Connection between Anime and building good morals/values?

jbx10afreedom · 2010-08-28T00:51:58+00:00

Hi I personally believe that there is a connection between anime and building good morals/values/beliefs. I was curious if anyone else believed the same. I don't watch television much but several times a week I flip through the channels and I rarely see anything that is educational or makes me think. I know there are exceptions but not many I know of such as The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, PBS, etc etc. Has TV truly moved from providing content that makes people think and question things as well as develop good morals/beliefs/values. Since I discovered anime a few years back I have been both entertained and intellectually challenged at the same time. I grew up watching shows like GI-Joe, Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Voltron, He-Man, She-Ra, BraveStarr, and many other influential 90's shows and I believe they helped me to develop the morals/values/beliefs I possess today. Each show had something in it's episodes that was beneficial to me and helped me progress as a person. Those values have been built on from the many different anime I have seen. I think this is a tragedy especially considering how the average parent(s) let the television babysit their children and then the children grow up and the parents wonder where they went wrong. A few anime I have noticed that I believe would be beneficial to children/teens are DragonBall/Z/GT, Most Gundam series, Naruto, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, Prince of Tennis(any sports related anime may inspire them to get involved in it), and Sailor Moon. I could list more but it would require more research. However, all anime is not for children and there are some that I would stay away from until the child has grown or unless a parent watches with them and explains things. I remember an article I read about a boy who convinced his friends to bury his head in a 1-foot deep sandbox because he wanted to imitate a jutsu he had seen on Naruto and died by suffocation.

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Takerial Lovable Teddy Bear

14 years ago

What makes me think you still care?

Because you launch into paragraphs trying to explain to me how you don't care.

And anime isn't something you're letting stay as a hobby for you.

It's painfully obvious as you have let the idea of Japan seep into you from it and you were actively thinking of movie there because of it.

Allowing life changing events =/= hobby.

Chlor

14 years ago

jbx10afreedom wrote...

There is a gigantic difference between the kind of programming we had in the 90's compared to now and it's clearly taken a turn for the worst. Cartoons such as Spongebob Squarepants, Kim Possible, and others are rotting the minds of children. They have also taken programs from the 90's and turned them into a mockery of what they were. Don't get me started on what Disney has done to Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turltes, just dont.

Of course there is a difference, the world is a constantly changing place - including cartoons. And I must point out that Kim Possible is probably the worst example you could have come up with, it's such a cliché, moral-filled series that it's revolting to watch. Spongebob Squarepants is a better example, it doesn't really contain any real "teaching" of values but neither is it "rotting the mind" of children, it's a simple-minded slapstick humor show, damn, even I find it amusing from time to time.

And about what they've done to series such as TMNT and Power Ranger, and Transformers, Batman, Spiderman... Scooby-Doo... Pretty much every good show out there: They've changed them, and this is just you raging over some nostalgic childhood-memories that you have from these series. I don't like the changes either, but that's because it's like loosing a part of my childhood when they do. You should probably watch more than one episode of the new versions of the show before you judge them. The shows have changed a lot, I agree, and I too think that the plots are rubbish the new artwork ruins the mood and so on, but the "moral values" in the series are pretty much the same.

jbx10afreedom wrote...

Also, I am no weaboo. Understand the definition of that word first and if you like I'll gladly have a forum fight with you about it. There are so many different interpretations of what that word means anyway

Alright, lets first find the source of the word "Weeaboo"

Spoiler:

There we go, the original meaning of the word is pretty unknown, and is probably just a made up word for this comic-strip.

BUT

The word didn't really spread until the Chan crew decided to put in a word-filter changing the ever-so-popular term "Wapanese" to "Weeaboo" on the BBS.

We go to the "Google Insight" chart for search-terms.

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=weeaboo&cmpt=q

This shows up, now note that there was no searches on the word "Weeaboo" until June 2005, around the time that Ch implemented the word-filter on their site.

Thus: Weeaboo = Wapanese, which sums up to people like you.

Edit: And not only are you double-posting, but triple-posting, there's an "edit" button if you need it, and there is absolutely no need to reply to everyone in different posts, just use quotes to specify who as you have done but keep them in one post.

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