Anime isn’t corrupting children here’s why

Hey guys what is up welcome back to my blog I’m so thankful that you guys took the time out of your day to read my blog post. Hope you all are safe from the COVID-19. Alright I agree I may have been trigerred by a few people so I am writing this post but please bear with me like you guys always do.

So quarantine life means lots of time and that means I can binge watch anime without any problems so I started binging and catching up on series but one day my mother walk in sees me watching Attack on Titan and tells me that I shouldn’t watch it because it promotes violence like really, I mean are you serious. A series that stands as a symbol of hope, determination, loyalty, friendship, dreams and oppression is bad for me. That is the worst thing I’ve ever heard I mean if that’s the case then why aren’t action movies with explosions and dangerous stunts bad? I’m sure that I would definitely be more tempted to try out something from a new action thriller than I would from any anime (but in truth yes I did try to go super saiyan as a kid). My point being that anime in no way promotes violence instead it teaches values far deeper than any other thing I’ve seen.

Another point of mine that makes anime actually better than live action movies and tv series is that in anime the bad guy always loses. Think about the most recent movies you have seen mostly the bad guy is potrayed as cool and looks like he’s living the life and anime does this too no problems there the problem is that in most of the recent movies I’ve seen bad guys win and that is seriously not something I want someone to watch would I after all according to some people it might “corrupt their morals”. Atleast In anime the bad guy always loses in the end even if the story is about him for example take Death Note a widely popular anime about a teen who has a book that can kill people. This teen Light Yagami goes on to kill criminals of the world and go head to head in a mind battle against the world’s most famous detective. I won’t spoil the ending but yeah Light ends up losing in the end showing that his once great mind of a genius had now turned into an arrogant mind of a killer. The constant mind battles and the question of ethics that goes on the series definitely leaves an impact on the audience. The rise and fall of Light also shows how an uncontrolled mind and arrogance is the downfall of any person no matter how good their brain is. The ending shows the audience that morals and ethics need to be the driving factor of a person’s actions and not one’s own personal gains and vendetta’s. Yes Light did start out as a good person trying to kill criminals but he ended up becoming a killer going to head to head with a detective and then his sole purpose became not to cleanse the world but to be a God and beat those who are trying to catch him. Another thing this shows is that no man can become God. Because God is well God and no man can play God.

Now to the point will showing the violence affect the kids? My answer hell no I grew up watching Dragon Ball and to be honest I liked the fights but it didn’t mean I went around trying to smash people’s heads in instead there were qualities of kindness and selflessness that can be picked up from the show. The thing I’m trying to say is that something that has violence in it doesn’t make it inherently wrong we all have a mind of our own that can differentiate from right and wrong. So Anime isn’t corrupting children instead it helps children and people in general relax and pick up good qualities. If we can idolize the right people we will never stray from doing the right thing. So next time you see a person saying anime is bad just send them to this post maybe I’ll even have a chat with them and try to change their mind.

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