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Han Solo
 Posts: 57 Location: Great Britain |
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I was just wondering if any particular anime show or character changed you or your life? I'm asking because I've realised how much of an impact anime has had on me.
Death Note changed me by making me want to study loads more and I began to truly appreciate that knowledge/wisdom is power. I was going through a rough patch in school from Year 10 going into Year 11 (Year is equivilant to "Grade"). I finally realised I didn't have anything to look forward to after I finished school because I never did well, had bad grades and I wasn't a very smart student, in fact looking back on my grades I was useless. Then I saw Death Note, Light, L and Mikami amazed me by how smart they were. I wanted to be like them. Mikami who I relate too more than most of the characters (since I got bullied alot in school) in DN was someone who I wanted to be like I wanted (and still do) want to get a career in Law. But it was seeing how well Light was doing which got me working hard. So I studied hard, so so hard to get the grades. This craving to do well in education has worked out very well, and I never thought that I, of all people would be in university.I was an terrible under achiever at school, until I saw Death Note. Now looking at my old reports, yeah alot teachers really gave me no hope. Sorry for any grammer errors and stuff, I'm really tired and I hardly have any chances to post here. Last edited by Han Solo on Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:11 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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EmbraceMe
 Posts: 2021 Location: Growing old and jaded. |
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Well, I think many people are going to say Welcome To The NHK has changed their outlook on life. It did for me because I could relate to most of Sato's problems. I didn't really care about how my life was, but after watching it, my views changed a bit. I didn't care about how my life (being socially reclusive and stuff) but Welcome To The NHK made me think about how my life was. It made me think about changing my life.
Death Note influenced me to think about the law and government. It has made me come up with several philosophies. The works of Makoto Shinkai ( Voices Of A Distant Star, The Place Promised In Our Early Days, and 5 CM Per Second) has also gave me insight about relationships, bonds and connections. It has also changed my views of life and people around me. |
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kaiser11492
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Definitely Lelouch vi Britannia from Code Geass. Lelouch took action in order to create a better world where people would be able to move forward into the future. Like Lelouch, my strengths are intellect and strategy. I also believe the world will always improve as we move forward and progress. I was also about the same age and not very strong physically. He was an embodiment of true, effective leadership and I respect that greatly.
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gsilver
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Mind Game
Probably the most uplifting and strongest "take charge of your own like" message of any anime I've seen. When I watched it, a "life changing experience" was literally the first thing to come to mind. It's mostly a matter of perspective, IMO. |
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Thorn of Camorr
 Posts: 36 Location: Texas |
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Ya know, as corny as this is going to sound for me it would have to be Kenshin Himura (or Himura Kenshin if you prefer) of Rurouni Kenshin. I discovered the show when it first aired on Toonami back in the earlier 2000's I believe it was? I was (and still am) very big into samurai culture and to this day plan to teach Japanese History at the college level when I complete my Master's.
Though it wasn't Kenshin that made me come to this conclusion (it was something deeper) he was the one that taught me that just because you're a pacifist, it doesn't make you weak, it doesn't make you a coward; in fact it can make you very strong. That message spoke to me and it made me want to emulate him, I also found his way of saying "That it is" or "That I am" was pretty cool, and the tranquil fury he exhibited when angry or when standing up for people is really how I tend to act when upset. He was just a character that I saw a lot of myself in and I loved the series. I choose to believe that the third season does not exist, but I own the first two seasons and the Samurai X OVAs as well. |
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zawa113
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I have what I call "the three most influential series on me".
The first is Outlaw Star, that's the show that got me into anime so its reasons for being on the list should be obvious. But it also got me into watching anime on TV and fondly staying up until 1 in the morning (late for me to stay up to back in middle school but it's clearly almost 4am now, hehe) so it also makes me want to watch anime when it's dark outside just out of habit. Robotech is the next one chronologically, it more or less made me think that old stuff could be awesome and it increased my consumption of plenty of older forms of media, anime, books, movies, TV, whatever. I might've avoided them had Robotech not wowed me so much! Princess Tutu is the last one chronologically, but perhaps the most important. I'm not exactly a girly girl, no one who knows me would ever even think I was, but I used to be far more against all things pink and fashion (ok, so I still am, I don't understand the color pink, red is such a cool color and then you add white to it and it's just ruined!) but Princess Tutu made me more comfortable embracing more feminine things when I so choose to without feeling I need to be embarrassed about it. Also encouraged me to try out some more girly sounding anime and manga and sure, I think some of them were terrible, but some of them were damn good! So it didn't make me a girly girl, nothing will, but now I feel allowed to still like some things that are. Kinda odd that a deconstruction of the magical girl genre that I wouldn't call a super girly series except in name would have this effect, but whatever works! |
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ThePoliced
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Saber Marionette J, first time i'd ever seen a show(on tv) with mature romantic themes.
and NGE, i've never been so drawn to a show before(on tv), the themes, the characters, the plot, the sick twisted relationships... all aspects of anime(that matter, mind u, incest and shit shud die) and some of life into one. Really a milestone for animation in general. |
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Kruszer
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All I needed to know I learned from Star Trek actually.
Anime didn't have much new or life changing to ofter after that. Last edited by Kruszer on Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:32 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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gsilver
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I was tempted to say that everything I needed to learn about life, I learned from Calvin and Hobbes, but Star Trek works almost as well. |
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xXDarkkRignHardtXx
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Ichigo Kurosaki Taught me to be as awesome as you can be and defend people from the bottom of your heart. And Suzuka, I just dunno why...
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xXDarkkRignHardtXx
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DuskyPredator
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Zero no Tsukaima changed my view on being able to enjoy entertainment in another language and thus relly on subtitles. Before that I only watched stuff in English and would not watch things that were in a different language on tv or such, but now I really don't mind. I became more open.
Kanon 2006 is another, before that the idea of watching something that had the themes of drama, psychological and romance felt like something that would never watch. Maybe I was a bit too macho about stuff, but this series I would say taught me that it was ok to open my heart and a largely romance story can be a good watch. Kamina from Gurren Lagann has a place, I scoffed at the idea I could find much of a motivator out of it, but it really stuck in me afterwards. Now when I feel down, or a task feels too big I just remember or say a few lines and my motivation goes right up, so simple but rather amazing. And Chobits, it was kind of hard to remember but it did change me a bit, I think once I watched it my view of love changed. The series may not look like it, but it is a really thought stimulating show, I did see how people can waste away, but even if a love might seem strange to you, dosn't mean there is something wrong. Afterwards I changed my idea completly about possible romance between a human and a robot. |
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John Casey
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Gantz inspired me to become a clinical psychologist.
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Han Solo
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Yes, it should be mandatory for everyone to watch ST. And life imprisonment for anyone who hasn't watched the genesis triology. I understand why I ended getting 2 people saying Star Trek in the discussion, no TV show can pull off what ST did in terms of teaching people values and morals. I can't go without mentioning Akira and Devilman. The two things that got me sucked into anime. I was really not willing to write about them but I gotta give them some credit they basically got me into anime. At the same time I was exposed to them when I was really young (I watched Devilman when I was like 10) so it desensitised me. Infact I think I suffer from some sort of post trauma, because I'm 19 now and I still have nightmares about being chased by Sirene and living in some demon infested post apocalyptic planet. Devilman still remains one of my all time favourite anime, and one of my favourite Superheroes. Introducing Akira to people really did kinda help me at school harden friendships with people. In fact me and one of my bullies managed to get along when we both found out we're into anime in general. |
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