Older Otakus and the effect on their children!

Kyoko · newbie! Joined: Mar 17, 2005 Posts: 13

Am I the only one?

I started watching Anime in the early 70s. However, it was not until the early 90s that my attention to anime went full throttle. In the past decade my otaku “obsession” has been passed down to my children, a 17 yr old boy and a 13 yr old girl. We are now a family of otakus, less my wife, dog and parrot Smile

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So, is there anyone out there like me?

For you younger otakus, did any of your parents influence you down the anime path?

Lucifer · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject:

My mom bought me Doraemon manga when i got good result in test when i was young. Then, tv shows the anime version and that's how it started.

Some anime i watched contains a little ecchi and when i watch that kind of anime with my sisters, you guess what happen.. i got scold badly

So whenever my moms sees me watching anime or reading manga, one word would come out of her mouth : "You better not watch something dirty.."
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KagomeHanyou · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject:

Oh good, I'm not the only one. I started watching anime at 5 y/o, I'm only 23 now but my 4 y/o daughter brings up anime a lot. She's even picking up japanese.

She mainly focuses on Inuyasha, Cat Returns, Chobits, Pokemon and Kenshin. While I watch almost everything. She'll stand next to me and watch my computer (thats how I watch them). She can't understand or read them (subbed), but it doesn't seem to bother her at all.

It's really quite cute!! Very Happy

I'm glad I'm not the only one out there who has "subconciously" influenced their childrens cartoon preferences.
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Zellron · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject:

Well... For me, It all started when my friends father showed me Gundam Wing when I was a bit younger... maybe it wasn't my parents directly... but i think it still works... Escaflowne was a good one too...

Anyway... from there i become a person of mainstream... definately when the pokemon card craze went though... i was apart of the target consumers at the time... 8 years old i believe... and then i watched digimon... and hey that was a good show... until the third season... when they fused them with humans... then i stopped...

I moved on to manga and other anime... and i've been doing that for a while...

And now I'm 16 years old... and viola... I didn't turn out half bad.. >< I think.
I still have more of high school and college/ university.

Kyoko · newbie! Joined: Mar 17, 2005 Posts: 13

It's good to see that I am not the only one Very Happy

kaoxes · newbie! Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 14

If I have kids that'll most likely be the case.

ephbuck · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject:

yeah, well from what i hear when my mom was younger she watched her anime just like everyone else in japan... but gave it compleatly up when she moved to america with my dad.. and so as a small kid i watched doraemon and tonari no totoro, and when i was about 7 my perents went on a anti-any thing on tv, so when i had visited a freinds hous and he was watchhing on of the DBZ movies on VSH, it was burned into my memory.. and after i turned 17 i really got into this. through these two years i'v finally gotten my mom to watch atleast some of it..(enough to get my dad mad.. Razz

).. but w/e hes just jelous b/c he doesnt understand jap...

thailehuy · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Mar 28, 2005 Posts: 58

My mom does not like anime or manga, but she said i can watch as much as i want, on a condition that my grade must be excellent T-T
Luckily i'm capable to do that

JOman · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:33 pm Post subject:

It's odd though, My mom loved the old anime when she was a kid, especially Kimba the White Lion. But now, she thinks that anime and manga are the craziest things in the world. Of course, she likes reality tv so she isn't really allowed to commenrt on the tv I watch.
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the_backs · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:07 am Post subject:

wel.. all kids like anime or cartoons tho

jonoh83 · Conscript Joined: Mar 13, 2005 Posts: 153

when i get married and have kids they will learn to appreciate anime as well

Tank252ca · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject:

My daughter is only 10 but she likes to watch Cardcaptor Sakura in Japanese. (They way it was meant to be!) She's seen El Hazard: The Wanderers, Fruits Basket (made her cry) and we're enjoying Kare Kano. Few more years before my son is old enough but I'm sure he'll enjoy Naruto and my Initial-D subs. No, you're far from alone. Smile

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Tiny · newbie! Joined: Mar 16, 2005 Posts: 24

I believe I'm one of those childrens that has been affected by older Otakus (I love you, my cousin), but if I ever get myself a family, I wouldn't want to influence them into animes or mangas. Probably because I don't want to be jealous of them being able to see more animes than I can? Then again, it would be nice to have a children in your family to talk about animes and mangas.
Oooh, I'm being so indecisive, I don't know what I want from my future-kids >.< .

Caireen · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:40 am Post subject:

I'm 38 and I've been into anime for 13 years! I have a 13 year old daughter who is mad about Chobits, Digi Charat, and most other cute anime, she has a large anime and manga collection of her own, she also designs and draws her own manga characters!!
My son is 11 and he loves anime too, he's a big Bleach fan at the moment!
I have a 19 month old daughter and although she doesn't actually sit and watch the anime she loves to listen to the music and watch the opening titles!
Both the older children have watched subtitled anime from about 6 years old and they both have high reading levels at school.
So my being a huge anime fan has rubbed off on all my children, as it was never forced on them, they have just always enjoyed watching it Mr. Green

Elite · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Apr 04, 2005 Posts: 53

Wow that's kinda cool I had no idea that would be possible.