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Another thing about anime is that it's very much a teenager thing.

I think a reason for that is that when a person is a teenager is around the time they try to figure out their own identity. And to make things really binary, you're either like other people, in which case you probably don't need to do much soul searching to figure out your identity, or you're not like other people.

And if you're not like other people, that means that you can't like things other people like, so you have to find something new (at least to you). And anime had a built-in "exotic" factor.

I'm not sure what that'll be like in a generation, since Americans are now getting exposed to anime earlier.



FO was telling me today how she hates Azumanga Daioh and would instantly reject any SAB submissions that involve it. She said that almost every picture she's seen on the internet from it show some characters doing something goofy, and then the same two characters looking at them stone-faced.

No, not at all. I don't have an a priori argument. People who like anime a lot that I've met tend to be teenagers, or close to it. That's just a fact.

I doubt American culture seems as exotic to Asians as Asian culture seems to Americans, anyway.

Actually, though, now that I've typed this, I have read some blogs from some Americans living in Japan who have described Japanese male teens doing their best to act like gangster rappers.

...but thanks for affirming that teenagers judge the maturity of a show in the most superficial way.

Here's a scene with swearing that's intended for adults.