no1special8 wrote:

I feel old talking about the anime I grew up watching and I'm only 24

papagolfwhiskey wrote:



Try it at age forty.

Lastest peave about about being an older cyberpunk/anime fan?

checking out this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P99qJGrPNLs&list=PLxWw6SgdaHIE3MKyP1DbIvIKXRaRHT0nA&index=2

and seeing all the young folk claim it's 'ripping off' Ghost in the Shell, or Psycho-pass. NO! if anything it's the other way around. (though that's not quite true either... water from the same much older well)

deadpanditto wrote:



*applauds*

Thank you. If you hadn't said it, I would have.

Diedpraying wrote:

my bones ache cause that's how old i am

water_tiger wrote:

I turned 50 this year.
I started watching anime when I was still in elementary school, when all that you could find was stuff like Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Princess Knight. Later on it was Captain Harlock. I didn't know that it was anime at that time -- I thought it was "French animation" because most of these shows were on the CBC French channel. I couldn't understand the language and I got my sister to give me the gist of it most of the time, but it didn't stop me from watching it. As I got older, I got out of it (only kids watched cartoons) and then got back into it when my daughter started watching anime on TV. At that point I said to heck with it because I loved the genre and life is too short to be in denial.
I have anime posters in my cube at work, I watch a lot of anime and read a lot of manga (time permitting), I go to conventions and I cosplay (
I'm extremely thankful when I come across older anime fans because sometimes feel like I'm the only one out there. All in all, enjoy your hobby and don't feel ashamed about being an older anime fan. Remember that in 10 - 15 years from now those youngsters will be in our shoes.

AliMcJ wrote:



I think I'm the oldest anime fan here. I don't like to give the numbers of my age because it is too shocking! I like being able to be behind the keyboard with just my expression coming out. Let's see, I was in my 50s when I started appreciating anime, for the backgrounds. Couldn't stand the wooden figures of early Japanese animation in US in the 1960s. Couldn't stand the big eyes and little mouths the whole time I lived in Asia. Naruto grabbed me after the initial breakdown of my resistance to the form.

Grew my white hair out long to cosplay as Inuyasha or Jiraiya (although I'm female) or even Tsunade when her juju wears off -- easy comfortable costumes and I won't need a wig. Have missed a-kon the last few years in Dallas. Will be back in Los Angeles before too long now.

Here's a good metaphor for my age: the special night that the border opened up in Samurai Champloo? I was there.

papagolfwhiskey wrote:



My bones are achier than your bones. (what? it's a word)