| What's the general opinion regarding anime in your country? Do you have to keep watching anime a secret from your friends/relatives? Is it a common thing? For me it's complicated, as I keep it a secret if I'm not compelled to tell the truth, as in how could I keep it a secret from my dorm roommate and friends. As for my classmates it's not the same. The reason is that generally speaking in my country people think it's childish to watch anime and read manga, and they often associate anime with hentai. It's kind of a taboo to talk about anime in public as they may give you a piece of their minds for it. |
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| Mainstream USA still refers anime = tentacle hentai, unless Trump makes Anime great again lol /s |
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OppaiSugoi said: Mainstream USA still refers anime = tentacle hentai, unless Trump makes Anime great again lol /s Well he's trying his best to build the Wall, so I guess they are on the right path. |
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| manga and anime are common in France since the 70's. I think it's the same in Italy and a few east european countries. |
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Clebardman said: manga and anime are common in France since the 70's. I think it's the same in Italy and a few east european countries. Not for east european countries. People are pretty conservative here and deny anything of the sort sadly. The conventions here are pretty small too. I didn't know about French though |
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| Everyone I know knows that I like anime. Most of them don't even know anything about it other than the fact that it's an animation though. Some would think it's childish. Some of them would tease me saying that I watch hentai. Though honestly I'm not bothered about what they say. If I come across other anime fans, they claim that Naruto is the best anime ever, so I don't really relate to them in terms of taste. |
| Here in Brazil, manga, anime, and Japanese culture in general are very popular, specially because of the Japanese colonies. We even have a ENTIRE district dedicated to Japanese culture! |
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| When I was a teen an older man I worked with gave me a vhs of Urotsukidoji and he said that it would change my life. That was the first time I jacked off to anime and I have been doing it ever since. |
oryouohagi said: Clebardman said: manga and anime are common in France since the 70's. I think it's the same in Italy and a few east european countries. Not for east european countries. People are pretty conservative here and deny anything of the sort sadly. The conventions here are pretty small too. I didn't know about French though That really depends on what eastern european country you're talking about. Mine is barely aware of anime's existence since Animax's death, although I'm sure the enthusiasts are still out there. |
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Meau94 said: Everyone I know knows that I like anime. Most of them don't even know anything about it other than the fact that it's an animation though. Some would think it's childish. Some of them would tease me saying that I watch hentai. Though honestly I'm not bothered about what they say. If I come across other anime fans, they claim that Naruto is the best anime ever, so I don't really relate to them in terms of taste. My problem is that I have a reputation I have to keep up, so I can't really share this fact with everyone haha. I'd be happy to do so though, I hate to keep secrets. I envy you Vini310 said: Here in Brazil, manga, anime, and Japanese culture in general are very popular, specially because of the Japanese colonies. We even have a ENTIRE district dedicated to Japanese culture! I knew about you guys being crazy about Japan but didn't know the reason. I guess I have another question answered haha. Thanks Humlon said: When I was a teen an older man I worked with gave me a vhs of Urotsukidoji and he said that it would change my life. That was the first time I jacked off to anime and I have been doing it ever since. That was deep. Kind of had nothing to do with the post but I'm glad you shared your history with us. StreetPunk said: oryouohagi said: Not for east european countries. People are pretty conservative here and deny anything of the sort sadly. The conventions here are pretty small too. I didn't know about French though That really depends on what eastern european country you're talking about. Mine is barely aware of anime's existence since Animax's death, although I'm sure the enthusiasts are still out there. I know it is general here in eastern europe I've read it in my country's otaku magazine. Well it can vary of course but generally it's not regarded with a good eye. Animax also died in my country after some years, it was a great loss, that channel got me into anime first. Mod edit: Combined quadruple posts |
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oryouohagi said: Vini310 said: Here in Brazil, manga, anime, and Japanese culture in general are very popular, specially because of the Japanese colonies. We even have a ENTIRE district dedicated to Japanese culture! I knew about you guys being crazy about Japan but didn't know the reason. I guess I have another question answered haha. Thanks But even here that's a certain prejudice when it comes to anime, especially for the "open" TV channels, looks like they are afraid of airing anime since 2012. PLus, even the anime fans attack themselves and this happens all the time, seriously. We have LOTS of fanboys (in a obssessive way), haters, elitists, and "critics" (who are just low-level elitists). |
Vini310 said: oryouohagi said: I knew about you guys being crazy about Japan but didn't know the reason. I guess I have another question answered haha. Thanks But even here that's a certain prejudice when it comes to anime, especially for the "open" TV channels, looks like they are afraid of airing anime since 2012. PLus, even the anime fans attack themselves and this happens all the time, seriously. We have LOTS of fanboys (in a obssessive way), haters, elitists, and "critics" (who are just low-level elitists). What happened in 2012? You've got me riled up now so you have to provide an answer haha. |
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| Eh, a lot of people don't really know what anime is. Or if they know, they don't think much of it. I don't think they realize it's different from western cartoons. But anime made up like 99% of cartoons on tv in the 80-90s. Most adults have watched plenty of anime without ever realizing. (Pretty much everyone in my country has watched things like Heidi, Rose of Versailles or Goldrake) |
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| Even though I live in the US everyone knows i like anime and i've already infected everyone I could with the anime virus so no one gives me a hard time about watching anime. Instead we usually talk about the new seasons and such. Ive gotten my mom to even watch some anime which is surprising. |
Kamidox said: Eh, a lot of people don't really know what anime is. Or if they know, they don't think much of it. I don't think they realize it's different from western cartoons. But anime made up like 99% of cartoons on tv in the 80-90s. Most adults have watched plenty of anime without ever realizing. (Pretty much everyone has watched things like Heidi, Rose of Versailles or Goldrake) In my country the parents back then already stopped their children from watching anime. I remember being grounded for watching dragon ball secretely. |
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Clebardman said: manga and anime are common in France since the 70's. I think it's the same in Italy and a few east european countries. Are common in Italy but it's still seen as childish by the oldest generations. Recently the situation is better for the younger generations. The recent successes of the Lucca Comix with famous and critically acclaimed people from the industry as guests are signs that something is changing. |
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hitokiri1859 said: Even though I live in the US everyone knows i like anime and i've already infected everyone I could with the anime virus so no one gives me a hard time about watching anime. Instead we usually talk about the new seasons and such. Ive gotten my mom to even watch some anime which is surprising. That's nice. My parents would rather die than watch anything I recommend. Even when it comes to movies they are relictant for some reason. I made them watch "What we do in the shadows" and they said it was the worst movie they have ever seen. I also infected all my friends in the dorm, I also made them knock on my door like Anna in Frozen haha. Johnnyd3rp said: Clebardman said: manga and anime are common in France since the 70's. I think it's the same in Italy and a few east european countries. Are common in Italy but it's still seen as childish by the oldest generations. Recently the situation is better for the younger generations. The recent successes of the Lucca Comix with famous and critically acclaimed people from the industry as guests are signs that something is changing. Guess that's the case for Europe as a whole. I don't know where this "childish" stuff come from though. Mod edit: Combined double posts |
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| In scandi most people have a vague idea about it, among younger people it's not popular but a decent amount have watched it once or twice. |
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| @oryouohagi It's especially true for France and Italy since we bought looooots of anime for almost nothing in the 70's and 80's, while USA was producing it's own cartoons in Japan (Transformers). Pretty typical of americans if you ask me, lol. Now that I think about it, ex-USSR countries probably didn't have much cartoons ^^. |
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| Mm, I've bought a dedicated anime magazine before at a store that really just talked about popular stuffs, but I wouldn't know how far or deep it goes past. I know that the Heidi anime and there was something about a bee I think that aired back alongside regular cartoons a long time ago, but that was about a decade or two before I was born I think. I don't think most people who did watch it was aware that it was anime, though. The worst crime we've committed since the 1930s and 40s was directly related to anime I guess And afaik Japan has a weird obsession with us |
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oryouohagi said: Johnnyd3rp said: Are common in Italy but it's still seen as childish by the oldest generations. Recently the situation is better for the younger generations. The recent successes of the Lucca Comix with famous and critically acclaimed people from the industry as guests are signs that something is changing. Guess that's the case for Europe as a whole. I don't know where this "childish" stuff come from though. Here in Italy we had anime aimed for an older audience aired like they were for 6-10 years old children. I watched Rose of Versailles for the first time when i was like seven. I guess it comes from here. |
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| Well it's pretty balanced in Denmark. Some people likes anime, while some people don't. And I will say the mainstream media, is kinda like in usa. Anime = Hentai or Watching anime = insta weeb. But It's getting better :-) |
oryouohagi said: Meau94 said: Everyone I know knows that I like anime. Most of them don't even know anything about it other than the fact that it's an animation though. Some would think it's childish. Some of them would tease me saying that I watch hentai. Though honestly I'm not bothered about what they say. If I come across other anime fans, they claim that Naruto is the best anime ever, so I don't really relate to them in terms of taste. My problem is that I have a reputation I have to keep up, so I can't really share this fact with everyone haha. I'd be happy to do so though, I hate to keep secrets. I envy you Well it depends on your situation really. I'm an introvert who would rather have no friends or people around me, so reputation is the last thing on my mind. But despite that, I feel like people still like me as a person despite loving anime, so hasn't even ruined my reputation to begin with. With regards to back when I was living with my parents, they never used to allow me out the house, so they were actually happy that I would just sit at home and watch anime instead, and found it better than me mixing with all the other cool kids drinking and taking drugs, etc. |
oryouohagi said: Vini310 said: But even here that's a certain prejudice when it comes to anime, especially for the "open" TV channels, looks like they are afraid of airing anime since 2012. PLus, even the anime fans attack themselves and this happens all the time, seriously. We have LOTS of fanboys (in a obssessive way), haters, elitists, and "critics" (who are just low-level elitists). What happened in 2012? You've got me riled up now so you have to provide an answer haha. There's no a proper explanation, they just stopped airing anime. Back to that year, the only channel that still aired anime was RedeTV!, in a block named "TV Kids", but suddently this block disappeared, along with all the anime that aired on it. |
| Here in Greece, i think nime and manga are still fairly unknown, at least to the older people, since they grew up with mostly european comics(Asterix, lucky luck etc). Some TV channels used to play shows like Dragon Ball, Yu-gi-oh, Pokemon and the likes of them(which have been a great hit, at least for my generation) but they didnt moved to many other titles, if i remember right. Nowadays, i think anime is non-existent in most major free tv channels. As far as manga are concerned, i believe there are very few stores that sell manga here, at least i dont know many. In general, people deal mostly with european and american comic books here. I believe the medium is still considered "childish" at best here. I believe though that with the opportunities Internet offers and the growing up of my generation it will get some more recognition in the years to come. |
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Lisbon said: Mm, I've bought a dedicated anime magazine before at a store that really just talked about popular stuffs, but I wouldn't know how far or deep it goes past. I know that the Heidi anime and there was something about a bee I think that aired back alongside regular cartoons a long time ago, but that was about a decade or two before I was born I think. I don't think most people who did watch it was aware that it was anime, though. The worst crime we've committed since the 1930s and 40s was directly related to anime I guess And afaik Japan has a weird obsession with us Maaan I didn't know about this opening, You've made my day haha |
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Humlon said: When I was a teen an older man I worked with gave me a vhs of Urotsukidoji and he said that it would change my life. That was the first time I jacked off to anime and I have been doing it ever since. You have a way with words. I'm from Holland. In my class people don't know it even exists and in another class they all play shitty anime phone games. |
| Here in Romania watching anime it's kinda bad because they think they are stupid cartoons. They all know Naruto and Pokemon but that's ll and they talk shit about it without even watching at least 10 anime.. So people will think you are childish for liking them.. That's why there are just 2 manga shops in the WHOLE country and they are expensive as fuck-> because there are not many people here that actually likes them |
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oryouohagi said: hitokiri1859 said: Even though I live in the US everyone knows i like anime and i've already infected everyone I could with the anime virus so no one gives me a hard time about watching anime. Instead we usually talk about the new seasons and such. Ive gotten my mom to even watch some anime which is surprising. That's nice. My parents would rather die than watch anything I recommend. Even when it comes to movies they are relictant for some reason. I made them watch "What we do in the shadows" and they said it was the worst movie they have ever seen. I also infected all my friends in the dorm, I also made them knock on my door like Anna in Frozen haha. My mom is mostly interested in the mystery type animes |
xxxYaoiMaster said: Here in Romania watching anime it's kinda bad because they think they are stupid cartoons. They all know Naruto and Pokemon but that's ll and they talk shit about it without even watching at least 10 anime.. So people will think you are childish for liking them.. That's why there are just 2 manga shops in the WHOLE country and they are expensive as fuck-> because there are not many people here that actually likes them In my country it's the same, except you can buy manga in most bigger bookstores and there are plenty of online shops. You can also buy anime at some places xxxYaoiMaster said: Here in Romania watching anime it's kinda bad because they think they are stupid cartoons. They all know Naruto and Pokemon but that's ll and they talk shit about it without even watching at least 10 anime.. So people will think you are childish for liking them.. That's why there are just 2 manga shops in the WHOLE country and they are expensive as fuck-> because there are not many people here that actually likes them In my country it's the same, except you can buy manga in most bigger bookstores and there are plenty of online shops. You can also buy anime at some places Mod edit: Combined double posts |
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| In my country almost everyone knows about Dragonball and Naruto lol (Dragonball 85% Naruto 15%) and ofcourse Pokemon (now more than ever since the Pokemon Go game) .And a little about One Punch Man,that's it. My friend also watches anime,he's just like me. the other classmate is waayyyy to nerdy to talk about anime with. |
| well where I live watching anime means "don't you have anything better to do, grow up" well smtg like that, oh and usually when i tell that i watch it they either say that I'm too old for it or that I'm some kind of pervert who wathces hentai and tentacles and stuf.. Anyways, i don't have any friends who I can talk and fangirl about anime..thats all about it. |
Kamidox said: Eh, a lot of people don't really know what anime is. Or if they know, they don't think much of it. I don't think they realize it's different from western cartoons. But anime made up like 99% of cartoons on tv in the 80-90s. Most adults have watched plenty of anime without ever realizing. (Pretty much everyone in my country has watched things like Heidi, Rose of Versailles or Goldrake) Kamidox makes a good point: I don't think many of my friends would be able to tell an anime from an American-made cartoon if they saw one. (Dubbed, of course.) And generally, the stigma on adults who watch and appreciate cartoons has mostly dispeared thanks to The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Adult Swim. However, if the word "anime" is used in connection with a cartoon, the ball game changes. Thats when the visions of tentacle porn, et al., poison the waters. I've had friends who watch the most obnoxiously bad Cartoon Network shows instanteously write off an anime because since it's anime it must have squid-banging. One quote that sticks out (and stuck in my craw) was "It's anime, I just can't take it seriously." Needless to say I stop trusting that guy's views on media. |
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oryouohagi said: how could I keep it a secret from my dorm roommate and friends. I actually manage to keep it a secret from 2nd roommate in a row. As for opinion, it's pretty poor. Poeple with less knowledge about it will think you watch child cartoons, people that are at least a little bit familiar with anime will think it's weird and that's the best case scenario. I haven't encountered any true weebs openly expressing their love for anime, except one guy with Akame bag but it was totally random. |
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Clebardman said: @oryouohagi It's especially true for France and Italy since we bought looooots of anime for almost nothing in the 70's and 80's, while USA was producing it's own cartoons in Japan (Transformers). Pretty typical of americans if you ask me, lol. Now that I think about it, ex-USSR countries probably didn't have much cartoons ^^. Majority of cartoons (intended for children) were produced all around the Eastern block without much of the difficulty despite the omnipresent censorship as you simply couldn't stick much of politics into cartoon for children below eight or so. Those shows tended to be quite simplistic. It was however largely unthinkable to have cartoons intended for anyone older, older people doesn't get why there is a cartoon intended for anyone who isn't a very very young child. |
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Clebardman said: That´s because those countries like germany either buy directly their Anime/Manga from Japan produce their own or collaborate with japanese Studios. Heidi was Miyazaki´s first well known work and it´s like a cutlural good to german audiences most don´t know that it´s Anime. manga and anime are common in France since the 70's. I think it's the same in Italy and a few east european countries. https://myanimelist.net/anime/2225/Alps_no_Shoujo_Heidi/characters#staff Many may not want to admit this, but there is a clear distinction in reason for appeal between Anime like this:  compared to this:  Or this:  And there is good reason people will think you´re weird for liking this:  for being cute and innocent when there is this:  Ps: Ronron for best boy! |
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| I live in Canada... People generally don't understand it especially when they see me. I'm a clean cut, middle aged business professional. So when I mention I like anime they automatically assume the worst, like if I'm into Hentai or something. They seem to view anime fans as living like Otaku. But we have a local Animecon every year, and every year more and more people are showing up. It's defiantly growing and being more excepted where I live. |
| I don't know the general opinion here but whenever they air anime it's the childrens stuff. I do remember watching Rurouni Kenshin and Gundam Wing on TV back when I was a child though but they were in the same block as Pokemon. Nowadays whenever I tell someone I like anime they usually start talking about hentai, but the only ones I ever tell are friends of mine so it's not a very good representation of people as a whole here and I can't find any scources on the internet either. |
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| Where I live (ex-USSR), I don't have problems explaining people that my hobby is anime. Which is why I say "anime" instead of mentioning my other hobby (tabletop RPGs), which is really hard to explain. Most people seem vaguely aware of what anime is, and everybody seems to have heard of Pokemon. During my school years, they would sometimes show anime on TV (Voltron, Sailor Moon, CCS...), but I wasn't watching TV since I've finished school, so I don't know what it's like now. Clebardman said: @oryouohagi It's especially true for France and Italy since we bought looooots of anime for almost nothing in the 70's and 80's, while USA was producing it's own cartoons in Japan (Transformers). Pretty typical of americans if you ask me, lol. Now that I think about it, ex-USSR countries probably didn't have much cartoons ^^. USSR has produced quite a number of cartoons, and many of them are remembered with nostalgia. The must-see ones are "Nu Pogodi" (which is a lot like american "Tom and Jerry") and "Mystery of the Third Planet" (which is sci-fi adventure). Ex-USSR is still producing cartoons, although I don't appreciate them much. The only one I actually remember was a continuation of "Musicians of Bremen" line. (I don't recommend this line to foreigners, because it's characters speak entirely in song). beast_regards said: Majority of cartoons (intended for children) were produced all around the Eastern block without much of the difficulty despite the omnipresent censorship as you simply couldn't stick much of politics into cartoon for children below eight or so. Those shows tended to be quite simplistic. It was however largely unthinkable to have cartoons intended for anyone older, older people doesn't get why there is a cartoon intended for anyone who isn't a very very young child. Actually, there were a number of cartoons intended for older audiences. I liked "man in a frame" in particular. |
| I don't know, I am from certain country in Eastrern Europe, and I've never had any negative comments about watching anime :/ Miyuzaki movies are quite popular here even among adults and the anime community is on the rise here ;D |
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