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[Zakatak]

LMAO, this is great.



If you think I'm making fun of anime or people who watch it, don't tell me I am, because I KNOW I am.

Edited by Zakatak, 18 February 2012 - 11:38 PM.

[Exo Terminus]

wha..... what did i just witness?

[Zakatak]

A little kid going Super Saiyan 5

[Pinkelton]

How is "All I've ever wanted to be in Life is a Super Saiyan," not a t-shirt yet?

[FACEman Peck]

Anime turns your brain to mush. Nuff said.

[name51875]

Mental instability, just like one person in my university, he think himself as an Ultraman.

[Polymorphyne]

Congratulations kid. You have now guaranteed you will never have a girlfriend.

Though seriously, he needs some kind of support from a trained proffessional.

[Xake]

You all didn't see him transform ?!?!?!? Oh crap ...

[Polymorphyne]

Does Dragonball Z even have any non-caucasian super saya beans?

[Strum Wealh]

Exo Terminus, on 18 February 2012 - 11:49 PM, said:

wha..... what did i just witness?

It looked to me like some kid espousing the same sort of "mind over matter" and "spiritual energy manipulation" philosophies put forward by faith healers, chakra and fung shui advocates, practitioners of shamanism of various stripes, and other such individuals since time-out-of-memory.

Then he goes into a bit of harmless (and somewhat hilarious) hero worship/emulation - which is also nothing new; the ongoing popularity of the various mythologies and associated figures (Hercules, Achilles, Odysseus, Perseus, and the like being among the most prominent of the older examples from a Western (that is, European and American) standpoint) is proof enough of that.

While not a mental health professional, I wouldn't say that either or both of those - either separately or together - is necessarily indicative of ill mental health, any more than being spiritual or even outright religious are necessarily indicative of ill mental health.
Though, while I could see how already being in ill mental health could, potentially, lead to a predisposition to certain types of beliefs, the effect is not necessarily transitive - "B" could, potentially, lead to "A" but "A" does not necessarily lead to "B".

FACEman Peck, on 19 February 2012 - 01:58 AM, said:

Anime turns your brain to mush. Nuff said.

No more so than Western animation (ex. Looney Tunes, Spongebob Squarepants) or most of the drivel that we call "Reality TV" (ex. Jersey Shore, The Bachelor, America's Next Top Model, and so on)...

As with any other media (novels, comics, cinema, theatre, non-animated television serials, video games, etc), there are "good" and "bad" examples of anime.
As with the other media, it becomes a matter of "separating the wheat from the chaff"... and, as with the other media, there tends to be more "chaff" than "wheat" (depending on one's tastes).

When recommending anime to someone, my personal preferred method is to see what sort of books/films/etc they like, and see if there are series that follow and explore similar themes and/or story-telling styles.
For example, if one likes Neuromancer and/or Blade Runner, then there is a reasonable chance that said individual might also like Ghost in the Shell, Bubblegum Crisis, or Battle Angel Alita (among others).
On the other hand, someone who enjoys "classic Disney" animated films and the more modern, bowdlerized versions of the classic fairy tales might enjoy some of the Studio Ghibli films (examples include Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, and The Secret World of Arrietty).

Your thoughts?

[Exilyth]

As long as he doesn't use that as an excuse to misbehave, I'm ok with it.
There's some really weird s... erm... stuff in some anime.
At least he only believes he's a super-sayayin. Could be worse...

*peers over to the mlp threads in jettisoned comms*