Sunday, September 18, 2011

What do you think? Is anime a bad influence?

There are different kinds of anime characters that human idolized. Some of these are: Naruto, Sasuke and many more. Perhaps, these fictional characters are some what connected or linked to other people’s feelings, emotions or maybe the way they talk, the way they move or the way they fashioned themselves. Some people love the outfit of anime, their clothes, their accessories, their shoes/slippers and most probably – their hair. 
Anime can make you think about certain things more than others
of course a sad anime will make you sad but don’t forget, to not just watch anime but to go out and hang with your friends and do things in life rather than just sit and watch and vegetate. I mean, you don’t see characters in anime just sit and vegetate do you? Some anime's can be sad, but I think animes can have adverse effects on people, like myself.. Sure it illustrates a make believe reality in some sense, or a relationship of two characters. Yet many people cost play or believe that those events and relations are related to the real world. People start mixing up those ideas and start labeling real people they know as anime characters. When really, we should be who we are? It is good to derive some confidence from anime I would say, but it shouldn't be something we indulge in to satiate our tired minds.

I believe animes can have both positive and negative effects.

The positive effects would be:
1. Relieving you from the boredom of everyday life
2. Giving you some happiness for a certain period of time
3. Make new friends who share the same passion as you, like here on this forum
4. May stimulate emotions until then totally unknown of, to you like happiness etc

The negative effects would be:
1. People saying:"you are so childish, still watching cartoons at this age, leave that for kids"
2. Lack of sleep
3. Spending most of your time on animes rather than on other important things
4. May make you forget things that you would not have forgotten before
5. May influence the way you behave normally but not much thank God.

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