes are more mature than others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tical Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by ReTarr [/i] [B]I figure most of you people here in the OB are young, and by young I mean in school. I figure everyone likes anime or else they wouldn't be here. Well, I was wondering (I do that a lot) if you people are considered a dork for watching anime. I mean, I am. It's not a big thing where I live. It's hard to find it in movie rental places or even places to buy it. Only little kids watch it; sure there are others of course but if you're over ten you're consider a weirdo. My friends just don't get it. They think I'm really weird for watching it. They like to watch stuff like Sponge Bob (nothing against him), but they don't like the japanese cartoons. I personally don't care what they think. Is it like this for anyone else? [/B][/QUOTE] Its EXACTLY like that with me. While I crave Anime, most of my friends watch Nickelodeon all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moor_Child Posted August 4, 2003 Author Share Posted August 4, 2003 Doesn't it make you wonder why they can watch nickelodeon and not be called imature while we watch anime and still be called imature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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