5 lessons taught by Japanese animated motions

 
While people enjoy Disney classics, american and European cartoons and Marvel comics, some others choose another kind of animated motion, Japanese cartoons & comics, also named Anime and Manga.

People see them as kids' cartoon, with over rated stories and too much fantasy, but the ones who truly follow this kind of cartoons and the ones who read Mangas get a special and critical perspective about life.
In life, there are a few lessons we need to learn, and I , personally learnt alot of things about life through anime so I'll summarize 5 most important points:


1- Follow your dream, No matter how far it may seem : 


When you see Luffy, in more than two hundred episodes, going around the world, fighting pirates in order to become the king of all. You tell yourself : " Hell yeah I want to go through it all and do everythi

ng to prove others I can be someone ".

And when you need some motivational speeches after a bad mark in a math test, well you won't check Myke Tyson's last victory, instead you'll just watch an episode of One Piece and get an overdose of energy to feel indestructible.


2- Be yourself :

Now imagine if fantasy world really existed, and instead of being in the right range of people, you are a demon, that's life, you got to deal with it but that doesn't mean you're bad, and that lesson was taught to me by Blue exorcist. Rin okumura proved to everyone that despite of being a demon, he can protect human kind, he can kill bad people, he accepted himself as a demon but he wasn't evil.

So next time you feel different, don't try to change, just embrace yourself and use it for the right purpose, be yourself, be your good self.


3- Friendship is life's diamond :

This one comes from a regular, pinky type of manga, Kou and Yoshioka taught me that friendship is something worth fighting for. you can spend years without talking to a person, you can see them every single day at school and never bother to ask them if they’re doing fine, but if a problem pops up into their life, you’ll be the first one standing in front of them, helping them through ups, downs, long runs and sharp turns. just be honest with the friends around you and appreciate them for what they are not what they were or what they have.

This may also apply for love but it takes a bit too much of drama and ego so I will leave that for sometime later.


4- No matter where you are, food is a must have : 

Whether you’re watching dragon ball Z, death note, Okami shoujo or one piece, there will be a food lover character and you will love them, not because of the food they eat or how they eat but because they appreciate the simplest thing in life which is food. While everyone else stereo types tasty food as being bad for health, you’ll embrace every inch of love you have for brownies, pizzas, sandwiches and apple pies when you start watching anime. You only have one life my friend, don’t waste it on diets, food is good, food is the best .
5- Happiness is a choice :

I haven’t seen an anime, so far, that leads the characters to great success or happy ending without real personal effort and sacrifices.
When you see Oliver training to be the best goal keeper in the history, when you see Ash travelling the world to defy every pokemon trainer, when you see Yuki searching all the school to find Kiryuu, when you see the parkour of every character, you understand that they made it happen by their own hands, they kept fighting through good and bad times and they made it, they arrived at the end of the tunnel, admiring the brightest light of all.
You have to keep it up, no matter what happens, because you’re the only decision maker in your life and if you want to be happy then you have got to get it yourself.



To close this, I’ll say that Anime and Manga hold a big part in my life, they’re mostly inspired by japanese culture and moral values, which make them a pretty fun way to learn about foreign cultures but mostly, they’re inspired from humans, so don’t think you won’t relay to them or they’re just too over rated for your age, you’ll always learn something from them, all you need to do is open your mind and your eyes.



                                                                                                                                 Sabrine Bouras.