How did starting watching anime change you as a person?
For me, it made me generally happier and relaxed mostly because of the abundance of cute characters.

>>280911909 (OP)
Misa sex

>>280911909 (OP)
Probably would've run into bad crowds, done drugs and killed myself because that's what happened to all the normie fags I grew up with. I stayed inside and watched anime and mentally withdrew into my own fantasies and it helped me lead a solitary but calm existence. I work in a warehouse and I just tap out and daydream and the shifts go by without noticing and I go home and watch anime and make myself a nice meal.

>>280911988
Living the good life, anon.what do you daydream about?

>>280911909 (OP)
How did that manga ended?
Did the maid fucked the loli?

I wasn't a pedophile before, so that's cool I guess

>>280911909 (OP)
Gave me something to look forward to at the end of most days and on longer time horizons than that. Don't really play vidya or go out to see movies anymore, so I don't do that. I guess it kept me from getting into drugs or becoming an alcoholic like my dad. Did get me really into hentai though, for all it's thorns and roses.
>>280911988
Good on you and godspeed, anon.

i think you would have to be literally insane if you only consoomed western products or at least doing so would fry your brain, to condition it to certain way of thinking.

western slop is filled with ugly negroids so it's refreshing to see some good stories and appealing characters.

even if you'd be some crazy cinephile who watches all kinds of movies, sometimes you need something else and imo anime can offer it.

>>280911909 (OP)
I started being into lolis.

>>280911909 (OP)
I honestly can't remember what I was like as a person before getting into anime, outside of being an insufferable and annoying teenager. It contributed to be feeling more isolated and detached from the real world due to no one I knew or know being into anime, but I think that was going to be the case regardless. Anime at least gave me something to look forward to and indulge in.

>>280912422
This, it was all over for me after CCS

>>280911909 (OP)
>>280912422
Sometimes I wonder if watching anime made me a pedo or being a pedo made me watch anime

>>280912655
Based.

>>280911909 (OP)
It made me hate 3d women, feminists, xitter and letterboxd even more.

>>280913453
I started liking lolis when I was 17. I was lurking around in a hentai blog and the owner posted a loli hentai. I clicked on it, at first it felt wrong but then I saw the most beautiful, smooth, puffy loli vulva. It made me fall in love.

>>280915164
how long did it take you to transition?

>>280915391
5 minutes. The power of puffy loli vulva.

>>280911909 (OP)
I got into art, but it was more about one specific manga

>>280911909 (OP)
Really didn't change anything for me except I watch a lot more foreign media in general now, because of how I got used to subtitles. I watch all kinds of random shit from around the world now in all kinds of languages. It's cool. But it also makes me utterly unable to talk about TV with anyone since nobody else I'll ever meet has seen the same Estonian documentary I just watched or that German black comedy I want to rave about.

I probably would've lost my virginity in middle school if it wasn't for anime

Anime ruined me
>I constantly want to become real life versions of the characters I like
>I obsessively try to mimic them
>It impacts my real life
>I have no real identity
>My life is wasted trying to be something I'm not
>I have no real personality of my own
>I live in a delusion / not reality
>I'm cringe
>I'm autistic as fuck for doing this
>I can't help it because I feel like it's gonna give me personality and identity
>Anime ruined my life because it had relatable yet unrealistic characters, scenarios, stories and environments.

>Coping hard as fuck
>I'm lame
>Blogpost
>Always a cap letter at the start of my greentext phrases

>>280913453
The latter. If lolis gave you a boner you were already a lolicon and just didn't know it yet.

I became dark and mysterious

>>280911909 (OP)
I became a lolicon and enjoyer of petite girls.

>>280915967
>real life
You ruined yourself, anime had nothing to do with it.

>>280917506

>>280915967
Imitate better anime&manga?

For me it's this brat.
She looks highly correctable.

>>280915967
If it hadn't been for anime, the same thing would have happened to you with capeshit movies.
It's not the anime's fault, it's yours.

>>280915949
Sure, anime made you fat and ugly, not junk food companies.

>>280911909 (OP)
>For me, it made me generally happier and relaxed mostly because of the abundance of cute characters.
I have to wonder how miserable I'd be if I didn't do anime (or manga, nowadays)

>>280911909 (OP)
It helped me change my mindset about various things and gave me new ideas and interests.
I got inspired to go camping/fishing thanks to Yuru Camp.
Super Cub made me get a license and travel across the countryside.
Works like Clannad made me want to have a family of my own and find the joy in having children.
Etc.

any new lolisex anime recently?

>>280918841
Rude. And no, this girl was into me and would flirt with me while we walked home from school and one day she asked if I wanted to go to her house cause it was nearby and I turned her down so I could go home and watch the toonami anime. She avoided me after that

>>280911909 (OP)
It turned me from an average happy and active boy into an autistic shut-in loner with social anxiety.
All because it turned me into a lolicon, which made me unable to honestly talk about anything with anyone outside of 4chan for fear of revealing myself.

touhou made me a taoist and got me into eastern religion

>>280911909 (OP)
I've been watching anime since 2nd grade so I dunno. If anything, it helped me cope with the worst of life, and I'm much more idealistic because of it.

>>280915164
I was 13. The pomf meme got me. At the time I thought it wasn't so bad because they were similar to my age. Now I have no excuse.

Anime itself didn't really change my outlook on anything, but being a part of 00's anime culture online (this includes 4chan ofc) did. It made me really detest moral preening, "moralfaggotry" (performative moral outrage over inconsequential or harmless things, usually while ignoring very grave issues in society), attention-whoring social media claptrap, etc. It immunized me against all the retarded political trends of those and later times (neoconservatism, wokism, populism, tradcuckery). It made me a more tolerant and freedom-oriented person than I would otherwise have been. It made me more willing to disagree with people openly and to oppose the "current thing."

>>280915967
I kneel...

>>280921546
yeah same anime killed my cat and smacked my sister once as well. stole all my lunch money too

>>280911909 (OP)
I'm depressed and borderline suicidal, but I cling to hope as much as I can. Sometimes anime reminds me of that hope, and leads me to seeing the world from a different perspective. I'm a very questionable person at times, but I try to be as good as possible and I'm sure people appreciate me for it.

>>280911988
This is the way.

>>280911988
Sounds cool honestly. But do you not worry about forming friendships?

>>280913453
I think I was already one all the time, anime just awaken it in me.
I think I was like 14 or 15yo when I realize I liked girls waaay too young to the norm. Anime gave it a name and since then I've been a new person.

>>280912422
Based

animu maek me lolipedo

>>280918262
>>280918795
Only anime did this to me, no other medium

>>280911909 (OP)
Probably made me even more retarded than i've been. It took a lot of my precious time that should've been invested in studying. On the other hand i shared my interests in anime with my online friends and we've become close, some even invited me to the wedding. Now anime and manga are means of escapism and occasion to meet up(irl too) with friends to watch it together. I'm still reading and watching too much trash and generally mediocre titles. I wish i could make myself filter it more.

>>280911909 (OP)

>>280924760
You are not allowed to cry

I would have likely developed an addiction to alcohol. During my teenage years, I made a number of controversial and problematic statements that, if traced back to me, could get me in trouble. I have always felt a sense of social alienation, and I have consistently found solace in art. My anxiety levels escalated, and I have a persecution complex. After careful consideration, I have determined that I will not accomplish significant things in life. I recognize that I am a small grain of sand in a vast desert, and I am content with this realization because it provides a sense of tranquility. Anime and art in general have a calming effect on me. When I watch an anime that I find appealing, I feel as if I am transported to another world, free from the concerns of everyday life. Additionally, I like to learn anime OSTs by ear. This helped me learn more complex songs, and I'm thankful for that.

>>280916026
This. You were always a lolicon, accept yourself.

>>280911909 (OP)
Well it stopped me from being a brony and potentially a furry so I guess there's that. Still on the loser totem pole but not quite as low as I coulda been. I'm still fucking retarded though.

>>280911909 (OP)
anime, like every other medium, is a form of entertainment
it itself doesn't affect you positively or negatively, but it's about how you make from it

>>280921468
priorities man, priorities

>>280912336
if we were talking about western slop since the past 10 years, you'd make a valid point

before that, there weren't nearly as much negros
it was still run by cishet white males, which made it more enjoyable

>>280911909 (OP)
Would've turned into a party animal of nightlife albeit at the very likely cost of cirrhosis and hanging around with all sorts of wrong crowds possibly involved in drug consumption.

Also would get laid a lot more.

But avoided becoming an alcoholic and junkie albeit at cost of being more introverted and less social, but still the lesser of evils I guess.

>>280928350
goes without saying that the non anime "route" also included no university entry, likely speaking.

but lost a bit on being a social animal, but that required too high of a cost. Things are Yin and Yang I guess.

>>280918339
>>>/wsr/1534963

>>280913453
The Love Hina dating sim was my first gateway to porn, and I found myself into the two lolis more than the other characters. My first real anime was Lucky Star, but I only found it because I searched up loli anime.
So the latter.

Why is /a/ suddenly so full of lolicons?

Has anyone ever gotten an adult woman fetish after watching anime?

>>280921936
Excuses?

>>280928678
>suddenly
Since 2003.

>>280928678
so suddent

>>280928678
I started watching anime for loli. But since there isn't a lot of loli focused anime, I have spread out and watch even shows without any female focus.

>>280912063
Living in an anime world with all these perfect, beautiful 2D people where we have adventures and experiences. I'd say my ability to daydream and fantasize is incredibly detailed. I can quite literally manifest and imagine sounds, sensations, places, smells, odors, voices, the whole nine yards. I can even imagine what it's like to engage in sexual intercourse despite never having sex myself. I especially love the teenage romantic comedy/drama genre and that's what I daydream the most about. Real life people are ugly, mortal, smell bad, vicious and hateful. 2D anime people are perfect and undying and immortal. I thank the heavens for Japan and for creating the anime medium cause God knows I would've ended my life long ago without anime showing me a vision of life that is beautiful and eternal.
>>280923160
Absolutely not, anon. I won't lie to you and say I NEVER felt lonely and tried to reach out to 3D people because that's just dishonest and unrealistic but after horrifically bad experiences with other people in my late teens and early 20's, I've now cut of all human contact that isn't my immediate family and the older guys I work with and who I faintly socialize with in order to not be "weird" or unliked which cost me my last job. I live a very simple, very peaceful existence by simply living inside my own head. The 3D world is not real to me and this is not my real self, that's how I approach it. Discovering anime as a young kid was the best that could've happened to me. It instilled a love for beauty and life that saved me.

>>280929790
Seems anime does have a protective effect on a lot of social influences that can ruin a person personal and academic life, plus health; albeit it doesn't stimulate the "make friends" area.

Anime was what got me into computers and tech in general, which is the field I'm currently working in. Also little girls.

>>280929790
that's a whole new level of escapism

>>280929790
Beautifully put, I agree wholeheartedly. I do envy your daydreaming skills. I can only mentally manifest myself in the 2d 'plane' when I'm in that hyperfocused state while masturbating. I can't imagine how good it must feel to be able to do it anywhere.
I'm really glad to hear you've found solace in the 2D world. Bless Japan, thank you for giving humanity the gift of the perfect 2D realm.

>the abundance of cute characters.
Funny ones as well?

for me its the muscle queen with the eyepatch. i would like to be the russian loli who gets smothered by her inner pent up roided sexual urges.

>>280911909 (OP)
Lol

It taught me that body melding is good.
A shame I never will.

Why haven't you started body melding with someone, /a/nons?

>>280931880
>body melding
Dafuq is that. Some fetish like vore?

>>280932946
cute riko

>>280911909 (OP)
Misha is such a criminally underrated loli

>>280911909 (OP)
I shouldn't have watched Kurenai in highschool...

>>280933335
I fucking love when the maid scolds her for staining her pantsu

>>280929566
I want to fuck Rika in front of the lolis.

>>280929566
they could never make a dumbass this cute again

>>280911909 (OP)
It made me hate violence and war.

>>280911909 (OP)
I had a "ironic weeb" phase in my teens, where I hated current anime and watched only old shows. I started watching modern anime regularly under COVID lockdown and have been watching classics and random shows ever since.
I've always been introverted and like to be alone, but I'm still pretty social around my old friend group. So in that way, anime hasn't changed me as a person. But after taking Japanese lessons in university, I've made new friends. Thanks to anime, I have more things to talk about with my peers.
Also I've been able to experience novel and interesting stories through anime

I met my best friend on /a/

>>280911909 (OP)
I only got into anime in my early 20's at the lowest point in my life.
It kept me going and introduced me the japanese pop culture in general.
I have no idea how i'd spend my time without going crazy if it wasnt for Japanese anime/manga/games/music ect.
Western media doesn't do anything for me, old ass movies aside.

>>280926092
Damn brat, sitting like that..

>>280911909 (OP)
I blame anime for my choking fetish

>>280935842
really? Tell us more. I know it's blogposting but I want to know do he dresses as konata?

>>280936585
Might be a little unfair after saying that much, but I don't want to go to into detail. I just think it's wonderful how even in a place as tightly anonymous as /a/, you can make real connection
For all the shit I rightfully talk about this board, it's a blessed place
No

>>280933335

>>280934871
S-stained? Stained with what?

>>280939152
Misha tea

>>280911909 (OP)
everything changed

>>280911909 (OP)
nothing changed

>>280911909 (OP)
man this show fell off the face of the earth after the anime aired

>>280911909 (OP)
oh yeah some

I don't know. It was just a nebbishy subculture when I went to cons in the mid 90s. Dont know what to think of it now.