How has anime ruined your life?

[Puck Beaverton]

I was thinking earlier today how me watching anime ruined my life. I started smoking cigarettes because I wanted to be a cool guy like Spike Spiegal. I can't get a girlfriend because anime ruined 2D girls for me and made me socially awkward. Hentai has made real sex foreign. My anime fandom is a curse, a drug I can never get rid of. I am scared to have an anime avatar for fear of outing myself as a weeb. I tried showing friends JoJo and they look at me funny. I get accused of enjoying porn for liking goddamn visual novels. I feel oppressed.

So my question to you is how has anime affected you? I imagine there other victims like myself.

 

[Spruchy]

Can we get some positive answers? Goku inspired a fleet of gym rats.

 

[subpar spatula]

No damage cause I avoid becoming obsessed.

 

[Arc]

By filling EtcEra with anime threads.

 

[chrisPjelly]

Watch Avatar and Voltron. It's like a nicotine patch, but for anime.

 

[Pbae]

Why can't y'all just enjoy anything in moderation?

Y'all need Jesus-san.

 

[Narag]

It hasn't because it's just one hobby of many to me.

 

[Powdered Egg]

Anime made me a criminal. I borrowed entire series' from Blockbuster video and made copies of them all. Dear Lode forgive me!

 

[Poppy]

is this a copypasta

 

[Nepenthe]

Minimal. Got out when the industry started being propped up by creepy nerds with infinite cash flow.

 

[DJ_Lae]

I've escaped relatively unscathed but anime has had a net negative impact on the entire planet.

 

[supremeplatypus]

I'm supremeplatypus, and I'm a weeaboo. Don't become a weaboo, weebism destroys lives.

 

[Cilla]

If you're being legit OP you need help for sure.

Anyway I have watched and continue to watch a lot of anime and it's been positive for me as I've made friends through mutual interests! It's easy to use common sense and know it's not real though so there's been no negative impacts.

 

[rpm]

damaged

 

[Servbot24]

No but when I look back on my life I can see an alternate timeline in which it does

Today I like anime very casually which I am a-ok with

 

[andymcc]

Minimal. Got out when the industry started being propped up by creepy nerds with infinite cash flow.

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The 1980s?

 

[MikeHattsu]

Y'all need Jesus-san.

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[Deleted member 2802]

Watch Avatar and Voltron. It's like a nicotine patch, but for anime.

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What is naloxone in this analogy?

 

[teruterubozu]

I'm getting better, while anime is getting worse.

 

[Skyebaron]

It fucked me up. I need to read Mama Tama just to get it up.

 

[Deleted member 2840]

damag-

damaged

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FUCK

 

[Roven]

Does hentai count as anime 🤔

 

[Hektor]

I'm 100% trash beyond help.

It's like coke, but worse.

 

[cbajd5]

i can't stop listening to this, my life has been irreversibly damaged

 

[Aftervirtue]

I'm back on the straight and narrow.... but I wore stuff like this back in the late 90's early 2000's:

:(

 

[subpar spatula]

What is naloxone in this analogy?

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Studio Ghibli

 

[Jadusable]

I lost my job, my home, my wife, and my financial stability to Naruto Shippuden

 

[El Bombastico]

I got out over a decade ago before it got creepy (well, creepier than it used to be) so I'm good.

 

[Hey Please]

 

[Nepenthe]

The 1980s?

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Didn't seem that bad then. I'm a Toonami kid who got a wake-up call when the Internet became more ubiquitous.

 

[Deleted member 12224]

I'm back on the straight and narrow.... but I worse stuff like this back in the late 90's early 2000's:

:(

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These are back on sale at Forever 21.

My tasteful pink Frieza Primitive tee could use a flashy partner in my closet.

 

[BWoog]

It introduced me to Berserk which will never have a definitive ending.

 

[hey it's that dog]

I am not an anime consumer myself but I do feel that, because I spend so much time on the internet, I have suffered minor harm from second-hand anime.

 

[Saifu]

Umm socially awkward??

 

[Deleted member 30544]

No damage because i don't watch Anime.

 

[ProstatePuncher]

Anime is baby shit. Try tokusatsu. At least that gives you morals as it bankrupts you for importing all the toys.

 

[subpar spatula]

I sometimes go to conventions and there's an anime section of giant waifu pillows. It's how I know what shows and movies to avoid.

 

[The Silver]

Anime poisoned my water supply, burned my crops, and delivered a plague unto my house.

 

[Driggonny]

I don't really watch anime, but I discovered hentai when I was like 10 and I think it might've screwed me up a little :,D

 

[Shiny Pokemon Hunter]

It made me somewhat depressed in middle school because life was so udderly boring compared to the adventures that anime characters go on.

 

[y2kyle89]

I just want ORAORAORAMUDAMUDAMUDA in fights all the time.

I used to love something once.

Life.

 

[Soul Skater]

I can imagine it's done damage to those with sisters who aren't related by blood

 

[Deleted member 2802]

Does hentai count as anime 🤔

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[Froyo Love]

No damage because i don't watch Anime.

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this is like saying you're unaffected by climate change

it hurts all of us

 

[Kisaya]

It definitely put me out of touch with four years worth of American pop culture.

 

[Burly]

I'll say minimum damage. The extended group of people I hung around with in college had a couple of guys who would wear ninja headbands and do the Naruto run through the hallways. It was a little embarrassing.

 

[Extra Sauce]

A lot of heartache caused by exposure to the few genuinely great works of anime out there within a short timespan, followed by years and years of chasing that dragon only to realize much too late that the dragon doesn't really exist.

 

[Geg]

I was already socially awkward before I started watching lots of anime so nah

 

[y2kyle89]

A lot of heartache caused by exposure to the few genuinely great works of anime within a short timespan, followed by years and years of chasing that dragon only to realize much too late that the dragon doesn't exist.

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This is depressingly accurate ;_;

 

[subpar spatula]

I think I reached peak anime when I was a kid watching DBZ and my cousin said, "why is it singing 'drag my balls'"?