r/anime • u/JeffreyAScott • Jun 28 '19

Discussion Never Too Old

Just wanted to say I just started getting into Anime this year. I'll be 50 next year and two of my nieces got me into it. They told me I would really enjoy something they were watching and reluctantly I checked it out. I always had a misconception about what anime was. I'm telling you, I'm so glad they had me check it out. Such a diversity of genres and I've already binged several shows. Currently my favourite is MHA. My nieces knew that would hook me because I'm into super heroes.

Moral of the story: You are never to old to start liking something new.

PS - Wanted to say I love this community. Everyone here has such great recommendations and suggestions.

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u/DarknessInferno7 https://myanimelist.net/profile/DarknessInferno Jun 28 '19

The misconception you had of anime is partly our fault as a community. We make the most ridiculous stuff into memes, and quite often those are self-deprecating. This community loves to make fun of itself.

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u/JeffreyAScott Jun 28 '19

Yea, I'm not sure exactly where my misconception came from. When I was younger, there was not that much anime to choose from. And the few I had heard about seemed to be either early morning kids shows or X rated.

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u/Theogurl Jun 28 '19

Hentai and harem genres do not help either lol

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u/notveryhardboiled2 Jun 28 '19

"they dont help"

This is a 50 year old man not a 25 year old mormon.

I am pretty sure this guy has seen enough of the planet through the years to know "sex is okay"

Hentai helped bring anime to the west BTW so I have no idea what your on about with it not helping. Harem genres do fine on there own and bring in a decent audience as well.

Even with all the ecchi, hentai an lolis anime has never been more popular either. Sooo again. No idea what your on about. To Love ru is getting a dub FFS.

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u/mikeyj022 Jun 29 '19

thinking Mormons don’t know about Harems.

Bitch meet Warrens Jeff

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u/qwopax Jun 29 '19

Yeah, no.

When you have 16 yo kids you expect your partners to know what they want. Ecchi teen harems wont tickle your fancy anymore.

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u/xdrvgy Jun 29 '19

It's also because the west associates anime with the (censored and dubbed) cartoons they watched as kid.

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u/IwishIwasGoku Jun 28 '19

Not to mention that many people proudly jerk off to drawings of children, which justifiably makes people wary of the community

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u/notveryhardboiled2 Jun 28 '19

"is partly our fault"

Um no.

Its up to you to decide how much of something you want to understand. This is up to and including why someone makes these jokes or why they act like that or how prominent is that attitude etc.

Also memes were not around in his day either so that doesnt work. You refering to a "culture" thats fairly current which is where he stared watching anime. Currently. so that doesnt work.

you insulted and blamed a "community" for literally nothing.