Is anime addiction kind of.a cause some amount of social dysfunction?
Plz ppl, don’t take this as an insult, I’m merely just curious to know. The reason why I’m asking this is b/c a guy friend whom I used to be friends with and used to have a crush on til he broke my heart and the thing is that he relies on anime as his mental reliever, (well mostly alcohol and smoking hooka for the most part) but anyway, he spends most of his time playing video games and watching anime/reading manga. Even when I’m chatting with him, he kinda has a lack of interest in speaking to me, he doesnt seem to care about the person I am, he’d rather talk about anime or video games and sometimes anything related to his life. He’s 21 and is in a community college, and see he doesnt know what to do with his life, most like a marine bio since he loves sharks, but he’s so suicidal cuz of how disfunctional his life is. He’s had a bad exerience growing up – gotten beaten up, gotten heart broken, he sometimes has anger problems- he’s been abusive to me like 3-5 times I believe. Everytime he feels bad, he’ll curse about life and the world when I’m there or whomever he cud get to speak to or drink/smoke more, or play violent video games and watch more and more anime.
My question is: does anime somehow make you more confused about life? Does it kinda keep you from wanting to grow up? How does anime have an influence on one’s personality and how they live their life? Does anime sometimes cloud someone’s mind from seeking and desiring fantasy and hating and not wanting to live in reality?
Again, plz take no offense in my question. I just wanna hear your opinion and what you think is true based on facts and how you think about the matter. Now if you yourself are an anime fan, I’m not asumming that anime is somehow destroying your life, I just want to know does anime in some cases ruin someone’s life in some kinda way? Plz don’t insult me for asking, but I really am curious to know in what you think. Feel free to leave comment about my ex best friend and what you think he should do to get better?
Asked by:Ezra
hearts….. posted: 08 Oct at 6:26 am
haha funny question, i would say it’s just because of that guy that you’re asking this, no one else I know is like that, that reads mangas. I also think that anything, really, can make someone want to tay young, and want to live in a life of fantasy, just depending on the person
Alphonse posted: 08 Oct at 3:20 pm
Not really. You can get addicted to anything, and most people don’t get addicted to most things. Especially anime. Hobby =/= addiction. Although, just as one can get addicted to soap operas, you can get addicted to anime, or basketball, or weaving, or sowing, or math.
Anime hasn’t ruined my life. I’d dare say it enhanced it! I only know my friends (who I love) because we all had an interest in the same anime!
Dru posted: 11 Oct at 10:59 am
First thing is first. The level of addiction to anime.
There’s the extreme kind that hates reality and watches anime to compensate and there’s the kind that loves to watch anime because its different from normal T.V. movies, shows, etc…
im pretty sure the person your talking about is the kind that isn’t the extreme type (obviously because he actually talks to you…). But your questions asks…
“does anime somehow make you more confused about life?”
And as a fan of anime, i’d say no. Anime is a simple escape from reality and unless your the extreme type, then you will always go back to reality. Just the same as watching a movie. As an anime fan i never mix reality with what i watch in anime.
“Does it kinda keep you from wanting to grow up?”
If your asking if it is a escape from reality kind of thing then yes. Also if your talking about anime influencing people to not grow up id say, may be. Because anime is all about the”if i was young again” and especially the “what if”s. But as I said before, unless you are the extreme type, you won’t mix anime with reality.
How does anime have an influence on one’s personality and how they live their life?
Anime can influence different things on a person. Kind of like movies, music, and etc. If you didn’t know, there are many types and genres of animes. like movies: Action, romance, comedy, wierd, etc… You can say that a person is influenced by the things they watch, the music they listen to, parenting, friends, etc. and anime is no different. It matters what kind of animes they watch and how they take it in. I just think you may have been a little confused about what anime is exactly. Like me in the past i thought all animes are the same genre.
Does anime sometimes cloud someone’s mind from seeking and desiring fantasy and hating and not wanting to live in reality?
yes, it’s an escape from reality… Anime, movies, music, video games, fantasizing, television, clubbing, hobbies, etc. they all are a escape from reality.
but anime isn’t something to be scared of because you don’t know it. Anime isn’t some weird cult that everyone who watches it will act or be influenced the same way. Anime can be compared to music and movies. Just as we say the same thing about people who listen to heavy metal or rap or watch violent movies.
i seriously think, your “friend” is just bored and want something specific that will “cure” his boredom. And that cure happens to be Anime. Just as we want to listen to a certain kind of music at a time or watch a certain kind of movie at a given time. Anime isn’t some sort of social dysfunction brain wash. If you watch some you will see what i mean. I used to **** these people, who watched anime and sat in the back seat not being social. but this personality is more based on the person not the influence that anime has on them. Anime a genre of entertainment that people often confuse as a social dysfunctional brain wash. As i said before, anime is like a different types of movie, music, etc.