What do your friends and family think about your hobby Anime

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:44 pm

oldwrench wrote:My wife thinks I'm having a midlife crisis episode.

That's gold.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:00 pm

Well, My Dad is one #1 Beta tester.. He's even ben known to show off my stuff to when company is over

Vlad

Voices_Of_Ryan · Post by **Voices_Of_Ryan** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:02 pm

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:Well, My Dad is one #1 Beta tester.. He's even ben known to show off my stuff to when company is over

Vlad

I'm not saying a word...
I'll get in so much trouble.

temaranight · Post by **temaranight** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:54 pm

My son thinks it's cool..and my husband now edits when he has the spare time to do so...

Most of my other family think I'm just strange for the most part =p

MomochiZabuza · Post by **MomochiZabuza** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:15 pm

i shouldnt be saying mt friends also like anime...my friends should be saying i also like anime, because they were the ones that got me started watching anime because before i met them i had only seen DBZ and now ive seen...oh lets see

DBZ
naruto
cowboy bebop
evangelion
kenshin
and many other shows

and they also told me about AMVs...i remember 3 years ago when i first saw one i was like WOAH you can DO that?

lol good times...good times

all my friends are into it, my parents think im on the computer too much because of it, my brother thinks some of its ok, and lots of other random people think its all porn, my friends brother is into that stuff i think because he always has an l a blue girl episode on the computer and one time i watched it out of curiosity and found out that japanese porn is a very scary thing and should never be watched...again...ever, anyway im just rambling on now because im waiting for the world of warcraft open beta to come out and im trying to waste some time until it comes out which actually might not be for a while

ANIME!

T|r|D · Post by **T|r|D** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 12:16 pm

Lol my parents think i'm little kid who likes to watch catoons???OMG i've told them a thousand times it is art...a way of life....but they wont get it...only my sister is a little bit fan of manga..and for my friends..i'm the one who introduced it with them and a couple r addicted to it now ^^...and for the girls...one fell in love with me coz i was the only guy who loved anime ^^...to bad i like yaoi better..well not everybody can get lucky hey

:P

Pie Row Maniac · Post by **Pie Row Maniac** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 12:41 pm

My parents think it's cool that I have a hobby, even if it's slightly ahead of them; they've admitted that they haven't a clue what I'm doing when it comes to editing but they still like the end result.

I've influenced one of my friends to try editing. A few years back he made a Chasing Amy video to Creed. It wasn't that bad, considering it was his second real video. His first was a Chris Jericho video, hehe. He started to work on a Chrono Trigger video at some point, which I thought would be funny to make a trailer for his video (ask me about "Triggah Trailah" sometime).

Cyanna · Post by **Cyanna** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:04 pm

My parents are neither very actively supportive nor condemning. They are glad that I am happy and that I am able to do it. It's a set of skills that they don't have. But they are not into anime and I can't imagine them getting into it either. Unless they ask to see, I don't show them my vids. They are Disney people...not Evangelion people....so maybe that's for the better. Occasionally I get a "could you do something else besides goof off?" vibe. But it's really not as often as it sometimes feels.

But as long as I continue to do well in school and be responsible about things, I don't think they'll ever tell me to stop.

Sentient Satire · Post by **Sentient Satire** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:26 pm

flint_the_dwarf wrote:
oldwrench wrote:My wife thinks I'm having a midlife crisis episode.
That's gold.

We now have a winner for General-Anime-anecdote-of-the-month. That made my day. Though I can think of other things more tell-tale for such an inference.

My personal reminesces...
My mother happened upon my watching Tsuiokuhen (Kenshin OVA) when the whole screen was awash with blood. She was otherwise impressed I guess (the subdued color pallete and the soundtrack she seemed to like).

A close friend of mine had gotten his mother into anime and soon afterwards she felt empowered to go rent on her own. Poor thing... She picked up Kimera, and that was a rough first fall of the horse.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:32 pm

My mom is split on the subject. She supports creative outlets and sees anime as just that - but the fact that it's excessive time spent on something that will never make money for a future life, it's a destructive outlet. Also, while she'd rather have me spending money on dvds than alcohol or drugs, she'd also rather see me out at a club getting knocked up rather than in my apartment alone with a computer. I guess for her the bigger picture is better with a half dozen fatherless kids, than a halfdozen penniless anime-fan friends.

Sister/brother/sister-in-law all see it as my quirk. They've watched anime with me at one point or another and not liked it (except for my sister - she likes dbz music videos but gets bored out of her life with pretty effect vids or romance vids for other anime). My sister-in-law has seen a wider variety of anime, but only on a "I'll watch an hour of your Buffy series, if you watch an hour of this anime series" trade. Neither of us became fans of the other, but it was a nice bit of exposure. She accepts that I like anime the way she likes Buffy - we're both weird in our own ways. My brother is a rabid gamer. The only reason he doesn't mock my anime obsession is because he knows I beat FF7 before him - and he'd been playing the game for years before I even knew what an rpg game was. Anime to him, is just another role-playing game with animation similar to the games we both play - he's never seen one of my amvs, just a few hentai ones I pointed him toward (he's a perv).

My friends at home don't watch anime and don't have much of an opinion on it. They're still young enough to enjoy shows the way they enjoy Disney movies - as pretty cartoons with voice-actors. But they can't watch in Japanese (too slow to read the subtitles), so they really don't know anime from cartoons, it's all animation to them.

My college friends (the ones with brains) were split. Some were the ones who got me into anime in the first place, so of course they're supportive to the point of being near-rabid fangirls of my work. The others have their own...quirks, so they know better than to blink an eye at what I like to spend my time on.

Most of my anime-friends are people I've met online over the years, and a few people I ran into in college who encouraged the obsession. I've never been much for having a horde of friends vying for my attention all at the same time, so I prefer the internet associates - I can disconnect and cut them off easier than I can hang up a phone. >.>

I'm antisocial that way.