A while back, Katherine had a one-week love affair with Kiki’s Delivery Service, a charming anime tale. She then turned around and decided she didn’t like any anime, or something, and certainly didn’t want to watch Kiki any more, or any of the other anime she had (or that we had — she had no interest in one of our faves, You’re Under Arrest, either).
That was about a year ago or more, and her tastes have changed. So Margie did a crafty thing. Katherine was reading or doing something other than watching TV, so Margie put the first disc for You’re Under Arrest into the DVD player. When asked what she was doing, Margie replied, “I thought I’d put in something I wanted to watch.”
Whammo. Katherine was glued. She watched it three or four times over the weekend, and started in on the post-OVA series discs (not nearly as good, IMO, but …). We figure she’ll either ask for Kiki (if we don’t press it) or will be susceptible to the same “trick” when next we try it with that or something else.
Ben’s favourite Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli film is My Neighbour Totoro because it features many big fuzzy gerbil-like creatures. And a cat shaped like a bus.
You tricked her into watching TV, when she was “reading or doing something other than watching TV”?
Uh… yeah. Interesting decision.
Reminds me of something…
An interesting point. It wasn’t exactly like that, upon consideration. I don’t recall what she was doing, but it wasn’t reading or something else productive. Hmmm. Maybe Margie recalls.