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Is anyone else bothered by people who don't know the difference between anime and
cartoons?
I showed anime to a couple of people and they where like " Dude isn't that for kids ? "
Witch is their loss ...
Anyone else had that experience ?

Uhm.. sure? Everyone has that if you share your anime experiences with friends for the first time...

It probably has to do with growing up with anime like pokemon or any other older ones >.<

It's pretty obvious that anime isn't just for kids.. Let's also say, some anime isn't made for kids.

It's annoying but they're dumbasses. That's it.

No, but I've met people who say that anime -isn't- for kids.

People like that are just plain stupid and you should not bother them.
Even cartoons are not always for children (Happy Tree Friends, South Park, Simpsons, there is a lot of them), and who doesn't realize that and just put every animated serie in the same bag, then there is no point in arguing with them.

Show them Elfen Lied.

Though for some reason it didn't change my Dad's opinion on calling it "gay stuff", and I don't watch any yaoi at all.

Ok, relax and do what you like.

Anime? Isn't that one of 'em Chinese girl cartoons?

You mean like Avatar?

No its not just for Children, However Children Anime are pretty entertaining.

Its also the same for Cartoons, there are cartoons that are made for adults. Just like Hentai is made for Adults.

The bbc released a article on Graphic Novels. and explained that Manga is made for both Adults and Children and loved by all ages.

You should've showed them Bible Black. Works everytime.

Please, it kills me enough whenever I tell someone dragon ball is a Japanese anime and they respond with "No it isn't. It's in English so it was made in America or something." Same thing with pokemon.

If someone tells you Anime is for children then who cares. Sucks for them, they miss out on some really interesting plots that you may not find anywhere else.

If someone tells me anime is children I show them the last 10 minutes of School Days, problem solved.

so true ...
you can just do so much more with a series when its not with real actors or sets

Fixed there, no trolling intended.

Both would work equally well.

Could also just show Genocyber, or some select scenes out of Highrashi.

Or even hit 'em with a little goosh goosh.

You know, those things WILL show its not all for children.. they will also make sure they never think of anime as anything but messed up again. Then again, that might not be a bad thing.

On a totally unrelated note, your list wins at life, mitch3315. Just sayin.

People likte that are just ignorant.
Show them some horror anime or something. And they will probably change their mind right away.

Yes, everybody here has had that experience, I guess.
I convinced one of my friends to watch 'Death note' and another one to read 'Monster'. They both liked it and said that they definetly weren't for children. But on the other hand, all the other anime fans that I know in real life seem to like very childish and girly anime, so that won't really help to convince other people that anime isn't only made for children.

Funny to see this topic this week. I had my parents over for the weekend and they are about to go on a long trip with there RV. So mom picked up a few things and I suggested Clannad to her. Now she did say no, but she does not know what she is missing IMHO.

I am sure she would like this.. Oh well.