Yeah, my mother was weird like that. When I was 13, she banned the only decent channel on broadcast TV for Saturday morning cartoons because Digimon season 1 was “satanic”.
Yeah, maybe they were just more “sneaky” about keeping me from getting into Pokemon. I didn’t have cable, and nobody broadcast the Pokemon anime in my area. I was dissuaded from the card game because it was a money sink. (After Pogs, they didn’t want me participating in any other collectable stuff. They liked to pretend I had a “problem” or something with Pogs.) I don’t really know why I never had any of the video games. It’s likely my parents engineered that behind the scenes or something.
Of course, my whole peer group was obsessed with Pokemon. And I was unable to participate in that. Really made me an outsider. So when my local Fox affiliate started carrying Digimon from episode 1, it was kindof my opportunity to have something over which to actually finally connect with my peer group in a way I couldn’t before.
But my mother, who had a habit of not showing her face until at least noon most days, happened to get up that one Saturday morning for some reason and found me in the middle of an episode of Digimon. She never made a “thing” about Pokemon. I had no way to know before right then that watching the Digimon anime was something “against the rules.” But she flipped her shit about Digimon that day. I guess she didn’t realize I was watching it until that day, or maybe it was seeing the art style that tipped her off or something. Who knows.
I should also mention that was far from the first thing that was banned for similarly bad and fundamentalist Christian reasons. Just a few others that I remember:
The Mighty Max animated series
He-Man (“there’s only one ‘master of the universe’”)
A great Sega Genesis dungeon crawler game called “Shining in the Darkness”
All anime. (Digimon was kindof the first time she realized that “satanic Japanese brainwashing shit” was getting into our house, I guess)
Yeah, my mother was weird like that. When I was 13, she banned the only decent channel on broadcast TV for Saturday morning cartoons because Digimon season 1 was “satanic”.
Digimon season 1 RULED I loved that show. I’m surprised she focused on Digimon since I remember parents thinking Pokemon was the satanic cartoon lol
Yeah, maybe they were just more “sneaky” about keeping me from getting into Pokemon. I didn’t have cable, and nobody broadcast the Pokemon anime in my area. I was dissuaded from the card game because it was a money sink. (After Pogs, they didn’t want me participating in any other collectable stuff. They liked to pretend I had a “problem” or something with Pogs.) I don’t really know why I never had any of the video games. It’s likely my parents engineered that behind the scenes or something.
Of course, my whole peer group was obsessed with Pokemon. And I was unable to participate in that. Really made me an outsider. So when my local Fox affiliate started carrying Digimon from episode 1, it was kindof my opportunity to have something over which to actually finally connect with my peer group in a way I couldn’t before.
But my mother, who had a habit of not showing her face until at least noon most days, happened to get up that one Saturday morning for some reason and found me in the middle of an episode of Digimon. She never made a “thing” about Pokemon. I had no way to know before right then that watching the Digimon anime was something “against the rules.” But she flipped her shit about Digimon that day. I guess she didn’t realize I was watching it until that day, or maybe it was seeing the art style that tipped her off or something. Who knows.
I should also mention that was far from the first thing that was banned for similarly bad and fundamentalist Christian reasons. Just a few others that I remember:
I had one of those too. The weirdest (in hindsight) has to be The Little Mermaid… because of the octopus witch thing