I know my mom used to HATE anything animated, even Japanese Animation because she considered it all to be childish cartoons.
I sat her behind down one day and had a Naruto marathon and I was really surprised when she got hooked on it, she is in no way a Narutard like me but she looks forward to new episodes every week, we sit and watch them togethor. And boy did she get MAD burning_eyes when I forgot to tape them this last week. YIKES eek