CATDOLL: Japanese housewife complains about her husband watching anime and his biased words cause dissatisfaction among netizens

Although Japan is a country of anime, in fact, in Japanese society, most people still think that loving anime is unacceptable, especially those who are already working and married. Many Japanese also think that such people should stop being homebodies and stop liking anime-related things. Recently, a 32-year-old Japanese full-time housewife posted a post online complaining that her husband loves watching anime too much, and her description was full of prejudice against anime, which aroused dissatisfaction and heated discussion among netizens.

The full-time housewife wrote in the post: "I am a housewife, my husband is a company employee, and our child is now 3 years old. No matter how much my husband appears to care for the family, he has to watch cartoons every day to end the day. In my opinion, this behavior makes him pretend to be a good father, which makes me very uneasy. What should I do?"

"My husband often helps me take care of the children during the day, and takes us to the park or shopping on weekends, but he always ends the day by watching anime. In the past, I saw him watching anime when I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, so I asked him, 'Are you watching the kind of anime that is specifically for fathers?' He replied, 'Before I am a father, I am a man.'"

"I looked through the animations he recorded, and there were animations like "Bakuon!", "Tanaka-kun is Always Lazy", "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure", "My Wife Can't Be a Girl", "Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress", "Dasakushi Wars", "Himu-chan: Umaru-chan", and so on. Will these really not have a bad influence on our children? Although I know nothing about animation, I have heard that "these are harmful to education." Seeing my father watching these animations, I feel very uneasy about the impact it will have on my children. And my husband only watches them when I'm asleep, so he must feel a little guilty." It seems that the wife has always been confident that her husband also thinks that watching animation is bad, but in fact it is not.

In response to this, netizens commented, "It's not like he watches too much animation to stop communicating with his family. He just watches animation late at night, what's wrong with that?", "He treats the children well and takes care of the family, isn't that okay? This is just his personal interest, why can't he be allowed to watch it?", "'Things that are harmful to education' are all exaggerated by the media to attract attention. Animation is just like TV dramas and variety shows, it's for entertainment. What to show the child and what to teach him to do are things that should be decided by the parents." Anyway, from the wife's post, no one found that her husband's watching animations brought any bad influence to the family, and he watched it after his wife and children went to bed because he didn't want to disturb the family, right?

I wonder how the husband felt after being misunderstood by his wife. It seems that prejudice against anime works exists everywhere. How do you view this matter? Let's discuss it.