Thread 283524016

The only time anime ever inspired me was when I was 13 and watched Naruto. Rock Lee and Guy made me start going to the gym and become more confident in myself.

>>283524016 (OP)
probably KxKxK, it's what gave me this insufferable foot fetish

>>283524016 (OP)
Is probably UNIRONICALLY jojo because it helped me become less thick skulled. Increased my capabilities of seeing nuances. I thank you METI

Trigun

I always thought mahjong was just a shitty tile matching game before I learned about riichi mahjong. It still is a shitty tile matching game, but man is it fun when you know all the rules and how to play. It's become a normal part of my friends and I's repertoire of games. Really fun, and I never would've thought to get into it if I didn't watch Saki.

>>283524016 (OP)
It's been so long, and it's still the one.

>>283524016 (OP)
FLCL
I wish I could write dialogue even a tenth as good as that. Creatively, it's been one of my greatest inspirations.

Rurouni Kenshin Tsuioku-hen

>>283524016 (OP)
Rurouni Kenshin on toonami. I grew up to love Japan, it's culture and its history because of it. I did watch Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya and other anime before it but none of those had Japanese cultural or historical themes, Rurouni Kenshin was the first "mature" anime i watched
My life would certainly be very different if i hadn't watched it. To this day i get emotional listeting to those openings and endings
https://youtu.be/SIDeo5q0Q7s?si=sVS84RqPtFsb5dYK
https://youtu.be/--BE4gjwISU?si=lhnMAJFj052dj1A0

>>283524478
im not being ironic here btw
i needed 10 years after i watched it to start accepting other anime

>>283524016 (OP)
Ippo. It hyped me up to get me off the couch and stop me from being a lardass. Couldn't make it as a boxer though.

I think Naru genuinely saved my life

>>283524016 (OP)
Anime is dog shit as a medium purely for cheap entertainment and if you get influenced by them you’re a retarded faggot

Anime is an amazing medium full of creative entertainment, and if you get inspired by it you're an imaginative legend

>>283524135
It's weird how many people I've met who only started playing Riichi Mahjong because of Saki. Like, of all the echi/moe shows out there, why are people watching the mahjong one? And how is Saki so good at getting people to play mahjong anyways? I've seriously met at least 20 people who started mahjong because of of Saki and then they found my mahjong group online because they wanted to play it. It's odd, but it's cool

>>283524016 (OP)
Sangatsu or clannad

>>283524860
so he says while phoneposting lmao

>>283524016 (OP)
This literally got me into fanfiction writing and made me write so many terrible stories.

>>283525324
perhaps the most influential anime period

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>>283525155
Akagi did the same for me while also delivering some of that FKMT philosophy kino

love me some mahjong

>>283524016 (OP)
Watching Evangelion when I was 14 largely shaped me into the person I am today, for better or worse.

>>283524016 (OP)
since people are shitposting, I'll post something REAL, a mango that is also an anime that wasn't fully adapted but it still counts
2 arcs were kino on paper, but more importantly, the series was perfect at showcasing what shounenshit truly was:
diarrhea with piss on top on a puke canvas
it made fun of shounenshitters and demonstrated how retarded they are, especially the narutards and wan pissers of the past
this is why it was influential

>>283525292
I probably would have isekai'd myself if I hadnt watched this series. At best I would probably still be a neet afraid to leave my parents house.

>>283524016 (OP)
Probably watching OreImo when I felt the most lonely. It cemented my status as a loyal anime fan for the rest of my life.

>>283524016 (OP)
Evangelion, that's why I don't watch rebuilds and eoe, because I know they would ruin it for me

Redline
I crave speed and short haired bitches in equal measure

>>283527257
Good taste

>>283527239
Rebuilds I undersrand but why the fuck wouldnt you watch EoE?

>>283527778
EoE is Evangelion TV ending for dummies.

>>283527778
Even that picture of jerked Shinji you love to post here indicates how fucked it is

>>283524016 (OP)
unironically this.
It inspired me to play piano in elementary school, I became good at music that I was able to learn guitar in high school very quickly.
My social life skyrocketed after that.

My favorite ship is Kahoko x Len.

>>283527778
I showed to separate people Evangelion and then later showed them End of Evangelion. They both told me that they much preferred the original ending over the EoE ending, and regret even watching EoE because it ruins the original ending.

STEP INTO THE GRAND TOUR
GRAND TOUR
GRAND TOUR

mahjong influenced me for the worst
i wish i never played it

>>283524016 (OP)
Got me to stop being a hikki and luckily got a job with my first application at 27 years old

Dark Souls

>>283527909
What are you talking about? EoE changes the meaning of the ending completely.

Honey and Clover of all things. I ended up watching it while having my first "what is life, really" in highschool and it helped illustrate how different fiction is from reality.

>>283529359
I actually don't understand how any NEET could watch this and draw any kind of lesson from it, the entire show consists of a magical girl trying to save this piece of shit, and then the final episodes are just blatant nip work ethic propaganda. In the real world there are no magical girls, there are basically no jobs that a long time NEET could realistically get without government assistance (which depending on your country first requires a couple years of constant humiliation rituals with various social workers and temporary postings) and even if you do rejoin the workforce you'll quickly realize that its a dead end of despair.

>>283524016 (OP)
Anime thought me that if you aren't the MC you are fodder and are doomed to fail

>>283529775
>I actually don't understand how any NEET could watch this and draw any kind of lesson from it
The lesson is realizing that there is no magical girl who'll save you, and every few episodes is a vision of a possible future for (You) the hikki. Join a cult and die, your enabler disappears and you start starving to death, you're suddenly 50 and 400 lbs and have rapidly deteriorating health and have done nothing with your life.

>>283529775
>there are basically no jobs that a long time NEET could realistically get without government assistance
You could easily get warehousing or a labor job.

>>283530032
Well that is my future except I will probably die before 40 because of how stressfull my work life is.
I went into the workforce at 24 and was a lean 200pounds,5 years later I am over 400.Hell 35 will be a milestone of survival at this rate...
Also still incel, still poor, still living with mum, the job market is a scam.

No anime has ever influenced me

>>283524016 (OP)
Turned me into a p
Decades later the rider never ended

>>283524016 (OP)
Turned me into a p
Decades later the ride never ended

Golden boy inspired me to:
--travel around to different countries (I know he stays in Japan, whatever)
--carry a special notebook
--take up bike touring
This anime specifically has determined the trajectory of my 20s and early 30s

Yukari from Azumanga inspired me to become an English teacher with some help from Onizuka.

Cromartie High School had a pretty profound effect on how I relate to others. I'm 36 and I still live as a good-natured teenage delinquent.

>>283524093
You increassed in faggotry watching that shit fag.

>>283524016 (OP)
probably clannad for me, it's like if the general concept of life lessons had an anime

>>283524016 (OP)
Are you deaf?

>>283532215
It turned you into a chad.

>>283524016 (OP)
Was playing a coin pusher game at a beachside pier, and the guy on the machine next to me kept humming "Tobira no Muko He" to himself. It was very irritating, but we got chatting about FMA anyway, then the conversation drifted to Kaiji. Dude was an idiot, but I met my actual best friends through him.

>>283524016 (OP)
Unironically Dragon Ball Z. I discovered DBZ when I was 10 and Goku inspired me to get into sports, fitness and health.

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>>283524284
Sublime, kinographic answers
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>>283532256
Quality, respectable answers

my favorites

>>283532215
I didn't find her attractive when I was a child, but now she's in my top 10 cutest anime girls.

>>283532256
>Cromartie High School had a pretty profound effect on how I relate to others. I'm 36 and I still live as a good-natured teenage delinquent.
What is your nickname

>>283543845
Based man

>>283524016 (OP)
Kaiki's monologue in the last episode of Koimonogatari unironically gave me the last push I needed to quit my job and change industries. Five years on I'm in an infinitely better place. I'm glad that everything is replaceable.

>>283541650
Based even though Sakura would never do or desire this (sorry, Tomoyo)

The best thing I can say about Gurren Lagann is that it came about at the exact point in my life where its impact was strongest (I was 14 when it aired) and that there will never, ever be another series like it again.