Is anime a productive use of time - /a/ (#280136569) [Archived: 616 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:07:48 AM No.280136569
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:22:01 AM No.280136868
>>280136569 (OP)
compared to what? does it even need to be in the first place?
Replies: >>280137491 >>280150395 >>280160213
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:48:11 AM No.280137491
>>280136868
yes
Replies: >>280138285
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:49:06 AM No.280137513
>>280136569 (OP)
yes
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:54:07 AM No.280137629
>>280136569 (OP)
time isn't real
Replies: >>280139071 >>280143661
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:57:46 AM No.280137713
>>280136569 (OP)

No.

You don't produce anything while watching anime.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 4:07:30 AM No.280137907
>>280137713
I produce the true final goal of any production chains - dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and/or endorphins.
Anime is imo one of the more efficient overall ways to convert your time and money into those.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 4:27:57 AM No.280138285
>>280137491
why
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 4:44:07 AM No.280138592
>>280137907
truth
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:11:57 AM No.280139071
>>280137629
you arent real
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:49:37 AM No.280139749
>>280137907
based
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:50:59 AM No.280139771
>>280136569 (OP)
No but it doesn't need to be.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:52:03 AM No.280139787
>>280137907
trvke
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:53:26 AM No.280139821
>>280137907

Fent can also do that
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 6:18:30 AM No.280140200
>>280138285
So you can die with more plastic than other people
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:20:45 AM No.280141828
>>280136569 (OP)
Depends on what do you want to do with your time
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:23:17 AM No.280141854
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>>280137907
The vast majority of anime are boring.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:27:32 AM No.280141896
>>280136569 (OP)
No, but not to get /pol/ but in the next 50 years everything is either going to go full AI and you'll never have to work again, with the very high risk that the AI possibly kills us all, OR every kind of growth stalls, the fertility rate bites, and barbarian hordes drag us down from our first world level and into the hell that is the normal mode of history. There's no middleground where every upwards and downward trend magically balances. Cherish your unproductivity while you can.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:29:32 AM No.280141930
>>280141896
nah
nothing ever happens
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:31:59 AM No.280141956
>>280136569 (OP)
No
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 9:52:34 AM No.280142766
Objectively speaking, only shonen is worth your time. The rest are equivalent of looking up cat pics for hours.
Replies: >>280142818 >>280159914
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 9:57:59 AM No.280142804
>>280141896
>and you'll never have to work again
Hahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHA
Tell that to artisans and craftsmen in the 18th and 19th centuries
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 9:59:38 AM No.280142818
>>280142766
shounen is not good for relaxing, which realistically is truly the only good use for anime when you're an adult.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 10:00:27 AM No.280142824
>>280142818
Indeed, it's the exact opposite, telling you to grow the fuck up already.
Replies: >>280142849
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 10:02:27 AM No.280142849
>>280142824
The only thing that tells you to grow up is the realization that you can't relate with any of the characters at all and you find all of the conflict retarded.
Replies: >>280142863
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 10:04:10 AM No.280142863
>>280142849
Your post tells me that you're one of those infantile CGDCT retards who can't follow a simple plot meant for little boys aged 8-11, designed to impart some useful principles onto them with exaggerated fights which somehow overload your dysfunctional brain.
Replies: >>280142873 >>280144712 >>280154364
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 10:05:19 AM No.280142873
>>280142863
I don't know how you got that from my post, but it makes sense that you'd have to pull something from your ass to unironically defend shounen lmao.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 10:05:51 AM No.280142879
>>280142873
I don't need to defend shonen when its alternatives defend it just by existing.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 10:07:34 AM No.280142890
>>280142879
Don't worry, you'll understand it when you're older.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 10:08:34 AM No.280142904
>>280142890
Unlike you, who will always be an infantile mouthbreather that somehow got filtered by shonen?
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:24:27 AM No.280143661
>>280137629
you are real
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:46:07 AM No.280143849
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>>280136569 (OP)
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:30:00 PM No.280144254
>>280136569 (OP)
It's not, but it's entrainment. I have some other more creative hobbies but I do those for fun too and don't expect much. Not everything has to be a grind all day every day.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:01:48 PM No.280144531
I wish she'd correct me instead

>question
the games rigged, hard work is futile, the economy is a scam

>>280141896
not gonna happen, fucktard
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:16:47 PM No.280144673
beats posting on /a/
Replies: >>280146064
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:21:12 PM No.280144712
average shonentard
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>>280142863
>simple plot meant for little boys aged 8-11, designed to impart some useful principles onto them with exaggerated fights which somehow overload your dysfunctional brain.
if you watch that autistic shit thinking it's actually good, then i'm afraid then you're already worse than the average moefaggot. most likely you're a retarded manchild, who never watched anything of value or went outside in his entire life if you take "useful principles" from a cartoon filled with saturated colors and adhd visuals.
Replies: >>280144749
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 1:24:18 PM No.280144749
>>280144712
Shonen anime gets flak for having so called "filler" episodes, but moetrannies like you watch 12 episodes of something worse than that filler and have audacity to call shonen bad.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 2:17:19 PM No.280145289
>>280141896
despite the invention of tools, over time the total work hours each person inputs on average is more than our direct ancestors
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:15:58 PM No.280146064
>>280144673
>he says while posting here
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:24:16 PM No.280146183
>>280144749
where did you get that im a moetranny, i even called them faggots. i simply don't like both, but i see that you get quite tardraged over me criticizing your poorly made genre for children. you probably still wear diapers and shit in them.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:29:37 PM No.280146263
>>280146183
It's a common tactic, I'm not new on this site.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:41:03 PM No.280146465
>>280146263
>I'm not new on this site.
woah slow down there larping oldfag, you can even mind read people? you can sense who they really are? woah......
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:57:02 PM No.280146785
poepoe
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>>280136569 (OP)
Better than mine use of time, that's for sure. A new expansion came out for a game I'm playing and I racked up almost 7 days of playtime in 18 days. I didn't even enjoy it.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 4:24:00 PM No.280147343
>>280146785
>new expansion
>game
imagine playing gacha
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 4:36:52 PM No.280147643
>>280146785
>expansion
Try playing complete games
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 4:37:47 PM No.280147666
>>280146064
I'll unpause my episode soon
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 4:45:27 PM No.280147845
>>280146465
Seeing no value in shonen and shitting on it basically proves that you're
>infantile
>balding
>low testosterone
>childless
>pedophile
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 4:56:53 PM No.280148115
I like shonentrash AND moegarbage
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 4:59:13 PM No.280148177
>>280148115
Okay, name top 10 shonen and top 10 moe that you watched in past 20 years.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:01:10 PM No.280148218
I spent half a year doing autistic /g/ stuff to get the ultimate theatre set up and now it feels like a waste not to watch every anime in existence.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:09:13 PM No.280148486
No, but "people" who insist on being productive 24/7/365 go bad at 28 and die at 45 so in a way, yes?
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:10:28 PM No.280148517
>>280148486
No, but "people" who insist on being productive 24/7/365 go bald at 28 and die at 45 so in a way, yes?
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:13:13 PM No.280148636
>>280136569 (OP)
That depends on what your idea of "productive" is. If it means to produce something of material value then probably not, but if watching anime helps you destress, or inspire you creatively then it can aid in your future "productive" endeavors which would make the act of watching anime itself productive.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:26:21 PM No.280149057
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>>280136569 (OP)
It's called "RAPE correction".
Don't ever forget the first half.
Diluting the power of the words is what caused ironic shitposters on leddit to latch onto the meme.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:31:21 PM No.280149212
>>280149057
Rape implies that you're undesirable as a male though.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:49:21 PM No.280149792
>>280149212
It can be used either way.
Some people say "it's not rape if her pupils turn into hearts".
Others say "women frequently fantasize about getting raped by hot guy".
I'm personally in the second camp. Rape is rape, even you possess the Big Fat Ugly Bastard Cock, which makes you the most desirable male in hentaiworld to any female who has tasted it.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:53:27 PM No.280149909
>>280149792
Nope, if she doesn't try to stab you with a knife, you didn't rape her.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:56:11 PM No.280150003
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>>280136569 (OP)
Well basing it from other hobbies, the amount of entertainment and enjoyment gained for me is productive compared to others where fun may not be guaranteed and the costs and barriers of entry are much higher..
It's important to keep balance in work and not burning out working.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 5:58:29 PM No.280150073
>>280150003
Anime is incredibly expensive hobby. Don't act like you wouldn't steal a lathe if you could.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 6:00:46 PM No.280150172
>>280149057
>diluting the power
What power? The only idea you're communicating with "cunny needs rape correction" is that you're a coombrained tourist who wants authority but naturally lacks the intelligence or charisma required to have an input worth a damn to anyone. You are the Blue Archive fandom and some pseudointellectuals on twitter, you have never gatekept anything and you never will.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 6:02:36 PM No.280150213
>>280137907
That's pretty antisemitic anon, the final goal of time should be money
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 6:06:48 PM No.280150395
fpbp but /a/ is incapable of answering >>280136868 because most of /a/ thinks like
>>280137907 and if you think like this you are no different from a Redditor defending onlyfans
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 6:08:03 PM No.280150439
Time enjoyed isn't time wasted.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 6:08:10 PM No.280150448
>>280150395
Why would I answer to primary bait?
Replies: >>280154078
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 7:10:11 PM No.280152683
>>280136569 (OP)
t
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 7:59:04 PM No.280154078
>>280150448
Much better to talk in your shonen threads we presume.
Replies: >>280154255
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 7:59:38 PM No.280154097
>>280150395
>noooooo I want to consoom!
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:03:19 PM No.280154213
If "cunny" helps loli grow stronger, it's objectively good. Stop being an unreasonable little bitch.
Replies: >>280157792
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:04:37 PM No.280154255
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>>280154078
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:08:05 PM No.280154364
>>280142863
>>280142879
>>280144749
Kill yourself, retarded tourist.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:10:24 PM No.280154434
@280154364
If I was retarded, I'd give you one of your (You)'s back.
Ezeved 火 !!XTZVrf6Pax7
7/1/2025, 8:12:52 PM No.280154509
>>280136569 (OP)
Objectively, no. There are far more productive hobbies that teach you useful skills.
Subjectively, yes. Anime ga daisuki!
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 9:36:04 PM No.280156935
>>280154509
what if you work in the industry
Replies: >>280157237
Ezeved 火 !!XTZVrf6Pax7
7/1/2025, 9:46:39 PM No.280157237
>>280156935
>what if you work in the industry
It's work. It's different than just watching anime. Of course it's a productive use of your time since you earn money and learn new skills.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 9:49:41 PM No.280157309
>>280136569 (OP)
Much more productive than shitposting about it on a mongolian basket weaving forum.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 10:07:06 PM No.280157792
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>>280154213
"cunny" is not making loli stronger, it's making it weaker by diluting it and making it more palatable to normalfags
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 10:19:10 PM No.280158092
>>280157792
It means loli pussy, you fucking retard. There is no separating the based implications, lusting for prepubescent characters, unlike other shitty bastardized memes because the entire meme consists of that fetish, like incest.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 10:28:40 PM No.280158319
>>280136569 (OP)
No if you watching almost every modern anime.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:02:24 PM No.280159203
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>>280136569 (OP)
We aren't born with a goal or inherent meaning.
The idea of productivity is a concept forced down upon us by our goverments and society at large so we conform to their ideals, to shape us and make us do what they want us to do for their benefit. There isn't a sacred texts of truth and objectivity that demands for anyone to be useful, or that every action demands to be useful to someone else or world at large.
So, I don't think the question really matters. What matters really is if your actions don't harm someone else. That's where I draw the line.
Yes, it's nice to support your society and help the world spin. But it's not the worst thing in the world not to make that your life goal or your objective, you're not a piece of shit for being worthless, so watching anime all day is okay. Being worthless is fine. It's your life, yo udecide what you do with it, it's only a problem if your life affects others negatively.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:27:18 PM No.280159731
>>280136569 (OP)
Anime is a good form of escapism when you have nothing else.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:30:42 PM No.280159821
>>280139821
so can coffee or tea
you don't need to be a druggie
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:34:21 PM No.280159914
>>280142766
>only shonen is worth your time
until you grow out of it
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:46:35 PM No.280160213
>>280136569 (OP)
>>280136868
Basically fippybippy.
What should I do, hit the bar? Go play golf? Walk around the street looking for things to consume? Work more? I guess working more is productive but why? I need nothing in this life more than a computer with internet.
crunchygelato
7/2/2025, 12:28:10 AM No.280161270
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til soft
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:30:06 AM No.280161326
Why are shonentards becoming more cancerous?
crunchygelato
7/2/2025, 1:31:33 AM No.280162873
real life
real life
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ewwww emily anne elizabeth went retarded she got beat up by alexander egert ah chocolate cake needs purp
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 1:34:54 AM No.280162963
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>>280136569 (OP)
of course not, it's entertainment
entertainment is objectively "not" a productive use of time

that's the entire fucking point
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 1:40:00 AM No.280163111
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>>280136569 (OP)
No, I'd much rather post on /a/
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Anonymous
7/2/2025, 2:25:22 AM No.280164123
>>280163111
ones agree
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 2:51:47 AM No.280164604
I dont really enjoy anime or manga but its necessary to consume something so you can talk about stuff on 4chan
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 3:52:32 AM No.280165874
>>280136569 (OP)
It's just entertainment. If you like it, then yeah, it's a fun way to kill time but there are better stories to consume, like classic books read in audiobook format.