Has the Anime Ever Affected Your Life?

[Pinkie-Dawn]

Has the Pokemon Anime ever affected the way you function in real life? This can be both in a positive way or a negative way. You could say how the anime positively changed your perspective of life because of a message from an episode that hit you right at home and wished to improve your own life. Or maybe the anime negatively changed your perspective of life because you've witnessed something disheartening in an episode that causes you to lose focus on other things, because you're too traumatized on what you saw and tried to get it out of your head but keeps coming back to haunt your mind. You could already guess on how the anime affected my life, but what's yours?

 

[Purist of Black Water]

I know I was hit right in the "feels" when

Spoiler:

ash's butterfree left to mate with that pink butterfree

omg the nostalgia. That changed my views on relationships.
at least with people, but I was a kid back then so... cutely ignorant of how things worked I guess?

 

[Palamon]

Hmm... the only part of the Pokemon Anime that has ever affected me enough to feel emotion was the Pokemon 4Ever movie. I remember feeling extreme emotion when, you know, Celebi was dead. But, that's so far, the only one that ever has made me feel any sort of emotion or affected me at all. I was younger then, so I guess it hit me harder. The movies have more emotional impact for me than pretty much anything in Pokemon, suppose some can see where I'm coming from with this. The regular anime itself doesn't really have much impact on me anymore, I guess. Perhaps I've grown out of it.

 

[EC]

I'll be honest and say I have to skip episodes where Ash says goodbye to his friends (the Misty/Brock episode especially) because it makes me depressed for about two weeks.

 

[Little hero]

My English is not good but I will try to answer.


Pokémon affected my life in many positive and negative ways.I will answer in a similar way to the previous answers.


I remember feeling very happy watching movie 3 and movie 4. The characters of movie 3 really like Pokémon, and I enjoyed watching their enjoyment. I wanted to enjoy my time like them. I started writing my own stories of Pokémon. Now, I can write great stories but in my native language, not English.

Then I watched movie 4 and I like it too much. One of its best parts is the intersection of Ash's story with the journey of professor Oak. I spent 3 days thinking about time travelling.


About the negative part: it was the decrease of my marks in some exams. I feel sad that all my favourite characters and Pokémon left the series years ago.

 

[RetroMichel]

Well, whenever I watch the Pokémon Anime, it reminds me of a simpler time and it also reminds me who I was. So, it affects me in positive ways, since I can find my real self again.

 

[NinjaQueen]

Affected me as such, no, I'd say no. But yeah watching the Anime Series does make me happy.

 

[Nagi-chan]

It did. It gave me a lot of awesome memories from watching the anime and playing the game alone. Also being able to battle other people and meet new people through the games or the anime is still pretty awesome. Pokemon gave me the courage to go outside of my own city to competitions and have fun which I don´t regret in the least, because it made the past year much more awesome than it would have been without it. I will definitely never stop watching the anime or play the games because it´s just too much fun:)

 

[Lucario]

Goodbye pikachu was the first time anything on TV made me sad since Sintel (which is a great movie imho (It's on youtube))

 

[RegalSin]

It was good in the beginning but they should have ran the official G/S animation alongside the Ash G/S. That is the failure with the animation. Even Team Rocket in the original Animation was a lot more cleaner and better. I really would like to see the misadventures of Giovanni's son but nooooooooooooooo we had to have Ash.

The moment they introduced not-Ash and his Pikachu along with Ash failing to fight Gary that was when the series went down the drain. Everything else is about the new girl that replaces Misty and poor Brock.

Team Rocket also gained in development with Butch and Cassidy and the rest of the Rocket gang.

I do not really count the movies at all, or anything past the original Pokemon world.