bitchassdarius said: Before I even say anything, I'm going to definitely clarify that I'm not some filter-feeding blowfish in my mother's basement that brings around a cotton-polyester object with my waifu printed on it whenever I step outside. I think we can agree that those people are a bit much.
However, I would like to say that I honestly think that females that can be found in anime are better than females that can be found in real life. I'm going to address the one obvious issue: your waifu is not real. This is a very good point. However, I'd like to make the argument that whenever people read a good book, they get connected with the characters that they find in that book and make a very slight emotional investment in that book. A well-written book will have characters that can come off as human, characters that you can feel you resonate with. That's why people get sad when one of their favorite characters in a book dies, when the character makes a decision that was totally opposite their previously established personalities, or just in general do something completely stupid.
As you can assume, this can apply to anime as well. A mangaka (or light novel creator) can create a world of his choosing, a world without the faults of the actual world that we live in, and as such, he can also create characters that don't have the faults that all regular humans at some point succumb to. This is big, because real-life humans have a lot of flaws that anime characters do not (unless that's explicitly their purpose in being): infidelity, incompatibility, lack of availability, standards, appearance, and unfortunately, mortality.
People like to say that some things are stupid in real life and would be better left in the land of fiction. Take for example Yuno from Future Diary. This simply would not fly in real life, and if I knew a girl like that, it'd be time to move to Canada, because nothing bad ever happens in Canada. However, anime has made it possible to take completely unattractive turn-off qualities like these and make them entertaining at least. And I bet there were some viewers out there who at least thought for a moment that they would like a GF on that level of devotion.
Could I get some thoughts on this topic? I'd like to know what people would think about opinions like these.
I agree if it’s anime
For porn/hentai that’s debatable |