Animation and my childhood I did not watched Japanese animation very much because I was badly off and could not afford to buy television. Classmates loved to watch animations so, In my school, classmates were making reference to them and discussed them. Whenever they reference those shows around me, I pretended understand where the reference come from. If I said that I haven not watched animation, then that causes problems. People look at me in a different way like 'Are you even Japanese?' I thought that Animiations were crucial for kids to make a good relationship in theit school. I just sat through some boring learning Tvshow that we can see on free. It is rerunning now, I saw last week it, that is a throwback to the early days of Heisei Period. After I became high school and purchased computer, finally I got to be able to watch animations via Youtube. But, most of Japanese animations are very long, so I could not watch all episodes. Some parts were deleted due to copyright infringement. They just left hanging. So, I watched the series in which watch episode is a complete story. Still, I feel alienated when my fellows refer to Japanese animation.