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fighterholic
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I remember the time I had bought Conan comics, and I let my mom read them. She had been a fan of the anime series, but when she saw the first volume spoiler[where the head falls off the guy on the roller coaster,] she went totally balistic and has been anti-Conan ever since. She threw away the two volumes that I had bought and gave me money to buy something else. Another instance where she threw out something of mine was the Psychiotic Eiji manga too. She took a look through the whole thing and then I discovered that it was gone.
This applies to manga and anime, so feel free to share the losses that you have attained due to somebody finding something of yours they didn't like, and dealing with it. |
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omar235
 Posts: 1572 Location: Florida, Jacksonvile |
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The memory will forever be imprinted on my mind...the day my mom found the Elfen lied dvd's....well while I was at school she decided to "inspect" as she put it, my room and she came across them...then she watched them...and I watched them get carried away by the garbage man
 but all was not lost when my salvation came in the form of a late birthday gift from the grandparents....$200...this truely was god telling me to go out and get them again...that was the most I've ever recieved from them and this time she didn't find them...but now it dosen't matter...she no longer cares what I buy as long as it is with my own money (it was previoulsy bought with money borrowed from her.) 
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Daemonblue
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I've never really had this problem, then again my parents/grandmother doon't/doesn't care (it's complicated, rather not get into it.), that and the fact that they know I can be very vengeful...I think the best way to put is that you'd be safer throwing away something that Lucifer owned than throwing something I own away >_>
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DuelLadyS
 Posts: 1705 Location: WA state |
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My parents/friends acutally throw away my anime? This suggestion amuses me. I mean, I know it happens- a friend in high school had her DBZ burned by a super-christian mother who decided Monkey-form sayians=demons... but I've been blessed to be surrounded by people very supportive of my habit. Back when I was getting started in anime, my mom once spent a weekend with me driving around to every video store in the closest 3 towns, opening accounts at any with anime to rent. (By the way- be wary of renting Devil Hunter Yohko. Bad things happen.
 ) And I actually met my boyfriend at a Yugioh tournament.
The worst incident I had was lending a classmate a video of the Mermaid Forest OVA, and being informed after the weekend that her dad returned to a video store somewhere (it was an ex-rental, so that's not too far-fetched.) Went around to all the stores in the area again, but no one had it. These days, I assume she stole it. I've since replaced it via Amazon, and now I'm just glad it wasn't Fire Tripper (which seems to be a fair bit pricier.) |
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Abarenbo Shogun
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One of my friends had a roomate, and he didn't know at the time the guy was abusing drugs.
One day, he finds out his entire DVD and VHS collection (Around 340 DVD's and 170 VHS tapes; 100 DVDs and 14 VHS were Anime DVD's/VHS stuff like the Sailor Moon boxes, the Cowboy Bebop Perfect Sessions, original Streamline copies of Lupin the III and Warriors of the Wind (aka the controversial cut of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) and the original Battle Angel DVD, and it also including an extremely rare Criterion Collection Salò DVD [this is a $250-$750 disc BTW]) was gone. Turns out his roomate had pawned off the DVD's for $300 for some drugs and got involved in a Police raid of the drughouse he was in. He was only able to recover 40 of the DVD's and all of the VHS tapes, and almost lost the Salò DVD. Sadly, he only recovered the Lupin and Battle Angel DVD's out of all the anime. |
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God Gundam
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Wow, her dad's an idiot. What kind of moron takes someone else's property and returns it to a video store because they don't like it. I would've complained to him and then called the police if he was uncooperative. |
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one3rd
 Posts: 1819 Location: アメリカ |
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I would call her an over-protective Christian mother more than I'd say she's a super-Christian mother. I'm not sure what experiences you've had with Christians or people who call themselves Christians, but not all of us are the closed-minded, legalistic people that you may have been led to believe we are. |
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Keonyn
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I guess I'm lucky in that I've never had anyone that really cared that much about what I've owned. Of course, I don't really get in to anime that is that controversial, I have some with darker themes perhaps but not many that anyone but the most oversensitive would throw away.
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aya_honda
 Posts: 920 Location: Around here |
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I never had this sort of incidents... with my parents and my brothers. Actually, my mom watches helplessly while my pile of anime and manga grows and grows and then she just sighs and moves on.
And I even corrupted one of my brothers to watch some anime.
But some of my friends don't respect my passion for anime and manga. I remember that once a friend of mine laughed a lot when she saw a volume of Fruits Basket in my bag and she wanted to throw it away because she said that I have to get over this and become an adult (don't know what that's supposed to mean, but anyway...). It's enough to say that she never again touched my bag. 
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DuelLadyS
Posts: 1705 Location: WA state |
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It wasn't that he didn't like it- as I said, the tape was an ex-rental, and therefore looked like a rental. He assumed the family had rented it and, as one does with rentals, took it back to the video store. Supposedly. Like I said, these days I think she stole it. |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
Forums Superstar  Posts: 16974 |
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Shoot I can pwn you all on this, got 2 great stories
1. When I got into anime it was all vhs. I had the enitre collections of Nadesico, Bubblegum Crisis 2040, Evangelion, Rurouni Kenshin, Magic Knight Rayearth, Street Fighter IIV, and EVERY SINGLE DBZ TAPE (that one took some doing right there) When I moved out with a roomy I left some stuff at my parents house. I had 2 old dressers that I got frm my grand mother on dad's side when she passed away. I kept the DBZ in one, and the rest in the other. A little while back my parents wanted to get new furniture for the bedrooms. I told them specifically NOT to throw away the one dresser that I got from my grandmother (I had taken one with me). The movers show up....take out the old stuff...put the new in...and load the stuff to be dumped into their truck to take it to the local dump. My father told them the wrong thing and they took the dresser with all my vhs tapes in them. EVERY SINGLE ONE (minus DBZ) gone. Years of money and collecting tossed away but some sweaty smelling redneck movers. At 15-20 bucks a tape do the math. Here's the jewel though; 2. Got into anime at the age of 14...back then it was all vhs. Tower records used to actually rent out vhs, as far fetched as that may sound. The thing is they were all second hand copies for the anime because it hadn't really taken off yet. Therefore, none of them had covers. They basically went online and printed a 2-3 sentence synopsis and glued it to a blank box. Bam, there ya go. I rented a few when my collection started to grow. I would make copies of the vhs for myself to keep and watch over and over. One such title was a series by the name La Blue Girl. The stupid brief synopsis made it sound like a monster series, and it was in the horror section along with Twin Dolls. That was the day, of course, my parents decided to show interest in this "anime" thing. Since life works this way of course the tape was not re-wound. So the tv turns on to some hot tentacle in the ass action. Oh yea, that was just wonderful. They went through everything I owned and took half of it because they thought it was all degenerate crap like La Blue Girl. So as they watch the others I rented they turn on Twin Dolls. That just buried me at that point. Needless to say I was shocked to see some monster's tentacle invading some ninja girl's ass. That sure beat anything else I had seen before that. |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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Don't blame movers. This is the real person you should complain to:
Movers were just following orders. |
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pieisexactlythree
 Posts: 72 Location: Portland, OR |
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Man, livin' at home is such a drag/
Your ma threw away your best porno mag! (kick it!) -The Beastie Boys, Fight for your Right to Party |
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sykosteve
 Posts: 356 Location: columbus, ga |
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haha, my mom's never threatened to discard my collection due to the contents, but she does always threaten that my stuff will be out on the road if i don't do whatever it is that she wants me to do at that instant.
Mom always refers to them as soap operas and garbage and tells me that i need to grow up blah blah. Sometimes when there's a female character with the typical high pitched kyaa, she'll walk by my room immitating it "kyaa kyaa kyaa"...my friend jokingly says it's hot in a hentai sort of way 
I had a friend with a devout catholic mom once. He and i were talking about the previous episode or whatever and the term Saiyans came up...and she thought we were talking about saiyances or however you spell the cult ritual. and she got pissed. |
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Mylene
 Posts: 2792 Location: Indiana |
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Well, as I'm a married adult, I haven't had to fret about this too much, especially because I married an anime fan, so he'd never throw out or sell off anything anime-related.
However, while nothing was ever discarded, I was told by my mother that I was no longer allowed to watch Sailor Moon when she found out that Haruka and Michiru were lesbians. Silly me, I knew she was racist, sexist, and anti-anything but Christianity, but I honestly didn't even consider her being homophobic. Of course, I was 18 at the time and going to be moving out in 6 months for university, so I told her I'd watch whatever I wanted to watch. The conversation ended there. I am incredibly lucky though. Back in the early to mid-80s my mom went through and burned all of my brothers' rock cassette tapes and posters. Music of the devil, baby, oh yeah. Today's soccer moms haven't got anything on the stay-at-home mom's of the 80s! |
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