Has watching any specific Anime Ever Changed your life?

Cloud Clone · Post by **Cloud Clone** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:08 pm

Nestorath69 wrote:Yeah, a Cartoon. A cartoon shaped your life because you were afraid or unwilling to... If that's not ridiculous, absurd, AND pathetic, I can't honestly say what is!

...to each his own, however.

In a somewhat shallow, superficial way, you have a point. However, it's more than just a cartoon. It's someone's artistic manifestation of what is inside of them. To another person, it's their job and way of making an income to support their very life.. We're the spectators, those that watch and take in whatever is being fed to us by the creators of what we're watching. Those that can actually get something out of that are truly getting the most out of what they're investing their time in. If you don't, I don't really care, but it's unfair to criticize others that do so harshly.

Also, name-calling is unnecessary, so stop it, people! =P

pumpkinchick28 · Post by **pumpkinchick28** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:17 pm

Nestorath69 wrote:Look back over what you just wrote, and think. Think real hard. Both of you. You're saying that you didn't choose to make whatever changes in your personality, you abdicated control to a cartoon.

Actually, what I said was,

Pumpkinchick28 wrote:Anime's just the same as other media...movies, books or music, anything, in that you can learn from it. And anything that you can learn from has the potential and probability to change the decisions you have to make in life.

The decisions you make. Everything you take in over your lifetime (through experience, reading material, media, whatever)has the potential to change your perspective and influence future decisions. *shrug* I'm sorry if you don't like that or if you're afraid of it, but that's the way life works.

Nestorath69 wrote: Yeah, a Cartoon. A cartoon shaped your life because you were afraid or unwilling to... If that's not ridiculous, absurd, AND pathetic, I can't honestly say what is!

If you think of anime as just "cartoons" then what are you doing here? This is animemusicvideos.org, a place where ANIME fans make music videos to ANIME. Most of the people here have probably been ridiculed for spending so much time watching "cartoons" and taking them so seriously. We really don't need our fellow fans to be doing the same. Anyway, if you've watched much anime, you know that the plots and characters can be just as serious and realistic as those in live action movies and books. So why can't we get something more out of them than entertainment? Maybe you're too closed-minded to try and learn something from what you watch, but I'm not and it's nothing to be ashamed of.

Anyway, I've no desire to get into a flamewar with you or anyone else, so I'm done with this thread. Feel free to continue posting about how pathetic I am though.

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:48 pm

Tono_Fyr wrote:Nest, there is not really a set boundary for what is and what is not, if you think about it.

My GOD! The LIES!

android21 · Post by **android21** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 3:04 pm

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Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:42 pm

Nestorath69 wrote:If it has, you need to get laid.

This is an unhealthy obsession we're dealing with here.

You eat your snack, you laugh, you cry, fart, masturbate, whatever.

Well, that's the highlights of what he said, anyway. "Unhealthy obsession" indeed!

Y'know, in my observation, those who "have" never much need to boast about what they've got. It's the "have-nots" who do all the boasting, if you take my meaning.

Or in plainer terms (Shrek's), "Do you think maybe he's compensating for something?"

I don't know as how anime exactly "changed my life," but it did give me a new perspective on cartoons. I initially went looking for some old cartoons on the 'net for nostalgia's sake, but when I got to see some anime, I began to realize that cartoons might play to a more mature audience. (Of course, anime provides "maturity" in both the sleazy, superficial sense and the fuller, nobler sense. You just have to know how to sort the two out from each other when you're picking them out.)

Not that I didn't know we have a few homebrewed "mature" cartoons here in America, but Fritz the Cat and Heavy Metal weren't exactly my idea of high art. Cowboy Bebop, on the other hand...

Midnight1986 · Post by **Midnight1986** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:47 pm

i dunno9 how exactly it happened, but ever since i bought my first manga, that it what i wanted to do with my life. now i wanna be a manga artist (would that really work being as i'm not from japan?) now all i draw is anime style and my parents think i need to "broaden my horizons" a bit furhter instead of just doing anime. well if its what i wanna make than thats all im gonna draw.'
sorry if im ranting too much, hehe

Tsunami Jones · Post by **Tsunami Jones** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:49 pm

Fist of the North Star has changed my life forever. It has shown me how to survive in the post-apocalyptic world that the earth has become. Without it, I would have been killed by wandering gangs of burly-men that plague us everyday.

HeavyMetal · Post by **HeavyMetal** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 12:21 am

Anime. Its nice to find TV as out there as I am.

Western TV just doesn't cut it. A few movies, but nothing more.

Midnight1986, your parents are being hypocrites.

Anime comes in a variety of styles, is far more developed than western animation both written and televised, its Eastern and different from the Western school of thought, and has frequent philosophical depth. I think that is rather broad. So yeah draw your anime and get damn good at it.

Try some books too. The professionals use scanners for coloring. Manga typically is shrunk to 2/3 its original size to increase sharpness and minimize errors.

bfghc · Post by **bfghc** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:49 am

Hi all. This is my first post I'm making and I must comment on this. Nestorath69, as harsh as his language is (I'm assuming he IS a he, sorry if im wrong) he does have a valid point. There are alot of people who watch anime and treat is as not just a form of entertanment, but also as an escape from reality. While in truth there is nothing wrong from escaping ever once and a while it does become a problem when watching anime is mostly all a person does.

Or does it really?

It has been in my experience that all people escape from reality, often. For Nestorath69 to be so angry with anime being used as a means of escape doesn't make much sence, there are worse things. Sex (as in being loose with anyone), drugs, booze, and other self destructive behavior have always been used as methods of escape. I don't know about you all, but I would rather use anime.

T.V, movies, and other such forms of entertanment also serve the same purpose. Only these forms of entertanment, in a way, can be considered more sadistic. Wether it's a comady, action, drama, or whatever genre you choose, it's a reflection of society.

Anime in particulary is an even more powerful escape then those other media types because of it's amazing ability at portraying the human condition (aka it's reflection of society). The anime that usually changes the OUTLOOK of people have on life are those that not only reflect society, but also reflect individuals.

When a persons reality sucks, I believe it sometimes takes an escape of the reality in order to find a way to deal with it. One anime in particular has shown me that reality is nothing more than fragile truths that can be changed with nothing more than your will to percieve them differently.

For example, sunny days make you feel good, rainy days make you feel gloomy. If you are told this is so (like so many of us are told this when we are young) then that is what you will beleive is so. But you can have fun (and feel good) on a rainy day as well. Your perciptions of reality can be changed simply by the way you percieve it.

This is what one anime has taught me.

This one lesson has changed my OUTLOOK on life. I used to fear that I will somehow get hurt in someway if I were to invest myself too much into other people. Because of that I became somewhat introverted.

I must admit that I had to watch the ending of that paticular anime several times before I finally understood it's meaning. Once I did, all I had to do was change my perceptions. I would tell myself that I had nothing to fear and that was all I needed to give myself the courage to invest myself in people again.

So if watching anime that has changed me, makes me a dumb shit that needs to get laid, then fine. It's better then being a drugy or alcoholic that needs to go to AA or rehab in order to change my life.

BTW: If you haven't figured it out by now. The anime in question is Neon Genesis Evangelion. Damn this anime rocks!!!

HeavyMetal · Post by **HeavyMetal** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:15 am

bfghc

Good points.

Of course odd people like me screw things up. I can't stand overly sunny days.

Reality is a flimsy concept. So why not escape from it?

Everybody has something.

Quote: Wizard's First Rule

Reality is irrelevant, perception is everything. (Think it went like that.)

Whether by philosophy or psychology this statement is very true.

However the flaw is that if you believe the statement, then you accept the possibility that it to could be founded in a false reality.

Thats the problem with reality. You can never comment on it without having a fundamental logical flaw.

Oh well. Nice job bringing up a the human condition.