Anime the problems with school and anime

[Guest AShadowOfASoul]

Huh, I guess I was lucky in high school. The teachers never had a problem with me reading manga during class (except for that one guy, but he had a problem with everything) and when ever the popular kids saw me drawing anime they'd ask me to draw pictures of them so they could see what they'd look like as anime characters. Now that I think about it, anime was my one hobby the people at school didn't have a problem with. LOL :animeswea
To all of you who are having problems, hang in there! :D Highschool can't last forever you know!

[Xx_Chaos_xX]

Twilight_Kioku , you have to understand something, most things people dont know about, will be misjudged. my friends father dosnt want him reading manga because he says "its a comic book, and its a waist of money" My parients say "As long as it doent have porn in it, i can buy it" funny because my mother likes "witch hunter robin" and stuff like that. Funny because, my school is dumb. The lady in charge of reading stuff says we cant read manga, because were cheating areselfs, but the princecable says we can.Most of the time the teachers are telling me to read something thats not manga, but that Moatavates me to bring my manga to school, if we listend to every thing the teachers said, will any of us wear red, when the uniform code is white :D

[Twilight_Kioku]

[quote name='EVA Unit 100']I must be lucky. My school provides the SGT Frog, Gundam Wing, and CLAMP School Dectectives manga in the media center (I've thought about lending them some of my older Ranma 1/2 or Naruto volumes), and most teachers get embarassed when they admit they haven't seen Spirited Away (things get even worse when they mix it up with that ****ing horse movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron). The school guidance counselor even knows every episode of Cowboy Bebop by heart. Plus there's an afterschool "Art in Japan" class, and despite the ptiched premise for the class we spend less time doing traditional Japanese art and more time drawing manga/watching Miyazaki movies.[/quote]

eva....i want to go to your school!! they dont have any manga here at all, or in the towns library. i have to drive about 15 miles to go to hastings or the library to buy/read any. i myself am not supposed to buy any manga, but i do anyways.

[QUOTE=Transmutation]One walks up to your litle group (and the reason you're so far awy from anyone is because you want to be), then he takes a look and yells out in a more louder than necessary voice:
"HEY, WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ANIME PORN?"
We sust stare.[/quote]

this happnes to our groups too. at lunch we had a nice little group of ppl who really liked anime and manga. safe to say we've had our share of gawkers. same for in the classroom.

and as for reading when im supposed to be doing other things, im in 12th grade, i only have 1 real class(english), and the schoolboard made some stupid amendment that we have to stay all day regardless of how many credits we have. so, back to point, i do whatever were supposed to do, and then read my manga or draw. they still bug me about it though. i think theyve gotten used to it by now(kinda), so they just stare at me. its really annoying when im trying to draw, though. i dont like an audience. we really need an anime/manga club. we have an art club, but they never do anything. i signed up last year, and it was 5 dollars gone to waste.

oh well, whos next?

[joshdude89]

Im in high school and I have the same problem for the most part. TYhe biggest of these is that fact that sometimes when I bring manga to school it gets stolen.l This once happened on a marching band trip to Atlanta. IT really pisses me off! :animeangr

[natchan]

I'm in college now but back when I was in highschool it was actually really great. Allow me to fill you in on some of the crazy anime related things that happened to me.
1. My math/english teacher was obsessed with Ronin warriors and Dragonball Z, I'm sorry allow me to rephrase that, she was obsessed with Sage of the Halo, and Trunks.
2. She also loved Fushigi and Kenshin.
3. I draw anime everyday and one time she took my book away (pretending that I was in trouble), then momnet's later I heard "Rip ooo this is pretty!" I looked u[p from my work and she had torn a picture out of my book and claimed it for her own.
4. Her office on other hand, each wall was covered in printed anime pics. off the internet, pencil baords, posters, wallscrolls, and this last summer she hired me to paint a life size Sage, Trunks, Legolas(anime style), Obi-Wan(anime style), and Draco(anime style.
I could go on all day on the crazy thinfgs I did in highschool that had to do with anime. Not to mention my first teacher aid job was to paint her Ronin figures so that they were the right colors. :animesmil

[Midnight Angel]

Wow. Compared to all of the other schools mentioned (minus a couple) my school seems like anime heaven. :animesmil Our teachers don't care if we read manga, our librarians actually know how to [i]pronounce[/i] the titles, and almost 2/3 of our school watch anime and [i]like[/i] it! :animeswea In our hallways we have anime pictures that people drew hanging up (currently it's Belldandy) and the art teacher actually has a lesson on anime drawing!

But there is the occasional person who will tease you. One day when I was walking home, the track team came running by (my house is on their path) one of the kids that was in my class shouted that I like cartoon porn. :animeangr

[QUOTE]Twilight_Kioku

eva....i want to go to your school!! they dont have any manga here at all, or in the towns library. i have to drive about 15 miles to go to hastings or the library to buy/read any. i myself am not supposed to buy any manga, but i do anyways. [/QUOTE]
Wow. Our town library has a whole wall dedicated for manga. Plus we get between 15-20 new ones every month. And we have an anime section too!

[COLOR=#503F86][SIZE=1][b]Please don't double-post, Midnight Angel. If there's something you'd like to add, you can use the 'Edit' button located underneath your first post. -Solo[/COLOR][/SIZE][/b]

[ranma kun]

[QUOTE=Twilight_Kioku]ok, im a high school student, have about 30 manga novels, 6 dvd's, 72 gig of anime on my comp, and a hellovalotta wallpapers. recently, one of my teachers in my computer classes noticed my wallpapers i have up, and some other classmates as well. recently, mine has been DNAngel wallpapers, and negima. she gets kinda mad and tells us to get rid of our wallpapers, calling them cartoon porn. i was just sittin there thinking 'yeah, porn my a__, if she wants that, i can bring some'. not goin to, of course, but just the idea of excluding it from my computer classes when all i do in there is draw anime on the computers...well, i dont have anything to do in there anymore! and neither does a couple of my friends. we are now forced to BS our way through the day. i also bring my manga to school to read, because my parents dont really like it, when its nothing worse than whats on the local channels at prime time. i bring them to school, and some more teachers chew me out for reading that, and i contenue to think, 'wtf? itsa book, im an adult, GET OVER IT!' long story short, my teachers are anti-anime, anti-manga, and im stuck with nothing to do for a few hours. anyone else have this problem around school or anywhere similar?

good new is, she hasent said anything about my .hack// music, yay[/QUOTE]

I had a similair problem at my school, but i solved it by going to my art teacher and asking if he would like to sponser an anime club, then i went and filled out all the forms and made one. It lasted two years *because i graduated* and I ended up having a meeting every week with up to twenty people showing up, and every friday i had an after school session. By the end of the year my principal was beggin me to tell him where i bought my naruto headband and stuff because he wanted to get some for the staff :D
give it a try, who knows you might change a few peoples perspectives on anime and the subject in general. If you want any ideas feel free to send me a private message and i will be more than happy to help :D

[NinjaJedi007]

im in college so i have to actively search out to find people interested in anime. if i was reading a manga, i dont really think anyone would say anything about it unless they're into it too. an interested person may ask but its just not as likely. there was some talk about having anime/manga stuff in your libraries. i really need to check that out some time. i never really thought about that until now actually!

[Darktigerpack17]

I see Im not the only one with hte "calling it porn problems." i really don't know anyone in my area that likes anime, and my school isnt any better. Im a senior in high school, and I have to crack the security filter everyday just to get into here. The security blocks almost anything anime and my parents wont let me have manga. I have to hide all my anime stuff until I graduate. :D Ive had manga stolen from me an almost get suspended for it because the teacher thought it was porn.(It was Ceres volume 1, NOT PORN)It pisses me off that nobody willk at least leave me alone about it.

[Acerbitas]

My school doesn't really care about anime that much. They were thinking about baning Yu-gi-oh, but they didn't. :rolleyes: That wouldn't have been that bad of a loss anyway. The funny thing is, my school is a mennonite school, and the teachers don't care! My freinds and I read manga all the time! I have nothing to do in Advanced Computer App., because I'm done with everything, so I just sit there and read manga. All my freinds pass manga around between them, haha. I'm on the webteam at my school, and I can have any background I want, in reason. I almost always have Fruits Basket, but for a day I had Ryuichi and Shuichi from Gravitation. But then I got embarassed, and I changed it. All the other people on webteam are men! Haha! One time I had a FFX background with a guy and a girl hugging, and the webmaster was like "I think that's against school policy, but I really don't care." It was funny.

[Twilight_Kioku]

good news: im out of high school now and i dont have to worry about it there anymore! yay!

bad news: gon to college and dont have a clue what to expect when i get there! nani?

is there anyone from arkansas out there, besides weaver_karuko ?

[Sailor Ganymede]

[quote name='EVA Unit 100']I must be lucky. My school provides the SGT Frog, Gundam Wing, and CLAMP School Dectectives manga in the media center (I've thought about lending them some of my older Ranma 1/2 or Naruto volumes), and most teachers get embarassed when they admit they haven't seen Spirited Away (things get even worse when they mix it up with that ****ing horse movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron). The school guidance counselor even knows every episode of Cowboy Bebop by heart. Plus there's an afterschool "Art in Japan" class, and despite the ptiched premise for the class we spend less time doing traditional Japanese art and more time drawing manga/watching Miyazaki movies.[/quote]
I got my middle school library into getting manga. Nobody gives a damn about anime or manga there. I read it alot and talk about it too much. For Art I class I did a scale drawing of Kenshin and Kaoru for cryin out loud!

[ChemAngel]

I guess I'm older than most. I'm recently in graduate school getting my doctrants. When I was in high school, I really wasn't into anime, but my friends were. The teachers at my school really didn't seem to mind them reading mangas.

My best friend used to love to draw characters from animes and her RPGs on this huge drawing pad and nobody ever called her attention (if she was doing it during "free time" and not during lectures, of course)

Once you get into college, there really is no point in bringing anything like that to school. If the teacher is done lecturing or you are tired of sitting in the class, you can just get up and leave...nobody is holding you back.

But I laugh at my collection now... I have more stuff now than I think I've ever had of anything (even video games!). Easily over 100 mangas and over 40 DVDs. Not to mention alot of memory on my computer for all the music videos, wallpapers, and avatars that I like to do!

LOL

[Bloodseeker]

I'm lucky. Pretty much all of the anime hating that I've heard comes from one of the big cities next to the little town that I live in. Most of the teens and preteens here at least play videogames and have an idea that not all anime anime is cartoon porn or Dragonball Z rip offs or Pokemon rip offs. Only one in fifty teens around this town actually care if other people have geeky hobbies. And last time that I was in regular school (2-3 years ago), most adults in this town hadn't seemed to have even heard the word "anime" before.