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Aug 7, 2023 11:25 AM
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Anime is chock full of unrealistic scenarios, with worlds far more fantastical than reality: some watch shows for escapism and others watch it to supplement their mundane life with novel stimulation. Have you ever felt disappointed or maybe even depressed that you couldn't live a life similar to your favourite anime character, or live in a world similar to your favourite anime? Some examples:

- You will never be revered and appreciated as a hero as you travel around.
- You will never be super overpowered and capable and defeat enemies with ease.
- You will never have a [reverse] harem of cute bishounen guys fawning over you unconditionally.
- You will never have a harem of cute girls fawning over you unconditionally.
- You will never experience a flawless, blissful romance as portrayed in many Shoujo shows.
- You will never explore fun fantasy worlds and forge bonds with your wandering adventurer troupe.

The only time this really happened to me was when I first started watching anime and I watched Sword Art Online. My teenage brain was pretty jealous of Kirito and his effortless life in comparison to mine at the time which was much more dull.
Aug 7, 2023 11:27 AM
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ye that happened a lot back when i was young anime fan but im sure most will grow out of it and just do escapism like i do now without being sad about it
Aug 7, 2023 11:32 AM
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Nah, no need to be disappointed or depressed; I'm at peace with the fact that my life mostly sucks. 
Aug 7, 2023 11:35 AM
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Personally it's the opposite, i'm grateful for the moments of realization that anime isn't real during my binge-watching periods for escapism purposes.

Although if being on-topic, i definitely was jealous of Kirito for having someone dedicated to him like Asuna. I also wish i could live and work in Aria's Neo-Venezia. And i also wish i were someone who is more useful or influential like most main characters in anime.
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Aug 7, 2023 11:41 AM
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When I was young I really wanted pokemon to be real because I wanted to have a Wurmple as a friend.

That's about as far as it goes lol



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Aug 7, 2023 11:43 AM
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It is a shame robo cunny servants will not be a thing.  Life goes on anyway without them.  
Aug 7, 2023 11:44 AM
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When I was 11, I was sad that I didn't get a letter from Hogwarts. But then I grew out of it. 
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Aug 7, 2023 11:46 AM
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No, never. I am fully aware that it's not real. But what's really stopping you from making it into a reality? Funnily enough every single example you just gave has happened in our history SOOO many times before, minus the fantasy worlds of course.  


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Aug 7, 2023 3:10 PM
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Mostly the world not the character. I personally wanna live a world like fallout new Vegas or the walking dead.
Aug 7, 2023 3:28 PM

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Only some of the worlds I suppose? especially SOL worlds, where everything is normal and mundane, quite the opposite to my own life 

That's about all though, can't see myself as a harem protag lol, I would get stifled quickly and find it super annoying, cute girls or not.

Monsters & people with superpowers and/or other enhancements doesn't sound much fun to live with either.
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Anime as other fictional stuff there will be always some people who take it too seriously which shouldn't have be done [By too seriously I don't mean to not like/love/analyse or even study/learn from a title, just putting it too much into reality or some aspects of it into reality which shouldn't have been done, as there might be nothing wrong into having a certain character being a role model, but there will be alot of wrong things if you'd believe that jumping in front of truck will make you isekai'd]
Exceptions might be obviously anime and other works which are inspired by real events which happens all the time/happened in the past, or documentaries [idk if there is an anime documentary tbh].

By your examples it will all be different in the way you look at it.
- You might not be considered or appreciated as a hero, and yet you can walk around help those who need help and in their eyes you'll be appreciate as a good person or even as a hero.
- You might not overpower you enemies in a way it is shown in an anime, and yet if you are a profesional/master of martial arts/sports/or any kind of competitive sports or games you can overpower others by honing and using your experience
- Well here I'll agree, having a harem of girls = more money to spend on a dates, more money to spend for valentines, more money to spend for birthdays, more free time required to sacrifice to meet with all of them, I'd say harem is a disaster instead of a dream
- You might not have a shoujo ideal romance, and yet romance is a relationship between two people if you don't give enough of your own values to make a mutual trust, not to mention that both sides need to trust each other and being honest with each other and talk about any problems/negatives/positives/other stuff between each other, than what have you expected at the first place?
- You might not explore such adventures as in shwos, but yet you can join or gather your friends and play a Role Playing game either board or video game or even in VR, you can also gather your friends and just sightseeing or go for a hiking maybe it isn't the same adventure and yet it is still some sort of an adventure

If someone is sad because something is too good in an anime, isn't it better to reflect your own life/decisions/stuff which you can change and change them willingly to make you own life better, putting aside obviously stuff which you might not be able to change.

Btw I suppose Sao is not that good as you might think, idk if you have experience breaking a bone, while your limb is disabled due to treatment for a month-2 which is usual for breaking a limb going for rehab after that is quite tough, now thinking of your body not being used for 2 years it would take more time for rehab than it was shown in LN/Anime I'd suppose. Aswell as emotional trauma due to being put in a real situation kill or be killed, alot of people who are in such situations such as soldiers are left with huge ptsd and traumas which make some of them even unable to live a normal life anymore, aswell as some of them just take their own lifes away. There is more into it, obviously no one thinks about it during the teenage age, when I was watching SAO for the first time I've also never paid attention into it too. So I wouldn't say his life is such effortless as it might seem to be.
Aug 7, 2023 4:34 PM
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Anime is about just escaping reality and yes I get mad when I have to come back to the real world.. So I'm angry that it ain't real..
 

Aug 7, 2023 5:04 PM

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You can have a harem of cute girls fawning over you if you have a lot of money and move to Thailand.

Nick Fry did it and I want to as well.



Romance portrayed in shoujo only blissful for female audience. There are few shounen romance shows out there that cater for male preferences, but most of the time it is CGDCT that caters for male sexual needs.



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This makes me think of how when I was 5 I made up a whole dance/prayer ritual that I would do a few times a day to try to make DBZ real. After I'd do it, I really thought I would look out the window and see Goku and Vegeta walking down the street to hang out with me or something.

Anyway...if anime were real (even my favorite genres), I don't think I'd want to be a protag. But then as a background character, I'd probably still have most of the problems I currently have, if not more. So I think I'm fine with observing through a screen, lol.
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Aug 8, 2023 4:19 AM

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Nah, no need to be disappointed or depressed; I'm at peace with the fact that my life mostly sucks. (2x)
Aug 8, 2023 4:56 AM

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You will never be eaten by a giant zombie
You will never see your gf get raped infront of you by your former best friend
You will never see your dog get burned alive by your adoptive brother.
You will never be boiled alive by a cute angel.
 
Why even live?
SaintRamielAug 8, 2023 6:17 AM
Aug 8, 2023 5:24 AM
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SaintRamiel said:
You will never be eaten by a giant zombie
You will never see your gf get raped infront of you by your former best friend
You will see your get your dog burned alive by your adoptive brother.
You will never be boiled alive by a cute angel.
 
Why even live?
True, there's plenty of instances where we can be grateful that life is not anime.
Aug 8, 2023 5:51 AM

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Every single day, and I'll be honest, even the possible downsides still seem to be better than to exist here.
Please, imagine that there's something funny here.
Aug 8, 2023 6:39 AM

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I would like to live in the Sailor Moon universe, I just love everything about their world as well as the characters.

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