I guess you can't part with them despite them being space-eaters? ;) Are they the Shoujobeat ones or the Japanese ones? Are they big enough to make a chair out of? ;)

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Well if this was a Japanese forum, maybe the age would be 40 and up. I use to hangout at a newgroup called rec.arts.anime and most of the people from what I sensed were guys that were between 22 to 35. But the media has a stigma attached to being an anime otaku, although fanboys have used this as a playful term in the last few years that they are an anime and manga fanatic. ;)

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i'm 15 n started to read manga last year
but i started comics since young (actually forgot when is it )

Hmm, 35 here, been into manga for...three years? Four years? Something like that... My brother's two years older and he's into anime & manga too, though not as much as I am. ^_~

It all started with Ranma vol. 2 at my local library, which confused the heck out of me. (Wait, wasn't that a boy on the previous page? But now it's definitely a girl...eeehh?!??!) Now I read over 100 series and buy what I love.

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Im 18, but i could see myself still into manga and anime going into my late 40's at least

A great enough story can transcend its medium and entertain a dynamic demographic. I have often found many good examples of life lessons in manga and anime which can apply to many people. While the majority of manga seems to be meant for a younger audience, we're all still children in our own way, and we're always learning. I don't plan on giving up manga any time soon either.

I'm 19, but I remember watching like Dragonball, Yu-Yu Hakusho and Saint Seiya when I was like 6. But I only really started going "Huh, anime and mangá... Cool, I have to go after them!" when I was... 16. I discovered the Internet. And scanlation groups. And considering mangás here are a novelty of sorts, something like a 4, 5 years thing... I don't know, but it hasn't been long. As for anime, well, I don't buy much because I lack funding (laughs) I dl though, but little.

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@ stranger 2... same here.. i watched anime for a while before i even knew it was anime/manga... didn't really figure it out till I came to college.

Same here, I watched it before I knew what "Anime" was. I was 8 then. My taste has changed since, I like more blood and more "The good guys don't all ways win" and anime were you root for the bad guys.

i watched anime since i could remember...

my cousins were into anime so i just watched along with them... i never figured out it was anime till i was about.. 14?? (haha i'm slow) but i just figured it was like any old animated show/cartoon

the first anime i watched was in chinese i think... so i have noooooo idea what it was.. i remember watching things like dragonball, yuyuhakusho, sailormoon, ... something with a panda.. something with a girl turning into a pig super hero?... lol lots of random things ^^;

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I'm 22 years old.

@ stranger12/Manick/ZinnKid
It's the same for me. I watched the old Captain Tsubasa anime and many others before i even knew that it was anime. In the middle of the 90's anime/manga had a big breakthrough in Germany. Since then i have known what manga/anime is.

Seventeen.

And I've been into anime and manga for two and a half years... Even less, if you subtract half a year of MMORPG's (witch are even more evil than Japanese culture).

Not much, I know. But nothing has ever kept me as hooked up as anime/manga, that's why the day I discovered it kinda opened a new page in my life and drastically changed my lifestyle.

I wonder, when I'll turn 30, will I be begging God to send me back in time and prevent me from getting addicted to this. "A journey to save my youth" or something like that...

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hmn... 15 yrs. started liking anime since i was 7.. (pokemon... digimon... lalala...) but became crazy over it when i got cable tv when i was 12/11 (SAIYUKIII!!) and now...

lesse... back in the days... i had to starve myself at school coz my parents won't buy for me or my bros anime... we had to save using our own pocket money. not that THAT has changed... lol. i was born in 91.. technology has been advancing since then.

Reading through I see soo many youngsters... So young and full of life that it makes me wanna go through my teenage years again... Being 22 is so tiring. I understand my grandparents better now... Young fellas really have so much energy. But they really missed the beginning of everything. Lol, the ataris, neses, 8 bits, jaguars, turbografxes... Ever heard of the super wild card? Lol Im going off topic I think... Bah old is gold. I'll console myself with that. Ha ha.

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22? old?
Thanx for making me feel ancient

34 here (sigh)

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