"you watchin' those chinese cartoons of yours?"

"she's cute"

son...

Honestly, my parents regard is as an oddly obsessive hobby.
My manga are: Those BOOKS ( I am a huge buyfag for manga)
Anime is relatively nonexistent, I have everything on my computer.
Figs....:THOSE DOLLS

They're tolerant of anime, which is surprising, since they're Korean, which means they should hate anything Japanese out of principle. Even more so than conservative white Americans.

"that cartoon shit is on syfy, you want to watch?"

They call them cartoons. Rage for stupid parents.

"Are you watching those Japanese pornos?"

That was about 8 years ago. Nobody cares any more.

>>39319999
>9999
Check´em

>my face when my parents dont give a shit

They don't know about it.

"why do you watch that?"

For my manga, i have a bookshelf full, but they never say anything

I have 2 figures, fuko and saber, and they dont say anything about them either. I keep them on the shelf under my loft bed next to my phone

>>39320123

same situation. parents apparently enjoyed watching lupin and mazinger back when they were youngins

They don't know. And I intend to keep it that way.

>>39319999

Don't know.

However, my dad did read a helluva a lot of Doraemon when I was a kid.

son i am dissapoint

>>39320123
I know the tenseness between korea and japan, that IS surprising.

We're upper white class, so I only get the mild questions...

pretty much like this

I haven't seen my mother in 10 years and my dad has no idea I watch anime or read manga, or much of anything else about me.

My dad got me into it. He's been interested in Japanese culture 'n' stuff, and was a very talented artist, so he bought some 'how-to-draw manga' books and passed them on to me, so I got interested, and so on.
On an unrelated note, those books were one of the first things I've fapped to.

My mom is okay with it. As a japanese, I don't know much Japanese. She considers it studying in a way.

story of my life

Nothing. They said it's better than me staring blankly at them on my free tie

this is so fuckin funny

They think I'm stuck in a fantasy world of anime because I don't give a shit about shit that doesn't matter.
Also my mom used an anime style Twilight poster that came with a Twilight book she bought to try to get me to read it. I became angry that she says anything about me liking anime that day.

I'm a girl, so I can SLIGHTLY get away with being caught watching K-on, but not by much...

My parents are /co/ nerds.

They accept it yet say I should be reading/watching american comics/cartoons.

>>39320163

They don't know, since I moved out of my parents house a long time ago.

this happen when you want to share time with your dad

>>39320188
>>39320192

I am also born Korean. Korean parents aren't all necessarily self-loving Japan-hating bigots and xenophobes. My dad is a chain-smoking PhD professor who played Doom and Diablo II and read Doraemon and crap. My mom was just overall cool. Often using catch-phrases by Shin-chan even today, but overall disinterested.

To them, it's just another hobby on the computer

Most of the manga and anime I own was bought for me when I was younger.

I stopped my 'hobby' during Grade 12/1st year university. 3 years later, here I am.

My mom walked into my room for the first time with all my figures about, and for some reason she got really excited about them. She picked up Sawako and said "This is so cute!". Then she pointed to my RAH's and said "Look at that one! Wow!" I was happy she wasn't mad about the money I spent. (I don't have a dad so his opinion does not matter)

pic related; the Sawako she picked up.

>>39320315
Never seen this one before, any more?

>>39320329
20 year old negro here

i watch K-on in front of my parents.. but i pause it every five seconds. thank god im adopted, and my parents are white.

My mum doesn't really know about it, they just think I'm obsessed with World of Warcraft. I watch it when everybodies away/in bed.

Dad: *walks in room* You watching cartoons?
Me: Nope, anime.
Dad: Oh, what is that?
Me: Japanese animation.
Dad: So, Japanese cartoons?
Me: Not exactly, here just watch this *plays an episode of Cowboy Bebop*
*~24 minutes later*
Dad: *silence*
Me: Yeah not exactly cartoons.
Dad: So are they all like this?
Me: Nah some of them are girly, I watch those too but mostly for the comedic tones sexual innuendo and what not.
Dad: I can see why you like it *hugs me like he just discovered I'm not gay*
Me: Uhm could you leave now, I'm gonna start watching some hentai. It's something two men don't do together if you know what I mean.
Dad: Yeah ok, do you buy any of these like that one you showed me?
Me: Yeah if it's good enough I buy it, I've got that exact show, why?
Dad: I'm gonna watch it, TV is shit these days I need something that fulfills my lust for action.
Me: OK here you go.
Achievement Earned: Father's Approval

my dad is more tolerant of me going to cons and such, my mom, not so much

My dad.... well pic related its his face he doesn't really give a shit.

My mom is pretty funny. She'll watch some anime with me sometimes. Watched a lot of Death Note with her which was pretty fun. Actually she has a thing for Vampires. Was thinking of showing her Hellsing, and Vampire Hunter D

>>39320422
Fuck you, my dad doesn't even talk to me anymore.

>>39320390
Holy fuck.. You're brave, man

>>39320379
op here,yes i have more

>>39320422
I don't believe you. ;_;

>>39320422

I'll never have that kind of relationship with my father...;_;

>>39320422

>>39320371
>>39320422
God damnit, awesome parents.

>>39320447
Show her Shiki, tell her they made an anime adaptation about 'Salem's lot.

>>39320422

My parents don't really care.
My dad usually equates anime to DBZ and my mom just thinks its like Looney Toons or something.

My dad used to watch DBZ with me, I got him to watch some of FMA with me too. But once I started torrenting and watching subbed stuff that ended.

>>39320487
I don't believe me either. I still don't believe me and it actually happened. It's like serious denial. I swear, if he starts carmelldansen I'm going to commit seppuku.

>>39320364
Korean American here.
Commence brofist.

Dad says I'm not productive and I'm wasting time.

Mom doesn't say anything...although I was watching the FMA movie and she seemed interested but probably only because there was WWII stuff in it.

>>39320390
So you pause it every time Mugi comes on?

>>39320422
That didn't happen.

Nothing much really. They're sci-fi geeks themselves, so they're not too judgemental. Sometimes I wonder if not being an american has something to do with it too, but only because of 4chan and /a/'s stories.

They even have some friends their age (maybe a bit younger) who are heavily into anime and have a lot of DVDs and such. Let my sister borrow a bunch of them.

op here,i watch anime since i was 5 years old,and my parents are fine with that

>>39320610
Shit, dude...

>>39319999

Bad shop is bad.

Parents are fine with me watching anime. My dad likes some animes that have really good animation. He walked into my room when I was watching 5cm and asked if I could put it on the TV so we could watch it. He also bought a GitS box set before I had really gotten into anime (only really watched it on toonami at that time) and we watched that. So my dad doesn't really care. My mom doesn't have an opinion on it at all really. I don't order figurines or posters but if I did I don't really know how they'd feel about that.

my mon cleans my room...she doesn´t say anything about my figures

>>39320742

Been watching anime with my mother since I was 7. We still do our yearly Cowboy Bebop Marathon.

>>39320620
It did, it honestly did. My dad has always been a scifi junky. This not only surprised me but increased my respect for him. Besides that's the longest conversation we have had in 7 years.

>>39320742
>doesnt know melonpan
get the fuck out

>>39320598

Yo

my father catch me fapping to boku no pico
feels bad man

Parents: anime = cartoons

too bad melonpan retired
;_;

My dad doesn't like it himself, but is fine with me watching it. Mom doesn't think much of it either way, though she'd probably hate it if she actually knew what I was watching. One of those people who thinks there should be absolutely no violence or sexual content whatsoever under any circumstances.

>>39320742
>implying it's photoshopped

http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/1476/Bern+Switzerland.html

I don't understand why people have such animosity toward it.

When I was younger and saw people watching/talking about anime I always thought it was really cool. I used to go to a card shop for magic the gathering and they always played anime there during tournaments and stuff that always looked really cool.

I never had this attitude that people had against it.

>me and mom are browsing the Metropoliton museum
>Japanese mother and son walk near us and start talking

>Me: oh wow, I actually understood a couple of the things they said.
>Mom: wow, really? what language were they speaking?
>Me: Japanese
>Mom: where do you know any japanese from?
>Me: *smirk* anime.
>Mom: *smile and laugh* Anime huh? Oh wow that's really cool that you would know that from that!

Fuck yeah mom

My dad was extremely accepting of the fact that I like anime from the beginning.

He used to watch anime back in the 80s, and some in the 90s while I was growing up. He was the person that forced me to sit and watch Cowboy Bebop. He used to sit and watch toonami with me on occasion.

He's not into it as much now...or at all really, but he still likes to hear about what I'm watching.

my mom doesnt care. she saw me watching K-on and lucky star and thought it was "cute"

>>39320742
hi,you must be new here

My dad the retired professor actually thinks my manga habit is kind of scholarly, which is weird, because he's never said anything positive about anything *useful* I've ever tried to do.

My mom just gets mad that I pay so much attention to "stuff for kids". >facepalm.jpg

>>39320790
When my mom cleans the room, a disaster happens. Since she doesn't know and is not willing to care, she RAMS her fucking vacuum cleaner at my tower and gaming consoles. Apparently getting at half an inch of carpet with nothing on it is more important than electronics that cost me anywhere from hundreds to over a thousand.

And women wonder why people insult them about their knowledge of electronics.

I told my parents to view amine as serous attempts at story telling.

My analogy to them was, "Imagine an artist not having enough money to show their movie through holly wood, although they don't have the funds necessary to show their visions in the movies, they are however able to show them in animated form", i then proceed to show them cowboy bebop.

Yea its bullshit but it worked sorta. I still hide animes i watch like strike witches n shit.

>>39320364
Hell yeah, motherfucker.
My mom finished the Starcraft campaign with me 10 years ago.

>>39320821
the fucking girl starting at him

>wants to sleep on his pillow

why don't you come watch this movie that i just rented? it has more production value than your anime

>>39320315

>>39320893
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-crjyRhRkA

Mom: Whats that
Me: *Pauses whenever she is in room* Its some shows I like now go away *Reopens a Video Game*
Mom: Ok then


To this day she just assumes the *shows* are pornos

>>39320935
Isn't that what happened with Perfect Blue?

For all you white people. Do your parents force you to partake in white people activity (football, baseball, all that shit) when you were young? If so how did you stray away to becoming an otaku of some sort?

>>39320893
Normalfags have an almost instinctual reaction to reject anything they find unusual or different. Since it's not mainstream TV or sports or something they are naturally comfortable with, they subconsciously categorize it as something negative.

My Dad joined me in watching Highschool of the Dead yesterday. My dad's favorite anime is Crest/Banner of the Stars. My mom doesn't really care about anime.

I showed my parents fullmetal alchemist and cowboy bebop, which they enjoyed.

They let me buy things as long as I'm doing well in my classes, and they're glad that this hobby motivated me to start learning a language.

My figures have been deemed "girl dolls", which I'm allowed to have them on the living room mantle if I want, but I keep them in my room anyways.

I got a dakimakura about a month ago and ever since then I've brought it into the living room when everyone's watching TV and so far haven't gotten any comments about it other than "that's weird".

ITT: people who still live with their family!

laughingwhores.jpg

;_;

>>39321024
I don't know i just made up that story so my parents wouldn't muster up any dumb conclusions on it.

>>39321035
My mom let me quit soccer and swimming on my own free will after forcing me to join it 5 years earlier. I was always shy anyways, so I guess the events just naturally occured after that.

>>39321037
Used to be the case with video games way back

Now look at the cesspool we have going

Here's hoping animu and mangos stay underground outside of Japan

>>39321035
I was forced into some of those kinds of things (probably not as much as some people, though) but I really was never able to enjoy them like other people did. I don't really know why, I've always had specific things I am really able to enjoy and those things have generally not been mainstream interests.

>>39321037
this. I work part time at a hospital and my co-workers, seeing me as a regular young white male, thought i would be absolutely fascinated by sports illustrated. So they just drop off all of those magazines on me. I just smile and try to read it, even though i dont know what the fuck the articles are about. Quite annoying.

This thread made me realize that I've never had any significant relationship with my parents.

They have never said anything about my interest in anything. I don't know how to feel about this....

>>39321158
op here,cheer up bro :D

>>39319999

Me and my mother watched some Koi Kaze together. She thought the girl was a fucking slut and the brother should know better.

>>39321158

>>39321115
you must have missed IGPX.. yeah they tried that... it failed, thank god.

I made my mom sit and watch summer wars with me.

She cried when it got to the part where the family sentimentality was laid on pretty thick, and later told me of how thankful she is that her sun has good taste in fiction.

I was happy to hear it..but hearing it after watching Summer Wars...

>My face

>>39320447

she'd like d. gray man

>>39321158
feel relieved that your parents aren't bothered by it, or aren't openly bothered by it.

>>39321158
I never did either. I had a pretty fucked up childhood in general, though. My mom was an untreated schizophrenic and my dad was a workaholic who probably never wanted kids in the first place and pretty much ignored me and my sister.

My mom introduced me to anime with Princess Mononoke back when I was like 8.


Now she criticizes me if I or my brother watch it ;_;