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Too old for anime?
B-Clark:
66 years, and prefer anime over the crud in the movies and most of what is on TV.
I really like the anime and manga hard Sci-Fi, and Sci-Fi fantasy:
Planetes, Starship Operators, Strike Witches, Railgun
Ahhh... Strike Witches...
I subscribed to Analog SF&F for 40 years, but deteriorating eyesight made the print version too hard to read, and the e-book version, I was getting, became too unreliable.
I did not feel like buying a proprietary reader to continue, especially when the stories weren't that good compared to the ones the scanlators were doing from Japan.
Jedi Gigolo:
I think my generation was the first one to grow up with anime. Speed Racer, Voltron, G-Force(Battle of the Planets), Robotech....
Yeah. So my love of anime has been life long and grown only stronger as I got older. When I discovered torrents....I became voracious.
Ranma 1/2 was what solidified my love of anime. It was still being broadcast in Japan when I was there, so I watched it without subtitles and it was understandable!!
Turned 40 this year. I need to get some exercise, but I'm a fan of anime. I always have been and I always will.
jaybug:
--- Quote from: Jedi Gigolo on February 04, 2014, 01:52:02 AM ---I think my generation was the first one to grow up with anime. Speed Racer, Voltron, G-Force(Battle of the Planets), Robotech....
Yeah. So my love of anime has been life long and grown only stronger as I got older. When I discovered torrents....I became voracious.
Ranma 1/2 was what solidified my love of anime. It was still being broadcast in Japan when I was there, so I watched it without subtitles and it was understandable!!
Turned 40 this year. I need to get some exercise, but I'm a fan of anime. I always have been and I always will.
--- End quote ---
Um, Speed Racer is technically even before my time. I'm 50. So is Speed. This show was on the local independent TV station when I was in elementary/junior high. When I was younger that that, Johnny Quest was my favorite. Voltron came to the US when I was on my first ship in the navy. To think I could have seen an episode of Urasei Yatsura or two fresh when I was in Japan, and it was in its prime! Yeah, but US warships don't have Japanese broadcast capable TVs. sigh.
Really, there has been a few generations of Americans who have grown up on cartoons, and still love them. Look at John Lasseter. He just found a better, more publicly acceptable way of loving his animation fixation.
Mostly I think we all tend to want more seinen than shounen as we age. More josei, less shoujo. (if I got the feminine terms right) We want our insanity tom come along more as Neil Gaiman and Douglas Adams, rather than Beavis and Butthead or South Park. We've been there, done that. Give us something we don't know already for a change!
thejamppa:
I am 30, soon 31, I am army reservist with quite extensive training in field medicine etc, I enjoy camping and survivalism. I have watched anime half of my life pretty continously but I saw my first animes when I was under 7. I started watching anime regularly prior army in high school, I continued it in army when possible and reading manga. After transferring to reserve and getting my university degree, I continued watching anime. To me, anime is one way completely 0 my brains and focus something way less serious things. I don't think I'll stop watching anime aslong I live or there's war but even in case of war, I'd continue after war.
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