Let me tell you all a true story from the past, long time ago when One piece and Naruto were almost new, and where I changed the view of someone who hated anime to an anime lover.

It was a hot summer day in June where i was arguing with my older brother who's 5 years older than me. At that time I was in my 13/14s, and as i a kid i was kind of skinny, however my parents raised us to never back down from our beliefs even among elder piers. My older brother was also at least triple the size of me which made him terrifying, however, i was brave as a Viking and stood my ground.
This summer day is a day i still remember clearly, it was breezing in the room due to the open windows; my room was kind of small, as i shared rooms with my younger brother. You could hear the noise from the computer fans and cricket sound from outside. We had the computer in our room and both of our beds took so much space that we couldn’t almost fit anything else. My younger brother wasn't home that day it was only me, my brother, his girlfriend and of course mother, who spoke in the kitchen. My mother usually speaks loudly and where you can hear her from streets away and know whose coming. We were arguing about one piece and Naruto, i was trying to prove a point that One Piece was a superior anime/manga and how great it was, however my brother loved Naruto due to the Rock Lee scene and felt backstabbed by me for raising one piece above Naruto.

This summer day was kind of special; my brother doesn’t usually bring his girlfriend home especially to my room, I hadn’t seen much of her or even hear her speak. In those days my passion for Anime and Manga was huge, I spent months reading or watching anything related to anime/manga. I had big influence over my older brother and younger brother of what they watched and read. She, however, she was a mystery to me as aliens in the sky and we had never exchanged words neither had we stayed in the same room for longer than a few breaths.

That day while we were arguing my brother started showing his passion for anime/manga in front of his girlfriend, little did he know what awaits him. While we were talking I heard an unfamiliar voice, a female voice, the words were quiet however it didn’t come from my brother, I looked at his girlfriend in disbelief, not from hearing her voice but from what she said. “Anime how can you watch that, that’s for children, are you a child?” My brother wasn’t used to talking up for himself against girls he liked, he just said “I guess, however these are different”. I however took it personal and got almost furious, how could someone come in to my home, my room, sit on my bed and belittle one of my biggest passions. I behaved badly and just said “get out of my room” her response came quick and stabbed kind of hard “no I’m not leaving, and you can’t make me” I asked my brother to remove himself and his girlfriend out of my room. He just shrugged his shoulders and they were glued to the screen watching pictures. While all this happening I was furious couldn’t send them out neither could I curse at her due to my parents upbringing. So I asked, “what’s so childish about anime?” have you seen anything after you were 9? And don’t count sailor moon”.

She responded by just staring first at me for a while, I could see my brother was getting kind of nervous, his girlfriend was having argue in an unfriendly tone. However I wouldn’t back down and didn’t seem to be a pushover as I thought she would be, She proceeded to talk about how all anime are the same and it doesn’t matter if she hadn’t or not, she already knew what anime was.
I came with an idea of watch Naruto with my older brother, and if you don’t feel any change of thoughts after watching at least 50 episodes than come back and smack talk.
At this age I hadn’t watched the more grown up anime as ninja scroll/berserk or Ghost in the Shell.

I removed myself from the room and we split apart that day with a bad taste in my mouth.
That summer I hadn’t seen much of her afterwards she came once and a while, however, I wasn’t home those days or I tried to avoid her.

A couple of months later my brother brought his girlfriend back to the room, she started the conversation quickly with, Do you know any other anime than Naruto?

Last edited by VOoDOoCold at 11:29 am, Jul 18 2017

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In short, she has become interested in anime but fed up by naruto because she didn't ask for more naruto but instead ask other anime.

Anime or animation. Japan uses this term rather than cartoon, why? Anime tends to attract boys even after they become adult male. Even though this is a wordplay, "ani" on "anime/animation" often misspelled by japanese as [ani] not [eni] as in english. And [ani] has similar pronounciation with "ani" from "aniki" which has meaning "elder brother". So that is one of a few reason why anime very common to male more than to female audience.

I wonder what becomes of her nowadays...

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In English, it's neither /ani/ nor /eni/, it is /ænɪ/. The sound of /æ/ is traditionally transcribed into Japanese as ア. Thus, the word アニメーション has nothing to do with 兄(あに), and no, there is no "wordplay" in it.

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They are in their 30s today, we often talk about different manga/anime related topics. These past weeks they've been watching lots of new anime such as Boku no Hero Academia 2nd Season & Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul. If you saw them on the streets you'd never guess that they watch tons of anime everyday before going to bed.



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