Saturday, August 14, 2004

Okay, time for me to go on a bit of a rant. Its about how other people particualy my family feels about anime. I know this is a common topic but I still want to vent a little cause it can get annoying sometimes. Lets start with my brother. He has a site on the otaku to so he obvously likes anime. He's fine and its actucaly kind of fun to ask him what he likes and discuss stuff. The problem with him is more of keeping him away from stuff way to old for him and from talking about stuff from manga I give him to for example my parents that might get me in trouble. Not big things but little ones like when I lent him Trigun Volume one and well thats another story. My sister was always fine with it. She thinks I can pretty much do what I whant but that I was still a little weird. She liked american comics like the x-men alot. Then she picked up pet shop of horrors witch I left on the table and could not put it down. That was great. My mom kind of looks perplexed and thats it. The person I realy whant to complain about is my dad. He realy had no idea that I was in to anime and manga until I started buying it. Then he was like waite is that why all the random pictures of people you draw littered around the house look so weird. That was fine. He thought it was childish and stupid but didn't complain. Except to make fun of me a little. And stare at me weird when I tried to explain that is was not childish. Something I've stoped trying to do a long time ago. When I got some manga he took one look at the price, I want to mention that it was my money, he started muttering about it. This has gotten worse and worse. To the point that if I go to the bookstore with him I won't go to the manga section cause its not worth it. He loudly complains and I'm afraid he'll refuse to let me get any more (not that that would stop me but it would get harder to buy stuff). Then he learned the word hentai, I'm not sure from were, but he did. One day he asked me what it ment, he had that look were he already knew the answer but whanted to know what I would say. If I was smart I would of pretended not to know and start talking about how cool some unrelated topic was. I'm not that smart so I told him and well after that I never herd the end of if. Barrow a movie from a friend, comes in stands in front of the screen, is this hentai, huh, huh. Yeah, dad I'm going to watch what amounts to porn with you in the house and my little brother who can't shut up about anything. Makes lots and lots of sence. Then he'll turn to the screen and make fun of the clothes. Thats realy skimmpy, you sure thats not hentai. You sure, you sure. Yes I'm Sure. He does the same with my drawings and manga. No matter if I try to explain about what I'm doing. A few days ago, this is propably what set this rant of by the way it been stewing in my brain, he had some people over to our house. I was bored so I picked up a paper and was drawing. When I was done Margerite, his girlfriend, looked at it. Did I mention she's an art teacher/critic. She says I'm very good and sugests that I should take some classes, work with models and maby to a few nudes of models. Another other story but anyway dad was just kind of nodding along like he compleatyl agreed. I don't know what he was thinking but I bet it was something like this, Yeah, sure why not let my impresionable young daughter hang around nude models, half of them guys (dads way over protective of me especialy when it comes to guys, again another story). Makes perfect sence. I wish she'd do it more. No the proble is her watching those stupic cartoons. Some of those girls aren't wearing anything more than a bakini. Its so indecent. It is compleatly ruining her mind and destroying her innocents. Despite her very good grades and lack of trouble causing. Wate anime lets emparess Michaela. Why not? There talking about using pens or pencils or something, I have no idea what there saying. I whant to talk to. At witch point my dad says, yeah she draws alot of that anime stuff, when she grows up she whants to be a hentai artist. Margerite knowing nothing about anime and my dad's sarcastic voice sounding like his regular one says, Oh realy, well your realy good. With a face the color of a tomato I try to explain to someone I don't know very well and that I'm required to be polite to and act mature, kind, ect. to that that was not true, my dad was joking and that that was ummm...erm...umm...not ermmm...something...that....erm was...ummm...I'm interested in. And to ummm...not say I am...to...um anyone who...erm may know...erm what your talking about. Of course with some of the stuff I read and see I have to kind of make sure dad doesn't notice the cussing or exsessive violence and such. He always manages to walk in on the one scene in the movie you'd rather have him not see. I remember once I was leaving a friends house and she at the last moment gave me a pile of most of the manga she owned(she just found out I liked it, I was just getting into anime with more than a mild interest and we hadn't seen each other in awile and she whanted to talk to me about it) and told me to read it. So, when my dad picked me up he asked me what it was and of couse the one thing he happens to pick up out of everything is a volume of Gravitation (she loved the series and practicaly threatned to kill me if I didn't read it and give her an exuse to go on and on about how cute it was and if I read anything it was that I still have to listen about it) with I quickly snatched away. I have no idea what he would do if he knew I read that and what was actualy in it.
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