Anime is a style of animation in Japan, heavily influenced by the manga (Japan comic) style and typically featuring characters with large eyes, big hair, exaggerated facial expression, and it is classified according to its genre. Anime are animation that are unrestrained in artistic expression, serious drama, violence and vulgarity (there is even pornographic anime).
Nowadays, anime addiction is very rampant especially among students. People with obsessive interest in anime are called, Otaku (a Japanese term).
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. Next is that having a good storyline that makes the students hook up. If students missed one episode, they will surely get lost and never get the drift of the entire series. Another one is due to cool animation, which has a vibrant color that tickles their eyes everytime 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.
The Essay on ANIME VS AMERICAN ANIMATION
This is my thesis statement -- while American animation and Japanese animation both have their virtues, the style of American animation, in general, has a significant amount of higher quality. To begin with, one of the major problems that has hindered American animation is budget and time constraints. On the other hand, in Japan, anime has been allowed to flourish all over. When it comes to ...
Students who are too much expose to anime became addicted and anime addiction can have positive or negative effects to the viewer. The positive effect is that, 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 the same passion through joining Cosplay or Costume play. Through watching anime, they learn to draw and improve their English grammar.
The negative effect is that, students are expose to sexual activity through watching sex type of anime or commonly called Hentai. Hentai is a Japanese word that is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics or animation. It could also affect the students behavior. They became lazy. Students start getting too much influenced by every kind of fashion. They lose the sense of reality, since they expose to the world of anime and sometimes students shows a very childish attitude toward life.
To prevent anime addiction, students must develop self-discipline or self-control. They must set limitation and know their top priorities. Proper parental guidance can also be a prevention. Parents can help their child through guiding them and academic interest must be taught to students so that they would not focus on watching anime.
