My husband thinks that anime is "better cartoons" . My son apparently likes to watch it a lot. I can see him moving on to more serious series when he's older.

Now their reaction to me buying anime movies you recommended and watching it. My son was pleased and he likes to watch Chihiro repeatedly. My husband wasn't surprised that I'd get into it (actually buy stuff). He remembers me watching that old anime series related to football, Olive et Tom (Captain Tsubasa in English) that had more than a hundred episodes. I found it by accident on the telly and got hooked. No one at home could watch their show during that period (time slot was blocked by me, lol). But I've not gotten to completely finish it when the network changed programming .

I think I can get him to watch the movies too (anyway he's a movie whore). He was pretty impressed with what he saw from time to time when I was watching them.