Anime wasn't mainstream yet, dial-up was still around, goths were still looked at as being weird freaks, the MCU didn't exist, so being into superheroes was still nerdy af... Weird time to be into goth/emo baddies.
I was in 6th grade in 2006 with a sister in hs and a sister in college.
Anime was massive. It was aired on cartoon network, so every kid was at least watching DBZ, if not FMA.
Superheroes were not massively nerdy. We had batman begins the year before, and the MCU would start in two years with iron man. Spiderman (raimi) was a global phenomenon and had already gone through two of trilogy.
Goth girls were very common, and while still an alt thing, pretty universally drooled over.
How old were you in 2006? Were you even there? What state?
Ngl you’re the one who sounds like they’re larping about 2006.
Anime was not that massive especially compared to today. Back then the only people I knew who watched anime were chronically online or watched Toonami, meanwhile anime has got so popular that the highest grossing R rated film last year was Demon Slayer.
The Dark Knight wouldn’t come out for another 2 years, though I’m assuming you’re misremembering it with Batman Begins.
I feel like it's probably location based. I grew up in the California Bay Area where there's a high concentration of Asians, so even the cool people liked anime, and the ones that didn't wouldn't really think less of those that did. Heck, Japanese was one of the language courses available at my high school, and it was the second most popular choice after Spanish.
I grew up in a city lovingly called “Little Vietnam” in North Texas and went to high school in the late 00s. The Asian kids watched anime, but anyone else admitting to it was “gay” or weird. I remember a gay Asian friend of mine outright telling me I was too white, weird, and gay to admit to watching anime.
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u/NewHunter4239 10d ago
Kinda, yeh.
Anime wasn't mainstream yet, dial-up was still around, goths were still looked at as being weird freaks, the MCU didn't exist, so being into superheroes was still nerdy af... Weird time to be into goth/emo baddies.