You Know Your Parents Have Accepted Anime When
- Your dad pretends to be in the living room to wait for the takeout delivery, but you catch him sneeking peeks at Sailor Moon.
- Your dad can compare the artistic merits of Naoko Takeuchi to CLAMP.
- For your 21st birthday, your dad sent you to an anime convention.
- Your mom bought you the costumes you wore.
- She also bought you a Clow Book with cards, and a subbed VHS of Card Captor Sakura.
- You overhear your mom defensively telling a friend, "Sailor Moon is not a children's show, it's a love story!"
- Every time the outer senshi's theme plays on your computer, your dad sticks his head in to listen.
- Your mom buys you a musical plush Luna, but almost doesn't give it to you because it's too cute.
- Your mom thinks paying $120 for a stuffed toy isn't all that strange, since it's from Japan, and it's rare.
- You show your dad all of your anime and manga fanarts first for his artistic critique.
- Your dad finds your anime web-site's URL and leaves comments every other week about how your doing, and the content. - Dragoon
- Your father has a favorite Sailor Senshi.
- He has a picture of her framed on his wall.
- He comes to this list to point out things you've missed.
- When they were showing the Sailor Moon movies on Toonami my mom taped them and then claimed that she was taping them for me! - Pysche
- Your dad calls the Infinity volume of Sailor Moon artbooks an "investment".
- Your dad criticizes DBZ but sits and watches it with you *every* day. - Picard
- Your mom mentions the original japanese is more dramatic than the dub (but how would she know?) - Dominique
- Your mom and dad can sing all of the dub theme song, and parts of the original theme song. - Dominique
- They make comments on the Sailor Moon you're watching. - Dominique
- Your mom has a deep understanding of why Mamoru left Usagi (but thinks he should have told her the truth). - Dominique
- She can quote various characters. - Dominique
- Not one of your parents, step-parents, or in-laws, made a peep about you getting married in Sailor Mars's wedding gown.
Got more examples? (Only stuff that's really happened, please.) Then e-mail me! I'll credit you.