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  • past 3 weeks got my friends into transformers and warhammer 40k

  • i introduced my friend to gundam and it went perfectly

  • btw V is ur next review going to be 16 or 64 toys? =P

  • But ya I"ve been had by one of my female friends who got me into ecchi animes for like the first time......such as To-love-Ru and mayoi neko over run..... and now I'm obsessed with OreImo.... =_+ sighs way to embrace the otaku life ~_~ but I can't deny that I don't enjoy them =/

  • love the cough at the end ---- *ahuh*

    My victories? got my ex who was only slighty into anime into Kamen rider Faiz ~ and most of kiva as well, dunno if she finished the last 12 ep.s of Kiva cuz she had already changed into a diff person by then. College is a scary thing @_@ turning little innocent girls into crazy meatbags who love nothing but partying and drinking @_@

  • An example of a conversion that went well and one that did not...

    Well, I fondly remember the one time where I convinced my father to watch both seasons of the anime Gravion with me, since he was spending so much time with my little brother watching the likes of Full Metal Alchemist and BLEACH. He liked watching it, and the reason he gave was that it seemed more realistic than other super robot anime he had seen. SCORE!

    On the other hand, one that did not go over so well... see my next post.

  • Well, I had created a sample video CD of a Super Sentai show I was following at the time, and I gave a copy to a friend of mine, but they never got around to watching it. Sadness all around, people. What was even sadder was the fact that it was Juken Sentai Gekiranger, which is one of the better new-wave Sentai out there.

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    My God, in retrospect, he was giving a hint. Foreshadowing is so awesome.

  • I made an impassioned speech a couple of years ago at work to a friend of mine how I use to play YU-GI-OH and he got interested in the things I was talking about and like an hour later, he had bought the latest YU-GI-OH game. My friend said to me "F^&* YOU, look what you made me buy!"

  • i got interested in duel monsters, card game and anime. and i tried to introduce my nerd friends to it in high school, and they just looked at me like i couldnt play yu-gi-oh and there fore tried to substitute it with duel monsters. and everyone thought i sucked.

    a week later, all the popular kids in my year were playing duel monsters and my nerdy friends refused to ackknowledge that i tried to get htem interested. Life sucks sometimes. =/

  • While I was watching your Kamen Rider review in tgwtg.com I heard Animetal version of Kamen Rider Black theme playing in my head.

  • I won a coworker over to TFs for a little while. Before he startd getting poor from it. But I REFUSE to watch anything KR. Everyone is trying to get me into it and i dont have that kinda moneys

  • duuuuude ! i come from a world or drag racing and muscle cars and guitars n macho shit! EVERY TIME i even think of talking toys and collectable with my mates ita a fail! BOOOHOOO I"M SO LONELY! :( lol but really I am

  • "Doesn't have to be Kamen Rider, it could Transformers, it could be Starcom, could be uh....... -looks- Porn"

    xD Dude, I can't breathe

  • I haven't failed yet, just got them interested in varying degrees. I started off one friend with Kamen Rider Kabuto, and we bonded over how much we hated Tendou Souji, how much we loved Sasword, and how much of a bro KaGAmi was. But that's as far as that went. He's not really interested in anymore. The other dude I got to watch Kabuto however, is totally into the Showa shit. He's a major V3 and Stronger fanboy. :D Also, I really love your figuarts reviews. They helped me pick out Sasword to buy.

  • Worked - When I started dating my wife 5 almost 6 years ago, she only knew what Transformers were. Me being the huge TF fan that I am and all quickly went to work changing that. I schooled her in everything TF, made her watch the original 4 seasons and original movie, and of course showed her the toys. She is still a loyal TF fan to this day.

    Epic fail - 2 years ago I tried to get one of my best friends who, like me, loves anime into GaoGaiGar. Still trying. Lol!

  • Vangelus. You're to blame for my current Figuarts obsession. And I love you for it. Thanks bro. if it weren't for you, I never would have gotten into these. You're the man. Btw, I heard you were watching our release of Kuuga (Midnight Crew Subs translator here), what do you think?

  • I got my sister into anime in general. My weapon of choice: DBZ. Maybe it was the plot, maybe it was the action, maybe it was the overlong, mind warping stalls between either, but eventually she dug it. For years since we've started earning money, we both keep an eye out for animes of most sorts we'd like.

    My failing was getting my brother more open minded towards his anime choices. I'll never forget his "WHAT IS THIS?" during the opening for Azumanga Daioh.

  • You could do 8 in one. Due the Kuuga line. With the intro.

  • Then there was this one time this douche bag tried to get me into some action figure line about insect dudes. He did a whole week worth of videos dedicated towards trying to make me buy them, even going so far as to getting involved in an hour+ podcast for the sole purpose of trying to get me into said line. Heh Heh...man that was a complete waste of time....what a douche bag he was.

  • Well there was this one time when i was watching this show about these dudes who were like modern day knights who wore golden and silver wolfen armour who fought demon things. All i had to do was tweet about how good it was and this one dude who has a habit of never finishing shows was all like " imma watch that" and got him hooked. Like a kipper.

  • A friend of mine was getting into anime, so I tried introducing her to Simoun. She couldn't really wrap her mind around the fact that girls were kissing each other (it's not pervy, really!). She then made me loan her Moonlight Lady. Yeah...dunno how that worked out yet.

    I managed to successfully introduce a friend to Kamen Rider, but otherwise, no matter how hard I try, people don't tend to warm up to stuff I enjoy, like GaoGaiGar or Philippe Druillet. My tastes are really out there...

  • you've been buying garo?..god damn you.

  • I showed my best friend the amazingness that is Kamen Rider. I showed him The First one day and he kinda liked it. Later on, I threw Decade in his face and I think it hooked him! He isn't a hardcore fan, but be definitely enjoys the tokusatsu goodness when I show him something. Now, there was one time I showed my girlfriend the Shinkenger vs. Go Onger movie. SHE DIDN'T LIKE IT. I'm not sure why. She said it was dumb. I told her she was dumb. NO BODY BE HATIN' MY SHINKENGER! GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

  • I started a couple of friends on Beast Wars, when it was on television(killed about four VCR's and countless weekday afternoons watching FOX KIDS in the late 90's). One of them gave two shits(FAIL!!). The other one really gave it a chance. He didn't like it..(FAIL!!). I got him to watch the last couple episodes of season 3, then the first few of Beast Machines. He is crazyballs for Beast Machine's to this day(VICTORY...LEO!!). The philisophical and linear storyline hooked him. Peace-a-roni.

  • I got my friend Sam into tokusatsu. It was pretty easy because he was a big PR fan back in the day. He came over one time and we watched THE FIRST and THE NEXT mostly to ridicule them, and then another time he came over and we watched God Speed Love, Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai, and Mebius and the Ultra Brothers, and now he's down to watch some more stuff. I'm thinking over break maybe we'll marathon Shinkenger or maybe Dairanger. Or maybe Kuuga.

  • "combined"? I have high hopes now-

    introduced kamen rider to my sister...

    she said W's jokes were corny and she thought Phillip was a life action L from Death Note,,,

    she lol'd at Eiji trying to ride a vending machine and thinks Ahnk is a diabetic...

  • When it worked: I made a reference to Shantae, a vidya game. And someone asked what it was. I explained it in basic form and the next day find out he's been playing it nonstop since I told him about it. Unexpected victory!

    When it failed: Transformers was at a high point. I was talking about TF stuff to a friend who, to my total shock, NEVER knew Transformers existed all this time. And unfortunately, because of that, they could not grasp the concept of it and thought it was a waste of time. :/

  • I introduced my 6 year old cousin (at the time) to transformers. He was obsessed for quite a while, and then randomly stopped.

  • i introduce my little bro. to DBZ and it work .hes literally addicted to it

  • I tried to get one of my friends into Bobobo, at first it didn't work, but then I tried again, with much better results

  • I also tried to get my brother more into watching toy reviews straight on but he refuses and continues to watch ten seconds of the review in total (but if it transforms he watches the alt. Mode for a sec and then watches ten seconds of the robot mode)

    And hey vangelus Idk how into Lego u are but u should check out some Lego transformers (like mine, starscreamer20 or ixrolloutixs), u might enjoy them

  • I introduces my friend to Gurren Lagann. His new channel is called KaminasJacket.

  • Well, I tried to convince my dog to crap in the toilet but that didn't work...

  • @Vange1us Just arandom question but do you live in the Vancouver area?

  • I got my cousin into transformers by taking him to to see the first transformers movie . He loved it. I later showed him som g1 and he liked that too.

  • I got a friend to watch Gundam 00, and he's hooked. I also tried to get a different friend into Gunpla, and he promptly cut the faceplate in half with the nippers.

  • I tried introducing TJ TV to my sister...She took it way too seriously.

    (Those of you who haven't seen it yet are missing out.)

  • RIP. The Haachkckachk. You will be missed.

  • I tried to get my friend into Transformers beyond just movie stuff and it didn't work. Whenever I talk about that shiny new toy I want to buy he just nods his head and goes "uhhuh".

    However, I did get the same friend to watch almost half of Gurren Lagann with me one weekend and he enjoyed it and started watching the rest.

  • Oh, and my story. I tried getting a friend at school into BlazBlue. Then he realized that he actually played it already and said something along the lines of "I might try and get a X-Box 360 or PS3 cuase that was a sweet game."

    My other friend...."Fighting games suck. Sorry."

  • Thanks Vangelus. I am one of those people that you are making poor.

  • I remember a time when I was young a scrappy. I was playing the Megaman Battle network series. It was when Megaman BN 4 Blue moon/ Red Sun came out I wanted a friend of mine to get it so I could have someone to battle with all my awesomeness, it was sort of a victory and a utter failure cause he kicks my ass at it... alot... HANDS

  • Actually one of the things I won someone over with was watching your videos! I showed one of my friend on MSN some of your TF Aninmated reviews and he totally dug them. He doesn't check out much of the Non-TF stuff but he still enjoys the stuff I show him. So huzzah!

    The other not so good thing was introducing another friend to Stephanie Brown the new Batgirl! He still resents me for that. Hmm...

  • i tried to get a freind of mine into anime he wasnt interested at all.XD

  • The closest failure in that would be introducing a friend to Mass Effect. She likes the idea but hasn't got it yet. A success is telling the same gal about DC Universe Online and she is wanting to get it and is a part of my guild too. Hope your voice gets better.

  • that chris ho sure is one handsome man

  • I tried to introduce the idea of gaia memories to my friends. They called it "retarded japanese plastic with sound" and threw it into my soup...

  • I tried introducing my girlfriend to Japanese posable figures in general. She finds the interchangeable hands and faces creepy...

  • ive introduced my friend into kamen rider w,i showed her couple of eps and she seems to like it

    ive also attempted to get my friend into collecting plastic and i think im finally starting to break him down >:D

  • Holy hell you are wearing the ring from Garo! Awsome!

  • I once got a friend into Kamen Rider (ironically) fairly easily by saying, "Hey, bro, check out this movie," so he watched Kamen Rider the First, and he suffers from Baylemia, so the more explosions a movie has the better. Since Kamen Riders seem to explode on impact when they rider kick, he fell instantly in love with it. (He should see Infra-Man.)

    One time I miserably failed was when I tried convincing someone to watch Digimon when I was really little, but I got, "It's a pokemon rip-off".

  • I got a friend into GaoGaiGar, I have yet to make him jump into Transformers yet, but he is receptive. My plan of action revolves Gurren Lagann -> GaoGaiGar -> Transformers. It is a logical flow chart.

    However, never try to get people into mecha that 'hate mecha' but watch crap like Code Geas and Gundam SEED and deem that those are good series. Those kind of people are cut off from us forever and there is no reaching them because crappy mecha keeps sending them illusions of what real mecha is.

  • you should do a whole week reviewing Kamen Rider Double figures

    that should be fun

  • I got my friend, sister, and brother into Gurren Lagann, and almost got the same group into Gaogaigar.

  • A true victory would be to get facecaptain into the J-boys with Kamen Rider Kabuto. Being a true blood hetrosexual male who has hetrosexual sex regulary can tell you this. Tendoh is just too pretty.

  • Guess this one is only appropriate, what with you waving Zaruba around like that (so. damn. jealous.):

    I showed one of my friends a picture of Garo about a month back. He thought it looked really cool so I told him about the show and suggested he check out some clips. His reaction? "This is hilarious. It's just like Power Rangers."

    Sigh.

  • Mighty Morphin MegaZord please :D

  • Do a Kamen Rider Skull review!

  • I once tried to get a very good friend of mine to watch Doctor Who starting with Eccleston's series. It failed miserably, she didn't even get through the first episode.

    And a time where I succeeded was when I got my girlfriend to watch Doctor Who and she loved it and got her weaboo friends into it as well!

    So in case you haven't guessed by now, I spend most of my time trying to get people to watch Doctor Who!

  • Garo Ring is pimp. Tempted to make video response for the question...

  • Tried to get my sister to watch Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. She never did. So I failed. I even got a 'FISSION MAILED' flier in the mail box the next day.

  • uhhh I tried to convince my friend to give Keroro Gunsou a shot .... failed epicly.....

  • er i managed to get a mate to kinda watch an episode of kamen rider decade... does that count?

  • I think you're too good for TGWTG to be honest... As for your question, I don't think I've ever managed to successfully introduce someone to shows I like.

  • Vage1us.....You've turned me to the Kamen side. I NEED MOAR!

  • I tried to get my friend to watch Double, but he forgot and i saw he wasn't intrested in the slightest.

  • nope I won't the question is too long

  • Should I watch Kamen rider?

    double looks pretty cool.

  • i convinced my 1 friend to watch kiva, and the other to watch decade AND double

  • Vange1us: The tgwtg-video did'nt seem cut off when I watched it. Btw it was great!!

  • I tried to introduce Kamen Rider to a friend of mine, he said it was japanese power rangers :/

  • I once got one of my Skype friends to watch the first three episodes of Kiva with me (I was super into Kiva at the time, I was high on Kamen Rider because I had just discovered it) then I tried showing it to a girl I liked and she was like '...looks too much like power rangers MEHZ!' Made me angry, and sad, and ...sadangry.

  • I also tried to make my friend like Kamen Rider. He thought OOO was badass because of the ride vendors. It's all good now.

    The same friend still won't watch Sentai or Power Rangers, though.

  • I convinced my best friend into general toy collecting :3

  • you made me poor cause i had to go out of my way to get these guys!

  • I convinced my best friend to get Galaxy 2 for wii. Um yeah...

    I failed at convincing THE SAME GUY to play ToonTown online. He also refuses to have anything to do with Transformers

  • Got my group of friends into Guitar Hero by getting into a 2-player battle with my only other GH playing friend........Now about 4 years later and we play Rock Band religiously.

  • I have convinced a few video game playing co-workers to give Bionic Commando on Xbox 360 and PS3 a shot. Even though the mass reviews have been poor.

    Best Game ever for fans of single player action stories.

    Also last year I convinced another co-worker to buy their Son the Nest Alliance Bumblebee and Soundwave two pack for his imminent birthday. And then I get reports that he digs the sets and loves transformers now.

  • Seems ever since I've gotten into Gundam Model kits last April, I've been introducing a lot of people to the series. A lot of them take interest in the models I've built, one even considered getting one himself. The latest person to take interest even offered me a beginner-level airbrush set that they don't use anymore, shy of one compressor to power it all.

  • Well i tried to introduce my Friend into DBZA on youtube (since he liked DBZ) and he loves it now ....... I tried to introduce my friend into Kamen Rider OOO .... from episode 6 .... all i heard was "whats up with the flying hand" "medlas??" "Thats a Power rangers rip-off" "WTF are greed and yummy" lol it was troublesome.... that why i gave up lol

  • i got a freind of mine to read a manga entirely about masturbation. was pretty good.

    on the flip side. i have tried for over a year now to get my best freind into the the persona series of games. going so far as to lend him P4 since march. he has barely touched it in the time it took me to beat it 3 times (and it's a loooooong as game).

    although after showing him clock jesus he is now very enthused to get back to it and see what leads to clock jesus' appearance

  • the credits were there when i watched it, bro

  • was that the ring of GARO?

  • I tried to explain how World of Warcraft worked to my Pop....that was a fail.

    Another time is tryin to expalin what Kaman Rider was to a friend....after about an hour of comparing it to power rangers and some reenactment I finaly got it across. He is now one of the converted.

  • @ShadowRider0066 i know how troublesome it is to explain WOW to people. Im so used to the acronyms my dad is just like wut?

  • I once tried to get my friends into super robot anime. I showed them the four episodes of neo getter robo vs shin getter robo, they were laughing like mad for three of the four episodes and they seemed to enjoy it and mazinkaiser when i showed that later on but i dont think their mecha fans yet =(

  • Doug and Vangelus should definitely make a review together. It be so awesome it explode the second the 2 share the same frame D:

  • @TheFinalSaint They should totally review the Masked RidDER series from the 90's. It would be amazing.

  • I usually just show my friends footage from KR shows, they go ïs that japanese power rangers"I toss more information at their head then should be legal and then they either like or dislike.

  • Ugh... blip :c

  • Ah.....crap. Got some stuff to say on this one, methinks XD

    Lemme compose myself and I shall be back with a response.

    Ooooh, new Kamen Rider vid, I shall be watching good sir. I shall be watching indeed....

  • oh boy..i introduced my GF to kamen rider and she liked it. Starting out with Den O helped win her over and then built from that. I find that it helps to bring up a series like Den O, Double or Kabuto as they are fairly recent and funny/action pact enough to hold peoples interests (with out having to have knowledge of other riders in order to understand the show..such as Decade) and get them to like it.

  • Fail: Showed a friend first episode of Den-O, he liked it-ish then just didn't watch it haha.

    Success: Showed my friend the first ep of Decade, he then watched another 4 episodes before he let me sleep. Then he watched Kiva. He stopped now, haha. But I showed another friend clips of OOO, W, and Decade afew weeks ago and now he's hooked, along with 3 other friends who refer to it as "that awesome thing you showed us". We even made an in joke out of "final attack ride decade"! All in all, success!

  • Victory: I tried introducing my ex girlfriend to the "Final Fantasy" game series. She liked it that much she became a near full on gamer chick.

    FAIL: Later I tried intro-ing this same woman to Transformers...aaaaaand was more or less met with a blank look.

  • For me, I did show my friend Gekiranger, but he shrugged it off, then I showed him Long in ep 48 and the ending to that fight, and at the very least, he realised it wasn't as kiddy as he thought. (Sayonara, Mele.)

    As for my greatest success, you actually had a hand in it Vangelus, I showed my friend your thoughts on GARO from an episode of HJU Radio, and then once that had piqued his interest, the first episode, it proceeded to hook him on the series and he finished it in a week or two.

  • I didn't expect you to look like that in a to-the-camera instead of your other TGWTG Skeletor and Prime videos where you're invisible. The good news is that I'm not horrified by your visage, you remind me of this guy on Aussie TV called Lawrence Leung, he's a bit 80s nostalgia like you are. And no that's not an insult.

    I once won my friend over to Jean Claude Van Damme movies and it worked a little too well, now when he comes over he's all about the Van Dammage because he thinks it's hilarious.

  • I got my girlfriend into Kamen Rider, good thing she loves to see me happy. If she didn't she wouldn't have gotten into it..... :D That and she thinks Philippe from the W series is cute so it was a bit easier than I thought.

    As for a fail, I have yet to not convince someone into something. It's my cute young face that suckers them into it. >:D

  • I bought Cabin Fever without having seen it, and was mocked by two dozen friends for buying a terrible movie. "It isn't scary at all!" they said. I watched Cabin Fever and knew immediately why they hated it. They thought it was a serious horror movie. I had them all come to my place and watch it with me while drinking, and I explained that it was a comedy. Which it is. I converted two dozen people into Cabin Fever fans that day. I can die happy.

  • I don't really have any times where I've tried and failed to win somebody over to something, mostly because I don't try to push things on people.

    That said, I did introduce my roleplaying group to Kamen Rider OOO. It worked a little too well. The last game we had, the GM kept breaking out into "TaToBa, Tatoba, TaToBa" every thirty seconds.

  • I got a group of kids in a small town 4 hours away from me into playing WoW...

    I failed at getting my friend into Gundam...he likes Metabots more ><

  • I got a lot of my friends into Highschool of the Dead Anime and the time it didn't work was when I tried to make my friend watch Gundam SEED.

  • I brought my Animated toys to work one day and everybody got weirded out except for a budding toy collector that needed a little push. After that day, he became a bona fide Transformers collector but kind of went on a tangent though. He got into the movie stuff rather than Animated. Then he brought his movie toys to work and I played with them and I got hooked on the movie stuff too. We influenced each other.

  • I got my girlfriend into Transformers. Mostly through the power of ferocious dicking. But now she cares, and hates Bumblebee.

  • get well soon vange1us :D

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  • Blip's been doing that. It's a bug on their end of course. As far as I can tell it has to do with when they're loading the commercials.

    What you might want to do is start padding your Blip videos with a few extra seconds of black (Or BLACKKKKKK~) at the end. :D

  • Fail: I doubt anyone would call my palaeontology vids a rousing success but I do them for me

    Success: Made Andy watch kaiju movies.

  • Hrm. Well my greatest victory was when I introduced my dad to City of Heroes waaaaaaay back in 2004. He began to play it a bit, then began to play it more, and then began paying for my account and playing till four AM. He's since left though. I have been trying to get my roommate from freshman year of college hooked on Gurren Lagann since two years ago, but to no avail. Odd since he's normally a huge Evangelion fan. It seems Gurren Lagann is a love/hate sort of thing.

  • Aren't the bikes technically one toy? You're a liar. A filthy filthy liar.

  • I tried a couple years ago to get a buddy of mine into model building, he's really into Star Wars and I encouraged him to build an XWing model... He was really hyped about it at first, but gave up on it after about an hour... I was sad

  • i tried to convince my freind to watch kamen rider and he laughed at me for liking a japanese live action kids show i havent seen him since

  • ok im curious cause a few minutes ago i found out that bandai shall be doing a redo of samurai sentei shinkenger and dont tell me you didnt watch it or even just sample the things you have kamen rider you must have sentei but are you going to reveiw a few of the sentei toys and there revamped power ranger toys? and i have no idea why i decided to talk to you about this i mean this is a vlog now i must un pause the video and continue watching this video

  • Hmm, well there was this one time a bubble tea place opened up in my local mall when I was in high school. Growing up in Hawaii I had long since fallen in love with the stuff and took two friends to experience their fist. They both got really tame flavors like strawberry or something.. I had gotten lychee with a few scoops of lychee jelly on top of the boba. One of them fucking loved the stuff and the other gagged when she got a few of the boba and swore off the stuff. XD its the best I got.

  • Your VLog endings are awesome/hilarious. :)

  • i am not going to be that jack as* who says first

  • too tired to write much. been playing to much black ops to stay awahjlllllllllllllllllllllllll­llllllllllllfgiy

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