how to introduce anime to someone

what if there the type thats in to sci-fi

id say blue gender
guyver

action

dragonball series
naruto shippuden
bleach
cowboy bepbop
fma

mech
gundam wing
gurren largann
giant robo
 
IMO Fullmetal Panic would be a better beginner show recommendation than Gurren Lagaan, not to mention it's got a mix of humour and drama which open it to a wider audience.

Gurren is deliberately over the top and plays off some tropes etc, and even amongst anime fans it's a bit hit and miss as to whether others like it.
 
alexrose1uk said:
IMO Fullmetal Panic would be a better beginner show recommendation than Gurren Lagaan, not to mention it's got a mix of humour and drama which open it to a wider audience.

Gurren is deliberately over the top and plays off some tropes etc, and even amongst anime fans it's a bit hit and miss as to whether others like it.
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I agree with that, mainly because i didn't really enjoy Gurren, as for Full Metal Panic, don't think i've laughed so much at an anime before. :p
 
If the first anime I'd seen had been Clannad/Kanon or anything in that vein, I'd probably have run a mile and never returned ;_;

R
 
If I remember my path in (and there's probably some missing stuff here), excluding teen stuff like Pokemon/Digimon was:
Gundam Wing and Fullmetal Alchemist (in about 2005/6) with one of my younger brother, a bit later he gave me Fullmetal Panic! which I enjoyed but it still didn't peak my interest in the medium itself as a whole. He was BIG into anime and manga a few years back, he was into the whole cosplay etc scenes and everythin else at a point where I was just completely non-interested.

I also ended up watching Tekkaman Blade back in 2007-ish as one of my girlfriends, looking back, was quite into the area at the time (I seem to remember she had a thing for Cardcaptor Sakura).

Then back in ooh 2009-2010, I was given Deathnote and Elfen Lied by one of my best friends as he thought I'd enjoy them, shortly after I ended up meeting with Spice and Wolf, Kanon etc and I fell in love there.

Ironically my brother is now more 'normal' than he was back then in regards to his hobby, so as he's pulled out of the extremes, I've fallen into the fandom, which means we now chat on more or less the same level. This was part of the reason I enjoyed some of Oremo last year, as I could see parallels in my own past with my brother (obviously without any of the iffy connoitations haha)
 
I was lending out some DVDs to a friend the other day, he'd seen Ghibli films and some things so I thought the best kind of thing for him to watch was Baccano, Eden of the east and Wolf's rain. I think those three series are quite reasonable to get someone into anime, depending on their tastes obviously.

I did get another of my friend into anime by watching NANA, I guess it's not the first on everyone's list but with shojo it's one of the more realistic series out there.

And I somehow got someone into anime by letting them watch Junjou romantica over my shoulder *face palm* and then they watched Bleach of all things, it's a surprise to me that she still likes it.

I think if people are open minded and willing it's easier to get them into anime, it's rather frustrating when someone sees you watching a cartoon and assumes it's something childish and automatically thinks it's not for them just because of the fact it's drawn. I always disliked that fact that people seem to view cartoons as an inferior media.
 
Rui said:
If the first anime I'd seen had been Clannad/Kanon or anything in that vein, I'd probably have run a mile and never returned ;_;

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Word.



Surely the definitive unfailing introduction shows are Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo.

Personally I never introduced anyone to Bebop, but I have met a a few people who aren't really that into anime, but have love for Bebop. It's got the perfect blend of fluid action without being overly violent and gory, appealing character designs, great characters, mature story and a banging soundtrack. How could it fail?

All of the above also applies to Samurai Champloo. This one I actually have given to my older brother to watch. He loved it.

My rules for introduction anime, is usually: Nothing that plays up too much to the prevailing anime cliché/ stereotype image. So no fan service, really gratuitous violence, big robots, characters with freakishly large eyes and if possible a nominal amount of secondary school children.

You really don't want to reinforce the (somewhat true) belief that this is what anime mainly offers.
 
vashdaman said:
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My rules for introduction anime, is usually: Nothing that plays up too much to the prevailing anime cliché/ stereotype image. So no fan service, really gratuitous violence, big robots, characters with freakishly large eyes and if possible a nominal amount of secondary school children.

You really don't want to reinforce the (somewhat true) belief that this is what anime mainly offers.
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So what you're saying is "90% of shows released in the last 5 years are a big no-no"?
 
Joshawott said:
vashdaman said:
My rules for introduction anime, is usually: Nothing that plays up too much to the prevailing anime cliché/ stereotype image. So no fan service, really gratuitous violence, big robots, characters with freakishly large eyes and if possible a nominal amount of secondary school children.

You really don't want to reinforce the (somewhat true) belief that this is what anime mainly offers.
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So what you're saying is "90% of shows released in the last 5 years are a big no-no"?
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That's just an accurate statement regardless of the issue at hand, isn't it? :p
 
Comments along the lines of Paradox's I usually "understand", in the sense that they are usually made by people of enormous ignorance who theoretically just need to grow slightly as a person. When they are made by people who already have niche interests, it puzzles me greatly, as surely you should already see the folly of such statements from imagining them said to you about the "incorrectness" of your niche hobby.

fabricatedlunatic said:
Me, I like video games as well as Japanese cartoons. My horizons could not be broader.
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Pff, come on mate, you could at least buy plastic figures of fictional girls...

oh, really? Now aren't I embarrassed.
 
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