| About a year after I started watching anime seriously, I wondered if I could get other people to also enjoy it. A lot of my friends were already hardcore fans that had anime blogs and would read manga a lot, and they're the ones that got me into watching anime, so I decided to try to get my family to watch some shows. I got my little brother into anime after giving him SAO (i know its not the best show but it's still an excellent gateway series) and now he has a MAL account as well and watches a lot of shows from FUNimation and stuff. Fast forward about a year and a half and I tried to get my mom into anime. She's really into music so I gave her Your Lie in April and she loved it and now watches a few shows now and then. So my question is this: Tell me if you have ever tried to get someone into anime (or how to go about that), what shows you gave or suggested (or examples of good gateway shows), and the result. Also, would you say it is harder to get people into anime the older they are? or does it just depend on the series you give them (and how well you can guess their taste)? Edit: the reason I'm asking about age is because I think the older you are, the more likely you are to be aware of anime stereotypes (as weird Japanese animated shows), and the less open you are to try something that could be alternatively called a 'cartoon'. Like for example, a lot of anime fans most likely watched anime as a kid, and that's how they were introduced to anime (often without realizing that it was a different medium altogether). Adults who don't/haven't watched anime but are aware of shows/anime targeted for kids will assume that's all that anime is (at least in my experience). Basically I think age matters because adults aren't as open to try something completely different from anything else they might've experienced before. |
ISOQuorraNov 26, 2017 9:21 PM
| I'm just open with my loving for anime so I gave mum a watch of some Ghibli films and she liked them. Then I watched Toradora and Madoka Magica with her and she really liked both. She's 62 by the way. |
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| Attack on Titan seems to be a great gateway anime nowadays. I have recommended it plenty of times to non-anime watchers and they all loved it and most started watching other anime. Other than that I have also recommended Koe no Katachi to people who don't know anything about anime and they loved it. Seems like you can't go wrong with those two if you wanna get people into anime. As for the age, most of the people I've recommended anime to are in their early 20's and it wasn't hard for them to get into anime so it seems like age doesn't matter, but that's only my experience. |
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| Drag them into your otaku cave and torture them with anime 24/7 Aside from joking, i don't think age is really a problem, but mostly what the person you want to get into anime, likes/dislikes. If he/she is already watching regular TV series (G.O.T, Breaking Bad, Friends etc...) it will probably be a bit harder to get them into anime. As for what anime are a good gateaway, I guess any anime that is considered good, or very good, at least by most people. Just avoid too many violence/blood and nudity/fan service. These 2 aren't for everyone |
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| I shoved Jojo into their ass. And I suggested the typical answers that are good gateways like AoT, Angel beats and etc that are good for beginners. And if they are a closet intellectual, inb4 SEL and Proxy it is. And obviously, ask they what they like. There are plenty gateway to anime that have brings something differently. |
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| I don't. I mean, I've gotten a few people both online and in person to watch Ikkitousen, but it wasn't necessarily my intention to do so. |
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| If I were to try and get someone into anime, I would start with movies, rather than series. A series is a big time commitment while a movie is a couple of hours tops. Besides the fact that a number of films are orders of magnitude better than your typical series. |
| I tried but never actually succeeded. |
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| I wouldnt say there is a real concrete answer on how to since it depends on the person. I wouldnt even know how to get someone into the medium besides showing them a show that I think would appeal to their tastes. |
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| Majority of the people that I know got into anime through like Sword Art Online |
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| I just play my shit on my phone and act like im getting away with murder, or porn. That always makes people stop and ask wtf you're doing then boom spring the anime trap on them. |
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| Stuff like AoT, One Punch Man, SAO and Ghibli films make great gateway anime. I once convinced a father to watch One Punch Man. |
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| but why tho we could not try to evangelize anime, but instead we could just let other people discover on their own terms if they are interested in it |
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| Give them either battle shounen or ecchi (depends on what they're into) and they'll be hooked. |
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| I’d say it depends on what appeals to them and how much other media they’re actively into. If they’re into tv shows, movies or games and have already watched/played a ton of them, then they’ll probably be more willing to try out different things, and may not mind committing to longer series. This should go without saying but I’ll mention it because I’ve had a similar experience before - only try to get someone into anime if they’re actually interested in it. Nobody likes someone who forces their interests down other people’s throats. |
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| Give them what they personally want. Depends on their preferences and whatnot. In my experience the most difficult thing is to get people to accept the subs so starting out with a dub is probably for the best. I got a friend of mine to make the switch to subs when we watched the first season of a show in dub but S2 didn't have a dub yet but he was excited enough to still want to continue immediately. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| "Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Rabu Raibu." That's my opening line, usually people fall for it and become weebs in a couple days. |
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| I don't think I have gotten anyone into anime, I haven't watched anime for long for that matter, but if I had to say I would introduce them to it the same way I was introduced. I would give them an anime which appeals to them and is easy for newcomers. Death Note is not one of my favorites or anything like that but it is pretty good to hook up people who hasn't watched anime. |
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You aren't, but yet you are wrong. I'm over 50 and even I watched anime on TV as a kid. Didn't know it as anime, but I liked what I saw. It wasn't til about 4 years ago that I got into anime seriously. So in that respect, age isn't so much a factor. The biggest factor is how much exposure someone had when they were younger, and whether they were raised in an environment that viewed all animation to be for kids. The other part of your question.. about if it depends on the shows used to introduce someone to anime.. yes, that can be significant. I had a co-worker that would do one of those eyebrow raises like Spock from Star Trek whenever he heard me talking about anime. Then one day, he heard me describing a show and it caught his interest. I lent him my copy of Parasyte and he loved it. After that, then it was OPM, Death Note, Overlord, and High School DxD. He enjoyed all of them and wanted more. Now if I had loaned him a copy of say a CGDCT or SOL show, he might not have enjoyed it. So choosing a show that at least partially includes something of interest to the person, is the best way to start. Explain that there's a wide variety of anime out there. Not all anime is the same, so not everything will appeal to them. At the same time, point out that they shouldn't judge all anime based on a handful that don't dsuit their taste. |
 You're never too old to watch anime. If I ever stop watching anime, check my pulse I'm likely dead. I wake up with coffee & anime, I go to sleep with coffee & anime. Sorry if my sarcasm is bad, it's not my first language. |
| I don't bother unless they ask me. It's pretty cringey trying to force the things you like onto people. |
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| I never try to do that but if someone asked me for recommendations, i would definitely recommend them HxH or death note. |
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| I don't, most people around me are too fucking retarded to give "kids cartoons" a try. |
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joe_g7 said: I don't, most people around me are too fucking retarded to give "kids cartoons" a try. Yeah, same thing always happen to me when im tried to tell them, Anime more better than fking Drama in my TV. At least i try to convince them that anime is very exciting than any other thing S-quare22 said: I never try to do that but if someone asked me for recommendations, i would definitely recommend them HxH or death note. if you give them HxH and they will say to you. 'Are you fucking nuts' |
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World_invaders said: joe_g7 said: I don't, most people around me are too fucking retarded to give "kids cartoons" a try. Yeah, same thing always happen to me when im tried to tell them, Anime more better than fking Drama in my TV. At least i try to convince them that anime is very exciting than any other thing S-quare22 said: I never try to do that but if someone asked me for recommendations, i would definitely recommend them HxH or death note. if you give them HxH and they will say to you. 'Are you fucking nuts' The length of episodes will make them change their opinion but who cares ? I won't force them to do so. |
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| There's so many things better kept unsaid. I actually wouldn't get people into anime and I don't know truly how I can get people to be invested into anime. Like, seriously, I can at least force them to watch some series but it doesn't truly mean that they'll be invested into anime. Part of me feels it's better if I just keep it there. |
| I don't care about people if they do not want to watch anime. I just let them be. As long as I am enjoying it, it is better to keep it to myself. I truly respect their preferences and there's no problem with that. |
| By sharing the start-up anime pack to them like FMAB and One Punch Man. They will look for more anime to watch in no time. |
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| Did it by accident through fanfics. I frequently participate in review games and events, which involves reviewing others' fics without any knowledge of the fandom, because I can't get any readers and reviewers due to writing for a lesser known/dead fandom. Happened to draw two reviewers with my Gungrave fanfics into watching Gungrave (plus a few PMs about "Why should I watch Gungrave although I don't like/don't care about anime?"). One of them openly dislikes anime while another just has no interest in anime in general. |
| Well it depends on your friends and how open you are about it, im very open about my hobby and because of that my friends decided to try it and they liked it, so now theyre watching it too from time to time or we watch something together, so just be open about it and itll happen eventually |
| Show them ecchi and tell them that all anime is like that |
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| I have a pretty high success rate. I give them a tailored recommendation based on the kinds of genres and themes they enjoy in other mediums. Usually it works. Though some things don't have an analogue in anime, like Star Trek (if you say LoGH I will cut you) And some people are non-receptive so I don't waste my time on them to begin with. fuyuki said: I tried but never actually succeeded. Yet you have one of the secret weapon, near-universal power level 9001 gateway anime as your avatar. |
Red_TuesdayNov 27, 2017 8:14 AM
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Red_Tuesday said: Yeah but first you need to somehow talk them into at least trying to watch it, while they consider every cartoon to be aimed at kids. Anime is for them like an asian counterpart of Cartoon Network stuff - this mostly applies to older people like my parents for example. And the fandom really makes a bad impression so teenagers and people in their 20s often refuse to watch anything because it's not something they want to be associated with. So yeah, the prejudice and misconceptions are a bigger problem here, especially when people don't really care about getting their facts straight. And I don't want to be pushy so I just leave them alone.fuyuki said: I tried but never actually succeeded. Yet you have one of the secret weapon, near-universal power level 9001 gateway anime as your avatar. |
fuyukiNov 27, 2017 9:28 AM
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| I'd probably try giving them a movie, either Kimi no na wa or Spirited away I think. |
| All Dubs must die! "Its 2017 and anime is still legal. What the fuck is congress doing" - Totalbiscuit |
| Just make em watch the first episode of Tokyo Ghoul xD |
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| I don't. It's probably harder because a lot of show are addressed to young people. But if you recommend the right shows, I'm sure it can be done. I would probably recommend films at first if the person is not used to series such as Miazaki and Satochi movies. Then, It would just depend on the person. I could basically recommend any anime of my list since older does'nt mean more serious and less open minded |
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| whats the point? they'll just say in a year theyre tired of it lol |
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| Make them watch Fate Stay/Night and tell them that everything you'll ever watch after that will be better than it. |
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| Why would you want to get them into this embarrassing fanbase? |
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| From such peasant to Semi-Pseudo-Hippy-Patrician with large IQ.. inb4 relying the subpar aspects of "H U M A N N A T U R E"... is what defies my EGO And Sturgeon laws commence that every chinese cartoons are 95% huge pile of dogsh*t and most fanbases are pretty autistic >Literally |
-HippySnob-Nov 27, 2017 9:17 PM
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| I have a buddy who would pop in and out of my group on occasion, mainly for robots and other electronic projects as I'm the "go-to" guy for wooden parts. He thought we were all crazy, two years later he went down the same rabbit hole we all did and loves the stuff. I knew he would come around eventually. I've found that everyone can enjoy anime in theory but most won't get anywhere near it because they don't realize that it's a medium, not a genre. He came around without us trying to get him into it, we pretty much guilt tripped him into watching it by not trying to get him into it. Ghibli is the normal stating point for most, so I'd go with that. |
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| You dont get people into anime. Anime gets people into anime. |
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