Will Anime Ruin Poeples Lives?

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First for Karen Dess~

It's too late for me, I can't start being normal now.

>I believe that any respectable grown man shouldn't spend three hundred dollars on molded plastic.
Then what should he spend it on, provided he has the rest of his shit together?

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>>32921836
You know, a house, car, family, and retirement.

>im shitposting dont take me seriously

>>32921836
As I said "There is a difference between enjoyment and obsession."

>>32921837
I'm quite serious. Anime has made it easy to get into a unhealthy lifestyle. Nothing is wrong with a hobby. But an obsession is never healthy.

>>32921837
>Retirement
>Thinking we'll live long enough to retire

>Ruin people lives

Yeah, why not just nuke everything?

>>32921833
People just want to enjoy their live, and for many, anime is one of the few things they can enjoy. Especially when you really can't stand being around people or being reminded too much of the world. And people don't owe anything to the world. "damage to society" my ass. People hiding at home don't harm anybody. Hell, otaku like in your pic finance anime for everybody else.

>A child's quote "Reality is too fake." Is a troubling statement to me.
Maybe the child is referring to how hypocritical the real world is. Adults tell you shit like "you can't solve problems with violence", yet all you see in the news and get from history classes is that people are full of shit and killing each other by the millions for asinine reasons. Adults made a fucking industry out of killing people. Or they tell you shit like "beauty comes from inside", "it's the inner values that count, looks don't matter". Yet all the celebrities and heroes in movies are clearly attractive by very objective standards. Leaders of the world are obvious fucking retards yet everyone acts like they're legitimately the best and to be respected. Yadda yadda yadda. Smart children understand this kind of shit, and the sensitive ones may decide they want as little to do with real people as possible.

TLDR: you're a faget

>>32921833
>it's actually not a pasta
What the hell.

How about you stop telling people how they should live, retard.

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Why is this thread still up?

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>>32921844

No. people ruin peoples´s lives

I like anime but absolutely hate plastic crap/merch

I think Ill be ok

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>>32921842
Well put.

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So is this stealth collection thread or is OP serious?

If serious, don't blame the merchandise. Addiction and obsession don't just open up because one likes something. They happen because person in question has a predisposition for them or is lacking fulfillment or motivation. Anime just happens to be fairly costly hobby to REALLY get into but so is drinking, smoking, vaping and etc. It also happens to be a very appealing one since there is plenty of imagination, variety and accessibility to enjoy.

tl;dr: It's not your waifu's fault you're a wreck

>>32921836

There's not much in life that brings real value, the only essentials you really need are food, water, a place to live, and some cheap entertainment to amuse yourself until you die.

In some ways, this is why I have a job because when I finally come home and watch anime or read manga I feel like it brings me peace rather than just gives me something to do. When I used to be a NEET, I would be utterly bored of everything, even things I actually liked.

So in all honesty, there's not much out there to spend money on that brings any real value. Spend it however you want, whether it be on figs, anime, manga... whatever brings you joy. As long as you have necessities covered, nothing after that actually matters.

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What a man chooses to spend his money on in his business and does not affect society at large.

>>32921833
Trekkies are even more autistic, I think. They have their own initiation rituals even, or so I've heard.

It's your money, I don't care as long as it's not ill-gotten gains.

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>mods are already dead

>>32921853
Wait for the janny drive to end.

>>32921837
>family
Pfffffttttttttttttttt. Cheaper to just check myself into a posh old folks' home.

>>32921839
Obsession is what drives human civilization forward. Stop blaming it, it's more like anime industry is mostly shit, and not 'obsessive' enough to care about it's quality.

>>32921843
>it's actually not a pasta
It will be now.

OP is right and the rest of you faggots are in denial. Anime is not the cause of the problems but it exacerbates them.

You can really frame this problem in a number of ways. Instead of blaming video games or anime, you could argue that people are simply choosing to opt out of the raw deal they consider "normie" life to be.

Too long didn't read

Now check my digits

If Eva couldnt teach people anything your silly thread wont either OP

>>32921833

For gods sake man, don't just type up a wall of text like that if you want people to read your stuff.

Use paragraphs and spacing.

>>32921850
Agreed. Having been a NEET, became a worker, and now a NEET again, I would rather be working, if for something to do if nothing else.

>>32921833
Fiction has always been where people run to hide when they are not happy with their life. Movies, novels, any media can offer that refuge. Any drug too. Stop to try fooling people into thinking anime is a problem.

>>32921850
/thread

>>32921833
People will always seek their own destruction
Regardless of anime.
The things we use to distract ourselves from death usually kill us.

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It's fine, life was already ruined by video games before getting into anime so nothing of value was lost heh heh

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I'm barely even getting by, trying to find a job and stabilize my life, and yet there are people out there that waste money on garbage. How are they doing that?!

>>32921869
RELATABLEEEEEEE

This thread is blog trash.

>>32921833
>Twenty years ago the internet didn't exist
Back then we wrote messages on rocks and rolled them down hills and hoped the other cave would find them.

>>32921872
>the other cave used 8bit rocks

Yes, it will ruin people's lives. Take a look at 4chan.

>>32921850
So true.
Though we're wired to seek the path of least resistance, we're often the least miserable with some challenge.
Cities clad in brilliant lights, miracles of technology everywhere you go and yet the simpler people with more tangible challenges like farmers and villagers have lower rates of suicide and depression.
I suppose we build our cells one brick at a time.

Anime isnt even good, how can adults get obsessed with something so shallow, its just a fun distraction.

>>32921862
This.
I wont read all of this shit.

>Will Anime Ruin Poeples Lives?
No. Addiction ruin people lifes.

>>32921869
Live in a country that gives you money for doing nothing.

>>32921833
Jesus Christ those shelves are way too crowded. Why would someone cram that many small cheap figures into such a small space. Spread them out and invest in a smaller number of really nice figures. Quality looks so much better than quantity.

>>32921833
You should read 'The machine stops' by E.M Forster. Written in 1928. Dude could see the fucking future.

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Maybe in 20 years we'll have synths to do all of those tedious tasks

>Will anime ruin people's lives?
No, there are people who make a living out of it(studios, animators, writers, directors, voice actors)

>mentally screw them up,?
Probably, eapecially to those who had a bad childhood life or bullied by others and other social issue can become a sad victim of this other than that, who gives any fucks about it

Hey mod why aren't you doing anything about this thread?

>>32921883
Yeah how dare people discuss anime wow

My life is already ruined even before I know anime.

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>Caring about society.

>>32921884
This is not an anime thread. This is about people who watch anime. Actually it'd about OP's opinion of these people.

You people need to stop worrying about what you fucking mom and dad will think. Like what you want.

>But they pay for my stuff
And that is where you went wrong. Life is easy if you are smart.

>>32921888
Smart people dont watch anime generally

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>>32921833
I have a feeling writers that are shit and well knows hacks like Kamachi are doing it on purpose to save people from this very problem.

Fuck normals and fuck real women they are the cancer destroying this world.

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>>32921890
2/2

Think about it? What other possible reason would there be for being that bad at writing a series?

>>32921833
>There is a difference between enjoyment and obsession
I think this is the main point. I'd like to say that in order to become obsessed with something there must be elements in one's life other than the subject of obsession, like depression, social anxiety, loneliness and so on, but I must admit that the Internet and technology have made it easier to fall down this hole. I think in this day and age it's up to the parents to give their children a proper upbringing, which should also include encouraging them to go out and make friends instead of spending most of their time in their room.
I guess you could say the Internet is a blessing and a curse, it's much easier to get what we want, but there's also the risk of ending up swallowed by it.

One thing I don't agree with is the spending part. If you spend half of your monthly income on figures, anime and manga you have a problem, but there's nothing wrong with buying those things in moderation, though maybe that was not your point.

On a side note, this is an interesting thread but judging by the current state of /a/ it will probably get deleted.

>>32921833
Blaming unhealthy choices on anime is stupid. You could be obsessed with and spend tons of money on literally anything.

>>32921889
I hate this self-hating attitude.

>>32921895
I dont hate myself, I hate most anime fans.

>>32921833
Bump for (great) interest.

I'll chime in later today after I'm done with work.

Oh mods you so funny

Huh. I always read this board as /rk9/, like the pokemon.

>pick a random board
The moderation reaches new heights of WTF.

First time I post on r9k after years.

>/r9k/
First time I've seen a thread moved here. Then again I haven't been going around too much.

>>32921887
so what?

original

Hi /a/

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my sides

mods truly are gods

Wow, mods doing their job.

>>32921833
I feel like you're mixing different things together and focusing too much on the stereotypical Japanese image of hikikomori, friend.
You took a look at that picture and left with an impression of the shell, without looking at its core. Depression and self-hate, low self-esteem, inability to recover from failure that ends in a deadlock, no job opportunities for people without studies or big job gaps in the CV...
In our present society, a single misstep and you'll find yourself at even lower level conditions than those of illegal migrants.

>>32921867
Is it just me or is this post blank. Did someone just press spacebar iver and iver?

>>32922034
>General fags desperately trying to cling whatever ground they can as they finally get rightfully purged from /a/
Feels fucking good. Alls that left is for the /mgg/ shitters to be banned for not learning their lesson the first time and all will be well.

>>32922077
>implying not every thread on /a/ is a general
Spontaneity and creative threads are long gone.

I just pick the threads for ongoing shows I'm watching, and be done with it.

>>32922103
This, between the no fun allowed fags being scared of ousiders and the generals /a/ is extremely boring and predictable now
The wildest you can encounter is a loli /c/ like thread

>>32922160
>Person does anything humorous
>"LE PUT ME IN THE SCREENCAP XDDD"
I hate this place

>>32922190
Thats just a meme, it will be gone in a few years like all of them, and replaced with another one

this thread should have stayed in /a/. wtf is the mod doing.
Nowadays i just stay at home and use the computer. I just want to create something that is right from all of this. And then im done. All the best people!

>>32921833
>Will Anime Ruin Poeples Lives?
Anime is an excellent strategy to weaken the hearts of Americans everyhwere. Japan is still mad as fuck about the two bombs, so they try to dampen Americans up in order to crush them later on.

>>32922190
The worst is the general attention grabbing, which (You) marking just furthers. You even see posts that reply "ironically" with >(You).

>>32922239
In the rare cases anime panders to the west it's edgy shit like Psycho Pass.

>>32921833
>Extreme anime fans spend about six hundred dollars a month on anime, manga or merchandise
>not affecting society
Jesus Christ man, if you can drop $600 on anime merch and what not, then you can pay your taxes.

>>32922318
>implying I don't get 1200$ from my government for being disabled
>implying I don't pay about 300$ rent, 300$ for food/internet/electricity and 600$ for animu
>implying I pay taxes

Lul.

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>>32921833
I like to imagine walking into a room like that that's been sealed since 2006 (or however old those figurines and computer are) it wld be pretty thrilling
>I wonder whose room it was n what that person is doing now

>>32922446
>600$ for animu
Isn't your apartment filled to the brim with merch at this point, buyfag?

>>32922446
>1200 for disabled
Hehe, where I live you'd get 500$ for a total disability, but then you wouldn't be able to watch animes.

>>32921833
Look at television. When that shit came out people said the exact same things. People stopped going to see movies and vaudeville shows. People eating tv dinners in front of the tv like zombies became a cultural symbol of the era.

Look at tv now. Millenials aren't buying cable packages, they aren't buying tvs. There was a, excuse the expression, paradigm shift. Now it's all youtube.

Give it time. The jews will try to monopolize the internet by ending net neutrality, nickle and diming customers with data limits and streaming services, and people will find something else to zombify their attention. It may happen in fifty years, it may happen in 100 years.

>>32922560
A very deep and philosophical post. Showing your intellect and all-encompassing bird-eyes view of society.

>>32921833
An adult can choose to be a patron of any arts with his excess means.

going out and watching Age of Ultron or your local Philharmonic is no more justifiable than a room full of futa-ero. No less.

basically, your taste does not determine objective values.

I am sure that there is some fat blue haired American otaku bitch who would love that poor little nippon faggot.

>>32922560
I love video...

it is fucking amazing.

meatspace can be cool, but the technical aspects of video makes it a lot of fun. I have four different kinds of video screens in my house, including this one that I am using to comm with you. CRT, backlit LCD, LCD projector, OLED

I want to play with a DLP projector. seems like something a madman would design, but they sell that shit.

don't believe it isn't manipulated and you're golden

>>32921833
>ruin people's lvies

Ruin what?

Slaving away all day?

Fuck some used ugly whores?

Like I've ever given a fuck about sex.

Why are people scared of this? Technological advancement sits on the fact that we removed work hours for people in order to study science and be creative. The fact that more people can live without working means we are advancing technologically.

>>32924471
This, automatization will change everything

>>32922560
VR, or variation of is supposed the be the next big thing by 2030, at the pace we're going, and if we don't nuke ourselves into oblivion we're going to hit Matrix level similarity around 2100.

>>32924061
I was referring to "people lives" as "people ability to function normally".

>>32921894
I'm not blaming anime and I'm an anime fan myself. My point was that anime has become an unhealthy coping mechanism.

>>32922560
I agree and the internet and anime by itself doesn't cause people to suddenly have problems. But when people with mental issues or just emotional issues use anime to escape their problems then you can't avoid the serious repercussions.

>>32924471
Again, I'm not against technology. I'm saying the it's opened up a very unhealthy way to deal with your problems.

>>32924807
Technology certainly opens up bad ways of living, but history tells us that in the long term living standards will improve .

>>32921844
Well played amigo

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>>32921833
> Will Anime Ruin Poeples Lives? '

It's done quite the opposite with me.
>1997
>9 years old
>dad buys me Japanese subbed mario movie
>I am instantly entralled
>tells me about how he loved Japanese shows as well like tetsujin no 28.
>we bond over this and he buys me various anime shows on
>start playing rpgs at 10, they help with reading
>at 13 I start practicing Japanese
>no partner, but I learn plenty of kanji
>take drawing seriously at 13 as well
>avoid drug,mtv,and sex culture permeating the town
>don't get laid, but I don't get caught up in bullshit
>go to college studying 3D
>meet fellow anime lovers who are determined and some that aren't
>horrified by the hikkis
>keep to my studies and graduate 2nd in class
>years later go to a networking event and get commissions from japan
>next year get hired by us branch of japanese studio as character designer

Anime helped shape my life...
Those bold as fuck shonen anime, and the never give up attitude stuck to me,
Just don't watch harem horseshit.

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>>32921867
Only when I'm hard

>>32921886
This guy is a legend does he really have a job

>>32921833
People are becoming neets in Japan because their society is fucked up with it's compulsory unpaid overtime working and other shit like that. And Japan doesn't even have neetbux.

>>32921864
Drugs are boring. Honestly. There's some brief novelty value and I don't regret trying the dozens of things I did, but fiction and productive work are better.

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>>32921837
Liking anime =/= being a hikki

I like anime and I have a stable job, working on my retirement and a car. I'm just missing a partner.

>>32922446
Do you eat nothing but ramen?

>>32924471
Except you're forgetting about niggers. They don't do science. In fact they hold it back; we spend more on welfare for blacks than on R&D.

>>32925857
Japan has considerable neetbux

>>32925778
I don't if he himself has a job but his parents are like super rich