How to get my wife into anime? - Don’t want to scare her off.

[George Lucas]

Looking for recommendations for anime that appeals to older women. I want to start out with something that’s not too weird…

 

[Staticness]

Show her Boku no Pico.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

Ghibli sob-porn.
Start with the young adult nostalgia ones like "ocean waves", after that go for the children's ones with war overtones and slight gore, like princess mononoke.
After that, dial it back a little with porco rosso, then escalate to the wind rises and, blink an eye,
you're watching genocyber gundam (or w/e mech autism comes to mind) with her!
If not, at least you may have interested her in war aviation...
Or just go for straight up shojo. Onisama e (supposed to be good, never got into it - too girly for me) or rose of versailles (good, torrented some of it in my teens).
Tho, she might think you're gay if you use the second approach...

 

[OrionBalls]

Nausicaä. Oops, ninja'd.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Show her this.

 

[F00LS_3RRAND]

Kill your wife.

 

[Pagan Min]

Why do you hate your wife so much? Isn't divorce much kinder???

 

[dick brain]

Unfortunately there is no known way to get a 3d person into an anime. Trust me, I have tried many methods including but not limited to getting hit by a truck, if any were viable I would not be here.

 

[Local Farmer]

Show her “My Dog Got Ran over by a A320 Semi Truck and got transported into another world with Hot girls but theirs also a fat dragon that they must slay in order to get that hot girl”

Instant classic with the ladies

 

[Atatata]

Can't really go wrong with Princess Jellyfish.
If not that then Mushishi on a cold day.

 

[Preacher ✝]

Cowboy Bebop.

 

[relobotomized]

Cory in the house : am i a joke to you ?

 

[Thomas Talus]

If she likes forensic procedurals, you might try The Apothecary Diaries.

 

[Chainsaw Man]

don't

 

[We Are The Witches]

Depends? Not all old women are the same.

Just watch Spirited Away.

 

[SentinentCloud]

you wouldt ahve that problem if your wife was anime girl in the first place

 

[X Prime]

Go back in time and pick another wife.

 

[Claude Sigma]

Just show her the Ghiblis or something. She's not a teen anymore, don't expect her to like what you like as a manchild.

 

[dick brain]

Cowboy Bebop.

On a serious note, as someone who has wasted a lot of time trying to show women Cohen Brothers movies, I've noticed that by and large, women are compelled by stories in which people feel things, whereas men are compelled by stories in which people do things, and Cowboy Bebop is very much the latter and usually only implicitly the former.

Or, put another way, women are too dumb for masterpieces because they don't know why men do things unless it's spelled out for them.

 

[Preacher ✝]

women are too dumb for masterpieces because they don't know why men do things unless it's spelled out for them

Oh then maybe a mid tier shonen like My Hero Academia might work better. Lots of emotion in that.