Why are there so few anime with life-changing philosophy or profound insight? I would only put Evangelion, Monogatari, and one HxH arc in this category, and that list becomes just Evangelion if you ignore book/manga adaptations.

>>280048691 (OP)
Because anime is for children, how can you find some deeper insight if everything is being spoonfed to you

its only life changing is you relate with the work, i can relate with fucking watamote and say i changed my life for better. stupid op

>>280048691 (OP)
Watch more anime.

>>280048691 (OP)
Seems like OP has watched 3 anime so far, keep going.

>>280048691 (OP)
You are asking a lot of cartoons, even cartoons from Japan. Go read a book.

>life-changing philosophy or profound insight

"life changing" is highly subjective but i'll take some anime insights, whatcha got?

>>280048691 (OP)
life-changing in what aspect though?

>>280048971
as soon as you watch evangelion you instantly get drafted into a 3 decade long waifu war that didn't end even when the creator tried to force the blandest genki girl in existence as the winner

Anime is lackluster in this regard. Maybe try some of the following big brane/deep anime.

monster
legend of the galactic heroes
shoujo kakumei utena
welcome to the nhk

>>280048691 (OP)
>Monogatari
Really now. Sounds like these are highly individual like >>280048819 says, then. Stuff that doesn't resonate with you might've hit the spot with someone else.

>>280049409
Kek, accurate.

>>280048691 (OP)
>Berserk
>Gantz
>Fate:Zero
>Legends of the galactic heroes
>Akira
>Cyberpunk edgerunners
>Psycho Pass
It's not uncommon wdym?

>>280049424
legend of the galactic heros is kino whats a good platform to watch it on?

>>280049608
You can stream it on Hidive I think. They did their own sub for it too. If you don't wanna pay for that just use nyaa, the old yellow text fansub is pretty good if not better than theirs

>>280049608
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>>280049573
Berserk is only life changing if you read it while you're young and not jaded enough to actually feel upset when the eclipse happens, otherwise you turn into a "Griffith did nothing wrong" memer

>>280048691 (OP)
life-changing is such a meme...like, your entire life changes because you watched -that- movie? lol.

>>280048691 (OP)
k-on turned me into an unironic national socialist

>>280050062
sorry to hear about your brain damage

I don’t watch a lot of anime, but I would say Azumanga Daioh was far more “life changing” and “profound” than Evangelion— but then again I have autism so

I think the idea that media has to have “life changing philosophy” or “insight” is something of a meme that people repeat without thinking about what it actually means. What does that even mean to have insight or for a work to be deep or profound? I think the idea is that it’s supposed to be like reading, idk, Tolstoy or where it shows something important about human interactions and life in general. But if that’s the case, then something like Azumanga that depicts genuine friendship between realistic if one dimensional characters is more “profound” and “insightful” than obliquely referencing Schopenhauer and Freud

>>280048691 (OP)
>Monogatari
Kind of sticks out there. I've casually watched it a couple of times with people when they marathon it(so I have a lot of gaps from missing a few episodes since I could never pause).
Not saying you're wrong, just curious if you or someone else wants to elaborate on why.
I like it, but I didn't get that sort of impression from it. But like I said, I haven't given it the attention it deserves. So I'm curious what I'm missing.

>>280049871
A true fan would watch it on an OS/2 1992 era computer running a 486. On a CRT naturally.

>>280050516
I can’t imagine Monogatari being life changing philosophy wise unless you’re a teenager. And it’s one of my favorite series

>>280050564
There are quite a few anime that I watch now, and while I enjoy them, I can't help but think that teenage me would have enjoyed them a lot more.
Otoh, there's a lot of more chill stuff that I really enjoy now that I probably would have instantly dropped back then. So it balances out a bit.

>>280050665
Same. Honestly my biggest taste change was not even in manga, but books. I rarely ever pick up YA books or novels these days, it really has to be the best of the best; which is funny, because I still enjoy all my shonen (although I’m way less likely to join in on battle board/shonen tard arguments, though that sadly makes up the majority of many action shonen threads).

>>280048784
don't sneer, only children are capable of change in the first place. Growing older is just slow descent into numbness

gabriel dropout is the greatest anime ever made

>>280048691 (OP)
"life-changing" is hyperbolic language. I would say, depending on your life circumstances you relate on a subjective level to an art piece.
For me, I related deeply with Eva, and its themes resonated with a 16 year old me substantially, so much so I revisit it every few years. Most anime are no where near as resonant though. Its a shallow medium, especially in the past 30 years since Eva concluded its original run. Its more about perpetuating tropes/archetypes and bringing in merchandise/pachinko money than being an art...and desu the Japanese as a whole kinda have shit taste. They LOVE the rebuild films, for instance.

dragon ball
everything is just extra steps to end up with dragon ball

>>280048691 (OP)
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>>280048691 (OP)
Fiction can ""change"" your life only when you're under the age of like 13. It exists to entertain.

>>280048691 (OP)

>>280054782
Kek

>>280057065
Yup

The Web Novel of Mushoku Tensei was the turning point for me.
I was unironically living the NEET life. After losing all my friends, I was too afraid to leave my home, didn't see a point in obtaining a job, and my family fucking hated me for it.
I got lost in reading WN/LN to ignore the world around me. Binged what was available of MT at the time and cried like a bitch when Roxy got Ruddy out of the house.
I slowly made efforts to help my family, I started leaving the house to run errands for my parents, and eventually landed my first job.

Kensuke btw

>>280050516
>>280050564
Not him but I feel like Monogatari is a very strong fictional study on empathy and dealing with imperfect relationships between people. I wouldn't describe it as life changing, but there are certainly a few good things you can take out of it.

That being said, Kagenui is the best girl and the rest don't come even close.

>>280059189
Why was he at a nigger sucking contest to begin with?

>>280059159
Did it also inspire you to become a pedo?

Evangelion is life changing in the sense that if you watch it fresh without much else in the way of chronological anime knowledge, it hits hard. Once you learn and recognize how much of it is just Anno projecting his severe depression onto the shows and inspirations he hyper-fixated on, it's still interesting from a different vantage point but the impact is lessened. Mari being a character designed to be an interloper to disrupt the cycle and save Shinji can be seen as lazy, but I find it kind of perfect. All he needed was a qt gf to break the spell and grow up.

Seconding >>280048940 Kaiji is the shit.

>>280060288
...yes

Sailor Moon made me change my whole drawing style toward anime as a kid.

>>280059159
That's cool. Stay strong Anon!

>>280061012
That is the best defense of the rebuilds & Mari that can be crafted. My problem is Mari isn't even a character... she is just symbolism for "change" and as Anno said she is their to "disrupt" Eva. She has 2 minutes at most interaction with Shinji throughout the tetralogy, and if we are to believe they end up together, they need to spend more time together for the audience to feasibly root for them. This was a problem with the rebuilds as a whole because Anno introduced more characters than the original NGE/EoE had, with less time to explore them across 4 films than a 26 ep series and final movie.

>>280062245
Maybe

>>280060288
Why are you mad