Forum - View topicHave you ever converted anyone to the world of anime?
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gundam83
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I haven't succeeded but my wife is very open minded and she will watch anime with me but she is not a fanboy like me......yet!
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Teriyaki Terrier
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Not to sound like a downer, but from personal experience and realistic thinking, I've learned you really can't force a person to like something, much less become a fan of the product.
Have I converted people? Yes I have, but in a sense,not really. I have a friend, who is really openminded, but not always like myself and probably others. Over the years I've known him, I've talked about anime, manga and video games. The first anime I introduced to him was Naruto and during that time, not even the manga was licensed in the US, much less the anime. That said, the only option then was to obviously watch the series in subtitles. That wasn't really challenging, but certainly wasn't easy due to our bad eyesight. Over time, he spoke more about the show (Naruto) and became really interested with the show. Frankly and honestly speaking, ultimately he became a anime fan all on his own. All I did is create the possibility for that to occur and then some. He then convinced his friends to watch anime and the rest is history. Or to be honest, I really don't know what happened after that. I compare this situation to Woodstock (no, not Woodstock from Peanuts, but Woodstock that happened in the 60's.) Why, well the based on the Woodstock movie and some trivia, most people weren't sure Woodstock would actually follow through or not. Just like converting anime fans, if you will. In the end, even after showing anime and talking about anime for quite some time, there is no guarantee that the person will actually become a anime fan. That is my story anyway. Nothing too exciting or too wild, just a simple story from a while back. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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I'm not sure it's easy to get someone to like anime out of the blue, but you can introduce someone who already knows about anime and has seen maybe a few things to become more involved with it. You introduce shows that are similar to the things they've already seen and liked, and then you work from there until they can start picking things for themselves.
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
 Posts: 3498 Location: IN your nightmares |
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EricJ
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The ones I try to convert, they never get any farther than Ghibli movies.
Gotta take off the training wheels sometime. |
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TakishidoKamen
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Lightcore, about 4 ( i think)
Hardcore, 2 Although I have probably tried 15 or more, so my success rates aren't that high... Some people will bluntly refuse to even look at it no matter what I say, these people are impossible. |
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Makasu_des
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My Brother. But he only likes the fights, especially in Bleach. BLEACH!!!
I cry after the horribly gay way the writers end the fights but he's like Yeah! I died a little inside. |
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PetrifiedJello
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No. It was the world that converted me to anime.
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doctordoom85
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I agreed to watch Flashforward with my mother (decent show, shame it was canceled) if she would watch an anime with me. I ended up picking Paranoia Agent, and she really enjoyed it, especially the final 3 episodes, and the "suicide friends" episode oddly enough (she also loved episode 3's ending spoiler["all your messages have been deleted!"]. However, I thought that might be the end of it, but with LOST finished, she feels show-less and has said once she gets some more free time she'd like to watch another. VICTORY!
I mean, is she going to start buying DVDs and really getting into it, no, but still a win in my book. |
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lesterf1020
 Subscriber Posts: 297 Location: Trinidad and Tobago |
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I had some luck with a coworker of mine. He showed up one day telling me about this amazing cartoon he had seen called Avatar: the Last Airbender. He had apparently seen part of a marathon and was hooked. He eventually tracked down the whole series and watched it voraciously. He then tried to convert me but it wasn't my thing so I bailed after book 1.
He said he didn't know cartoons could do that and asked me if I knew of any others like that. I recommended some American stuff but he'd been there and done that and was looking for more. So I thought "why not?" and lent him the closest thing to avatar in my collection Shounen Onmyouji. He devoured it and asked for more. I let him look at Samurai Champloo. He thought it was OK but he wanted something more plot driven so I introduced him to the Full Metal Panic! franchise. He swallowed that whole and when he got to the end of the second raid he asked for the rest. I had to break his heart by telling him there was no more. He was really disappointed. So I think that worked out pretty well. He should be very receptive to more stuff. |
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DuelLadyS
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I don't try to 'convert' people. It's not a religion, it's a hobby. An all-encompassing hobby in my case, but it's still just a hobby. I don't expect anyone to spend their spare time being forced to do what I like on the off-chance they'll magically grow cat ears and become a super-otaku. People don't force me to play golf, grind against strange men at night clubs, or spend hours and hours deciding if the pick shirt or the blue shirt goes best with those adorable jeans... fair is fair.
I do, however, bring 'samples' to people of shows I think they might enjoy. What they get from them is their own business. I didn't start my sister collecting anime DVDs- Deathnote did. I didn't make my mom sit down and watch Higurashi with me... she just wanted to know why that redhead had a hachet. 
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gundam83
Posts: 93 Location: Caribbean |
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Lol when I came home last nite my wife ask me if got anymore anime(refering to The wallflower and Kenlchi The mightiest disciple)
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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That pretty much sums up my opinions and thoughts. I of course try and spread the joys of anime, and my other hobbies, but if friends or family are not into it then so be it. I don't try and "convert" them by continuously trying to force it on them until they submit to it's will. I'm always up to showing them something if they want to see it but if not I simply drop it and move on. I however will not accept nor tolerate any of my friends or family bashing me for enjoying my hobby. That gets you a one way ticket to F off town. I make it a point not to push my hobbies and opinions onto my friends so I expect the same courtesy and to be allowed to enjoy my hobbies in peace. If they're really my friends then that should be easy for them to do. Only once so far has someone been voted off the friend island for being an obnoxious dick about it. Then again he also recently finally managed to bag my ex gf behind her current bf's back so he'd be voted off the island anyways. |
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TatsuGero23
 Posts: 1277 Location: Sniper Island, USA (It's in your heart!) |
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Convert is a weird word to use but I can say I did get at least 1 family member into anime and that I was the source of origin. But she was really into the "Tales of" video games so I guess I can't take full blame for it. I got my cousin into anime when she was pretty young. 8 or 9 I believe. It was a holiday and the girls were bored while the boys talked and played video games so I popped in the Cardcaptor Movie for them. She really took to it and I threw in the first disc of the series after the movie was done. Before I knew it she had borrowed my DVD sets for the show and about a month later I discovered from her older sister that she was on her fourth run of the 70-some episode series. I also showed her how to use Windows Movie Maker and she went nuts with that. SO many tales AMV came to follow. Although she was surprising decent with them compared to others. She acually knew how to edit.
But she's a big fan now. She's a little picky on what she actually buys but she watches alot and borrowed my stuff alot at the time I still lived there.
Techincally I didn't get my brother-in-law interested into anime but I did expand his taste in anime. He casually watched DBZ but was never into it but he liked movies like Akira, Ninja Scroll and some other one. I let him borrow my Cowbop Bebop stuff which he really liked but I accidently ruined the ending for him when talked about where the Cowbop Bebop Movie fit into the series and I said "It can't be at the end of the series. Because spoiler[Spike dies or looks like he does.]" My brother-in-law goes, "He what's?" "... Oh shoot did you not finish the TV series yet?" "I'm on like ep. 23" "...oh...whoops..." He never finished the series.  He watches other stuff now but he's primarily a Naruto Fan and now a Bleach fan. Also liked the Afro Samurai movies and is slowly getting into FMA:B. But he likes to marthon so I throw him series that are complete or fansubs that are complete for him to watch.
I think my next target will be my Brother's wife's little brother. He's like 11 now but he's heard of my collection of anime and he always talks about wanting to visit me or vist my Brother who will in turn bring him down to visit me to look at my collection. I fear for him. And the stories my brother tells him. |
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SilverPhantom
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I wouldn't be able to convert anyone I know because they have no interest in anime. My aunt and a cousin of mine do like anime but all they seem to care about is Bleach and Inuyasha and won't try anything else, oh well...
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