Has anime ever changed your outlook on something fundamental? Like your life, your faith, society, the universe, etc?

Has anime ever changed your outlook on something fundamental? Like your life, your faith, society, the universe, etc?

Fullmetal Alchemist helped me realize how important it is to have the truth. Kill la Kill got me thinking about social hierarchies. SAO got me interested in VR technology. Haruhi made me realize how important it is to live a life that is uniquely your own. Madoka gave me an archetype to aspire to. Gurren Lagan pointed out to me just how interdependent humans are. Yuki Yuna made me more thankful to God that we live in a universe that is neat and orderly, and not run by beings out to mess with us.

Anime has actually shaped a lot of my worldview; I like to think for the better.

This reads like a pasta from r/anime

no

What is this gay shit?

It reminds me of that horrible what anime thought me image.

Haven't been there, so I wouldn't know.

Philosphical musings at the ungodly hour of 3AM

It's a shitty blog thread, that's what it is.

If you are letting generic, fictional media created to entertain you with a story influence your thoughts on fundamental life you should take a step back. Seek serious professional help.

I was attempting to open up a question thread by giving my own answer.

Funny you should mention that; I'm seeing my psychiatrist in the morning. But seriously, why can't anime be deep? And why can't something deep affect you deeply as well?

anime turned me into a pedophile

>letting anime influence your beliefs
>not having ideals you would die for

Are you sure you weren't one already?

I think I already knew there were ideals I was willing to die for, but I think anime helped crystallize my understanding of just what those ideals were.

Vampire hunter D taught me that there is nothing wrong with being alone and different.

Robot Carnival taught me the importance of love

Gungrave taught me the importance of sacrifice

Dragon ball Z taught me what it means to get strong, that there is nothing wrong with beating the shit out of assholes who deserve it and what it means to care for a kid.

Sailor moon taught me that women are cute just as fucked up about us as we are of them but tend to be a bit more cray.

Nice blog faggot

But too much truth can be a bad thing, after all

Witches Exist

K-ON broke me because something like the light music club would've basically been my ideal high school experience and it made me realize how much I'd squandered my youth.

After that I actually got serious about pursuing my passions and reaching out to people and while my life is by no means perfect I feel way better with myself now

Why are books allowed to influence you, then?

Pink Floyd's The Wall taught me I didn't need no education

oregairu made me realize my high school life was completely wasted

Is there a layer of sarcasm I'm not seeing here? I refuse to believe you're for real.

HxH made me wanna fuck little boys.

Eva made me smoke and drink, and those are the two least harmful things it made me do. The less I say the better.

Tell me more

No everyone will recognize me as soon as I wrote anything that even resembled a blogpost.

Urobuchi taught me that EVERYTHING is people

I want to know. You can't just tease me like that and not say

Goku taught me that my brain is useless and I should just beat the shit out of my problems until they either go away or submit.
Worked wonderfully with my wife :^)

that's really helpful, I hope it worked with other problems too

Let's put it like this. Every scene from Eva apart from the sci fi and /x/ stuff happened to me at least once. Most of them more than once at different times and with different people. I never went gay or an hero, and I've never been in an illuminati conspiracy, but those are the only things I didn't do.

Jintai told me that pandering and meaningless garbage is what sells the best. The author proved it true by writing Oregairu which is easily his most successful work.

Madoka legitimately helped me with hope and loneliness.

Texhnolyze made me realize that if people are too stupid to understand a piece of media they just call it depressing and nihilistic even though the message of the series is hopeful.

>ideal high school experience
There is no such thing. What you just describe is basically pic related.

This pic

No, it's basically real. Other anime have affected me in other ways, but those were the ones I could think of off the top of my head.

This fedora atheism outlook is so fucking retarded. You can take anything from any medium. You can find why cleanliness is good in scat porn.

Gonna get shitposted to oblivion for this but Asuka and Shinji coping with their issues in NGE helped me through some pretty rough times

So you are easly influenced by things
woop de doo.

Yes, I realized that 3D roasties are worthless garbage.

>Gonna get shitposted to oblivion
You asked for it

Perhaps I am. Then again, perhaps I've watched enough anime that it would be surprising if I *wasn't* influenced by it somehow. Either way, I like to call it, "being easily adaptable."

Rarely but it did happen two or three times.
Not the way you worded it though.

Really made me think OP

>having ideals you would die for

>not dying ironically

it happens when you're are underage

Pretty much just this, now that I think about it. Also I can now play mahjong.

It gave me perspective on the importance of hiding my power level.

I couldn't tell you what happened, to be honest. The only thing I can put into words about this is learning the value of pure and innocent sincerity. But it's so much more, I feel much softer now, much more comfortable with the way things are. Even if things don't go the way you want them to, that's fine. At the end of everything, it's up to you how you look at things and how you do things.

But it sounds so cheesy and tacky to say "this cartoon genuinely changed the way I see life", but maybe something this embarrassingly sappy is just right to describe the way Aria makes me feel.

I'm filing this one under swamp gas, cause I really can't tell one way or the other.

As I said, innocent sincerity.
Irony is pure poison, and so is this general animosity towards people you have never met and the fear that someone wants to trick you into having a conversation with them.

Damn I'm glad I'm not autistic.

Calm down Emiya Shirou

Kill la Kill has honestly changed my life.

I went into it not expecting much, considering that was hyped to shit. Holy fucking shit, was I blown away. I was hooked, like a baby to a tit with creamy foamy milk. I could feel the energy and hype flowing through my body, bringing light to my dull life. I resonated with Ryuko. I could feel her struggle and her desire to surpass her limitations, something that struck me hard. Everything suddenly stopped when I heard the words:

DON'T LOSE YOUR WAAAAAYYYYYYYYY

and I started trembling. That was me, I feel like I've been "losing my way" these past years. I haven't been able to hold a steady job, my grades were starting to slip, and my parents suspect that I'm gay. It was right then and there that I knew that I had to get my shit together. I can't think of any other anime that has had such a profound effect on me, let alone on the first episode. Tomorrow, I'm going to be a better man. Thank you, Kill la Kill, thank you Trigger. I won't lose my way.

Nah I'm only poisonous to make it easier to meet like minded people. So I don't have to trick them into a conversation or anything.

so gurren lagann has awayls been a anime i didnt look towards, it seemed to up beat it seemd to cheery for me. And at the time i was down in the dumps and kind of pushed away that stuff like the "emo" kid i was. One day i was at a freinds and we watched anime. He put on gurren lagann and forced me to watch it. We ended up watching all of it in one sitting. It taught me that all i need is to belive in myself that i can make anything happen if i give a shit. It made me happy again! I started to try in school i made freinds. i really perked up! Gurren lagann is the reason i can be here today. If you need somthing to get you out of bed in the moring. Gurren lagann will do that for you. "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!"

Naruto has honestly changed my life.

I went into it not expecting much, considering that was hyped to shit. Holy fucking shit, was I blown away. I was hooked, like a baby to a tit with creamy foamy milk. I could feel the energy and hype flowing through my body, bringing light to my dull life. I resonated with Naruto. I could feel his struggle and his desire to surpass his limitations, something that struck me hard. Everything suddenly stopped when I heard the words:

BELIEVE IT!

and I started trembling. That was me, I feel like I've been "Not Believing it" these past years. I haven't been able to hold a steady job, my grades were starting to slip, and my parents suspect that I'm gay. It was right then and there that I knew that I had to get my shit together. I can't think of any other anime that has had such a profound effect on me, let alone on the first episode. Tomorrow, I'm going to be a better man. Thank you,Naruto, thank you Masashi Kishimoto.

I'll keep Believing It.

Jojo made me gay. Gochiusa made me straight again.

No, it's not poison to others, nobody is impressed by how you treat others badly. Nobody in their right mind really cares about what someone they can never meet really thinks they think about them.
What I mean is that it is poison to yourself, your own mind, the way you interact with people, it's slow and creeping, slowly you lose the capacity to be sincere and well-meaning and this environment certainly doesn't help with that. I obviously do realize that this is a horrible thread full of people who have lost the capacity for sincerity and honesty and only are here for a quick laugh by parodying (imaginary) people using copypasta that was trite years ago and low effort, low quality posts. Have you ever considered that surrounding yourself with like-minded people too much might be a bad thing?
The tricking people into conversations with you is a reference to the idea of "bait" or whatever the cool kids call it these days. Of course this fear is also bad for yourself, I doubt that anyone cares that you doubt their sincerity.

>Has anime ever changed your outlook on something fundamental?
Realizing that some people learned life lessons from shows like KLK, SAO, Madoka and TTGL and let those shows influence how they thought made me realize that we desperately need to enact eugenics.

Is there an anime/manga character has who has killed himself off ironically? Permanently only, no reviving bullshit.

Lain taught me it's okay to be remembered only by a select dear few instead of, say, the whole world. After all, if nobody remembers you, you didn't exist.

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Serious answer, yes. Anime was actually the one establishing in my mind that 2D>3D.

Against any common sense that people around me have shown and taught me since i started forming my own thoughts. Against the default path that cultures and customs and religions of old have presented in the world: a man grows up, form a family with a woman, and continues his bloodline. Peers and friends around me getting married, forming families as if it's a given that mankind lives that way. And indeed, it is proven that mankind still exist to this day, for thousand of years, by living that way. It is a fact, it is obvious to anyone.

Yet still, for me, 2D>3D.
All due to anime.

Dude that's fucking gay.

If you say so.

Anime made me realize I had been living my life incorrectly by masturbating to 3DPD porn.

Games, yes, Anime, no. Aria gets a maaaaaaybe, but I read that as a manga. Same with Little Busters in VN.

Made in Abyss rekindled some of my faith after a sea of trashy isekai, I guess.

Anime has converted me to believing in Demonbane, the greatest god that ever existed.

Your post made me realize how imporatant is to kill cancer before it breeds.

Anime thought me that Europeans are all tall and blond, have blue eyes and a thousand unpronounceable middle names. This has influenced me deeply.

Well Trigun and Fate/Zero made me come to terms with the fact that you can't save everyone, and how much that fucking sucks.

Anime made me understand that being a jobless, perverted, fat virgin and watching cartoons for little girls are the most pleasant things in the world.

Nice blog thread faggot, as ti answer your question anime never made me ponder too deep with the exception of Angel Beats
It hit me really fucking hard with its themes of regrets, insecurities and wasted childhood

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