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I'm 22 and in college. Living in Latin America (the nice side of central Mexico), it is pretty common practice to work or study yet stay living at your parents' for a good part of your 20's, or at least until you graduate, and most commonly until you marry or find a partner you really dig.
My parents have seen me follow the franchise since I was 7. My mom has never cared much about it (typical mom that calls every species "Pikachu"), but my dad seems to be weirded out about how have I followed the franchise for that long. At first, he tried to enjoy it with me (he still keeps a bubblegum card of Mr. Mime, his favorite mon, that I gave him as a kid), but now, when he sees my excitement for the new games (try not to picture it as an autistic fit of socially-disabled excitement, because it's not) or my interest to collect a piece of Pokémon merch every once in a while, he just seems not to get what makes a functioning adult so happy about it.
On the other hand, I have casually talked to him about how growing with Pokémon as a child has formed part of the adult I am today (I've had some great life lessons stemmed from all this, but that's another story), and that I like the franchise for nostalgia, but mostly for the lightheartedness we sometime need in our lives.
All in all, they seem to be weirded out at times over the franchise's general childishness, but they quite respect my interest on it.
Although fuck the anime, my 18-year old brother seems to like it a bit whereas I find it cringeworthy and embarrassing to watch with my parents. It just gives kind of a wrong notion about how the rest of the franchise works
