Topic: Other people's misconceptions about anime/manga (Read 14701 times)

Sakaki · « **on:** July 06 2005, 03:01 pm »

I noticed on the "how did you discover TRC" thread that people wanted to talk about what other *non-manga reading/non-anime watching people* would think or say to them about their Manga and Anime.

Some I've heard so far:

They think anime/manga is for children and don't realize it's not treated that way in Japan.
Think anime is cartoons.
Don't take it as a valid art form when it's been around for decades.
Some people think it's weird that in Japan people aren't surprised by same gender couples.
They don't realize that anime/manga isn't anything like American cartoons.

D.J.P · « **Reply #1 on:** July 06 2005, 03:09 pm »

Hehe, my dad is like that.

I've gave up long ago trying to convince him, I don't care anymore

monkey · « **Reply #2 on:** July 06 2005, 03:13 pm »

i often get "if you watch anime you MUST like Hentai since all Anime is Hentai" plus they all think its geeky, childish and pointless.
so yay i'm labeled as a perverted, geeky, childish, stupid time waster.

Sakaki · « **Reply #3 on:** July 06 2005, 03:20 pm »

Isn't that funny that some people think it's childish cartoons and then others think it's all adult X rated?!
They just don't get it at all.
It's animation, but it's not cartoons.

Shinigami Zero · « **Reply #4 on:** July 06 2005, 09:39 pm »

Quote from: VexNet on July 06 2005, 03:13 pm

i often get "if you watch anime you MUST like Hentai since all Anime is Hentai" plus they all think its geeky, childish and pointless.
so yay i'm labeled as a perverted, geeky, childish, stupid time waster.

Well....all those labels are at least partially true for me. ^^;

scarecrow_wingz · « **Reply #5 on:** July 06 2005, 11:09 pm »

didn't need to know that...

but if they don't know...too bad they're missing out

Shinigami Zero · « **Reply #6 on:** July 06 2005, 11:43 pm »

Heh, just pointing out that every stereotype is built off a kernel of truth. And it's not like I went into great detail or anything.

>_>;;

Cardcaptor Takato · « **Reply #7 on:** July 07 2005, 12:06 am »

Most people around me think that all anime is either like Pokemon or DBZ. Or they start telling me that it's all for kids, so I try to explain to them that not all anime is for kids, so then they start acusing me for watching porn. I don't understand why some people can't grasp the concept that something can not be for kids and not be porn at the same time. ><

monkey · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07 2005, 04:41 am »

their minds are too small. its like because they watch real life shows we don't go accuse them of watching real life porn, or something like hi-5 (a childrens program)

Quote from: Shinigami Zero on July 06 2005, 09:39 pm

Well....all those labels are at least partially true for me. ^^;

lol, yea i guess most people are like that, me included.

Ruby Chan · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07 2005, 05:17 am »

I have this pycho friend who over analyses all the series, and says how it's just for pervy men over 50 who still live at home with their mother (?!)

She says....

Long hair is a symbol of...blah blah
Short hair is a symbol of...blah blah
And stuff like that.

She just goes out of her way to overanalyse it and make it something that it's not. I mean, how can CCS be porn?!

Mina · « **Reply #10 on:** July 07 2005, 06:27 am »

-- Reading manga will make you stop read books
-- Manga doesn't use imagination
-- All the characters have big eyes and no personality.
-- Pictures in manga style are not "art".

Sakaki · « **Reply #11 on:** July 07 2005, 06:29 am »

***Well....all those labels are at least partially true for me. ^^;***

Lol, well me too.
Probably apply to most every interesting person.

Sugar Fairy · « **Reply #12 on:** July 07 2005, 02:39 pm »

I tell people I watch anime.. and they go 'you still watch cartoons?' i don't get flagged as a perv though, just childish. ^_^

Sakaki · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07 2005, 02:49 pm »

***Reading manga will make you stop read books
-- Manga doesn't use imagination
-- All the characters have big eyes and no personality.
-- Pictures in manga style are not "art"***

Oooh, those really make me mad!
Obviously they've never picked up something by Clamp.
And if you only read manga, you are still reading.

I spent years and years reading novels.
Manga rivals any of the best selling authors here.
Can they even guess how hard it is to cram such in depth plots and storylines
into manga pages, that also have art to go with them?!
Some of the best art I've ever seen is in Manga.

Who can seriously look at Cardcaptor Sakura and say that's not art?
Who can actually understand the plot of Tsubasa and say that it's not imaginative?

Okay, my little rant is done now.

sukina · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07 2005, 04:25 pm »

My dad used to think it was 'bad', until I begged him to get the CCS series and even said he could watch it first. That changed his mind.

Personally I normally dont care what people think, until they start going too far, like pervertedness and other related subjects. I just get soo mad but eventually I would get the phrase through my head, I am what I am and no one can change that...

Eventually meaning 3 weeks later after yelling and screaming at those people... Heheh!

Cardcaptor Takato · « **Reply #15 on:** July 07 2005, 11:13 pm »

Quote from: Mina on July 07 2005, 06:27 am

-- Reading manga will make you stop read books

If manga makes you stop reading books, doesn't that tell those people that there's something about manga that makes it better than normal books? But that's not true. I like reading manga but I still like reading books, even though most of them out there are kind of boring.

bLuetopaz · « **Reply #16 on:** July 09 2005, 02:24 am »

*lol* i agree with Sakaki...

yeah, my family thinks that anime is cartoon.. perhaps they just saw some moving graphics etc.. so they think it is cartoon.. but basically, they wont bother me much as long as i pay for them (anime/manga) myself..

and i remembered once that my grandma saw me watching CCS and said... "why are you still watching cartoon"... i went (O_o)!

Jas-chan · « **Reply #17 on:** July 09 2005, 02:28 am »

my parents grew up being taught that manga was "bad" so if you read manga, you were a bad kid

at least that is what my dad told me...

Alexiel · « **Reply #18 on:** July 09 2005, 02:35 am »

Quote from: Sakaki on July 06 2005, 03:20 pm

Isn't that funny that some people think it's childish cartoons and then others think it's all adult X rated?!
They just don't get it at all.
It's animation, but it's not cartoons.

that can just prove its the way THEY think, isnt it?

--

I apparently could care LESS of what others think anime/manga is to them. especially if they havent seen or read it. All they do is judge from first glance or just take a look at just ONE and they give their immediate opinion of, "It's gay." I might as well be listening to political people argue on TV about what's what and what's who's

In my opinion, anime and manga is just the form of people's creativity in Japan and portrayal on reality of all sorts of genres or based on what they see and think.

okay, im done babbling. lol

Pikari · « **Reply #19 on:** July 09 2005, 11:42 am »

"Its a cartoon and a waste of your time, or stifles your intelligence"
"All anime promotes violence/sex/witchcraft/*insert evil vice here*"

Among other things I've heard...

;

One thing that annoys me most is people lumping all anime into the same genre. "All anime is kiddie stuff/hentai/giant robots/etc." When anime is really an art form in itself and contains just as many genres as Hollywood movies, if not more - drama, romantic comedy, action, fantasy, historical... It's hard to get some people to understand this.

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