or they call it cartoons
lol at the beginning i was watching in secrets bc i was scared of their reactions kkkkk, but now i can watch anime in front of them (without fan service oc) and they wont say nothing. They will just say things like "a manga? again? you don't wanna watch real people?" Or things like that, but Idc ahah
my parents both have very different point of views when it comes to anime.
my father doesn't like the medium at all because he says he usually doesn't like the graphic aspects (so, the drawings, characters expressions, etc). also, the mere fact that anime is a drawing still has a cartoon connotation for him (can't blame him, in all honesty) so he has a hard time taking the more serious anime, well, seriously.
when it comes to manga it's pretty much the same but he does find some manga very beautiful (he used to paint a lot and is very picky when it comes to art. the sceneries in anime are what he tends to like more)
my mom, on the other side, likes anime. she doesn't watch it by herself but she did watch different series with me and enjoyed most of them. her favorites are no.6, psycho pass and wolf children ame and yuki.
also fun fact, she's actually the one who got me invested in animanga in the first place; she bought me my first manga when i was around 8 y/o bc she thought that the drawings would cheer me up.