when i was at the US i know a few people who are into anime...and yes 2 of them are kids who are very much into hamtaro and all those little girl-friendly anime. they were family friends and distant relatives of ours and when we visited at their home at chicago, the girls' room were full of hamtaro stuff...
as of now i'm back in the philippines studyin' college in a university...at our building-the fine arts building, w/c happens to have a lot of students, i think the bulk of students are anime buffs...10 out of 10 students have been addicted to some anime shows considerin' that this is philippines. anime is a part of the lives of 90% percent of everyone born after 1980,and i'm not exaggeratin'. i think a huge fraction of the art students at our university draw anime stuff and have taken anime as their artistic style/identity...in my class there are 5 people who are really into anime, excluding me...in our class, all of us know a thing or two about anime, and most if not all of us have memorized, mastered, and ARE TIRED of watching re-airs of lots of anime series that has been aired on tv...there are lots of hardcore fans out here but even the less-hardcore crowd out here sure know and watched a lot....
as for discrimination stuff, as i've said earlier " think a huge fraction of the art students at our university draw anime stuff and have taken anime as their artistic style/identity"...those students aren't always accepted politely, there are students who look down on those students..even though everyone here have anime-injected lives, discrimination is not uncommon...since it's the art department, discriminators range from these: there are art purists, there are people who have more complex styles, those who have been peer-pressured, and there are those who just don't wanna run with the pack and discriminatin' anime-styled artists have been one of their hobbies...
love relationships...i think it KINDA helps-a little, here at least, since almost every girl here have been watchin' anime, opening something up like "do you remember watchin sailormoon when you were at third grade?" can be pretty safe...but of course, timing is still the key....


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He's recently become obsessed with a new series called Shuffle and I got him sort of interested in Ranma 1/2.




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