Sunday, August 18, 2013

Anime: Postive or Negative?


Wazzup Pilipinas!

Japanese Animation, or mostly known as Anime spreads rapidly across the globe carrying the culture of Japan with every series and seasons. The appeal of Anime has become a worldwide phenomenon.

It starts in 1960 and gained popularity in the following years. With so many people interested in it, had the thought of its effects crossed your mind? Yes? Well, good for you. No? Well, don’t worry about it, that’s why this article exists. Now, shall we start?


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SOCIALIZING
First of all is the social interaction. Anime help us interact with each other, especially when two people are in the same fandom, since the most problem in making friends is the topic they would talk with one another, and having no topic would make things awkward. This may imply to people who are having difficulties in socializing and making friends. Some people would go to the internet and share and discuss their favorite anime and the first step in making internet friends. At anime conventions, people interact by cosplaying their favorite characters. Friendship, romance, and even marriage may start from anime.

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INTEREST IN ART
People who have interest in anime pursue in the field of art. They desire to draw their favorite anime character. Even people who don’t have much that of a talent in drawing excels by trying their best and keeps on practicing different styles until they found their own style. 

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EDUCATION
Many people may think that anime may ruin a person’s school grades, probably some failed, but the truth is anime give ideas to the students since it gives a lot of stock knowledge and facts. It also gives ideas of what the Japanese culture would be like and enriches our view about Japan. Anime also gives us ideas like ‘what would happen if’ when the series is finished which enhance our creativity and writing skills when writing fan fictions.

Those were some of the positive effects of anime in our daily lives. All of those are quite healthy and productive for our life. But everything has their negative side, even anime that this article would tackle.

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BEHAVIOR DISORDERS
Some people with behavioral problems may get ideas from anime. It may be cause by the videos they had watched and have thoughts like ‘if he can do it why can’t I?’ which mostly leads to behavior disorders and ruin one’s personality. This also covers the addiction of a person towards an anime, neglecting everything, e.g. eating, hygiene, etc., and imitating anime characters to the extent that they want to copy its life. The scary thing that may happen is that a person can no longer determine which is reality and fiction. There was one article that I read that a boy commits suicide by jumping out of his window due the death of his favorite character which is plainly insane and not normal.

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DISCRETION
Not all anime is suitable for all ages. Some may cointain violence, gore, swearing, suggestive themes, and sexual themes, but in our generation this were easily brush off. The effect of this may cause early sexual activity, drug use, and other violent stuff.
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At the end of this article, we can conclude that Anime have its own positive and negative effects on society. But we must remember that in every end of an anime series would be a valuable lesson. We must always remember that anime is fictional and it is not real. Though it wouldn't hurt to believe in it, just don't overdo it. Until next time, Ciao~

13 comments:

  1. I, a proud Anime lover, believe that Anime can be positive or a negative effect to the person watching it. But it depends on your point of view. If you'll use Anime as your inspiration then it is good but you became obsess to it and you turned into an Anime addict therefore it is not. We all have our own freewill. We decide on what we will do with it. As for me, Anime can never really be define whether it is positive or negative it is us who chose to what it will become.

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  2. I am a an Anime lover too! And it's true that Anime has its positive and negative sides. But it's in the watcher's hand if he or she will use it as an inspiration or something that may probably ruin their lives. And it's good that you cited these things.

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  3. I'm an anime lover too.. but not to the extent that I will commit suicide for my favorite character, just like the one said on the article. For me, anime is a very helpful thing because I learned something for the past few years that I've been watching animes.. so it's a good thing.. well for me.. :))

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  4. I am too is an anime lover since i was young. Anime is very influential to youngsters it elevates their imagination level in an artistic way.But some anime needs parental supervision due to some gore images and unfiltered conversations. Although there are negative effects, the positive are dominant to my point of view. I do like watching anime series with my kinds it is like family bonding...

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  5. I am too is an anime lover since i was young. Anime is very influential to youngsters it elevates their imagination level in an artistic way.But some anime needs parental supervision due to some gore images and unfiltered conversations. Although there are negative effects, the positive are dominant to my point of view. I do like watching anime series with my kinds it is like family bonding...

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  6. Nice article there my friend! First of all, I'm an anime lover especially Naruto and Bleach. In general, I love action animes. When I saw the title, it gives interest to me because someone already knew that animes have also negative effects in our personality.

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  7. great article! It made me think about the positive and negative effects of anime in my life, but even with its disadvantages and negative effects, I would still continue to watch and support anime.

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  8. Your article is very interesting. :) I can only say that it's in the person who is watching anime if it gives them a negative or positive effect. :)

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  9. Nice article! I'm an anime lover too! It's true that there are positive and negative effects. But even if there are negative effects, I would still watch anime. :)

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  10. Catchy article! I believe there really is a positive and negative effects. But the important thing is we learned from it.
    -Valerie

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  11. i'm anime lover too. but untill today, i feel like that anime is more negative than positive side. i love watching it from morning until noon, because i'm so curious about next episode of anime. i'm watching it until end of episode and suddenly i feel not so healty then.

    maybe it's not good to be anime lover.. (for me)

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  12. Hello po ako po si Andre Aguila, manghihiram lang po ako ng ilang impormasyon at detalye sa inyong pag-aaral para sa aming pananaliksik. Ako po ay nagmula sa Apec Schools Espanya. Maraming salamat po!

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  13. Hi! Can I use your article for my research paper? Thank you!

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