What is it with pokemon being demonic? My parents don't mind anime at all, grant it they rarely watch any with me, but on occasion they'll sit in an episode. Any way I watch baccano with my 11 year old sister, fine. Introduce 9 year old brother to dragon ball, fine. If pokemon (or even odder sailor moon) horror of horrors, we're actually watching somthing demonic or satanic. I've never been able to really enjoy pokemon anyway, but sailor moon is rather fun. Dragon Ball and Baccano were mentioned because I know my parents saw an episode or to and signed off on my sharing it with younger siblings, I doubt they would sign off on Haruhi, or Code Geass. Yes there decision making criterion is rather odd. Any way my point is someone is spreading around this demon pokemon idea, and lots of parents have caught it.

...they don't mind Baccano? For an ''eleven'' year old? I'm guessing they didn't see an episode that had Claire or Ladd in it. >_>

This once got into a fight with her friends when she first started watching anime. They said "All anime is violent and bloody and porn". She's really glad she moved.

This troper (who has gone to Christian private school since 7th grade, prior to which she was homeschooled) had an 8th grade teacher who played this trope straight: he took a look at a copy of the DeathNote manga I'd brought to school, sent a note home to my mother (who was totally okay with me reading it) and banned it from the classroom. That along with Harry Potter (and yet a classmate of mine got away with Kami-ChamaKarin...). However, my 9th grade world history teacher caught me reading '''{{Hellsing}}''', of all things. To put this in perspective: equally conservative teachers (granted, my history teacher had about twenty more years experience under his belts); one slams a manga that's rated for older teens for it's rather dark storyline, death-related themes, debatable morals, and CreepyCoolCrosses, but is for the most part bloodless and has the occasional "damn" thrown in. The other teacher takes a manga that is, amongst other things; about vampires, that drops {{Cluster F Bomb}}s with little regard, has gory battles that end in a body parts scattered as far as the eye can see, explicit rape threats (remember, DeathNote has things like that implied but never stated outright), and much heavier religous imagery; it also characterizes nearly all the Catholic cast as psychotic fanatics. He flips through it, hands it back to me, and says, "well, that's cool." Yeah, I was quite surprised (and relieved).

Also, I'm now getting the oppratunity to rant about how anime is not all hentai in my speech class.

This troper's brother has a classmate at his highschool who believes anime is nothing but hentai, period...

He actually said that watch Naruto if you want to see rape, or DBZ for tentacle porn...that kid is truly a sad case.

Show him {{Aria}}.

This kid must of never seen a anime in his life.

This troper grew up watching Sailor Moon and Totoro with her father. As she got older, she moved on into bigger and better things, from Neon Genesis Evangelion to Elfen Lied. Enter highschool, where everyone thought she had a sick, sick mind (despite her SHOWING THEM OTHERWISE) for reading a volume of FMA. She's thought about reading Loveless in school just for the shock value.

Same troper. Apparently, it's ALL comics and anime/manga is porn. Everyone in her biology class felt obliged to tell her that Watchmen was all about sex and "some naked blue guy".

This troper's mother was actually always ok with pretty much anything i wanted to read(i mean hell she stole my dads collection of american comics when they split up and gave them to me around the time i was 10..... including the Lobo comics), watch, or listen too. and she used to buy me mangas all the time...... i think she may have started regretting that when she found the porn on my computer

This troper once had a boy in my grade grab a volume of Pita Ten out of her hands and flip through it, only to turn straight to a page with full-frontal female nudity (albeit, drawn in extremely moe anime style). Well, then that boy started telling every other boy in my class that Japanese comics were all naughty and, needless to say, most of my classmates now tend to avoid manga. It's pretty sad, actually.

It's not a good sign when politicians get involved in this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp-USKnPDbY

Things will get much uglier if you see how people reacted to that (note the IGN Boards).

This troper recalls a {{troll}} who made a {{Facebook}} group stating that people who watch anime and cosplay are freaks/losers. Said troll threw around the word "hentai" like a synonym for "anime." Eventually, the people protesting the group (this troper included) stopped taking him seriously.

Also, one of his friends is a seller of ero-games (I'm getting tired of saying "hentai") and ero-anime at anime conventions. Even ''he'' thinks ''FateStayNight'' is full-blown hentai. '''FAILURE.'''

This troper wonders if it was an example of obvious trolling that was not understood, as explained by the xkcd quote on the Troll page...

This troper's father was convinced that "all manga series are violent". I told him that that statement was about as true as saying "all live-action movies are violent", and then patiently educated him that manga actually have a rating applied to them, which I showed him, along with the separate "œmature manga"� section in the bookstore, for those rated M. He seems to be assured that I'm not buying anything inappropriate after my mom confirmed that all the manga she'd ever bought for me wasn't rated over "older teen"� (though some of it is ecchi, so I'm glad he didn't actually flip through certain series I own.

One [=WebSense=]-type internet filter this troper has come into contact with blocks any and all websites that has something to do with anime, because, apparently, it falls under "Adult Themes, Nudity". When I was trying to find a perfectly work-safe screenshot of Osaka. PublicMediumIgnorance, or a sinister conspiracy designed to program our brains into thinking that even the most family-friendly Japanese cartoon is hentai? ...Probably the former, but hey, people get bored.

Everyone this troper knows either thinks anime is all cute and innocent like {{Pokemon}} or {{Naruto}} or it is dark, bloody and inappropriate for children.

They so need to go read AlienNine or watch WhenTheyCry...both have both balled into one!

Naruto is cute and innocent?

Decapitations, murders, torture, some really creepy pedo-subtext. Limbs being broken off, human puppets, enough blood to float the Titanic. You know, for kids.

Naruto is ''idealistic'', but it's not innocent, so it's not okay for ''young'' children. It's probably appropriate for younger teens than many things that are less violent but more cynical. YourMileageMayVary on whether a little gore and mayhem is more deleterious to children than soul-crushing despair and misanthropy, though. (Can you tell where this troper stands?)

This troper once found an "All Anime Sucks" stamp on DeviantArt. The one who made it justified his dislike for anime using this remark. When I told him he's prejudiced, he retorted, saying that "underage schoolgirls getting raped" is a general description that fits anime in general, therefore, he's right, adding that it's a shame good American comics get neglected in favor of anime. Guess how he reacted when I said american comics are about "spandex-clad men on steroids crushing steel chairs on each other's heads".

Please...do tell.

DHTW?

For the record, trying to back up your point by doing exactly what he did was a poor decision, partially because you were just as incorrect as he was.

Which was more or less the point.

Reflecting similar feelings towards someone in the hopes that they'll be able to emphasize with your point of view is, in this case, well-meaning. It also tends to not work.

This troper made the mistake of bringing a manga volume to youth group one day, just for something to read during downtime. Of course, the only time anyone bothered to look over my shoulder at what I was reading came when I reached the part about the magic ritual, in which the female lead was naked (albeit with AnimeAnatomy). Mine youth pastor, who's something of a JerkJock, immediately took it and made with the holier-than-thou speeches, and threatened to show my mom. I told him to go ahead. He did so, in a tone that suggested I was depraved for even looking at the thing in first place. Thankfully my mom, while about as ignorant of the medium as he was, was at least level-headed enough to ask me if it contained anything she would find inappropriate. I answered honestly that it didn't, and she took the book back from the youth pastor and told him to mind his own business next time. I love my mom.

This situation would also apply to regular non-manga comic books too then. Pastors are all very...holier than thou. It doesnt have to be a manga with transformation sequences, as I have found while sitting on a bus, even a normal generic comic book can get the attention of pastors...

Not even just the pastors. This Troper remembers reading a letter written in to Focus on the Family "Plugged In" magazine, in response to an article about manga and anime. I missed the main article, but the letter basically was how the writer was considered a "comic nerd" by her friends, but refuses to read any anime because it is all "perverse" and "immoral". Yeah, there's a reason that I don't have any respect left for that group of crazies.

This troper agrees in principle, but hastens to add that most reviews in that sort of magazine are geared to people who don't ''have'' the time to check it out for themselves. Anime and manga frequently ''are'' inappropriate, even if they don't look it at first (I once recommended Gensomaden Saiyuki to an eleven- or twelve-year-old without having read the chapters about Hakkai's past). Even the ''best'' anime and manga aren't worth screwing your kids up, so avoiding them altogether is a wiser policy if you're too busy to vet them thoroughly—you know, like if you ''work for a living'' or something. "Exposure to a wide variety of media" is too often treated as a religion, and persecuted for. It's goddamn comics and television, not the meaning of life.

Um, how does showing your kids something unpleasant going to screw them up? They're going to find out eventually, hiding the real world from them isn't helping them, it's setting them up for more failure down the line. Also, how the hell is anime worse then TV or movies? The majority has sex, violence, swearing and other "adult" themes, sorry to bring this up, but a lot of media for kids is badly made because they know kids won't complain about shitty entertainment. I'd rather my kids swear then watch bad tv.

Like the visualization of the atom, this explanation isn't going to be a perfect reflection of the actual ideas of said parents. But I'm going to give it my damned best. Imagine a child's mind/values is a wall of mud; not very good at keeping hurricane floods out. That's exactly what parents view certain levels of "negative", "violent", or "sexual" content. In this theory as a person develops, their understanding of the world solidifies, becomes less mailable. The mud wall turns to sand bags, then to cement, if you will. The parents fear if the hurricane hits before they become sandbags, that it will leave a permanent gouge, and the wall will finish forming with a gaping hole (a weakness or habit of immorality) that the child will have to work much harder to repair as an adult. The goal isn't to prevent exposure for life, but to allow the child time to develop without commercialized over-sexualization shoved in their face. Yes, they will be exposed to it eventually, but the parents want them to not be suckers for the market's ploys. This is a hard line to walk; too little exposure and the child never develops past mud, too much and the wall breaks. As for how anime is "worse", TV is something they are familiar with, they know the cues that often signal the "negative", "violent", or "sexual" content to come. It's not that it's more evil, it's that they are limiting the child to area's they can make semi-reliable snap decision in instead of having to learn a whole new lexicon. Sounds prudent to me, even if it does segregate off a world of fantastic storytelling (for a time). To an exhausted and over-busy parent, it just doesn't justify the effort when there are other options available. One last note: the control and regulation of sexual content in manga/anime is much more loose due to Japan's sexual culture; this is a hot-button issue for most of the religious folk you're thinking of. Since it is harder to be informed of the content... well, from their point of view, it makes even more sense to just ban the medium. Sad? Yeah, but like the above said, it's not like we're talking about a life here, even if us fans can get... passionate. (Don't get me wrong, a good story deserves it!)

Though don't make the assumption that all Christians/pastors are that way. Most of my {{Nakama}} are devout Christians, and we all go to conventions together. And one of us is planning to become a youth pastor; her favorite manga is InuYasha.

Heh. This troper had a similar experience when his friend brought the entire series of ''RurouniKenshin'' into class. Our teacher took an interest and asked what it was about, then picked up a volume and flipped through it. In an incredible stroke of bad luck, though, the page he managed to turn to was the scene where Kawatari (the VillainousCrossdresser) was... ahem, proving his biological gender to Misao and Kaoru, if you know what I mean. He was pretty cool about it, but it did leave him thinking that we were reading ecchi manga - and couldn't have been further off the mark.

This troper has to be very careful to hide her anime and manga as her parents think its either all full of cute cartoony animals or filthy devil worshipping orgies.

This troper once lent a friend a copy of the Wolf and Spice manga which has a few scenes with a naked wolf-girl goddess but nothing that bad. Her parents found it and declared that I was a bad influence on her, trying to corrupt her mind with porn and satanic worship.

I can understand the "porn" part of their accusations...but where did they get "satanic worship" from?? I thought she was a goddess.

A ''pagan'' goddess.

It is pretty anti-Christian, though probably excusable inasmuch as the Japanese know about as much about Christianity as JackChick knows about Shinto, and are only slightly more knowledgeable about European history.

This Troper got into anime when she was around the fifth grade, and her mother, after they both going to their first anime convention, thought it was 'demonic satan worship' or something along those lines. She was also paranoid about Yaoi when she asked about it at the convention. After watching half of the first InuYasha movie, that certainly didn't help. Even now she believes the posters of Naruto and HaruhiSuzumiya are 'scaring' her daughter at night, even though an anxiety disorder is probably to blame. I've not even gone near the subject of hentai yet. She doesn't know it exists, and I plan to keep it that way.

When this troper's parents suggested we watch the first season of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu he got for Hanukkah, he silently laughed nervously. He sat through the...err...grouptacular first few episodes, hoping to the gods that his parents would make it to Yuki's exposition at the beginning of the third episode and not immediately pass it off as Mikuru's Breasts - The Series. His mom made it and is now hooked. His dad...

Yes, Go on...

Presumably, he immediately passed it off as Mikuru's Breasts - The Series and refused to watch past the first couple of episodes.

Half of this troper's family was convinced nearly every anime was one of the following: Evil, Satanic, Violent, or a "Bad Influence". Remarkably, the other half is just fine with anything anime/manga related.

Even though this troper had been watching Toonami, DragonBallZ and SailorMoon for months at the time, her father's first reaction to her looking through the anime section at Blockbuster was to pull her away, explaining that "It's all for grown-ups; you're too young for that stuff."

To be fair, every Blockbuster ''this'' troper has been to seems to use the anime section as the place to cram any animated work too violent/sexy to place in the family section, regardless of national origin.

This troper has a roommate who used to strongly believe that all anime that was brought into North America was heavily censored to be apporpriate for kids, this includes {{FanSub}}s. Naturally I showed him ElfenLied and EndOfEvangelion. That partially changed his tune but I can't shake his belief that the cast of SailorMoon are drug addicted prostitutes who are regularly raped by the monsters they fight.

He must read a lot of ero-doujins.

This Troper's mother is a strange case. When troper was small and considered MyNeighborTotoro as one of her favorite movies, mom was fine. Fast forward to troper being about eight and obsessed with {{Pokemon}} and SailorMoon. Mom's fine. Middle school, troper starts borrowing other manga from her friend-- mainly {{Inuyasha}}. Mom no longer approving, just indifferent. High school. Troper joins anime club. Mom rolls eyes. Troper becomes major fan of FullmetalAlchemist. Mom wonders vaguely what it's about and is satisfied with vague answer. Over the course of four years of high school, Mom's attitude goes ''really'' sour: by the end of senior year, troper's been forbidden from bringing manga into the house, lectured on how "there are some perverse things about the Japanese culture" and how "it's ''all'' objectifying women" and the only way to watch a ''Miyazaki'' film without a lecture is for it to be Dad's idea. Considering that troper never read anything explicit at all, troper ''still'' has no idea where the sudden attitude change came from.

Possibly similar to where my mom got her ideas. She said once that I shouldn't read too much (read: hardly any) manga since it's "not real books" and could HURT MY CHANCES OF GETTING INTO COLLEGE! Because they might want a list of all the books I've read (FYI, they didn't and I got in. Yet there's no problem with me reading American comics.

Did they even consider most colleges have anime clubs and occasionally even anime-related courses these days?

This troper is fortunate in that his mother is under the impression that all anime is 'stupid (read: nonsensical) Pokemon'. His father is indifferent.

When this troper was a kid, he met one of his parents' coworkers who believed that {{Pokemon}} was about demonic forces. In more recent years, he specifically keeps a volumes of YotsubaTo around just in case he ever needs to defend himself from this trope.

One time my stepfather looked over my shoulder while I was watchig Trigun, and asked: "Are you watching those Japanese porn stuff again?" I tried to explain that it was not pornographic and said that "it's about a really idealistic guy who tries to save people all the time," and he actually believed me. And then told me that I'm far too old to watch superhero series, and should switch to hentai as soon as possible. Freak.

Awesome.

An odd example: This troper and her girlfriend are both devoted anime fans, but the troper once made the innocuous (in context) remark that sometimes she watches bad hentai just to make fun of it; conversation ensued, during which I mentioned the censorship laws and stated that the naughty bits were pixellated. It was then revealed that the girlfriend had thought that all ''hentai'' is naughty tentacles.

During after-school English tutoring to complete an essay my friend had a laptop out, looking through her backgrounds. She's as much of an Anime fan as me and most of her wallpapers were Naruto or something else, all SFW since the teachers can see ''everything'' a person has accessed or saved. Some nearby guys looked over and spied a totally innocent picture of Naruto looking badass, exclaiming that we were looking at porn. The teacher ignored them (thank God) while I face-palmed.

An inversion as witnessed by this troper - his father staunchly believes all animation (including anime) is exclusively children's entertainment, so the old man was completely enraged at the sight of a {{Hentai}} game running on this troper's desktop PC, calling it "stupid".

His (female) cousin is a mixed bag - for her, either anime is children's entertainment if it's "clean", or it's "porn" at the slightest {{Ecchi}} content even if it's not {{Hentai}}. Which title did she accuse of being "porn?" AiYoriAoshi.

Hilariously, that same cousin judged RumblingHearts to be a children's title when this troper asked her to buy the [=DVDs=] for him, not realizing that the title began life as a {{Hentai}} game.

This troper wishes.

This troper's father is an odd example case of "All Anime Is Poorly-Made Cartoons": he doesn't believe anime to be all adult or all kiddie material. Rather, he refuses to watch it at all due to "low animation quality." Now, he grew up during the era of shows like SpeedRacer, so his biased opinion has some grounding, but even with more modern shows he can't even get around something like simplistic mouth movements. My attempts to get him to understand that the point of a cartoon, like any medium, is the content (citing animes with epic stories or lots of action), have failed with him saying dismissively, "You have to be able to LOOK at it first." Never mind that lots of anime shows today are of very HIGH quality. I usually don't bother anymore, as my dad really only consents to watching older Loony Toons shows and thinks they're the pinnacle of cartoons in both animation and content. (Not to say that I think those shows are bad, mind you.)

Is your father John Kricfalusi?

Is your father my father?

No, I am your father!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

This Troper experienced a slightly less extreme example. I was reading a copy of FruitsBasket when a friend asked to have look, so I handed it to him. He and a couple of his friends flicked to a page with Rin either naked (or not wearing much I can't remember). Said friends look at me, and then back to the page. The one who asked to see it handed it back to me saying "[he liked] Manga now". I told him it wasn't all like that. He didn't really care.

When This Troper first brought in his Haruhi Suzumiya light novels to school, word quickly spread that I had "Japanese porn books". Granted, it didn't help that the back of the book has a picture of Haruhi stripping down Mikuru...

Weird, This troper was able to bring those into school,and nobody cared.

Crazy, a lot of my friends at school are fans of Haruhi, and I actually lent the first book to one of them.

This Troper brought the Haruhi manga to school (Volume 3, with Yuki on the cover :D), he was idiotic enough to read it in the JerkAss teacher's class. The teacher responded by taking it and putting it in the most noticeable place possible on the ground. Hilariously enough, I was more pissed off that he got the cover dirty (I'm VERY PROTECTIVE of my possessions. Headphones, books, game systems.... Anything), but... Everyone thinks anime is either shit like Naruto, or full-blown pr0n. (Which is semi-justified, as everyone ELSE actually does bring those kinds of series to school!)

During my anime fangirl phase we had a lesson in school on the jobs we wanted to do later on in life. I made the mistake of saying I wanted to be a manga artist..

This troper goes to high school. After saying that she watched Girl Utena and its movie in the holidays, and describing some of its content, everyone now thinks I spend my days looking at lesbian anime porn.

At this troper's former high school, most of her classmates knew of anime as "cartoons from China that were either cutesy Digimon or something seething with random tentacle rapings". To make matters worse my very religious mother thinks Pokemon and basically any other anime are Satanic. FacePalm

I was at Best Buy with a friend and bought a DVD of Ninja Nonsense. When I got home my mom saw what I got and she instantly thought it was porn. It took me a bit to convince her it wasn't and my brothers won't stop bringing it up.

This Troper has a classmate who, upon seeing his workspace covered in HidamariSketch, SuzumiyaHaruhi, LuckyStar, {{Popotan}}, OnePiece, TengenToppaGurrenLagann and GaoGaiGar, commented "why do all of these look like porn?"

Well, {{Popotan}} was ''based'' on porn...

Interesting aversion in this troper's case, it wasn't me, but my little (at the time, 12 year old) sister that got into anime and manga first. She checked out FruitsBasket from the library and read it, became an instant fangirl, and insisted I (18 at the time) read it. I did, and now I peruse the anime and manga shelves of media stores too. Our parents looked through the issue of FruitsBasket with Rin in it who is not wearing much (read, nothing) in one panel. But, since it was my sister who started the manga craze at my house, it was fine, after all, she obviously didn't get it for that kind of thing. Hence, mom is fine with all manga and anime, Ecchi or not, and dad calls it 'Nintendo Mitsubishi' shows/books. Cause, you know, Nintendo and Mitsubishi are japanese, and so is anime and manga. They must be the same!

GENIUS!

This troper is somewhat lucky. To his mother, all anime is "strange Japanese cartoons," but she doesn't have an actual ''problem'' with it at all.

Aversion on this troper's part. Nobody in my family knows about the existence of Yaoi, Yuri, Hentai, or Ecchi. Now I just have to keep them secret.

My school blocks all anime websites because of adult art. Yes, even the SOS Brigade website that has, like, six pictures.

My parents know that my sister and I love manga, but my mom is the one that usually buys it for us around Christmas/our birthdays. Last Christmas I got a particularly-hilarious inversion--My mom called to say that she was in FYE Movies and asked what anime [=DVDs=] I wanted for Christmas. I asked her to read out the titles. There was Bleach, Naruto, and a few others that I can't really remember, but she stopped at one: Strawberry Panic. Now, at the time I'd only heard about the series, so I looked it up on Wikipedia and discovered that it was Shoujo Ai. Not that I have any problems with it. I just felt ''really'' uncomfortable with my mom trying to buy it for me. I said that I wasn't very interested and she bought my sister two [=DVDs=] of Mahou Sensei Negima!...and one of them had the famous girl-girl kissing scene. And she still has no idea. Apparently, she has no idea that porn in anime exists. And I'm not complaining.

One of my friends thought this, when another friend of ours said he was into anime. Most of his IS porn though...but thats just the way he is.

This misconception is a possible reason why this tropette decided to wait until she turned eighteen to get interested in anime because it's obviously a "big magic number" for plenty of other things in the United States besides just being able to vote, that is, without even knowing that seventeen is the age of consent in her jurisdiction, although she wasn't fully registered until she was twenty, just about a month before the 2008 Presidential Election.

However, since she decided to wait until she hit that milestone to get into anime, it seemed difficult for her to sit through an "old school" theme that her community college's anime club once had, which meant that the club was going to be watching episodes of GatewaySeries that she was supposedly uninterested in during her tween and adolescent years not just because of her concerns about content that she was yet to handle at that time along with thinking that ItsPopularNowItSucks.

This troper knows of at least one book store where the manga section has big 'WARNING: MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN AND PRE-TEENS!' stickers all over the shelves. The "Love and Erotica" section? No such warning.

This Troper once brought his Pilgrim volume 3 novel that he had bought the previous weekend to school. I started reading it in the locker room, someone caught a glimpse of the woman on the back cover, and word got out that I was reading some kind of Japanese porno, even though Scott Pilgrim bears no resemblance to Manga whatsoever.

Yes, it does, but regardless, that person's an idiot.

That's high school for ya.

Inverted with my parents. They have absolutely no problem with me watching anime, but they view all American comics without Batman or Superman on the cover as torture porn (which they got from hearing what Alan Moore's works were about).

Inverted by my mom, since she used to watch ''MagicKnightRayearth''

I, a college student and a member of the school's anime club, got bullied recently because of this. They pestered me with questions related to hentai (Ex: "What is Ero?", probably about Jiraiya from ''{{Naruto}}''). They even said that ''{{Full Metal Panic}}'' '''IS HENTAI!''' (It's more like ecchi, actually.)

Despite all attempts to get his friends to watch/read real anime/manga that This Troper believes to be truly creative works -- AiYoriAoshi, DeathNote, {{Chobits}}, BlackLagoon -- the inevitable reaction is "where's the porn." Even trying to get people to read TanakaYutaka's wonderful ero work, the inevitable reaction is "where are the tentacles." I'm not sure whether I am happy or sad that the one anime I've been able to consistently get people interested in is Bokusatsu Tenchi Dokuru-chan. On the one hand, it's hilariously awesome and totally worth watching, on the other, it's BloodyHilarious and probably just reinforces the stereotype that all anime is either full of tentacles, breasts and/or blood. And I have mixed feelings about even remaining friends with people who can't find ''{{Yotsubato}}'' worth reading.

This troper was just reading this page the other day. The ''very'' next day in class, a subversion occurred where some classmate opened a part of my bag which was in my desk in front of me. Not that I minded but since I knew I had some ''{{Hellsing}}'' someone else lend me to watch weeks ago, I, being kind of GenreSavvy saw this trope coming. Another classmate who also watched anime was sitting next to me. It went something like: #QUOTE#'''Classmate A''': *Opens the bag and peeks a bit* -Troper- has porn! #QUOTE#'''Classmate B (next to me)''': WHAT #QUOTE#'''This Troper''': (Totally saw that one coming) #QUOTE#'''Classmate A''': Oh wait it's just what... Naruto? No, ''Hellison''? #QUOTE#'''This Troper and Classmate B''': LOLWAT *cracking up at "Hellison". #QUOTE#'''Classmate B''': ''HELLSING''. #QUOTE#'''Classmate A''': I mean "Hellsing"! She then proceeded to ask us (mostly to him responding) odd questions about why we liked to watch that kind of stuff. Now I always refer to the series as Hellison.

This troper epically averted this trope in college. TWICE. Both times, in college, Anime was used as the topic for a report. THe first time was during an Art class, in which my CATHOLIC NUN professor was amazed at my artistic analysis of Anime and Manga. The second time, my highly conservative, Mr. Heaney-look-a-like philiosophy teacher asked me where he could by Haruhi Suzumiya after I astounded him with a detailed discussion about why Haruhi would give Niezche an anurism.

This troper was watching an episode of Azumanga Daioh when his father walked by. The following conversation- #QUOTE#'''Father''': What are you doing? #QUOTE#'''Troper''': Just watching some anime. #QUOTE#'''Father''': Oh. *inspects screen* Which one gets raped? #QUOTE#'''Troper''': What.

To this troper, it happened once while buying Manga. So I'm in the mall, and there is a comic book store that also sells manga. No big deal since they have all kinds of manga and a lot fo people go there to buy them. At the time, I was buying Higurashi manga, Watanagashi-hen more specifically. After I paid, I went outside and sat on a bench and started to read a bit, and some girl I never met suddenly comes up to me and says: "What are you reading? A book about dildos?". Exactly like that. I then angrily told her that it was a horror, and then she left. Seriously, one small look on the cover and instantly its about dildos? How retardedly ignorant can people get??? I then have this subverted with my parents, who gladly watched Evangelion with me, more so because I recommended it to my mother because she is writing a book about philosophy, so I told her Evangelion would give her some ideas. She thanked me immensly.

This troper knows this all too well. ''Everyone'' I went to Middle School thought anime was either {{Naruto}} or {{Hentai}}. Sans a conversation between me and my rather stupid classmate. #QUOTE#''Me'': *watching anime attentively* #QUOTE#''Classmate'': OH MY GOD! ___ is watching '''ANIME PORN'''! #QUOTE#''Me'': No. Does '''''this''''' look like ''porn'' to you? #QUOTE#''Classmate'': MISS _____! She's '''watching porn'''. #QUOTE#''Me'': '''''THIS IS NOT FUCKING PORN YOU RETARD!''''' #QUOTE#''Classmate'': Whatever. You're a dirty little skank. #QUOTE#''Me'': It's like frickin' Spongebob, it's ''not'' porn. It's INNOCENT ART! >:( #QUOTE#''Classmate'': Ugh, what a slut. You see my point. The guy (yes, the classmate was indeed a guy.) refused to believe anime is ''not'' porn. What I was watching wasn't even close. It was {{Ouran High School Host Club}}.

This Troper is lucky. My mom's bought me 11 volumes of {{Berserk}} (and other violent series) and hasn't said anything, despite the covers, simply stating "I don't know what that series is about." (for the record, she's also bought me a DVD of TheShining, even encouraging me to watch it) She's read through a few chapters of DeathNote (after I asked for it for my birthday once), and I've explained to her the plotlines of CaseClosed, AxisPowersHetalia, AzumangaDaioh, and a few other series that I own, so she understands how varied anime can be. It helps that my mom enjoys some anime: she's a HUGE fan of MyNeigborTotoro, and has an interest in Sailor Moon & Pokemon left over from me watching those as a kid, and she loves listening to me talk about Hetalia (because of the France character: she's a french immigrant).

This troper got into drawing manga around the age of 11 (and still does). However, by the time I got to the age of 15, I was constantly having to explain to my friends that manga does not equal hentai and not all anime is Pokémon. (For the record, aged 17, I still watch and play Pokémon. I admire the childish humour of the anime and the hidden complexities of the game) I had a couple of friends who shared my interest and they managed to convince my closest friends how innocent it is, but there was always one who managed to see what I was drawing and say "Urgh, why are you drawing manga porn?" ... it's a person stood by themselves in a dress. How is that porn?! Thankfully my parents know that the manga I read is most certainly NOT hentai, and even buy it for me when I ask nicely.

This troper's parents are more or less this trope, but admittedly, they've eased up these days. My mom originally wouldn't allow me to ''learn how to draw manga'', and even took away a tutorial book from my friend while she stayed over (not to burn it or anything, but to prevent me from reading it). The worst part was how she'd highlight any evidence that supported her views on anime (i.e.: searching "smut and porn in anime" on Google to show that all anime is about smut and porn) and blow things out of proportion. Now she's okay with me learning manga, but she still doesn't know about my secret obsession with ''FullmetalAlchemist'' and ''SoulEater''.

Same troper here: When you think about it, this notion of anime is actually pretty unfair; if I wanted to show a bunch of Tokyo natives that all Western/American animation was degenerate, immoral smut, I wouldn't have a hard time with it: I'd start with ''FamilyGuy'' and ''SouthPark'', and work my way to ''TimeSquad''.

And ''TimeSquad'' is degenerate and immoral because...?

This Troper's parents used to think all anime was bad after hearing a story of how her cousin accidentally read some hentai from the library, thinking it was cute and innocent based on the cover. For the longest time, they refused to let her watch ''{{Hamtaro}}''. Freakin' ''Hamtaro''.

I don't have any bad parent stories. When my family seemed mostly disinterested in anime after loving SpiritedAway and Metropolis subsequently giving my sister nightmares, I was afraid for a time it was because of the "Pokemon or porn" stereotype and that Miyazaki and guess a few big budget movies were seen as exceptions. Turns out it wasn't the case at all and it was more of a "not wanting to watch TV while cooking dinner/OtakuOClock" thing; my mom actually got really into some ecchi stuff like Negima and Chobits (the latter she wouldn't let me watch for a while but followed herself). I did, however, once see an entire anime section of a local baseball cards/comics store as 18+ due to one parent's complaint about blood in one anime. I swear I saw Totoro behind the counter. My dad called the manager to complain about the censorship. The store closed pretty quickly.

This troper's pretty much been a fan of anime since birth, and when he met his best friend, at the age of ten, when I brought up a series other then Naruto (I forgot what it was now), he said "Isn't that for adults?". When he came over to my house, it was Toonami night, so we watched IGPX. "Tell me that's for adults, dude. Tell me that's for adults." He could have won if it wasn't a first-season episode...

This troper's parents don't like anime (though my mother loves StudioGhibli films) but they're ok with me watching it. However, when I took a volume of Hellsing into school, all hell broke loose. Some of my other friends, who know I'm yaoi fangirl, reacted badly when I mentioned I'd been watching anime, assuming it was porn. (It was Trigun).