Had any interesting reactions from people from seeing anime?

cilu · Post by **cilu** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:42 am

I didn't expect anime to cause so much trouble. I'm really impressed. Here nobody even knows the difference between a cartoon, anime and manga. They're all in the same dish for them. My mother came in one day and said, watching anime again. Why don't you consider getting a job or going outside. Well because after 16 years of school i deserve a break and there's like 40 degrees celcius outside (sorry but i don't know how much F. degreees that means).
My exgirlfriend used to get so enthusiastic about disney cartoons, but when she saw akira she was like wtf, this is crap...come on, what a sick imagination these people have.... Well, didn't bother to explaiin her what's what. But at least i convinced a friend of mine to watch akira last week and he was like oh my god, every time a hand got chopped off or a head would burst. He said he would like to see some more anyday. Another friend of mine got into rurouni kenshin after he watched the four ova's series and he was really impressed.

supersarah6 · Post by **supersarah6** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 3:43 pm

My brother first introduced me with anime with the movie Akira I was eight when we both watched that movie. We were a little too young to watch a movie like that but we didnt know better. I'm 16 and I will never forget watching that movie, it freaked me out! He just bought the special edition DVD of it and I couldnt sit down and watch it with him!

Wheee_It's_Me! · Post by **Wheee_It's_Me!** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 4:27 pm

If you really want to get people interested in anime it's best to show them one that reflects THEIR interests rather than just something blatantly shocking, like Akira. For example my little sister is really into soap operas and melodrama and shit, so the first anime I showed her was Ai Yori Aoshi. And my older brother, who is really into Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I showed him Hellsing as his first taste to anime. The other thing that I always find helpful is to remind newbies that there are as many different forms of anime as there are genres in American film making. Horror, action, scifi, family, childrens, fantasy, etc, etc...and of course it gets even more complicated cause you can have combinations of the different categories.

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:26 pm

Strange reactions? Well it would be between my daughters reaction "dad, you like anime too" or my wifes "don't tell my you still watch cartoons", this from the lady who wouldn't miss the muppet show when the kids were young.

Nekoboy Sal · Post by **Nekoboy Sal** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 3:48 pm

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Zero · Post by **Zero** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 8:41 pm

Actualy, I was reffering to someone else (Maver). But I don't have anything against it because a good friend of mine is and is a genius with computers.

-Zero

HeavyMetal · Post by **HeavyMetal** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 2:17 am

First I have to say this is a great topic.

I have to say it is a western thing. Western civilization is steeped in social dogma. ....icky....

You know the stuff. Guys have to look and act like this, women like this, stereotypes like this, and of cousre everything is painted in the typical Jewish/Christian frame of thought reference.

(Not to drag religion into this. I say it as a matter of thought paradigm and political view point.)

The western world for all it claims is still a huge enforcer of cultural norms that have nothing to with right or wrong.

Then of course right and wrong have little to with nice. (anyway)

Movies on this matter (Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Darko, Fight Club)

The western world just tends to be blind to its own norm enforcement. Like blue laws etc.

That is the source of these OMG reactions anyway.

I have had the occastional odd stare. But then...I poke their eyes out..no...I chalk it up to ignorance and typically ignore people like that.

As for fan service I just tell them to grow up, get over, and stop putting on a show to conform to some stupid psycho-social standard. Its art (okay not all of it), its fun, and hey a little extra stimulation. What the hell. Besides a lot of it is light hearted anyway.

I was watching anime back in the dark ages before it had any popularity. It kind of started with the SciFi group really. A limited number of things came over. Some switching companies and things like that. But it was good.

For those on lookers that are my friends I just find something they like. (a number of my friends are now fans of anime and Metallica, you just have to find the right introduction.)

I just ask people if they like the Matrix. Then I name a few of the many anime that inspired the Matrix. Plus the John Woo camera style and wire action.

J-0080 · Post by **J-0080** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:41 am

cilu wrote:and there's like 40 degrees celcius outside (sorry but i don't know how much F. degreees that means)

40*1.8=72+32=104

No odd reactions for me yet, mainly because I haven't really watched anime with people who didn't already like it.

J-0080 · Post by **J-0080** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:42 am

Errr, Mainly because "I've only" really watched anime with people who already liked it.

someperson · Post by **someperson** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 10:02 pm

old quote from back in the day.

EvaXephon wrote:When my mom saw Goku go Super Saiyan, she screamed. I don't know why. You'd have to ask her.

I'd say that counts as an interesting reaction

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