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Mushi-Man
 Posts: 1537 Location: KCMO |
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^ the lesson in all of this. Send your parents down any anime aisle and they will suddenly except your fandom.
I have finally decided on what anime I'm going to try to show my dad. I think Cowboy Bebop is the right anime for him. It has allot of things that he would like. It has Jazz (he's a huge jazz fan). And it's part western and he loves those. It's the perfect anime for him. |
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JacobC
ANN Contributor
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^ Because it is pop-u-lah-ish, it MUST be okay...yeah, mom, that's a great way of looking at it  ...and Cowboy Bebop is a good anime for most people. Hip hip hooray for gateway drugs!
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FaytLein
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My bro, who thinks anime is utter crap, walked in when I was watching Black Lagoon and he instantly wanted to see the DVD after I finished. Then, when his friend came over, they both sat down and watched it and from what they said, seemed to enjoy it a lot. Granted, they liked all the cursing and gunfights in it, but hey, whatever floats their boat.
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swordmaster56
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I showed my father the first 3 episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Afterwards he said "It wasn´t that bad." But i take that as a good thing, since he would never admit liking Anime just for picking me on. He always says it is a waste of money and that I should rather watch shows about politics. Although he was complaining that Shinji was always crying and said he was a pussy. |
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Mushi-Man
Posts: 1537 Location: KCMO |
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Wow, showing Evangelion, that's a bold move. I always see that as hard to approach for most non anime fans because of how weird it is. It's very much like and "art house film", if you will, It's not exactly something that most people can grasp and enjoy. But it's cool that he seemed to enjoy it. |
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Xagor
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Oddly enough my dad bought the first few Evangelion DVDs and watched them with me and my brother way back when it was the sort of watching Pokemon and DBZ on TV period. We never finished it at the time though. At the time it'd be hard to say any of us were particularly anime fans.
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swordmaster56
Posts: 36 Location: Germany, Hannover |
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That might be true but I didn´t have nuch of a choice. The only other series I have are Darker Than Black Death Note Elfen Lied Fullmetal Alchemist Naruto I live in Germany so Naruto dropped out because it´s an UK-import and I know he doesn´t like it anyway. Death Note dropped out because I only have the first 5 episodes and the DVDs are still being released from that point onward. Elfen Lied dropped out for obvious reasons. Fullmetal Alchemist is too happy and Shounen-like in the beginning Darker Than Black might have been a possibility, but considering the 1st episode and that he always complains that people are always flying in Anime, well... 
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doctordoom85
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It is?! Maybe around episodes 9-13, sure, but the first 8 episodes, with the exception of 5 (and 6, sorta) are pretty downbeat overall (spoiler[children getting body parts ripped off, a corrupt religious leader ruling a naive town, dying parents, the "doll" maker, Nina Tucker, Barry the Chopper, etc.]). Good grief, FMA has probably one of the best opening scenes to immediately kill a notion of "all anime = kids' entertainment". |
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swordmaster56
Posts: 36 Location: Germany, Hannover |
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It is not so much the story but the way alchemy is used and the first two episodes aren´t that serious on top of that it has 51 episodes.
As busy as my father is we would never manage to finish that. Hell, it took us 1 week to watch those 3 episodes.
Cowboy Bebop sounds like a good idea, haven´t seen it yet but nonetheless. The only problem is that the german version have 8 single-releases each prized at 25$. 
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Top Gun
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And it took those of us who watched the [adult swim] broadcast 51 weeks to see the whole series...and that's not even counting the year-long hiatus halfway through.  Three episodes a week is a fine pace, especially for someone you're just trying to get interested in the medium.
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Zin5ki
 Posts: 6680 Location: London, UK |
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My sister saw one of the earlier episodes with me. Whenever I mention the series, she'll always attack it for being highly boring based upon what she saw. That said, her boyfriend is an Eva fan himself, so she may find herself either changing her stance (which is unlikely) or finding another reason to complain. |
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GrinfilledCelt
 Posts: 75 Location: I wish I were in Ocqueoc. |
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swordmaster56
Posts: 36 Location: Germany, Hannover |
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Yeah looking at it that way you´re actually right. I didn´t think of that 
We just watched episode 5, but he didn´t really understand why Rei just left even though Shinji was talking to her. All in all he said that it is difficult to understand and that this Rei girl is retarded  [/quote]
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farruinn
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This statement doesn't make sense to me because FMA is most definitely shounen, ie kids, anime. It happens to have some heavy and sometimes graphic scenes, they've just been sugar coated. Maybe you're trying to say that FMA has wider appeal than just the shounen demographic? I guess I would just consider an anime targetted specifically to older audiences, at the exclusion of younger viewers, to be a better example. |
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doctordoom85
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*SIGH*. I'm sorry, is there some unspoken rule that because it's aimed at kids in Japan that means it's automatically aimed at kids everywhere else? Because that's the mentality that some anime fans seem to have, and it's really quite annoying. Heck, I would even argue Naruto stopped being "kids' entertainment" once they spoiler[morally justified, though your mileage may vary if it's actually justified, the murder of an entire group of people.] Let me end this: would you honestly show FMA in an elementary school class with all the kids and with their parents watching? I guarantee you, you'd get as far as spoiler[Ed screaming in pain and a clear shot of his chopped-off leg with blood pouring out of it] before the kids gasp and the parents scream in protest. Also, I said opening scene, because that pretty much happens within the first minute of the show. More "mature" titles might have more overall violence/disturbing content/etc., but not necessarily immediately in the first minute. Most "kids' series" really translate outside of Japan to "teen and up", and the anime/manga companies' ratings back that up. |
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