| I saw a scene from the new episode of KiseKoi and that made me think about it, I assume a lot of people here must have stories like that. |
| Not at all. But I live in Toronto, a city that is basically half Asian and anime (a fairly good selection at that) aired on mainstream TV here. |
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| Here's mine: IDK if I'm autistic or not, but I'm kinda sensitive to certain things. One of the main ones is being either mocked or admonished by someone I view as "in a position of authority". When I was a child, I do have many memories, over the years, of me watching cartoons and then having relatives (Usually my grandma) wanting to either watch something of their own or just use the room the TV was on in order to have a meeting. That wasn't the issue, the issue is that this would often come with some disparaging comments mocking me for what I was watching (Which in hindsight are pretty retarded things to say to a child), they called it "Watching the big-eyed ones". I guess that in time it was simple skinner-boxing of me not liking being admonished by watching cartoons, but liking the good experiences of when I was watching other stuff with my relatives, summed with not wanting to be bullied in school that made me actively avoid cartoons for a while (Not sure how much, a year? Maybe more?) where I would instead watch stuff like Animal Planet, the Discovery Channel (Mythbusters was awesome, though), FOX and FX because I wanted to "look mature". Deep inside I still wanted to watch them, though, just beyond the gaze of everyone, like one would watch porn. My classmates didn't really care about it, though, they just bullied me for other reasons, it was just something I wrongly assumed they would do. Eventually I came back to watching cartoons while I was still a child/pre-teen, which I'm glad I did, and it was at that time that I likely watched some of my first anime on the internet because I didn't want to wait for new episodes on TV (Digimon Frontier and then Savers, the latter being the first I watched with Japanese audio). This was all before I started watching anime for real (2012 onwards) when I started having access to a computer during all of my free time. At first I still watched anime hidden from others... with time, I stopped caring. Not sure if my family is happy with it, though: A few years ago, during college, I had some t-shirts made with the covers of Made in Abyss and Rokka no Yuusha volumes. I still have those shirts, but all those years I don't really recall them ever giving me those to wear, though. |
| No, that has never happened to me. And as opposed to ACasualViewer, when I started watching anime at 11 years old, it was not mainstream. |
| Nah. Nothing like that. But anime/manga has always just been one of my many interests, so I'm not as one-track-minded that anyone would feel they'd be able to mock me for my interest. |
| no, I've been mocked for fapping to eroanime. I didn't give a fuck. I just wish eroanime was better so I could fap harder. problem is, it's pretty bad lately. I often complain about how standard anime looks like jank nowadays, but hentai has it waaay worse. quality control is nonexistent. |
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| No, I never talked about it enough for anyone in person to know my personal interests. That only has rarely happened online. |
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| When I was in school I openly read manga in my classroom and no one gave a fuck about it. So no, I've never been bullied for liking anime/manga. nyugvo6 said: I often complain about how standard anime looks like jank nowadays, but hentai has it waaay worse. quality control is nonexistent. Tbh I'd mock you for watching them. Why don't you read h-doujinshi instead? |
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| No... quite the opposite actually, anime has always been seen as cool since I was growing up. Now it's more mainstream than ever and I see people everywhere wearing anime merch and getting anime tattoos |
| Never happened to me from family members or anyone else or online. |
pileofshitToday, 2:14 AM
| No because I didn't tell anyone about it. |
| Not really, just a surprise reaction once. |
| My classmates from school made fun of me for liking anime also my mother doesn't like anime and constantly tells me to watch stuff with real people acting. |
thewiru said: Were you ever bullied/mocked/admonished for "still watching cartoons"? I was never really bullied for watching shit like Anime or Cartoons (not like many people in the West even knew what Anime was back in the early 90s, and it was called Japanimation back then anyways). By my Sophomore year I was already over 6'2", in better shape than most of the football and basketball jocks, and generally towering over everyone in my class. People could try to mock me for anything, but shit like words never really landed... I was always good at flipping shit back at them. Back in high school, one time after gym class, a group of guys were showing off their junk to each other in the locker room. Over hearing their conversation, the one with the smallest cock tried to deflect by making some racial joke saying, "at least I’m not fucking Asian", while trying to laugh off his personal size. So I walked out of the showers purposely without a towel, making sure they saw that stereotype didn’t exactly hold up. That shut them the fuck up real quick and they all stopped laughing. lol But what did land with me was shit much darker. Near the end of my freshman year (before my growth spurt), I was randomly jumped by half a dozen guys as part of some gang initiation. They dragged me into an alley, pinned me against a wall, and took turns punching me in the face as hard as they fucking could while throwing racial slurs like "Chink" and "Chinaman". I actually laughed a few times because I’m Korean. lol I was almost beaten to death. My jaw had to be completely reconstructed, I’ve got a titanium plate in my skull, and to this day a scar over my eyebrow that makes me look like a hard yakuza thug. That gave me real perspective... Compared to that, being mocked for watching shit like "cartoons" or anything is nothing. Words don’t leave scars for me. Violence does. After that, I made it a point to keep myself in peak physical shape, built my body muscles into solid rocks. Since then, no one had ever tried to pull shit like that on me again. lol |
ColourWheelToday, 7:02 AM
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Reply to Hiyajo-san
When I was in school I openly read manga in my classroom and no one gave a fuck about it. So no, I've never been bullied for liking anime/manga.
Tbh I'd mock you for watching them. Why don't you read h-doujinshi instead?
nyugvo6 said:
I often complain about how standard anime looks like jank nowadays, but hentai has it waaay worse. quality control is nonexistent.
I often complain about how standard anime looks like jank nowadays, but hentai has it waaay worse. quality control is nonexistent.
Tbh I'd mock you for watching them. Why don't you read h-doujinshi instead?
| @Hiyajo-san oh but I do. in fact there's a bunch of anime I picked up because the doujins got me interested. fast forward to 2025, almost every doujin now is about gacha games. (I heard blue archive ones are commissioned by the BA devs themselves.) I'm not about to pay for gacha. |
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Reply to nyugvo6
@Hiyajo-san oh but I do. in fact there's a bunch of anime I picked up because the doujins got me interested. fast forward to 2025, almost every doujin now is about gacha games. (I heard blue archive ones are commissioned by the BA devs themselves.)
I'm not about to pay for gacha.
I'm not about to pay for gacha.
| @nyugvo6 True, there are a lot more from gacha games these days. nyugvo6 said: I heard blue archive ones are commissioned by the BA devs themselves. I didn't knew that xD |
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| no but I did made fun of people for watching yu gi oh |
| No, but i didn't talk about it anyway. |
| I never seen bullying based on watching cartoons since most people were private about that in school. |
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| sometimes but it's usually from mongoloids who spam watch football all day so it doesn't matter. |
Reply to ColourWheel
thewiru said:
Were you ever bullied/mocked/admonished for "still watching cartoons"?
Were you ever bullied/mocked/admonished for "still watching cartoons"?
I was never really bullied for watching shit like Anime or Cartoons (not like many people in the West even knew what Anime was back in the early 90s, and it was called Japanimation back then anyways). By my Sophomore year I was already over 6'2", in better shape than most of the football and basketball jocks, and generally towering over everyone in my class. People could try to mock me for anything, but shit like words never really landed... I was always good at flipping shit back at them.
Back in high school, one time after gym class, a group of guys were showing off their junk to each other in the locker room. Over hearing their conversation, the one with the smallest cock tried to deflect by making some racial joke saying, "at least I’m not fucking Asian", while trying to laugh off his personal size. So I walked out of the showers purposely without a towel, making sure they saw that stereotype didn’t exactly hold up. That shut them the fuck up real quick and they all stopped laughing. lol
But what did land with me was shit much darker. Near the end of my freshman year (before my growth spurt), I was randomly jumped by half a dozen guys as part of some gang initiation. They dragged me into an alley, pinned me against a wall, and took turns punching me in the face as hard as they fucking could while throwing racial slurs like "Chink" and "Chinaman". I actually laughed a few times because I’m Korean. lol
I was almost beaten to death. My jaw had to be completely reconstructed, I’ve got a titanium plate in my skull, and to this day a scar over my eyebrow that makes me look like a hard yakuza thug. That gave me real perspective... Compared to that, being mocked for watching shit like "cartoons" or anything is nothing. Words don’t leave scars for me. Violence does.
After that, I made it a point to keep myself in peak physical shape, built my body muscles into solid rocks. Since then, no one had ever tried to pull shit like that on me again. lol
| @ColourWheel Do you really need to post unrelated homosexual fantasies here? |
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