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Originally posted by trunks69420
I remember about three years ago, it was "uncool" to like anime.
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That's very true. In my case, whenever I drew, a lot of people would say, "Oh....she has big eyes. Why?" or "Man, she looks like Barbie. Do you still play with that stuff?!"
But now, there are many people who watch it, so there's no more of those stupid questions, except from the ones who haven't watched it.
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Now I can come out of my shell and show my true DBZ colors ie: Shirts, Cards, Binders, ect. and not be scrutinized, but praised for all the cool stuff! God bless open mindedness!
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Hmmm.....maybe it's just me, but I'm not so sure if it's open mindedness that brings people to anime. Personally, I think that people are more attracted to anime now, only because it's the "rave" now, so
everyone who doesn't know it or watch it, is "uncool". For examples, there are many people in my school who say they are "true anime fans", they watch
everything related to anime and never miss a thing. Then, when I ask if they've ever seen
Fushigi Yuugi or
Trigun.....they shake their heads. They spit out that they only see the most "popular" ones and those are the ones that are shown on Cartoon Network (DBZ, Sailormoon, Tenchi Muyo) and Adult Swim (Cowboy Bebop). I'm not sure if anyone sees my point, but it just seems to me that people are just drawn to the ones they see on TV and that's only because it's the latest and coolest thing. I understand that many students or kids won't have the money to buy many animes (Trigun,
Fushigi Yuugi,
Shoujo Kakumei Utena, etc) so they wouldn't know many others. However, I know some people who don't have much $$$ but they try to find out different animes from their friends and watch them from their friends too. I don't have a problem with those who don't like or know much anime, but it just kinda aggravates me when they think that the ones they show on Cartoon Network or Adult Swim are the
only and
most popular animes in the world. Ahh.....but maybe that's just me.
