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Might be an US thing, I don't think I talked to anyone watching anime in the past IDK, 20 years? Besides kids watching dragon ball at the TV after lunch, if that counts as anime.

I can't even tell a modern title or an author.

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Opposite experience. Here in the US, I've heard a lot more people watching anime than when I was a kid. Especially modern ones such as Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, etc.

Same. Being into anime (and gaming, and RPGs, and sci-fi, etc.) marked you as an outcast nerd when I was a kid.

Nowadays, most of it is nearly mainstream. Granted there is still some weirdness like grown 40yo men obsessed with schoolgirl harem anime...

Take a guess at what they might have been into when they were kids!

I think the only way to get a real picture here would be doing surveys and finding out quantitatively.

I also don't watch anime and don't know anyone who does really.

Could certainly be a US thing, but I've found the tech crowd and the anime otaku crowd to overlap a lot. Ditto for science fiction.

Also in screenshots from underground hacker forums in the news the users who leak databases or hack something often have anime-styled kind-looking avatar which creates a contrast with post content.

Same here in the UK. Not a single sniff of anything anime at all in my day to day life, but I am bombarded by all sorts of other shite (Marvel and other comic-based movies etc) on billboards and the like. I've never seen it pushed to the top on any of the UK streaming services.

I know nothing of anime nor manga, apart from recognising the style. Never watched it - looks like kid stuff TBH.

I think a lot of anime watchers hide it.

> looks like kid stuff TBH.

Especially when this is the attitude held by most of the older generation.

The US and France are the highest consumers of Anime content from what I recall

How old are you? Because people talk about it all the time.

Demon Slayer is incredibly popular with younger people.

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