| not really. Why should there be an age to quit watching anime? Same goes for cartoons. Why should there be an age to quit watching them. Yea, if you lose interest in something sure, but if you still enjoy what you watch, you do not need to stop watching it because of your age. |
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Good luck telling a kid to watch series with that character design.... |
| Currently i'm in late 20s and most likely I won't stop watching anime in my 30s either. |
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| I'll be 29 this month and I'll be really surprised if I ever completely stop watching anime. One thing I will say though is sometimes I feel a disconnect from certain animes that are heavily school oriented. I think as time goes on my taste is likely to age like a fine whisky. |
| It turning into a tiring chore is what could possibly distance me from it. |
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| If you do enjoy watching anime, then why do you even think that your age might be relevant? It is a form of entertainment, afterall. Any form of entertainment should have been quit, at some point in life, had hitting a certain age been relevant to the subject, but that's not the case. |
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| No, age doesn't matter. Taking a break from it and doing other things in the meantime is what I'm doing to not lose interest. |
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| None of it matters. You can even watch "children's" anime if you want. |
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jarring said: another 80s baby, nice. I consider myself pretty old for a millennial, but you might as well be generation X, right? you were what, 19 for the millennium? normally, to be considered a millennial, you have to have grown up during the cross over into the new millennium. You're either a very young gen x, or a very old millennial. Which do you like better? :P I rather look at myself as a very young gen X. Now you mentioned Generation X...... can't help it but hit the music. jarring said: DBZ started airing on CN in 1998 iirc, which is when the major anime boom in the west really started, so you were.. 17? when I was 12. I could see that I guess, just a little bit weird to me, because I stopped watching DBZ after the millennium and didn't watch it when I was in highschool. I still watched anime, but I grew out of that show in particular. Did you watch DBZ on CN? or what? I assume you might have watched anime on the science fiction channel too...most of the older people who got into anime in the 90s/early 2000s watched it on the science fiction channel as well. Well, at least it seems that way most of the time when I speak to people as old or older than me or around the same age. First time I've seen Goku was the first movie of Dragon Ball Z that was released in the 1990s on VHS tape. The funny yet embarrassing thing is me and others of my generation don't know terms like "anime", "manga", names of shows, names of characters. We go just by descriptions. Goku: Long Black Hair Dude or Yellow Hair Dude Dragon Ball Z: Kamehame ha movie tape or Kamehame ha tape so you might imagine how kids and I back then argued... ArabianLuffy: GREGORY! WHERE'S THE KAMEHAME HA TAPE? Gregory: I DON'T HAVE IT! BILLY TOOK IT! *Stupid yet Silly Kids' Fight* Saudi Arabia since I born til...... I dunno til 2019 or 2016 barely started to be recognized by other investors of anime business. I lived an almost 20 or more years of dark age. I barely learned the term "anime" in 2001 or 02' or 03'. There were hardly Arabic Fansubs since the beginning of the 3rd millennium. Anime I watched when I was a kid like Plawres Sanshiro, Captain Tsubasa, Grendizer, Dinosaur Wars Izenborg. I used to call them "cartoons", even Dragon Ball Z first movie. I even thought the Arabic Dubbed anime were Saudi made anime or American made. Do you know that there is no Middle East region network for Nintendo to this day? While XBOX and PlayStation networks supported and still supporting Middle East regions since the launch of X360 and PS3? Fuck you, Nintendo. jarring said: I'm always curious how people got into it during the first big anime boom in the west. That, you would need to ask every single 80s generation. There is a club in MAL for those who born between 1980 and 1989. jarring said: Like, I'd be super curious to know how Matt Greenfield and David Williams came across the medium. They are the true pioneers, and most of us wouldn't be here without them. True. |
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| As someone who got into anime in my early 20s I've never felt weird about watching anime just because of my age, and why should I? There is no age limit on enjoying a piece of media, and hell I know plenty of people around my age that also watch anime and even older. |
| That’s like saying someone’s too old to watch a movie. It’s just a medium of storytelling using animation. |
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| I'll never stop loving anime. I grew up with it, it made me the person I am today, and I'm happy because of that. Having that said, though, I get what you mean. To any long time anime viewers, and by long time, I mean decades worth, how do they feel about this medium they've watched evolve with the times? Watching new generations get introduced, do they feel a disconnection in any way? |
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| Ahhh yes, I remember just five years ago when my huge college dorm room was filled with students watching Freezing. Five years later, I'm still watching anime. No biggie |
| In my opinion, you’re never too old to enjoy something. I plan on watching anime as long as I’m enjoying it. |
| No you shouldn't start watching anime to being with, if you do it's downward spiral from there. It's kinda like when you go past event horizon of a black hole there is no return only damnation.  |
| my uncle around fifty watches anime(he’s the cool uncle who likes cartoons and stuff), so although it may be awkward, just watch when you wanna watch and don’t watch when you don’t want to. |
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| I think no. I'll probably not watch as much as I did when I grow older but it's always fun to watch anime regardless of my age. Not all anime are for children or teens only anyway. |
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| Absolutely, OP. I'm in my 20s but during my early 20s, I was having a hard time adjusting my hobbies in my free time. I used to stop watching animes for 2/3 years completely (except for manga, I'm an avid reader) because I felt like it was taking too much of my free time when I can be doing other productive things like other people who don't watch animes. But honestly, I realised that other people who don't watch animes are just like me. Some waste time on social media instead. So really, it's not that different from us. Recently I'm just getting started on watching some light stuff again. Also, rewatching some old school animes cuz that makes me feel better. Although I do believe this won't stay the same forever. I believe people don't completely outgrew them, they just adjusted their watching habits according to their age and lifestyle. Some will absolutely stop. Some will still be fond of it, but not as serious as when they were younger. |
| You dont reallly get to old fort it, but once youve passed a certain age you should be too busy to have time for anime. |
removed-user said: Personally I feel a little disconnect looking at younger anime fans today as they are mostly kids and it feels awkward being still into anime at my age (early 20s). When are we too old for anime? Or does it not matter? How do you overcome this feeling of awkwardness? Have you ever felt this way? Also specifically, maybe not quit entirely but tone it down if that works? There is no such thing as too old for anime. Sure you can grow bored of it. |
| Anime is looked down upon by people who haven't even tried it but I don't think there is an age where we should stop watching anime. Anime is for everyone except for the people who watch it in dub |
| Heck no. I like anime and I'll continue watching it until I no longer like it. If you were into reading books, would you stop just because of Dr. Seuss? To me, this line of thinking makes no sense. |
| Anime will die within a year now that Funimation is involved. Don't worry, the quality of anime has dropped significantly. |
| When the fuck did age have to do with watching anime? Just move on from the shitty 4Kids/4KMedia dubs... 29. It's literally my entire life besides working. I honestly couldn't live without it anymore... |
| stop watching when you lose interest, age shouldn't matter for a hobby. |
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| No, but I don't think someone in it for a long time will be as intense as once they were. Seriously, have you considered the lack of innovation in the medium? Though some golden nuggets do appear from times to times, the stagnancy of its tropes and ambitions truly hurts one's mind, and pride. |
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| when we're dead thats when we stop obviously |
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| I believe we should quit anime when we're bored by it, age doesn't matter |
| My youtube channel about music and anime : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_rrNoYApg1VQ-PIT7jZ37Q |
| I thought when I hit my 20s I would quit anime for good. Turns out the reason I stop watching was because I gradually got busy with life. Now that Im free due to quarantine my interest in anime went up again, just like when I was in school. |
| early 20s is just a beginning for me. |
| I'm now 19, watching anime since I was 14 and it still enjoys me. So why should i end watching? Age doesn't really matters. |
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| Yeah, at 31 I'm still as into it as ever. I've been watching since I was three and had a preference for Japanese cartoons before I even realized they were Japanese. If I've been watching for nearly three decades, there's not really a reason for me to stop. (To clarify, I've only been actively seeking out anime for about two decades, as I actually learned what anime was when I was around 10. I watched many anime before then, though, and most of my favorite childhood shows were anime.) I don't have trouble connecting with high school anime and I frequently watch anime aimed at kids, so age has not really affected what I watch too much. My tastes have changed a bit over time, but there's still not much I specifically avoid watching. (Granted I haven't been watching much the past couple weeks since I got a little burnt out in isolation, but I'm reading manga much more heavily than before to make up for it.) As others have said, there is no age limit on your hobbies. Depending on your specific path, your tastes may change and you won't like it anymore, and they may change again and you'll like it again. You might not have time to watch if you work a demanding job or have a family, but then again the truly dedicated will find ways to work it in anyways. I don't think there is any reason to swear off anime at any point. If you don't want to watch, don't watch. If you decide you want to watch again, watch. It's much more simple than people make it out to be. We all go through phases, and that's a completely normal part of life. Lolsebca said: No, but I don't think someone in it for a long time will be as intense as once they were. Seriously, have you considered the lack of innovation in the medium? This is completely dependent on the person. I've been watching for a pretty long time and I'm still pretty intense. Maybe I'm just easy to please, but I still find plenty of innovation and enjoyment. The list of anime I'm excited to watch still is quite literally endless, as every season throws out many series that I'm interested in right on top of the pile of older shows I've yet to watch. |
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