Agreed!Assuming this thread is serious.. umm.. they're just stories. And telling stories through visual art probably has been around since the paleolithic period. If someone from then magically survived, they'd probably enjoy Full Metal Alchemist. So to answer your question, the age limit on anime is 32,000 years old.
Absolutely not. Even if it is childish, I'd say there is nothing wrong with tapping in to the lighter and more innocent side of life. However, have you ever watched a good anime? Like Akira or Memories or anything Miyazaki? If we're strictly talking about Japanese anime, it developed as a form of story telling as production for actual movies or films was very restricted. Therefore, the range of storytelling and genres are far and wide in Japanese anime. There are some incredible stories told in animation form in Japan. But not limited to just Japan. There are a lot of adult targeted animation out there. Ralph Bakshi is an american "cartoonist" or animation producer and artist, and he's created a lot of amazing adult targeted stories through them. Wizards is one of my favorite by him. There's a lot of amazing French animation as well: Triplets of Belleville, Fantastic Planet. Honestly, I find a lot of these stories far more intriguing and memorable and intelligent, then the stuff hollywood produces.when should someone stop watching anime....19?20?40?
could watching cartoons be a sign of mental retardation? or some psychological disorder?
Anime usually tends to be created for an adult demographic.
Cartoons usually tend to imply a younger demographic.
While satire in cartoons has managed to bridge the gap in the form of Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons, Drawn Together etc whose primary aim is an adult demographic. There are more certainly. Then I'd wonder at the audience for Anime which do have a mature audience in mind more often.
Now the correlation here would imply whether that happens to be a viewing instrument in a persons lives that takes over their lives and is larger than life. Whereby their sense of reality is warped because of the addiction to anime. The answer is simple, everything in moderation. There are an abundance of extremes, much like computer gaming, when is the cut off for playing computer games. You'll find adults tend to be entertained by both animation and games and when it turns into the focal point. Then yes psychologically speaking there is an issue of addiction that would needs be addressed. Everything in moderation I suppose, because there is something that is being filled by such media, and it is a media of entertainment as much as the interface between viewing films and tv series alike. When you are in it, in the whole spending more time viewing said programs then yes there is a trance here. and the trance is induced by a release of stress and escapism from that which is real to the realm of that which is disproportionate to reality.