| In my viewpoint, anime doesn't really increase your intelligence, but your stocked knowledge is. I usually get high marks in school and anime has contributed a lot on it. |
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| I have not lost nor gained intelligence from watching anime. It may change your standards on entertainment though. |
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| anime makes me contemplate about things but so do all other forms of media. It probably has a subconscious effect on me as well (again like all forms of media). No I don't think it makes you more intelligent. |
| Nope. All it does is make people on online anime forums think their intelligent. xD |
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| How does watching cartoons makes you smarter? |
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| Watching anime make me lazier, thus also make me stupider. |
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| You learn something about Japanese culture and language. At least if you watch subs. |
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| don't sure that it will make you smarter or not, but sure it will not make you stupid. make you lazy? yes. |
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| Deep anime definitely keeps me on my feet but I don't really learn anything about the real world from watching anime. |
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| I try to keep what I learn separated from my life as it would do me no good, like knowing people do die when they get killed or that moe crap will destroy us all. |
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| The only way anime could make you smarter is by telling you that Japan is a pretty perverted and sick country to visit, and some Japanese definitions. Other than that, no, it makes you more perverted and more blood lusty. |
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| I would say yes, but not because it's anime. You get intellectual knowledge by watching pretty much anything. |
| No, not even close. This isn't a medium that should be used for gaining knowledge. |
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| Contrary to a lot of the original posters I definitely feel like anime shows have proven, in a multitude of cases, their respective themes regardless of popular opinion. Although nearly everything is subjective when it comes to anime, I'm pretty proud to say that anime has heightened me both in both intellectual and worldly ways. |
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| it surely made me more insightful when a character does something or make some choices that are retardedly stupid that i go: there is a quote, "Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others." -Otto von Bismarck |
| No. And if it does, you've got a lot to learn. |
| Be thankful for the wisdom granted to you. |
| It doesn't matter if you're watching a great anime with deep meaning and not absorb nothing. What's important is that you reflect on what you're watching, even if is those tiny moments of wisdom the random just for fun filled with ecchi anime sometime have. The best thing would be to diverse what you consume. Anime, manga, books, movies, games |
| nah it only makes you think you are |
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| No, but it makes my English better, since I'm not a native speaker. |
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| Personally: I've grown (in the psychological sense) quite a lot since I started watching anime. I can't tell if it is because of anime, or I've just got older or it's my other hobbies. But I think anime had an important part in that. I think anime about relationships like Haganai were quite important in this regard. Pirating_Ninja said: Also I mentioned earlier you might actually learn something ... Gratz it took you 30 minutes to learn one fact, if only you could move that fast in school, oh wait... Basically it is like watching TV (not documentaries) or Video Games ... Believing you have learned something maybe true but your belief that it is a good way of learning would be fucking retarded, just read a book, one sentence can literally be more insightful than an entire anime series in some cases... It's a past time for entertainment, don't try and give anime an educational value. Some sage might condense all of humanity's wisdom into a book of wise phrases. It will probably end up published a lot, and anybody could open it and read it. But will reading the phrase in a book have the same effect as watching an anime illustrating said piece of wisdom? I think not. By watching an anime, said wisdom becomes a lot more real. But the best part of anime is, you probably won't even bother opening that book of wisdom. But you would go and watch anime because it's fun. TsundereHeart said: Although anime probably doesn't make you smarter, it might make you think more about topics you never thought about(like whether or not it's right to kill every evil person in the world, a topic that comes up in F/Z and Death Note) |
| Everything can be watched in a way that kills your brain. But if you don't turn your brain off while watching anime, you're critical of it and watch a variety of anime then yes it's good for your intelligence. You expose yourself to a variety of ideas and analyze them. |
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sedmelluq said: I liked this answer the best.Anime is just one of many ways to tell a story and convey ideas. So therefore you are asking if stories and ideas can make a person more insightful. Pretty much the only other way to do that would be personal experience. Of course some people are less affected by ideas they haven't comprehended by direct personal experience, but I believe ideas can still have an effect on people's insightfulness without that. Ratohnhaketon said: Well said.Really depends on your mindset when watching anime. If you're looking for lessons, values, and ideas to take away from it, then it can if you keep an open mind. If you're just watching for fun and turn your brain off each episode, then doubtful. Just take a look at anime that convey meaningful messages and look at their episode discussions. It's usually the critical thinkers who are saying "yeah I can see x from y perspective now" and the casuals that are like "lolpseudo-intellectual anime tried to be 2edgy 1/10." Tavor said: Interesting thought, I should think it some more.I think one of the reasons the literature offered in school is no longer 'thought provoking' is because it's not from our generation. When something like <u>The Awakening</u> spout up, it sure did made some light bulbs flicker on. Nowadays, it doesn't really offer the same impact, for obvious reasons, as it no longer inspires us when it's a past issue society dealt with long ago. A more current medium, such as anime, can easily offer a great 'life lesson' because it's more 'in the now'; it's understandable why the stuff you read/watch in school makes you feel apathetic. Shicchi said: I disagree, excessive hard-work is stupid. Smart people do their work the easy way.Watching anime make me lazier, thus also make me stupider. IceColdLemons said: One does not find a cure for all diseases merely by being smart and insightful. If it did, someone would've already found the cure for all diseases in the world (jk they would've been too busy watching anime/ reading manga). Curing AIDS might be possible with the right knowledge, a lot of insight, and a big budget. But cure for all diseases is still very far away (and seems to need magical nanorobots). IWBFHTYML said: But you are likely to become kinder, which is good too.Depends, if you watch moe anime all day I doubt your IQ would go up. Maria_Sama said: It was the opposite for me.Anime makes you more antisocial. katsucats said: It's probably too late to make a discussion on this topic, but a lot of anime villains fall into the same cognitive trap - they think something up, and don't discuss it with others. One person can make the final decision, but if he were to do all the thinking as well, it is bound to end badly.Watching anime makes you dumber, at least as long as you don't realize that all the views presented in anime are straw men of issues that are vastly more complicated in real life, and that you could probably count the number of philosophical archetypes in anime on 1 hand. Today I just finished the Devil Survivor anime, and at the end of it Hibiki says in the narrative some hypocritical shit like "we should let everyone contribute their will for the future of mankind instead of letting one person bear all the responsibility" -- you know, the kind of vacuous bullshit some kid might use to excuse himself from having to take responsibility... (It's hypocritical because by making this decision, Hibiki is forcing his idea of the future upon mankind because he was in the power to do so, regardless of what he thinks is right. Another high-five to our villain for being more consistent!) |
| I guess it can make you more knowledgeable about facts, but there are also downsides for those who usually study. I don't study though... |
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| This is the best thread of MAL. OT: Utsu Mutsume Sayuri killed some of my braincells and Nisemonogatari return my faith in humankind, but I don't think that watching animu would made you intelligent. |
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| Depends what genres you're going after. Ecchi series are not going to teach you much or make you very insightful, that's for sure. |
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| both :P if i had to choose,though, insightful would be more of the logical choice. |
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| Some anime have themes that can be useful in life. (Of course not ALL though; you'll never get a harem in real life and eating a lot of food at a time is bad for your health) I thought the thread was talking about people who think they're smarter than anyone else for watching anime. My bad for being stupid. |
shawnofthedeadzDec 15, 2015 4:18 PM
Burger-Meister said: Some anime have themes that can be useful in life. (Of course not ALL though; you'll never get a harem in real life and eating a lot of food at a time is bad for your health) I thought the thread was talking about people who think they're smarter than anyone else for watching anime. My bad for being stupid. All stories deal with themes that are relevant to life. If they aren't, then they're pointless and we can't relate to them. Mod Edit: Modified quote of edited post. |
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| Short answer, anime doesn't affect intelligence. (Though I think people of lesser emotional intelligence seem to be drawn towards anime, or perhaps specific kinds of anime. SHOTS FIRED) Long answer, Insight != intelligence. Anime might make you more insightful. Not insightful like, "omg everything doesn't matter", but it gives you insight the way stories in general give you insight. Exposing yourself to different worldviews makes you a more well-rounded person. Consuming stories is a way to intake a part of the author's worldview. You gain exposure to different kinds of people (characters), situations, and philosophies. I guess the caveat here is that you need a critical mind -- to be able to judge whether you like specific qualities, and more importantly, why you like those qualities. You need to be able to entertain ideas without accepting them. I think this process makes you more insightful. Anime falls in the same boat as literature and film, even if it is of vastly lower quality (on average). |
| It makes you more aware of how life is not so black and white. There are many anime which have moral dilemmas that illustrate this. Good and evil (moral relativism), utilitarianism, and artificial intelligence are some of the issues that characters in anime deal with. These and many more are taught in philosophy in more depth ofc These issues are much less apparent the more light-hearted an anime is. Or if they have ridiculous fan service. Slice of life and Harem anime come to mind. |
DaBackpack said: Short answer, anime doesn't affect intelligence. (Though I think people of lesser emotional intelligence seem to be drawn towards anime, or perhaps specific kinds of anime. SHOTS FIRED) Long answer, Insight != intelligence. Anime might make you more insightful. Not insightful like, "omg everything doesn't matter", but it gives you insight the way stories in general give you insight. Exposing yourself to different worldviews makes you a more well-rounded person. Consuming stories is a way to intake a part of the author's worldview. You gain exposure to different kinds of people (characters), situations, and philosophies. I guess the caveat here is that you need a critical mind -- to be able to judge whether you like specific qualities, and more importantly, why you like those qualities. You need to be able to entertain ideas without accepting them. I think this process makes you more insightful. Anime falls in the same boat as literature and film, even if it is of vastly lower quality (on average). I want to overtie to your second and third passage by saying that you're exposing to a whole new culture, which means you're broadening your horizons, thus you'll have a different perspective for said culture. In a way, the anime medium can serve and is serving, perhaps, as a proxy to exposing yourself to their culture. I think the same may apply to a whole plethora of things, excluding drugs, drugs are bad, don't do drugs; traveling, exploring a new genre, a new medium and etc can serve to widen your knowledge, thus gaining new experience and possibly increasing your intelligence quotient(?). |
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| 3 years after this thread was made, I now see the error of my way.... YES! Anime makes you a smart motherfucker....I've literally become smarter these last three years thanks to anime. Combine that with being a MAL poster I'm looking down at the rest of you dirty plebs. |
Burger-Meister said: I thought the thread was talking about people who think they're smarter than anyone else for watching anime. Well, MAL indicates very clearly that one doesn't need to be very smart to watch anime. It might give you more emotional intelligence or something, but it definitely doesn't guarantee a high starting point. |
| No. The anime you watch depends on your intelligence, however. :D |
DaBackpack said: Short answer, anime doesn't affect intelligence. (Though I think people of lesser emotional intelligence seem to be drawn towards anime, or perhaps specific kinds of anime. SHOTS FIRED) Long answer, Insight != intelligence. Anime might make you more insightful. Not insightful like, "omg everything doesn't matter", but it gives you insight the way stories in general give you insight. Exposing yourself to different worldviews makes you a more well-rounded person. Consuming stories is a way to intake a part of the author's worldview. You gain exposure to different kinds of people (characters), situations, and philosophies. I guess the caveat here is that you need a critical mind -- to be able to judge whether you like specific qualities, and more importantly, why you like those qualities. You need to be able to entertain ideas without accepting them. I think this process makes you more insightful. Anime falls in the same boat as literature and film, even if it is of vastly lower quality (on average). I doubt anime's quality is lower on average than literature and film. I've read some horrendous books, some of them considered classics. No medium is pure. |
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TheBrainintheJar said: DaBackpack said: Short answer, anime doesn't affect intelligence. (Though I think people of lesser emotional intelligence seem to be drawn towards anime, or perhaps specific kinds of anime. SHOTS FIRED) Long answer, Insight != intelligence. Anime might make you more insightful. Not insightful like, "omg everything doesn't matter", but it gives you insight the way stories in general give you insight. Exposing yourself to different worldviews makes you a more well-rounded person. Consuming stories is a way to intake a part of the author's worldview. You gain exposure to different kinds of people (characters), situations, and philosophies. I guess the caveat here is that you need a critical mind -- to be able to judge whether you like specific qualities, and more importantly, why you like those qualities. You need to be able to entertain ideas without accepting them. I think this process makes you more insightful. Anime falls in the same boat as literature and film, even if it is of vastly lower quality (on average). I doubt anime's quality is lower on average than literature and film. I've read some horrendous books, some of them considered classics. No medium is pure. I literally don't watch any T.V. anymore because I think anime has better quality than most shows. I only watch a show or two on netflix. And I only watch movies which I pretty much know I will like. IMO anime is the best medium next to books and may even surpass it in some areas like story-telling and animation. |
| I would say no for the same reason that reading Nietzsche does not necessarily make you smarter than anyone else. It's what you do with what you watch/read that matters. Always think about what you consume and make connections between other works and ideas. That is what will help you grow as an intellectual. |
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TheBrainintheJar said: All discussions of the average quality of literature are mundane and vapid beyond all comprehension. However, the presence of even one of the greatest minds of literature brings the quality of the entire compendium to such a height that no other medium can compare.I doubt anime's quality is lower on average than literature and film. I've read some horrendous books, some of them considered classics. No medium is pure. |
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| Anime doesn't make someone intelligent, obviously, but it is more than capable of teaching people new things or expanding on their previous knowledge. If your intelligence diminishes while watching anime, that's your own fault for what anime you watch and your approach to viewing it mindlessly. |
| Anime has taught me some things, but it doesn't make me more intelligent. |
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| Anything in this world that gives you more insight about different cultures or a different way of thinking makes you more insightful, creative and open-minded. Though it depends what anime you watch lol High School of The Dead ain't gonna help Mod Edit: Removed baiting. |
shawnofthedeadzDec 15, 2015 4:23 PM
Shirayukishi said: It's said it would be quite enlightening to Japanese, with stuff like "we can drive without a license!".Though it depends what anime you watch lol High School of The Dead ain't gonna help Mod Edit: Modified quote of edited post. |
shawnofthedeadzDec 15, 2015 4:23 PM
| I don't know, man. At one hand I got better at criticizing any form of medium and on the other hand I don't follow the news and stuff. Both changes occurred after I start watching anime. |
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Moneta said: TheBrainintheJar said: All discussions of the average quality of literature are mundane and vapid beyond all comprehension. However, the presence of even one of the greatest minds of literature brings the quality of the entire compendium to such a height that no other medium can compare.I doubt anime's quality is lower on average than literature and film. I've read some horrendous books, some of them considered classics. No medium is pure. Disagree. I worship Raymond Carver or Steinbeck or Palahniuk but Digimon Tamers and Medabots got just as much depth. Besides, what Future Diary, WataMote and NGE do is vastly different than what literature those. The fact it's animated opens up a whole new range of possibilities. |
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TheBrainintheJar said: None of those names are particularly great names by any stretch of the imagination.Disagree. I worship Raymond Carver or Steinbeck or Palahniuk but Digimon Tamers and Medabots got just as much depth. Besides, what Future Diary, WataMote and NGE do is vastly different than what literature those. The fact it's animated opens up a whole new range of possibilities. Opening new possibilities is not a compelling argument; it merely echoes the idea that anime can be fresh and exciting. Original concepts come and go but that is by and large one of the most overrated and poor indicators of true greatness. |
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