Two Requests...

[Raiden no Kishi]

I feel sort of childish for posting these, but they're important to me...

1. As you may know, my mother hates anime. The most she's ever seen is half of an episode of Rurouni Kenshin. In this particular episode, Kenshin and Sanosuke are dueling their way through Shishio's fortress, and Sano duels Anji the Destroyer. Like a good antagonist, Anji monologues about his past as a monk. After the episode ends, Mom complains about "all the Buddhist philosophy" in the anime. Later on, Mom says to me that when she looks at anime, all she sees is a different worldview. Thus, she now writes off all anime as bad. Furthermore, I turn on Gundam Seed just to see if it's any good, and Mom enters and sits next to me. She says, "This is an anime right?" I reply, "Yes." Her response: "This isn't one of the adult ones is it?" Can you believe this? I'm a seventeen-year-old committed Christian, and she wonders if I'm watching an "adult" anime!? I replied, in a tone that showed my displeasure, "No, Mom, of course not." Mom has made nothing but disparaging remarks about anime in general for the entire time she's known I like it. She's only seen a half an ep of RK and a smidge of Gundam Seed.

Now, don't get me wrong, Mom loves me more than life itself, andd is a godly lady. But I need her to lighten up. I need her to trust me. I'm almost an adult. Yet she treats me like I have the discernment of a child.

2. Drawing comes very hard for me. I've tried classes, bbooks, andonline tutorials, but still have a child's level of skill. Please pray that God would either help me become skilled at drawing, or remove my desire to draw well. Preferably the former, since the latter is unlikely. ^_~

Rai

P.S. If you have any advice, please PM me.

[Rogie]

I'll PM this to you after I post it here.

As you've already said, your mother does love you, and perhaps what she is doing is being concerned for you (and showing that concern). I'll admit that this can definitely be maddening (it was and oftens still is for me). But be patient, pray, and try to explain to your mom what type of anime you watch and how you make your decisions. Tell her that you don't like adult anime (and any others that you disagree with), explain why, and explain which anime and what types of anime you do like to watch, why you like them, and why you feel that they are not sinful. In this way, maybe she will understand the situation better. Just remember to be patient with her own reactions and opinions. Discuss it, and things should improve, although I'm not sure how your family operates (this is a broad, generalized suggestion).

I'll pray that the Lord's will be done regarding your requests.

[Raiden no Kishi]

Fortunately, I had a brief chat with Mom about anime and it turns out the only things she mentioned were that there were adult anime, and that the "kids'" anime she'd seen had stuff young kids were too young to deal with.

I'll ahve to ask her if she trusts my judgement. She doesn't seem to with video games. (Unless they're Mario games lol). And she took my anime role-playing guidebook and won't give it back because she's "not ready for me to ahve it back yet".

Oh well...we've still got stuff to work on, I guess.

Rai

[Mangafanatic]

Yes, there are adult anime. But there are adult movies too. Do we throw out movies because they can be a medium of evil. . .

*Sigh* I'll pray for you.