Autism and anime!

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We would not see something like that where I live. Peoples in Québec barelly know that anime exist! The fault of our medias, no tv network ever show anime, not even the channel devoted to animation. (Teletoon, they stubbornlly refuse to show any anime ) Add to that the lack of french translation on the series sold in North America. Manga work though, thanks to the availability of french translated manga imported from France.

Strangely enough though, my few experiences of real life encounter with aspies hint that a lot Québec aspies like anime, somehow.


Why? There is some great anime. Did you watched Ghibli movies at least?

I generally don't like fiction, and I really don't like the art/animation style of anime.

I am similar to this, only it's not really the art I don't like in anime. I dislike the sounds and the repeated, unrealistic, yet overly cliche plots.

I can understand the appeal behind it, but it's just not for me.

I always assumed that the s**t ton of aspies being born at one time (late 80's to early 90's) is what made autistic folk like childish things. at one point most of the first to second wave of aspies/auties were teenagers and teenagers are magnetized to anime like men are to exploding micheal bay films. I think there's no correlation since anime just happened to be in when a majority of us were born. like if 30,000 aspies were born in 1850 we would all be labelled as liking ballroom dancing or whatever the hell teenagers did back then.

I used to like anime, but i outgrew it after less than a year. fairy tail is the only one i still like because the director isn't a tool. but 99.9999% of anime is just terrible. the plots are usually about as structured as a fart.

I don't think anime liking is linked to being aspies.

I am kind of in between in my opinion of liking or not liking anime.

Some anime is kind of interesting or might have a few interesting characters or some neato animation scenes, then, some of anime has awful characters and/or has a weak or absent or stupid plot and I get pissed off that I even watched it.

Also, I have an aversion to some of the huge eyed characters.

You could say the same thing about several groups of people. Anime tends to be popular in America lately. Especially among people with depressive disorders it would seem and more generally teenagers. I think you made the correlation because you wanted it to be true. I don't think there would be any correlation to autism and anime... Anime is a very broad thing. Japanese animation isn't all manga based.

Consider this, Both Pokemon and Bleach are Anime. What do they have in common? Why the correlation to autism, and not your age group, gender, etc. I believe most people would say they like an anime. NT or not. You can't discern between hardcore "otauku" and casual fans of Pokemon or Dragon Ball Z. There is no reasonable logic for the discrepancy between casual and hardcore, other than a bias and a slight prejudice.

I don't think there is any correlation. Anime is popular. So many kids grew up with Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, DB, DBZ, Yu-yu Hashiko,Inuyasha, whatever it was they like. Some pursued that further. I could be wrong, but it is unlikely there is a connection between anime and autism. I do like anime, and while I am not diagnosed convinced of my aspergers I am not a hardcore fan. I watch and enjoy various animes, I think simply because I watched it as a kid, and much of it is still entertaining. Dragon Ball Z, Inuyasha, Bleach, Yu-gi-oh, Death Note etc.

I'm not really a fan of anime in general, but I watched old Pokemon episodes and movies with my brother when I was younger (haven't seen anything past the Jirachi movie and maybe part of the Lucario movie), but now I'm into Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin* and Free!- Iwatobi Swim Club.

*hence the Historia Reiss avatar

I'm a brony. I love my little pony!

I was REALLY into anime right after highschool. I actually got very absorbed in the shows and felt very emotionally connected to the characters. My favorites were Inuyasha, Cowboy Bebop and Fullmetal Alchemist. A couple years ago, I was really into School Rumble and Azumanga Daioh.

I was hardcore into Sonic the Hedgehog for most of my childhood and into my teens. Around that, I've been obsessed with a few different animes. Right now, it's Yowamushi Pedal.

My mum disapproves greatly because of the "wide eye" thing. "Their eyes are as big as balloons." she says.

I've never heard of a correlation between autism and anime. Doesn't matter if you're on the AS or not, regardless of being an anime lover. I like some anime but I don't watch it very often. I don't read manga. If I did, I was checking it out. Sailor Moon is the show I like the most. My favourite character is Sailor Moon because I wanted to style my hair after hers but I never got to do it. I also favoured Sailor Mars.

I wanted to go to the anime convention and see what was about. For some reason I didn't feel like going, somehow I don't have much of an excitement for any convention related to comics, cartoons etc. So I watch cartoons that I like from YouTube, as I'm not a diehard fan. I never understood why people who are fans of a particular cartoon or other pop culture act die for merchandise, conventions related to pop culture. I'm not the kind of person who acts like he or she can't live without something I like.

If I were watching anime, I'm just browsing and see if I like it, otherwise I'm looking at something else.

I don't think there is a correlation either.
I've met some otakus and none of them were aspies or autistics.
I'm not a fan myself but there are a few that i liked.

Their eyes are horrible.

I'm a "casual" fan of MLP: FiM (used to be a hardcore brony though, until I realized how annoying I was ), and I've had an interest in Japanese culture for most of my life, mainly because of video games, but I've dabbled a bit in watching anime and reading manga as well.

Really, I'm more of a music/computer/gaming nerd than an otaku or brony. Specifically, I'm into retrogaming, I'm a bit of a rivethead, and I like building and repairing PCs.

I've known other aspies who were really into anime, and the two that I can recall were also bronies as well. Many of my anime-obsessed NT friends like MLP: FiM as well. Anime and MLP sort of go hand in hand, it seems.

I think anime has an unfair stigma attached to it, whatever people say. Probably moreso in places where it has trended. This could partly be due to the selection of anime that was introduced successfully to western television, either because it was kid friendly 'as cartoons oughtta be' or because it wasn't too 'weird' for the west to handle. Anime is not a 'weird foreign version of cartoons' that tend to get far too violent and raunchy. Just because animation is used primarily for kids shows in the west, people should open their minds a little and recognize it as a medium, not a genre. Just like with live action film and television, you get good and bad, kids and adult material, horror, drama, comedy, etc. Some is total tripe and all action (like many hollywood movies) and some is engaging and iconic with brilliant writing. It does not all look the same, artists vary, show styles vary, so the looks vary, though they predominantly have that japanese flair and technique that disturbs many westerners. Japan also has different levels of shock value, censorship and taboo, being it's own country, so some material that seems shocking is not intended to be. To rule out anime rules out a lot of amazing shows and movies as well as an interesting perspective and storytelling style from another culture. It could be fair to say most of it is bad, but I would say that about live action too. It's just another medium, it's more childish to berate a fan of it than to watch it.

While I agree with your point, I'd like to nitpick and say that teenagers as a societal phenomenon didn't exist as such before the 1950s. In the 19th century, everyone below the age of legal consent was considered a child, and it was mainly those born into the higher social classes who were involved in the latest trends in culture and arts. Working class adolescents were often employed from an early age. The rift between the rich and the poor was a LOT bigger in Western countries in the 19th century than it is today. There was no consumer culture as it exists today, and no market particularly targeting an adolescent demographic, because a) that demographic wasn't as equalized as it is now, and b) the majority of them had no access to disposable money to spend, while those who did ususally had it governed for them by their parents.