need help with anime choices for my mum

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st_owly said:
Everyone has some prejudices, be they conscious or otherwise.
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I try not to be prejudiced against anyone but does that the fact that I try mean that I actually am? If I wasn't then surely I wouldn't have to try as it would jut be the norm.

Regarding WW2. It's impossible for those of us who didn't live through it to understand the feelings of those who did.
 
My mum has watched a bit of anime, not much though. She likes the Death Note films so I let her borrow my anime series boxset and she liked it apart from the last third, but thats the same for everyone who watches it :lol:
I've shown her two Ghibli films as well, Grave of the Fireflies which she now thinks is the best film ever made even though she refuses to watch it again, and Porco Rosso which she thought was 'okay for a cartoon' in her words :roll:
I tried Hetalia but she didn't really get into it so it was dropped early. Generally speaking shes not that interested in anime but I sometimes wonder if I should try lending her something else since shes always complaining that theres nothing worth watching on tv these days. Princess Mononoke and Millennium Actress are the best i can think of, maybe Sky Crawlers.
 
elixEideJ said:
My mum has watched a bit of anime, not much though. She likes the Death Note films so I let her borrow my anime series boxset and she liked it apart from the last third, but thats the same for everyone who watches it :lol:
I've shown her two Ghibli films as well, Grave of the Fireflies which she now thinks is the best film ever made even though she refuses to watch it again, and Porco Rosso which she thought was 'okay for a cartoon' in her words :roll:
I tried Hetalia but she didn't really get into it so it was dropped early. Generally speaking shes not that interested in anime but I sometimes wonder if I should try lending her something else since shes always complaining that theres nothing worth watching on tv these days. Princess Mononoke and Millennium Actress are the best i can think of, maybe Sky Crawlers.
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if you want my advice, get her to watch *moribito*, its a perfect series, no fan service just a pure good story with good animation, great characters it just perfect,
 
animefreak17 said:
if you want my advice, get her to watch *moribito*, its a perfect series, no fan service just a pure good story with good animation, great characters it just perfect,
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Yeah that's a good idea. I forgot to mention Sword of the Stranger which she liked, mostly for the fight at the end, so Moribito and probably Samurai 7 should work.

Looking at your list at the start of this thread I think you should avoid Break Blade (fanservice) and NHK (some of the story is about erotic games so...)
Fruits Basket is a great idea, how could anyone not like that. How about Claymore, Darker Than Black, Planetes and Witch Hunter Robin?
 
elixEideJ said:
animefreak17 said:
if you want my advice, get her to watch *moribito*, its a perfect series, no fan service just a pure good story with good animation, great characters it just perfect,
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Yeah that's a good idea. I forgot to mention Sword of the Stranger which she liked, mostly for the fight at the end, so Moribito and probably Samurai 7 should work.

Looking at your list at the start of this thread I think you should avoid Break Blade (fanservice) and NHK (some of the story is about erotic games so...)
Fruits Basket is a great idea, how could anyone not like that. How about Claymore, Darker Than Black, Planetes and Witch Hunter Robin?
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brake blade has fan service??? * forgot it did thanks for that*

il give samural 7 a chance when we get around to it

about the NHK and genshiken i was thinking sbout showing her these for how the anime community works and a few other issues evolving anime and stuff but il show her this about i reach a certain amount of series,

fruits basket might be abit too............... comical, on the other hand if we look past the comedy she might like it, shes not that much keen on comedy * she a miserable lol * joking she likes laughing i saw she laugh in FMA and a few other scenes so i think fruits basket might be a yes,

il give the rest a thought
claymore is up her allie because she likes stuff about monsters and stuff
darker than black possibility
witch hunter robin possibility * she liked charmed *
planets * im not sure, it might be about how things might be in space but it really doesn't have a story to it, i mean it does but......... i not really sure she'll get in to it but its worth a try
sword of a stranger ........... yeah sounds right

if you've got it, watch romeo X juliet with her my mum said she loves the animation and the story so far, even tho i hate romance anime, romeo X juliet is an exception because of how it is and we all know the story,

funny thing - she knows romeo & juliet from the play and films but forgot exactly what happens in it, she knows they felll in love but the anime adaptation is different from the play * i wounder which adaptation she'll like better the anime or the original *
 
My Mum has seen:

Baccano
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Akira
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Summer Wars
The Cat Returns
Legend of the Overfiend (That was a BIG mistake on my part, whoops)

She's rated Madoka Magica as best so far, she likes things with strong female characters. We're planning a FMA: Brotherhood marathon over the summer.
 
I was reading that list and thinking it's quite impressive your mum had sat through Akira (it's never gone down as well as I would have hoped whenever I've shown that film to an unprepared non-anime fan), but then I got to Legend of the Overfiend... :eek: what where you thinking!? :lol:
 
Mr Vile said:
My Mum has seen:

Baccano
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Akira
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Summer Wars
The Cat Returns
Legend of the Overfiend (That was a BIG mistake on my part, whoops)

She's rated Madoka Magica as best so far, she likes things with strong female characters. We're planning a FMA: Brotherhood marathon over the summer.
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Legend of the............... Are you insane!!!! I'm surprised she didn't stop watching anime, totally insane dude ......................sooooooo did she like it, joking

About madoka magica, are you supposed to watch so many magically girl series then watch that last because of what gose on in this series.

I watched both series of FMA SERIES with my mum and it has taken for ever to get though series movies, OVAs she liked them a lot.

I'l let her watch the ones youv watch but legend of the overfiend,

Were watching Romeo and Juliet now
 
I literally could not imagine sitting down with any family member to watch Legend of the Overfiend. In fact I'd rather not watch it myself.

Good luck with Romeo x Juliet, I really wanted to like tht series because it had some great promo art, but I got so bored of it so quick :(

Surprised people have had relatives who enjoyed Madoka Magica. I couldn't get my sister or girlfriend to watch it with me, despite trying to tell them it was subversive and not as candy-coated as it looked from the box.
 
She likes it very much, what is so boring about? I enjoy it very much, yea yea I know everyone has different tastes ect ect but why did you find it boring?

As for me I like how they use the old English which is pretty damned good and the animation is pretty, I also like how it's different to the play, I also like the role-play in it too.

Magica is one of those series * don't judge a book by it's cover* ( that's a point I should make a thread on anime series/movies that you thought it was going to be something you thought you was expecting to watch............ You know what I mean)
 
OK, some explanation about Overfiend. It was when it first came out on VHS. There was no neo or other magazines to warn me. She'd enjoyed Akira a lot, and I thought the 18 certificate was just for violence, I had NO idea about the sex. I spent most of the film trying to crawl into my own hand to die. Or will away what was happening with mind power.

At least it was "only" the manga edit. I've since seen the 3 part OVA it was edited down from and wow. Anyway, thankfully she wasn't put off anime for life. She is cool.

As regards needing to see a Magical Girl anime to enjoy PMMM. No. I've never seen another MG anime either and PMMM is now my fave anime. It's like the anime The Watchmen (the original comic book not the crappy film), a deconstruction that works fine even if you have never seen what it's deconstructing.
 
Difficult to say really as people's tastes obvious differ.

-Any Studio Ghibli film (my grandad actually enjoyed Nausicaä strangely)
-Eden Of The East might be a good choice.
-Ghost Hunt
-Haibane Renmei
-Anything Shinkai should be a winner.
-Satoshi Kons films are also a good choice.
-Planetes is really nice.
-Sound Of The Sky (subtitled only though)

I'm sure Welcome To The NHK would be a bad choice if I'm honest with you.
 
Excuse me if it has already been suggested, but I've found Eden of the East to be a good one to suggest to people who might not necessarily have an interest in anime or are just starting off.
In this situation, it depends really on how awkward you might find the scenes with "The Johnny Hunter".
Otherwise maybe something like Summer Wars, or The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Something like Durarara might also be good, but unless you import the Aniplex sets it's sub only for the time being.
Another suggestion, maybe Un-Go?

EDIT: Eden was suggested in the post above mine! Never mind me...
 
I'm going to one day get her to watch giant robo, yes it's a bit ummmm.......... What's the word, anyways I think it has a great story and she might like it.

As for the rest of the movies and series you guys suggested I'l put those on the to watch pile,

* wanna know something, well the other day after we finished with that's nights eps of Romeo x Juliet I asked if she wanted to watch the trailer for the next ep and she said no because it will be on her mind, she even said was thinking about it all day on that day, in fact she's been doing that alot for all the anime we'v seen.
 
I have Overfiend, finally, since it was a couple of quid in MVM and was in the blue cross sale (paid something like £1.30 for it).
Still haven't watched it.
 
Shiroi Hane said:
I have Overfiend, finally, since it was a couple of quid in MVM and was in the blue cross sale (paid something like £1.30 for it).
Still haven't watched it../quote]
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Shame it's the cut version.
 
Watching princess mononoke either tomorrow or tonight with mum and hopefully my dad when we come to watch baccano

I told him it was about the mafia and I think he was having a think about it he likes film with mafia and something like goodfellas
 
My mum and a kid she was minding once raided my DVD collection.
Let me just say that they were surprised at all the flying limbs in Princess Mononoke.
 
Lol

We watched 40 mins of it and stopped, we or she likes to watch a bit and calls it a night she does this with series we watch 2 a night but if she really wants to know what happens next she goes watch another one, sometimes I have to step in and say let's call it a night because she falls a sleep, not because she's bored but she's a working woman
 
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