You used to be labeled weird for liking anime.
Nowadays people will call you a pedophile on extwitter for liking an image of a clothed Hatsune Miku.
Anime is child beauty pageants for cowards.
“oh no, people are calling me a pedophile for liking lolis” As they should. Lolis are why I hate most anime because I know they’re catering to the weirdos that buy their products. The whole “It’s ok guys! This character is 1000 years old but looks like a child” is always and will always be sus.
Fine, act like there isn’t a good reason for that.
Nice subculture you got there, would be a shame if it was commodomified for mass appeal.
Kids are going to be weird and use their imagination. They’ll pretend to be an NFL player breaking tackles as they run through a crowded school hallway. They’ll pretend to be Optimus Prime and pretend to transform into a truck. Or they’ll pretend to be iron man blasting bad guys with their lazer palms.
The issue is when your friends have aged out of that behavior and you think it’s still cool to Naruto run up to them all the time.
There were definitely kids naruto running and doing kamehamehas at recess, but by high school, if it was ever known you watch even some mainstream ass anime, kiss that social life goodbye. Other anime nerds went way too weeb with it, so the only option is to hide your enjoyment and never make any references to anime in order to have some kind of normal experience. These days it’s super normal to watch anime because it was our parents generation that didn’t grow up with it. Now everyone is familiar with it.
If you’ve never tried to go super saiyan, you’re not a real anime fan.
you are no match for my complicated hand gestures jutsu