Hi
I suppose I’m trying to navigate my first DC growing up.
She is going in to her last year at primary school and for around 2 years ago became fixated on anything Japanese related which then led to manga / anime.
I started of fairly strict with this and what she was able watch but will admit have got a bit slack on this because it’s all she wants to watch.
I still don’t allow many of the shows but she has watched a fair few.
In some ways it’s been so helpful to her as she had made friends with similar interests where as before she was fairly Isolated where as now we have a regular group of friends that meet up and go to anime conventions / talk on the phone.
her reading was always a challenge, she really struggled with phonics but then anime with subtitles and manga books meant she has gone from being in year 3 but reception age reading to being in year 5 with year 4 reading.
she has developed art skills and Media skills. She sits and edits videos for hours.
I monitor her phone / computer every day and she is still very innocent in her chats and no worries there. However, it is all she does and talks about. She is always dressed in cosplay, she will only talk / read / draw anime. Her small circle of friends have the same interests but she apparently doesn’t really talk at school to others who do not share her interests and therefore school she is not socialising appropriately.
conversations at home always make it’s way back to anime no matter how many times we try to change it.
there is absolutely nothing else in the world she likes.
is this normal ?