/a/ - Aryanime

My late father was a big fan of Mach GoGoGo (also known as Speed Racer, the first Japanese cartoon to air on American television in 1967 and had a notoriously bad English dub in retrospect). He liked it so much as a kid that he introduced it to me before I even started kindergarten, so it was pretty much my first exposure to anime. I keep the collector’s edition DVD box as well as an original toy of the Mach Five that he had. I can’t vividly remember, but I also think he liked Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop whenever it was on TV late at night when I was really little. I don’t think I’ll ever know for sure since we never really had a close relationship. My stepfather and mother on the other hand only know the American Hanna-Barbera cartoons like Scooby-Doo and The Flintstones, so I couldn’t really talk about anime with them even if I wanted to. If my pops were still around today, I wonder if I could share the stuff I like with him (Clannad, Violet Evergarden, etc.) Anyone else have a similar experience? Should I try to introduce anime to my mom and stepfather?