I don't believe in "age appropriate" interests

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I'm a girl, and I'm not going to stop like baby shows... I HATE SPORTS...

Watch whatever you like to watch, just learn to let people ragging on it roll off like water off a duck's back.

Who's being more of a child, the person who likes 'baby shows' or the person who's acting like a 10 year old making fun of their classmates for preferring cartoons to Scarface?

Thinking about the time I was bullied out of liking Mario and forced myself to play Zelda, which I only touched for a few seconds due to the difficulty and anime style...

I fear I will never outgrow Looney Tunes and start watching The Simpsons or whatever x rated anime with illegal content is out there.

If you feel like watching the Simpsons represents some sort of maturity milestone, give it a shot. If you don't like it, that's fine. If you do like it, that's fine too.

Most mature anime isn't hentai (x-rated) and most x-rated content focuses on legal content. Unless you're creeping around the dark web you're unlikely to encounter video with illegal content.

Y@ndere and underaged characters being sexualized is illegal and that's all anime is.

There's multiple layers to unpack here.

For starters, yandere characters only appear in a few genres of anime and manga, they'd be wildly out of place in many other genres of anime. They might work in romantic and comedy themed anime but in stuff that doesn't have romantic themes there isn't even a way one could include that sort of character.

Secondly, characters being sexualized (regardless of age) isn't universal in anime because many genres don't deal with situations or themes that would allow for it. Some anime looks for excuses for fan service, but this isn't universal and might be falling out of fashion somewhat.

A show like Wangan Midnight doesn't sexualize any of it's characters because the focus is on street racing, you see very little of the characters private lives outside of that focus. Take your pick of Miyazaki films, you won't find a sexualized situation in any of them. A show like Lucky Star makes some pretty tame innuendos, but it would be a stretch to describe it as sexualizing any of the characters.

It's not like there aren't R-rated animes with sexual themes, but they're usually the same sort of content that Hollywood also pedals in. Actual hentai also exists, but most anime isn't hentai and most hentai isn't loli or shota.

If depicting minors as sexualized characters was illegal there wouldn't be multiple movies made of the novel Lolita (for example). What's illegal is child pornography, which is not defined so broadly that something like that would count.

Beyond that, if all the anime you've seen is illegal pornography you should question if where you're seeing anime is a good source.

So basically:

A lot of anime doesn't incorporate romantic or sexual themes at all.
A lot that does incorporate those themes doesn't focus on them.
A significant portion that focuses on them doesn't do so in a pornographic sense, but instead uses those themes not unlike how Hollywood does, or for ecchi comedy.
Most pornographic anime features characters who are intended to be adults, even when they also use moe aesthetics which can make characters appear ambiguous due to their proportions.
You should try to watch anime on places other than porn sites if all you're ever seeing is hentai. I don't think I've ever seen hentai posted to regular anime sites.

Not good at making the distinction .

I'm sick of no one believing what I like...

The people who push age appropriate interests are stodgy people from earlier generations. I take their opinions with a grain of salt.

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I never thought watching The Simpsons for many years made me "mature". Especially when Homer is more like a child than his own kids.

It's not unusual for adults to like cartoons aimed at a younger audience. If they didn't, we wouldn't have artists working on these shows. Or at least, artists who don't all hate their job. I've met my fair share of animators, designers and artists who enthusiastically talk about unique walk cycles and cartoon characters who inspired them to pursue their interest.

Cartoons are fun. You get to exaggerate with them and tell more outlandish stories.

Likewise with authors who write children's books. They don't all hate their job either.

^This^

Let's not generalize here. Like funeral said, if all you are seeing is porn, maybe stop viewing it?

The puzzle piece filled age appropriate interests guide I found while researching age appropriate interests because the dickweeds told me Mario and Elmo were for babies when I couldn't fu*king control it at the time read this:

If he really loves Sesame Street -- created for children -- he may love the Muppets -- which were created for viewers of all ages. If she's a big fan of Disney animation, she may enjoy more sophisticated Manga or even shows like "The Simpsons."

And now my family is judging me for loving Looney Tunes, LPS, Furby, etc

Coyote and Roadrunner cartoon replays .....forever ... ...hmmm.. maybe not quite forever ....
Just like the stuff that came from the ACME company in big boxes, that the Coyote would build to try to get the Roadrunner ..... Sillynesses.