Michael B. Jordan has been everywhere over the past few weeks thanks to the Black Panther press tour, but he still had time to take someone to task for commentating on how he lives his life.
Jordan has said in several interviews that he still lives with his parents—comparing it to a roommate situation on Ellen—and as Twitter has recently discovered, Jordan is really into anime. And those two tidbits came together in an episode of Hot Ones, where Jordan revealed which anime and book he would watch and read in his trailer if he only had one choice.
Those revelations led one fan to complain about the unfairness of Jordan being applauded for living with his parents and liking anime—things that he was previously told were “unacceptable” for an adult man.
https://twitter.com/chrisfrom_216/status/966462864272838656
And sure, Jordan has said those things about himself, but he had a few corrections to make on that fan’s assumptions about him. First off, he’s six feet tall. And he loves Goku and Naruto.
First of All I’m 6ft and they live with ME, put some respeck on my name. LOL…aaaand goku & naruto are real ones 🙌🏾 lol https://t.co/QspyHD2zwH
— Michael B. Jordan (@michaelb4jordan) February 23, 2018
Naruto and Goku are two perfectly fine characters on long-running and respectable anime series. But at least one person lightly chided him for liking “mainstream” anime. As Jordan replied, those were well-known enough that anyone would have heard of them.
Nah that was a softball for the anime uneducated 🤓
— Michael B. Jordan (@michaelb4jordan) February 23, 2018
Jordan’s love of anime and manga goes back years as he’s tweeted about both Naruto and Bleach on Twitter long before he portrayed one of the best superhero movie villains ever.
https://twitter.com/michaelb4jordan/status/51151802577600512
https://twitter.com/michaelb4jordan/status/151250325163089920
https://twitter.com/michaelb4jordan/status/165069584959946753
https://twitter.com/michaelb4jordan/status/322072983780855809
https://twitter.com/michaelb4jordan/status/337277301706346497
He also wrote down “anime” as his guilty pleasure in a 2014 video for PopSugar—before he crossed it out and replaced it with “women”—and when asked where he would want to travel, Jordan mentioned anime as a reason why he would want to visit Tokyo.
https://twitter.com/ryusietai/status/966036057186848768
https://twitter.com/BOINBOISBOS/status/965499819644018690
And as Jordan revealed on Hot Ones, he’s also a fan of One-Punch Man and Fullmetal Alchemist.
But if he has any other recommendations, we’re all ears.
H/T Vulture