Honestly i don't mind if anyone have crushes on anime characters because im one of them (BUT that doesn't mean i don't pay attention to human beings). I would sleep with my stuffed anime characters. A football freak would possibly sleep with a pillow made off football. it's not a crime or what. It's your damn thing...your ball.
The tv is turned on and suddenly 'H' anime pic/scene appears, 90% of the viewers (im refering to those who are into manganimes) would probably switch to the documentary channels............DUH!!
And if it's not mentally healthy, i really can't agree. As far as im breathing, i've never turned into a schizophrenia or dimentia after that. And there's not even a word in dictionaries which have meanings for 'not mentally healthy due to obsess/having crush with anime characters'.If there was, it might've come from the damn planet called Pluto.
We're human beings and we satisfy our desires in many ways, OUR OWN WAYS. If we're taught to do other people's way, then lets just be clones. This is our life (plus one and only) and we paint it with our own hands.