| I do not like admitting it, but probably pokemon. Other than that I would say yugioh then beyblade. |
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| I would say Hyperdimension Neptunia or Senran Kagura. I really like how Nepgear always gets into trouble. |
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| Barefoot Gen had the biggest impact on my life, showing the horror of war and losing everything. Watching completely innocent people who are not even participating in war suffer from it. It showed how good I have it in life, even if its a fictional anime the reality depicted is depressingly accurate. Made me feel like I have no right to complain about my life despite the problems I have to face. A perspective many people don't consider, as current wars rage today this movie is at the back of my mind. It's made me Anti-war, watching the human created hell is sickening. But despite all of its horror it taught me to keep moving, don't stop its not over until you are dead. As long as you live you owe it to yourself and those you lost in life to live. Finding happiness through the most extreme hardships, moving on from dark experiences in life and looking forward to the positive side. |
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| That’s never happened to me. Anime has always been entertainment. Sometimes great, sometimes forgettable, occasionally thought-provoking, but never something that altered my values, career path, let alone the way I carry myself. At most, an anime might make me appreciate a certain idea more, or nudge a small preference, but that’s about it. |
BrendanIsCool said: you will eventually find something that will hit so hard that it will effect your outlook on life, your values, carrier path and passions, and how you choose to live your life. initially wanted to say that this statement is false, but really it's just so vague and noncommittal that it barely means anything by itself. Anyway to keep this response on topic, the anime which had the biggest impact on my life and how I live is Slayers, it's the first show I've watched with the understanding of what exactly anime was and how it was different from other cartoons, and it was fundamental to developing an interest in and a passion for the medium as a whole which has lasted for over twenty years now and I honestly can't imagine subsiding any time soon. |
BrendanIsCool said: What Anime has had the biggest impact on your life and how you live? There was never a single Anime title that fucking “changed my life”, like having some earth-shattering epiphany about the meaning of life or some shit like that. This shit was more like carbon dating myself through successive fandom epochs, each one leaving a faint radioactive trace rather than a dramatic anime-induced personality rewrite. lol My first actual epic exposure wasn’t some solo, epiphanic moment either… it was seeing shit like “Project A-Ko” in Osaka at the theater with my parents in the mid-80s, back when my father was still a full-on otaku living in Japan, and that sort of thing didn’t come packaged as a fucking identity badge either. It was just… stuff you watched. Like catching a weird movie on late TV and moving the fuck on. lol Then, once my family moved to North America in the late 80s, the West made the contrast impossible to ignore. Anime didn’t disappear... the shit simply got distilled. Suddenly Japanese IPs showed up as curated slices inside Western comic shops, translated into floppy issues instead of phone-book-thick magazines stuffed with ten unrelated authors arguing on the same paper stock. It felt less like discovering a new world and more like realizing half the library back in Japan had been quietly fucking deleted. lol By 1989-1991, animation film festivals at places like the Cleveland Institute of Art started acting like accidental portals. One weekend you’re a normal person, the next you’re watching "Akira", "Robot Carnival", "Golgo 13", "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind", "Vampire Hunter D", "Fist of the North Star", "Wicked City", "Neo Tokyo", "Venus Wars", etc... like someone dumped an unsecured hard drive of Japan’s 80s collective animated theatrical ID straight into an art theater auditorium and closed the doors, being shown alongside Western shit like “Wallace and Gromit” and “Heavy Metal". lol Comic conventions were the next layer of the onion... isolated niche corners with VHS bootlegs stacked under tables like contraband fruit. Almost completely hidden shit in a room flooded with 99% Western IPs, such as X-Men, Batman, Fantastic Four, etc... The shit was not advertised. Not explained. You either knew what you were looking at or you didn’t, kind of like finding a speakeasy that only sells tapes recorded four generations removed from the fucking original broadcasting. lol By the early–mid 90s, it turned fucking physical... VHS tapes... LaserDisc copies the size of an asshole plugged by a manhole cover. Trading OVAs and sharing with new friends like anime was some dangerous experimental fungus that only grew if you kept passing spores around. Renting tapes from local video rental stores that carried maybe one shelf of the shit if the owner was feeling adventurous that month. Eventually it wasn’t even about the anime anymore... Sometimes it was just background noise while hanging out. Sometimes it was background noise while making out with a new girl friend. Sometimes you were “re-watching” something you barely paid attention to, because the real plot was that you finally had an excuse to be alone for a few hours with a girl in high school, always trying to get inside their pants the entire time, and nobody wanted silence or a chaperone looking over our shoulders when actually going out on a date in public. lol By the time college hit, others around me were suddenly discovering “tentacle rape” images on crappy dial-up internet, which mirrored shit seen in “Urotsukidoji” by 1995... And finally discovering others were actively hunting down shit like VHS bootlegs and trading that shit around like hot cakes in the college dorm. Even the existence of Cartoon Network in the late 90s completely changed the ball game of shit... where after classes, a group of guys in the dorm would be perpetually hanging out in the common room watching Battle Shounen Borner material from "Dragon Ball Z" to "Yu Yu Hakusho" on Toonami. After graduating college suddenly Anime conventions became a real fucking normal thing, one could cosplay with their wife and find a buffet of merch and rare official physical releases on every available format that existed by the turn of the century. Just from Suncoast Video and Best Buy, I could basically find anything I wanted that was ever officially available in the west on DVD, Even getting shit like "Najica Blitz Tactics" and having it come with an actual pair of panties with its limited-edition physical release in a very well made artbox to store the rest of the DVD volumes that would soon be released within the next few months... So yeah... no single title reshaped my morals or dictated my career path. It was more like living inside the medium as it mutated, migrated, and survived by sheer stubbornness. Anime didn’t hand me values... it just happened to be playing while life was doing its fucking thing. lol |
ColourWheelDec 8, 9:28 PM
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| "Tenchi Muyo!" (1992) was Directly Responsible for Launching me into Anime CharaDoll Collecting and Customization... a Hobby and an Obsession unto itself that Began nearly 25 Years ago... and Continues to this Day~ (2001/2002)   (2025)   |
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| One Piece, because it has so much content, and I have been watching it for so long. |
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| gundam taught me that if you want to sleep with your eyes closed and not look over your shoulder when you go outside, you have to kill all your enemies |
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| I watched Death Note when I was a kid back in '08, and it affected me so much I ended up falling in love with Psychology/Human behavior and i'm studying to land a career in that field. I notice the flaws in the series now (and Ohba in general...Death Note is his only work I enjoy), but for what it's worth I still love it and it holds a very special place in my heart. |
| It's probably gotta be Gurren Lagann for being the title that really got me into watching anime. |
| Ask not the sparrow how the eagle soars. I've never even seen an eagle. |
| I wouldn't say they affected how I live my life, but they definitely had a huge impact. Dragonball Z back in the 90s. Used to religiously watch that show after school finished. Attack on Titan over the last 10 years. Not many pieces of fiction, let alone anime, stick with with me for as long as it did, especially when S3P2 ended. |
| Probably Cardcaptor Sakura, it's a series I instantly fell in love with and admired many of the personalities of the characters. I tried to mimic some of those in my day-to-day life. |
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Reply to MasterTasuke
"Tenchi Muyo!" (1992) was Directly Responsible for Launching me into Anime CharaDoll Collecting and Customization...
a Hobby and an Obsession unto itself that Began nearly 25 Years ago... and Continues to this Day~
(2001/2002)
(2025)
a Hobby and an Obsession unto itself that Began nearly 25 Years ago... and Continues to this Day~
(2001/2002)
(2025)
| @MasterTasuke This is so cool! Love me a life long passion! |
| Queen's Blade and Bikini Warriors. |
Reply to BrendanIsCool
@Slayers363 I had never heard of Barefiit Gen before this! This makes me really wanna check it out !! I love me some older introspective anime so this may be up my alley
| @BrendanIsCool Barefoot Gen might be one of the top 10 emotional anime's out there in my opinion. Though the ending is less depressing than Grave of the Fireflies, I hope you get something worthwhile from watching it; I know I did. |
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| I want it to be something with themes of family or friendship. Something about standing up for yourself or never giving up. Instead, it's Another. Why? The goddamn stair scene oh my god. For YEARS if I was carrying anything even a little sharp on stairs I took them one at a time (and for the first year I would hold, like, forks behind my back or something). Now I've recovered, but I still think about that stupid scene when I'm carrying dinner downstairs. Another is a fine show, but that's all I took away from it. I'm still kind of scared to rewatch it even though I'm a grown man now haha. Will rewatch it soon I think, it can't be that bad |
Nice take, bro  With Love—Quattuordecillionaire (10⁴⁵) |
Reply to Slayers363
Barefoot Gen had the biggest impact on my life, showing the horror of war and losing everything. Watching completely innocent people who are not even participating in war suffer from it. It showed how good I have it in life, even if its a fictional anime the reality depicted is depressingly accurate. Made me feel like I have no right to complain about my life despite the problems I have to face. A perspective many people don't consider, as current wars rage today this movie is at the back of my mind. It's made me Anti-war, watching the human created hell is sickening. But despite all of its horror it taught me to keep moving, don't stop its not over until you are dead. As long as you live you owe it to yourself and those you lost in life to live. Finding happiness through the most extreme hardships, moving on from dark experiences in life and looking forward to the positive side.
| @Slayers363 That is such admirable view of life, it's great an anime made you feel like that. Thank you for the inspiring read :)  |
 (っ◔◡◔)っ 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝔂 ♥ |
| Nothing. But wolf children does get me to apologize to my mother. So that's a good thing. |
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