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John Thacker
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I'd add in for "Mid-life Crisis Dad," Kachou Ohji / Legend of Black Heaven. It's definitely worth a watch. | |||
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Merxamers
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I've considered this question quite a bit, and honestly the only anime I'd feel comfortable showing my dad would be Cowboy Bebop, because it's the best and the most mature series I've seen, and Interstella 5555 (though that might be a tough sell for him). I'd maybe, MAYBE, show him Trigun, but even there you have stuff like that one scene where Vash wiggles like a worm to peak up a teenage girl's dress.
Sadly, I don't think anime is something my parents and I would ever enjoy together. |
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Errinundra
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I'll turn this around
The List - 5 Anime I Watched With My Nephew Here were his recommendations (we're talking mid to late 2000s). 1. Howl's Moving Castle. He took his mother (my sister) and me to see it. I enjoyed it but can't say I loved it. 2. The first two episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. That was embarrassing. It went down like a lead balloon. I thought it was puerile. 3. The first episode of the first season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. That was much better. It was good enough for me to try out the rest of the season. The Laughing Man episodes beguiled me. 4. The first two episodes of Monster. Like GitS:SAC it did enough to intrigue me, though I didn't get around to watching it until a few years later. 5. Last Exile. Oddly enough this was the one that caught my attention. The flying battleships had me hooked, while the characters of Claus and, especially, Lavie appealed to me. There you go, a tsundere character got me into TV anime. You might be surprised what your father might like. These days I'd rate Monster as the best of them but, at the time, Last Exile caught my eye. |
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Felicity dash
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Funny enough, my dad & I watched NGE and Ghost in the shell as well as the movie Vampire Hunter D, together and I managed to introduce him to psycho-pass and Attack on Titan. I was only successfully able to capture my mom with Hellsing Ultimate and Dangan Ronpa. | |||
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belvadeer
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Unfortunately, I don't think my father would be too interested in anime, or would ever have been. He's just too busy these days.
Regarding the cyborg character question, isn't Haro just a mechanical ball with limited speech? I don't think he's really part human at all, more like a toy mascot. As for the question itself, I'm finding it hard to decide between Android 18, Astro Boy, Briareos or Major Kusanagi. I'd want them all on my side in a fight! XD |
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Megiddo
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The only thing I could ever get my dad to watch with me was the Area 88 OVA. He quite enjoyed that one too. He likes old dogfighting movies so it was a pretty easy suggestion. | |||
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Animegomaniac
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No Fist of the North Star for the list? Mad Max meets martial arts, what's not to love? It's like Tiger and Bunny but with less homoerotic subtext. Or more... it's one of those, I forgot which.
The poll: I wanted Chise from Saikano but I don't think I picked the right character/option. Anyway, she's wins any fight as easy as atom bomb beats rock, paper and scissors. |
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ParaChomp
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You forgot straight-man dad and his choice.spoiler[ Nothing.] | |||
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XerBlade
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"Which cyborg character would you want to have on your side in a fight"?
..... https://youtu.be/ I would think this one's obvious. |
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Bisuketto
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With how saikano ends, I figure Tomoyo really is the only option for a companion. | |||
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relyat08
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My Dad is actually surprisingly interested in anime. And would probably watch a lot more if my Mom wasn't kind of against it. Redline is on my short list for him though. Movies tend to be the best options, since you can get through the whole story in a pretty short amount of time.
Things he has seen and liked are: Sword of the Stranger Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal Bunny Drop Attack On Titan Wolf Children The Tale of the Princess Kaguya From Up On Poppy Hill Most Miyazaki movies Death Note Fate/Zero Paprika I think most of those are pretty good entry-points, in general. Sword Of The Stranger, specifically is always something I recommend to a newcomer who just likes a good action movie. |
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ShadowZim777
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I might have one for Fantasy Dad
Record of Lodoss War. My dad rarely watches anime, but I was able to convince him to watch the OVA version. Told him it was a little bit like Game of Thrones, plus he's into fantasy since he played D&D as a child. I think he kinda liked it. |
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teferi
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I think the author seems to have forgotten that for most fathers anime is Pokemon. It's all those silly Japanese cartoons their kids watch are still watching even though they're not six anymore. Eyeshield for example would be cringe worthy for most middle aged men that follow sports. | |||
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EricJ2
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For Paper-Sports Dad--the ones that always hope to get you into baseball, even though they'd never played in their lives--it's hard not to get a new anime-fan hooked on Genma and Ranma's dysfunctional battles on Ranma 1/2.
Worked with my dad, although it helped that at that point he'd never seen any subbed/dubbed J-comedy before. Takahashi seemed to be getting out her own misandric parent issues with both Genma and with Ryuunusuke and dad on UY (and the milquetoast dads on UY and Maison), but any dad can appreciate the internationally universal slapstick comedy, and Genma's "Man up, son, you're carrying the family name!" attempts to stay out of the harder stuff, and cute-panda-tire his way out of responsibility. ("Panda" being the obvious Japanese pun-idiom for an authority figure who's not quite what he wants everyone to think he is.) |
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Paiprince
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Boku no Pico since no anime has achieved the level of paternal love this anime has exhibited thus far.[/b] | |||
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