I can definitely relate when thinking back to school times. In school, I had to listen to this bullshit almost every day. I had a few friends who watched anime as well but those could be counted on the fingers of one hand. But to be honest, although it was annoying, I mostly just laughed inwardly since it was kinda hilarious that they said “anime is for kids” but my most fav anime back then had an age limit as of 16 :’D

Fortunately, everything got better in university. Since I study meteorology, which is part of the faculcy for mathematics and physics, most people are relatively mature there. And of course there are quite some nerds as well :D