How many people have you made into fans?

[cairber]

About how many people have you made/converted into anime fans?

Tell us about some of them and which anime(s)helped get them hooked.

[Takato]

I haven't turned anyone into a full-fledged anime fan but I did turn my sister into a Tenchi Muyo fan by showing her Tenchi The Movie: Tenchi In Love and I also got her hooked on the subtitled version of the Sailor Moon anime. She's also a fan of Kiki's Delivery Service and I've tried to get her to watch Miyazaki's other films but I haven't had much luck yet.

[something]

I haven't turned any into fans (because I don't talk about anime much with people I know "in the physical world" and almost everyone online I talk to is already into it). What I do do is keep telling them about sales and making them clear out their bank accounts buying stuff =D

[cairber]

I have made three gals I know into anime fans (hurray! now I have people to watch with that are not male :D ).

My best friend I showed her Fushigi Yugi and she was so into it...we cried together at the end! SHe also is into Ceres and Fruits Basket (and bought all three sets, too!)

Another friend and I watched Serial Experiments Lain together (after much begging on my part). I actually thought she would hate it but I wanted to give it a try and it worked! We have also watched Haibane and Niea together.

My sister I have made into a sorta fan- she likes watching it with me and her fav series to watch with me are Kare Kano and Fushigi Yugi. She has bought herself Spirited Away and Castle in the Sky. She also came to Otakon one year with us.

[Suwako Moriya]

Honestly no one, but then again I've never actively tried to make people into fans. I also don't really have a social life anyway. I do talk to people online about anime, but they're usually already fans in some form. Well my niece does like some of the anime I own, but in her case she's about 7 years old. Thus it's less a case of being a fan of anime and more of a case of like some animation that happens to be anime.

[Lego]

I got my youngest brother into some shows like Cromartie and GITS SAC. Thats about it really. I'm more of a "quiet anime fan" and really don't go "hey guys, I was watching this cool new show today" hehe.

[Ty]

Absolutely nobody. My acquaintances ask about the subject to harass me more than anything. :sd:

[JJMatthews]

He might have gotten there on his own eventually, but I think I can still take credit for making my coworker a fan. :)

He'd been aware of my anime thing for a while without showing much interest, but one day he came in talking about having seen "Voices of a Distant Star" and being impressed, so I started talking up anime a bit more. A little while later, we had a conversation in which he expressed an interest in shows and movies that were dark, depressing, or generally evil.

I said "You want evil? You want depressing? I think I can manage that." I tossed "Now and Then, Here and There" and "Grave of the Fireflies" at him, and he was hooked. :)

[The Pirate Queen]

I don't hate anybody that much.

[Talyn]

I converted my wife who had a complete distate and disdain for anime after a previous bf tried to cram Yu-gi-oh and Pokemon down her throat. It took me 5 months to convince her to watch anything. I put on Vandread one day while she had a bad head ache. I seriously thought she was asleep and I had just acquired the series in a massive bundle from TRSI. I snuggled her till she zonked out. Popped it in and half way into the first episode she says, "What the hell is that... it sounds hilarious." She looked up and we marathoned the show.... afterwards she asked, "Is that considered good anime?" Watching it for the first time with her, I nodded and she reached for Gungrave and asked me if she would like it. Having only seen the first disc, and only having two discs I kinda shook my head. She doesn't like anything terribly bloody or grotesque. She watched it anyway when I went to work a couple days later and promptly commanded me to get more as soon as it came out. In the mean time we watched a ton of anime, some good, some not so good. She's pickier than I am but she went crazy for Witch Hunter Robin and Scrapped Princess.

Currently I'm working on turning my cousin into a manga freak. He loves the game Sword of the Berserker on Dreamcast, and is a huge book worm. I thought it was a natural fit so I grabbed him Berserk... last I heard I bought ten volumes of it at Borders and is getting interested in other series... Anime is next for him... and I have a plan...

[Mateo_home]

Honestly, no one. I tried to get my best friend into anime a number of times. I tried showing him FLCL when it was on CN and Inuyasha, but he always has to "go to the bathroom" for fifteen minutes. I even tried showing him some DVD cases and not shutting up about their titles like Azumanga Daioh, it just doesn't work. He'd rather watch "Bedazzled" or "Eyes Wide Shut" (if I was making this part up, I would add "Chasing Amy" and "Gigli" on there). Or maybe I just plain suck at getting people into anime.

I don't try to get anyone else into anime because it's not really the thing I want to talk about with actual people unless I know they're into it...and they're usually the ones to bring it up first. I really should be expressing my anime fandom just a little bit just to let the person know I like it. And if I'm made of, I can just reply, "up yours, I'll watch whatever the hell I want." :P

[Super Saiyajin Joshua]

Honestly, no one. I tried to get my best friend into anime a number of times. I tried showing him FLCL when it was on CN and Inuyasha, but he always has to "go to the bathroom" for fifteen minutes. I even tried showing him some DVD cases and not shutting up about their titles like Azumanga Daioh, it just doesn't work. He'd rather watch "Bedazzled" or "Eyes Wide Shut" (if I was making this part up, I would add "Chasing Amy" and "Gigli" on there). Or maybe I just plain suck at getting people into anime.

I don't try to get anyone else into anime because it's not really the thing I want to talk about with actual people unless I know they're into it...and they're usually the ones to bring it up first. I really should be expressing my anime fandom just a little bit just to let the person know I like it. And if I'm made of, I can just reply, "up yours, I'll watch whatever the hell I want." :P


FLCL is a very bad choice for a gateway anime. In my opinion anyway.

[Super Saiyajin Joshua]

The only person I really got into anime was my girlfriend. She hadn't seen anything accept the TV run of Sailor Moon. I introduced her to Dragon Ball , Yu Yu Hakusho and Ranma 1/2 and she was pretty hooked. Now we share in the anime buying responsibilites and every once and awhile I'll find volumes of Eyeshield 21 or Flame of Recca missing from my book shelves. So I guess I not only made her into an anime fan but a manga fan too :D

[DazzleKitty]

I haven't really turned anyone in to a big fan of it like I am. I tend to not like to press my interests on others, because I hate when people do that to me.

I did get my cousin into some of it. She watched all of Fruits Basket and Pretear with me, and she also likes some of the yaoi stuff I have.

[Collectonian]

None...the one I tried unfortunately had the attention span of a gnat (he claimed he had ADD, and after seeing that same lack attention span while he was driving and I was hoping I'd be alive at the end of the trip, I'm inclined to agree). So tried him on Perfect Blue, and he kept playing on the laptop instead of watching, because he couldn't focus on one thing, then was confused cause we were watching it subbed. *sigh*

I have, however, converted a few people from having mistaken ideas about anime and getting them to understand what it is enough that they can listen to me yap about it without being confused :D

[bill princeton]

I converted my wife who had a complete distate and disdain for anime after a previous bf tried to cram Yu-gi-oh and Pokemon down her throat. It took me 5 months to convince her to watch anything. I put on Vandread one day while she had a bad head ache. I seriously thought she was asleep and I had just acquired the series in a massive bundle from TRSI. I snuggled her till she zonked out. Popped it in and half way into the first episode she says, "What the hell is that... it sounds hilarious." She looked up and we marathoned the show.... afterwards she asked, "Is that considered good anime?" Watching it for the first time with her, I nodded and she reached for Gungrave and asked me if she would like it. Having only seen the first disc, and only having two discs I kinda shook my head. She doesn't like anything terribly bloody or grotesque. She watched it anyway when I went to work a couple days later and promptly commanded me to get more as soon as it came out. In the mean time we watched a ton of anime, some good, some not so good. She's pickier than I am but she went crazy for Witch Hunter Robin and Scrapped Princess.
That's a pretty good story. It's more than most seem to be able to do!

It must be tough to convert someone into a complete anime fan. You can easily get someone onto a show, but we all have our own tastes and prefs. I've gotten people interested in a show, and then tried another, which didn't take.

So good job to anyone who can turn another person into a full-fledged fan!

[Mazinkaizer]

Honestly i never did as that i don't talk about anime with non-anime fans (more like my secret identity :P ). However, i did turn quite lots of my anime fans friends into seiyuu fans/freaks like myself :sd: and even few dub fans started watching/switched to sub because of that :)

Well they don't call me a Seiyuu Freak for nothing :sd: :D

[tangent]

Absolutely no one.

It's too much work to try to explain anime to people.

[Talyn]

I converted my wife who had a complete distate and disdain for anime after a previous bf tried to cram Yu-gi-oh and Pokemon down her throat. It took me 5 months to convince her to watch anything. I put on Vandread one day while she had a bad head ache. I seriously thought she was asleep and I had just acquired the series in a massive bundle from TRSI. I snuggled her till she zonked out. Popped it in and half way into the first episode she says, "What the hell is that... it sounds hilarious." She looked up and we marathoned the show.... afterwards she asked, "Is that considered good anime?" Watching it for the first time with her, I nodded and she reached for Gungrave and asked me if she would like it. Having only seen the first disc, and only having two discs I kinda shook my head. She doesn't like anything terribly bloody or grotesque. She watched it anyway when I went to work a couple days later and promptly commanded me to get more as soon as it came out. In the mean time we watched a ton of anime, some good, some not so good. She's pickier than I am but she went crazy for Witch Hunter Robin and Scrapped Princess.
That's a pretty good story. It's more than most seem to be able to do!

It must be tough to convert someone into a complete anime fan. You can easily get someone onto a show, but we all have our own tastes and prefs. I've gotten people interested in a show, and then tried another, which didn't take.

So good job to anyone who can turn another person into a full-fledged fan!


I seem to have a knack for finding shows that suit peoples tastes in order to try anime. One of my online friends is a huge vampire and supernatural gal, (including the actual namesake live action show). I convinced her to try Vampire Hunter D and Hellsing and she's doing alright so far... Though my wife is the only full conversion, that and I got her into Stargate SG-1 and Battlestar Galactica. Though they are on in the background for her, she does kinda watch them... she prefers dvd's. She's currently absorbed by Noir... She has not gotten to the Kitten episode yet... *snickers*

[Yoda47]

My one brother will watch stuff with me if I'm watching it, but that's about it.

My sister is a True Convert. I don't remember which show I showed her first, but her favorites are Kenshin and Trigun, but she'll watch anything. She also prefers to watch subs.

My wife is still a work in progress, but it's coming along nicely. She's been a cartoon and sci-fi fan already anyway, so it's been easy. (When we were dating we'd watch Star Trek TOS.) So I showed her Planetes and Outlaw Star first, she loves those. She's also seen a little bit of Azumanga, and thinks it's weird, but she likes it. I've also got her watching Super GALS (I pre-ordered the 2nd season and figured I'd just confuse her watching that first.) That took her a few episodes to get used to, but I think she likes it. She doesn't like all the swearing, so I'm going to show her the sub version. I would have just done that first, but she doesn't read all that fast and thus doesn't like sub titles much.

[battle001]

I've help make some sort-of-fans, into diehard fans with shows like fighting spirit and Evangelion,
Cowboy Bebop and Kino no Tabi <amazingly made my mother a fan>

for the most part i don't talk about anime with people unless i know they have some intrest.

[Shsway]

Just my brother. We can't quite figure out which show did it, but it was totally because he discovered that he was really amused/enthralled by uber-shounen, fist-pumping stuff. Trigun was technically his first show, but Cromartie High School and Azumanga Daioh had a great effect one him. He came out as a fan during Christmas. :D

Every now and then we discuss what we've seen/think of Bleach. I'm savoring it, but he's already found out all sorts of facts about the franchise from Wikipedia, etc.

[meganly_chan]

Not a soul. It's a fight just to get someone to watch something with me, also very rare.

[Crystallized]

I haven't made any people into anime fans, but I have converted one person into liking more obscure shows. She was already into the mainstream stuff, and I lent her Super Gals, the girliest anime I own, almost as a joke. She loved it! She's now into His and Her Circumstances, now, too.

[Raye]

At one point in time, two of my friends would keep up with Naruto, Bleach, and some other series. Now one of them just downloads Eyeshield 21 and the other is partially up to date with only Bleach. Another one of my friends just leeches off of whatever I feel like giving to him. He went on a download spree when I taught him how to utilize IRC, but his interest is off and on. None of my friends are as dedicated as myself. I don't know anyone who actually spends money on anime or manga. I stand alone! Blah, oh well.

[Chloe]

Honestly no one, but then again I've never actively tried to make people into fans. I also don't really have a social life anyway. I do talk to people online about anime, but they're usually already fans in some form. Well my niece does like some of the anime I own, but in her case she's about 7 years old. Thus it's less a case of being a fan of anime and more of a case of like some animation that happens to be anime.

I have a number of small niece/nephews, who get to watch "cartoons" when they come to visit their crazy Uncle. Honestly, Otaku should not be put in charge of small children... :> One of the things they find most amusing is trying to figure out what sex each character is. "That's a girl!" "No it isn't!", over and over and over... :roll:

[Kinomoto_Shinji]

Zero. I've never really attempted to convert anyone. Normaly they know about it anyways before I know them, so no point in trying. Although I did get a one friend interested in GTO, and he was open minded to other series, but he doesn't have much free time to watch stuff. Or rather, he doesn't like watching stuff alone, so he doesn't have oppurtunity to. I honestly can't stand watching anime with other people around. It's the reason why I don't join the anime club here in Tallahassee. It's not relaxing to watching with a bunch of other people around for me.