How to say "they liked it" in this context?


A mangaka that I like replied me in my native language, and when I showed this
to my parents they liked it. I want to say that to this mangaka, but I don't
know how to say that in a natural form.

I thinked in these phrases

> 昨日の返信を両親に見せて、気に入りました。  
>  昨日の返信を両親に見せて、好きになりました。  
>  昨日の返信を両親に見せて、いいだと思いました。

But I think that it means something like "I liked to show yesterday reply to
my parents". How can I say "I showed yesterday reply to my parents and they
liked it" in a natural and correctly form?




Your translation attempts will **never** mean "to like to show" or "to want to
show". Something like this is expressed using a completely different
construction in Japanese. Do you know about the [-tai
form](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese-grammar/tai-form/)?

However, your attempts have several other mistakes.

  * Adjectives like いい don't take だ, so いいだと思う is ungrammatical.
  * 好きになる means something becomes one's (permanent) favorite rather than liking something for a moment. If you used 好きになる, it would sound like your parents became (permanent) fans of the mangaka.
  * You cannot directly use 気に入る, 思う and so on with a third-person subject. See [this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/56897/5010) and [this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/2524/5010). You need to add ようでした or みたいでした.
  * It's better to use 見せ[たら](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/393/5010) instead of 見せて because the subjects of the two clauses (見せる and 気に入る/好きになる/いいと思う) are different.

Therefore, my suggestion is one of the following:

  * 昨日の返信を両親に見せたら、気に入ったようでした。
  * 昨日の返信を両親に見せたら、いいと思っているようでした。




Your translation attempts will **never** mean "to like to show" or "to want to
show". Something like this is expressed using a completely different
construction in Japanese. Do you know about the [-tai
form](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese-grammar/tai-form/)?

However, your attempts have several other mistakes.

  * Adjectives like いい don't take だ, so いいだと思う is ungrammatical.
  * 好きになる means something becomes one's (permanent) favorite rather than liking something for a moment. If you used 好きになる, it would sound like your parents became (permanent) fans of the mangaka.
  * You cannot directly use 気に入る, 思う and so on with a third-person subject. See [this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/56897/5010) and [this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/2524/5010). You need to add ようでした or みたいでした.
  * It's better to use 見せ[たら](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/393/5010) instead of 見せて because the subjects of the two clauses (見せる and 気に入る/好きになる/いいと思う) are different.

Therefore, my suggestion is one of the following:

  * 昨日の返信を両親に見せたら、気に入ったようでした。
  * 昨日の返信を両親に見せたら、いいと思っているようでした。

