What was the most annoying thing your parents ever said to you about anime?

"Stop watching cartoons." Same as everyone else~
This one not the same~ "Go and sleep."
LOL I have to sleep and she calls me in the middle of an episode. I reply with "X minutes"
Although I don't necessarily keep to X.
 
My parents don't like me locked up in my room watching anime the whole weekend. They get suspicious on what I watch, but since it is in Japanese, they can't really yell at me for it since they never look at my monitor.

Although, I hate it when my parents ask me about my anime and all. (I got her to buy 15 volumes of an ecchi manga without her realizing so far, however). They usually ask,

"Are you supposed to be watching this?" - Jigoku Shoujo.
"When are you going to stop watching this!?" - Negima!?/TMOHS
"Isn't this a kids' show?" - Digimon/Pokemon/Sergeant Keroro
"Is that supposed to be a guy?" - OHSHC (Haruhi)

So yeah that's how it goes.
 
"Stop watching tv for kids"- I hate this so much, I'll watch what I like thanks. Mature themes included.

"What are you playing that pokemon game for, you are 17." seriously. ARRGGHH

They think I'm a bit of a social reject. I suppose I don't go out and get drunk like other 17 years old, not because I can't fit in, it is because I don't want to 'fit in'. I'm happy as I am. =)
 
"I hate this animation." -I've heard this a thousand times from my dad.
"Why do they make such eerie-looking eyes?" -Again from my dad.
Plus, I have to put up with routine teasing from my mom about my choice of video games (pokemon, of course), which she pronounces entirely wrong.
She usually says it like, "Pokeemons" or "Pokeemans". Seriously, for a woman who spends half her life talking in Spanish to her friends on the phone, she can't even recognize a simple accent mark. Sheesh.
 
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These are quotes I get from my dad whan I watch Naruto and DBZ:
"Nut scented ALIEN!" mocking the Japanese end credit song of DBZ :laugh:.
"You don't have squinchy eyes like me" Giving Rock Lee's master a line to say ( like in MST3K :laugh: .
"He's taking a dump!" DBZ grunts :laugh: . (sometimes I even say it :laugh: )
"Full Bellied ZENKAI POWER!" mocking the DBZ end song (again :\)
"Why are there people with animal heads in this?" DBZ
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When I was watching Death Note this morning, he tells me all this japanese culture stuf (he's a social studies teacher). I'm thinking "I don't care! I just want to watch Death Note!"
Sometimes he points out that a character looks cross eyed by saying "Why are do all anime characters look at their nose?"
He also metions that japanese men are pervs when an anime girl is shown with a short dress. I've learned to live with it :laugh: . He's actually pretty funny.
 
My mom (who is a fujyoshi herself):
"Wow, I need to find doujins of [INSERT MALE CHARACTER NAME] X [INSERT MALE CHARACTER NAME]"

Gets annoying real quick. At least I live away from home now.
 
Usually, my parents don't watch with me, thank goodness. When they do, however, it's quite annoying.

"See? Now even your sister is watching this," -my grandma (My sister is 3 years old and she watches EVERYTHING with me.)

"What's so funny?" -my dad (I was watching a funny episode of D.Gray-Man and I begged him to at least watch one episode with me. I guess it was a pretty bad idea after all xD)

"Change it to your sister's program NOW!" -my mum (Whenever the ending song starts playing)

"Switch it off please. I want to give your sister a bath." -my mum again (when my sister watches Pokemon with me; it airs at 10 a.m. over here and my sister usually hasn't taken a bath by then)

"Are you doing work or playing?" "What do you do on the computer the whole day?" "Why are you watching a cartoon in Japanese?" -my grandma again (I watch anime on the internet everyday except Saturdays and Sundays.)

My sister LOVES to talk about random things while I'm watching anime. When I watch Pokemon she'll start saying "Pika... CHU!" xD

On top of all that, my cousin loves to play Naruto on his PSP and he pronounces Sasuke as "Sa-su-key", no matter how many times I tell him it's "Sa-su-ke".

ARGH! I'm the only person in my family who watches anime and reads manga, so it's VERY annoying when my parents (and grandma) ask silly questions and tease and nag at me.
 
hmmm...i'm pretty sure my parents ended up giving up on me watching anime a long time ago...so i don't remember what they said against it. I really don't think they actually did say anything about it now that i remember...i just know they made comments on the stuff i was watching, like noting the obvious. Hey, this has Mahjong (Akagi), hey i remember this stuff from when i was in school (Bamboo Blade). and other stuff like that is generally their comments
 
Oh that's easy.

'Why are you watching these kiddy cartoons?'

And the best part is that it's always during Ghost in the Shell, Fullmetal Alchemist, or one of the other Animes that aren't for kids. I should show them Wind Ninja Chronicles one of these days, and then see if they still think Anime is all kiddy cartoons.
 
My parents do laugh at me watching anime, but they do it in a very friendly way. After all, they both like Miyazaki's movies, for example. And my brother watches anime, too, so they don't whine about it that much, more like mock us a friendly way.

Anyway, nowadays they don't say much when I watch anime because the reason I can pronounce Japanese so well is anime. (They don't teach pronuncation where I study Japanese.) They're very proud of me for speaking Japanese, so they can't really say much xD

But of course, that's because I never watch dubs. I can't stand English dubs or the way American voice actors pronounce Japanese words. They never get it right. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I'm just so used to the Japanese way of pronouncing, say, "Inuyasha" or "Kagome", that I simply can't switch my mind into thinking "Ka-gou-meh" is the same thing.
I watch the Finnish dub of Pokémon, though, but the pronounciation of Finnish is so close to the Japanese one it's not that bad. I'd still rather watch a subbed version.
 
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