Blogpost 4: Anime Addiction: Its causes and effects to students

 

Nowadays, anime addiction is very rampant especially among students. There are many factors that urge students to watch anime that leads to addiction. Anime itself serves as a great factor that let the students to watch, because anime became the latest trend for all teenagers and having a good storyline that makes the students hook up. Another one is due to cool animation, which has a vibrant color that tickles their eyes every time they watched a single episode. Next is peer pressure, which influences a person to watch anime, when your group are expose to anime it will surely influences you. Last is boredom buster. As an expert say,"Boredom is not the lack of sensory stimulation: It is just a lack of imagination or creative thinking, so students tend to watch anime more  often and surf the internet to read online manga.

Students who are too much expose to anime become addicted, however being addicted to it may cause good and bad effects to them and for the people around them. Let's first talk with the good effects anime addiction may cause. I've read some articles about the effects of anime addiction to that otaku and to the people around him/her. Below are some of the articles I read and my opinion about it:

Lawrence Eng, a researcher with a Ph.D. in Science and Technological Studies from Ressealaer Polytechnic Institute, studied the effects of anime fandom on IT students. He found that one great benefit that anime has on students was to increases social interaction. He studied his IT students, and figure that they generally been victims of a stereotype that casts them as antisocial and unapproachable. When the IT students become anime fans, they're immediately accepted by all of the other students who like anime, as well as a community of fans on internet.

  Based on these article , students learn to reach to others and make friends to those  who share the same passion with them, like joining cosplay or going to some anime convention. Being with people who have the same likes or hobby you have is much more easier to communicate with.

Some students with a propensity for behavioral problems get ideas from anime. The anime "Death Note", which features a notebook in which the protagonist can write down the name of someone he wants to die as well as the method of that person's death and actually kill the person, hascaused a number of problems in American schools. In Oklahoma in 2009, two students wrote the names of other students they didn't like in a "death note" they made, along with how they'd like those students to die. Similar incidents occured in Virginia, South California, Washington and Alabama in 2007 and 2008.

In these article, it is said that anime addiction can affect their potential behavior problems, which cause them to do or follow what they've watched that they think will actually happen if they do it. I see it like kind of scary, cause I didn't think that this things can affect the mind of a person. Maybe this happening caused them so much addiction to that kind of anime.

Many students interested in anime pursue an interest in art. These students are often interested in designing their own anime characters and creating their own manga (Japanese-style comic books). While some art teachers may be frustrated with these students' desire to draw only in the large-eyed, cartoonish anime style, an increased interest in are is an opportunity to introduce these students to other types of art. Teachers can explain that even anime artists must be able to draw lifelike drawings to be able to convey movement and poses realistically.
In these article, it's all about the effect of anime to students on having an interest in art because of addciction to anime. They enhanced their drawing skills and imagination.

Perhaps the most educational benefit of students' interest in anime is the frequent interestin Japanese language and culture that these students develop as a result. Many Americans who spend time abroad in Japan or who pursue careers in Japan can point to a love of anime as the original impetus. 
In these article, it implies on how the student haves interest in Japanese language and culture. Because of so much love to anime, they want to learn Japanese language, and sometimes apply to their daily life a Japanese live.

 Too much exposure to anime can cause a postivie and negative effects to its viewer. Let's first talk about the positive effect. The positive effects of anime addiction, is it gives happiness to students which satisfy them and instead of engaging into drugs they spend their time on watching anime. Aside from the entertainment perspective, students learn to reach to others and make friends who share with same passion through joining cosplay or anime conventions. Through watching anime, they enhance their drawing skills by drawing their favorite anime character, and through this their imagination widens. Though most of animes are in Japanese language, we have English sub or dub which allows us to understand what is it all about.

Were finish talking about the positive effects of anime addiction, now let's tackle the negative effects. Students are expose to sexual activity through watching sex type of anime or commonly called Hentai, as you go back to my blog post three you'll see what the hentai means. Watching  that kind of anime can also affect the students behavior.

Students starts to be getting to much influence by every kind of fashion. They lose the sense of reality, since they're expose to the world of anime and sometimes students shows a very childish attitude toward life. To prevent anime addiction, must develop self-discipline or self-control. Students must set limitation and know their top priorities. Proper parental guidance is a must to prevent anime addiction. Parents can help their child through guiding them, academic interests must be taught to students so that they would not focus on watching anime.