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invalidname
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My kids are 14 (boy, ASD) and 12 (girl). Neither is particularly interested in anime, nor have I really sought to get either of them interested. I've always preferred that they find their own interests. I think it's kind of dorky when I see friends from college or old jobs boasting about how they're going to watch Star Wars for the first time with their kids like it's this big special moment, and I just don't get it. Let your kid pick their own stuff to watch. My daughter's really into wildlife and other things I have no interest in, and that's great because she chose it herself. My son is kind of locked into things that have always been around in the house (autism and familiarity, right?) so he mostly plays PlayStation 2 games (meaning I have to keep buying used PS2s as our 15-year-old consoles fail after a year of daily use). He used to be into Pixar DVDs, but mostly hopping around chapters and menus and special features.
That said, there's not that much that I'm into that would ever have been appropriate for them. I'm not watching a ton of blood-n-guts anime or anything, but pre-teens aren't going to get anything out of Clannad After Story, y'know? I took my daughter to Your Name last month, and she liked it well enough, but it's part of her aging out of the all-the-same Pixar/Dreamworks/Illumination corporate product and into different/better movies (my wife took her to Hidden Figures and Queen of Katwe over the last few months too). tl;dr: once you have kids, you will have way worse problems than whether or not your kids like anime. |
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YuriAoi
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Lol, my mom started with showing me dbz when I was really young and I still love it^^ along with quite some more anime now that I'm older, I think it can be partially 'manipulated' by showing anime and partially just really what the person in question prefers. ^^
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captokita
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Depends on the kid, and depends on the age.
For our daughter, she LOVED Sailor Moon. Subtitles helped her learn to read (quickly) but also GET it, meaning, she knew what they were saying. Which also helps in language skills. I only wish schools around here offered Japanese as a language, as I think it would've been a great thing to have. Through her teenage years, she basically watched the shows we watched. Now as an adult, she watches what she wants, but not nearly as much as we do. Basically, don't force it, you can't make a kid like something, you can show it to them, and they will either take to it or not. If they like it, cool, if they don't, no real loss, they're their own person, with their own likes/dislikes. |
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mangamuscle
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Since the original question entails a baby I would say this is a long term proyect since kids do not get into anime until they are at least ten, let's call it the "Human Instrumentality Project", I mean, what can go wrong with it?
That is an excellent idea, youtube is full of those, you only need to make a huge playlist and see your toddler wreck havoc on the toys at the tune of jojo's bizarre adventure or Naruto lyrics 
One last general idea, do not outright forbid any anime, sit down with your progeny and explain why it is not appropriate for him to watch at his age some content he is not yet mentally prepared to digest. The mother of a friend of mine prohibited him from watchin sombrita because she deemed it to be a violent show, of course she watched it behind her back, she was shocked when Roko died, since in all western cartoons nobody dies (unless you are already dead like Casper the friendly ghost). The only certain thing is that the world is spinning too fast and I have no idea what shows will be popular ten years from now. |
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scowler
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When my two daughters (both now teenagers and anime fans) were younger, we had a grand time watching Princess Tutu and Shugo Chara.
But the one that we remember most fondly is probably Angelic Layer. |
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skyechan
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I have shown 10-12 year old children Angelic Layer and Kaleido Star which they seemed to really get into. Angelic Layer I recall a few of the kids drawing their own angels for.
For younger, I second Ojamajo Doremi that someone else listed. Sailor Moon's always good, as are Pokémon and Digimon series. I remember enjoying Kiki's Delivery Service when it aired on Disney when I was 5. Saint Tail could be a good one to show as well. I also second the recommendation maybe not purposely showing anything until they're at least 5. |
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CatSword
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Funnily enough, I follow a blogger by the name of Dad Watches Anime whose first experience with anime with Clannad; he then proceeded to share the show with his preteen sons, who both loved it. |
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Spawn29
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I feel like any anime could work depending how the kid handle the subject matter. It's not good to shelter kids from stuff like blood and nudity. I saw anime on Sci-Fi's Saturday morning block when I was 5-7 years old like Lilly C.A.T, Casshan: Robot Hunter, Armitage III: Poly-Matrix, Dominion Tank Police and Vampire Hunter D. I also saw Gunsmith Cats and Bio Hunter on Starz back in 1999 when I was 8 years old too.
Stuff like Venus Wars, Yu Yu Hakusho and Dragon Ball Z is totally fine for a 5 or 6 year old if you are okay showing them PG-13 movies like Batman v Superman, the Hunger Games movies and Kong: Skull Island. Not to mention Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto and DBZ air on the same channel that air Scooby Doo and Dexter's Lab. |
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yuna49
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I'll post two references which discuss the topic of anime for kids.
animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=25171 http://forums.animesuki.com/tags.php?tag=children That said, I don't think you should be introducing anime much before age three or four. My daughter started watching Pokemon when she was about seven or eight. We moved onto more mature stuff when she was about thirteen after watching Mononoke Hime together. That was my introduction to anime. |
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Dop.L
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Yes, this, even though it's only on Amazon. First time I saw this show I thought that with the right dub it'd be a great kids show, the kind that kids who saw it would talk about twenty years later, and the dub Amazon have is pretty good. |
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Vibrant Wolf
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I would recommend Sailor Moon (not the full series, if it hasn't been redubbed), and Sgt. Frog (never seen it but it seems cute).
Outside of that, I would still recommend My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service. |
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WingKing
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This is certainly true. A couple of my friends who are anime fans have a six year old boy, and he pretty much has no interest at all in "daddy's cartoons," even when it's stuff you'd think a boy would normally like. The only anime we've watched together that he actually took a bit of a shine to was Girls und Panzer because he liked the tanks; otherwise he's usually just unhappy that the grownups are using the TV when he'd rather be watching Paw Patrol or something like that. |
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Spawn29
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I don't see anything scary about One Piece. Yeah it has some blood in the uncut episodes, but parents take their young kids to see PG-13 and R rated movies. So if they can handle the Hunger Games, One Piece would be fine for them.
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Heishi
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Hmm, not sure about K-ON! and Yuki Yuna is a Hero. :/ Maybe Kaleido Star, Samurai Pizza Cats, and perhaps even Teknoman (Yeah, I'm aware that its not a full faithful adaption) |
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Heishi
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Nah, that's pretty cute actually. |
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