The problem of knowledge from my perspective:
Do you know what is the problem of knowing too much? Mainly the problem is that knowing too much make you unable to enjoy the simpler things or things you enjoyed in the past, just because now you know they weren't that highly accurate or true.
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| I wish I still believe he existed... |
To prove this, a few days ago I asked a few friends; to see what kind of answer they gave me.
I asked: You got a gold stone, first you paint it blue and then you paint it purple, what color you got now? Like you might be guessing, everyone, absolutely everyone answered "purple". Which made me think that, the more we know we let previous information vanish from our memory and just guide ourselves from what we know now; that is not a real problem in itself...But it might hurt your enjoyment of things in the entertainment world , specially Anime.
An example of this is the well known Anime series One Piece and I doubt I gotta explain what One Piece is nor who Monkey D. Lufy is. Some of you might have watched the series and other might have just heard about it, but at one point you tried to find out if something that was shown on One Piece could be done, or if at least something was taking from reality. If you were naive enough to believe such a thing I bet at the end of your research you found out....The Horror!
Almost nothing in One Piece is even remotely possible (A Shonen Anime defying the laws of physics....Wow, such a discover) Though I'm not trying to insult your intelligence (too much) by any means, of course most of us know that almost everything that we see in Anime is unrealistic an almost impossible. The thing is, the more you research and the more details you know...Make you realize how stupid is whatever you are watching at the moment, and for some it means that they will stop enjoying good shows that while showing a bunch of weird powers and alien monkeys blowing planets; they still have a story to tell and good things about them, but if you just focus on what is wrong with the whole logic of the world you end up killing your own imagination.
Just like the day you found out "Santa Claus" didn't exist, or in some more extreme cases that it was nothing more than a publicity tool to sell cola; whatever was the case, the fact is that for you Christmas would never be the same. All the magic withing the holidays loosed their charm and you can never enjoy it as you did while you still believed in the guy in red giving you stuff for free once a year.
It's a shame really, there is a possibility that you started watching One Piece or any other Anime and you might finish watching it, but now that you know the whole truth it will never be the same...
And now, since your childhood is pretty much dead and never returning, let's see some other reasons why knowing too much might ruin Anime for you. Like for example, you just started watching an awesome anime and you like the fights, the powers look cool and you actually enjoy the characters; but then another friend comes up and says this terrible worlds "This is not possible, because the economic factors between the national industries and the controls they have between the distribution of the materials wouldn't develop in a way that would make the current society the show claims to be possible."
Some might be thinking right now "Who actually takes Anime that seriously to begin with." (Kyou does by the way...) But regardless, some Anime heavily relay on things like action, romance, fanservice to name a few and they completely or partially ignore plot continuity and real life perspective for the sake of entertainment and having someone state those problems when you were just trying to enjoy some good fights (SAO), cute romance (SAO) and some good fanservice (SAO); it's really annoying.
It's actually worst than a spoiler, because every time you try to enjoy your Anime again you will be thinking -This is wrong because...- All thanks to that good friend of yours that showed you how ridiculous, impassible, silly or stupid it was.
In conclusion now you know that sometimes you need to avoid asking something you will later regret and simply to enjoy the good things of life or you will end up deleting most of your Anime library and frustrate every time you try to find an Anime that is "complete" in every aspect. Don't get me wrong knowledge is power, but that power might end up ruining your happiness.
Finally something really nice for all of you dear fans of Anime:
13 Questions you don't have to ask yourself if you want to enjoy Anime at it's fullest!
- Is this possible?
- How much blood those people have in the Saint Seiya Anime.
- It's that his/her natural hair? Why does it change of color?
- Why does Michael Bay make so many explosions and ignore the plot.
- It's a male or a female character?
- Why does it have so much "PlOOt" and not actual plot.
- Dragon Ball has a live action movie? Does Samurai X has one too?
- Why does the guy that likes this girl just confess to her instead of flirting with this other girl?
- Why would soccer players need to have super powers and why is there no referee on that match?
- Does wearing tight make you bullet proof? Then why most super heroes wear tights?
- If they are ninja why do they yell their next attack to their opponents and use such weird clothes?
- Shinigamis can die?
- Who are Kyoushy and Kobayashi Keisuke?
With that I bid you all farewell and like always before I leave I would like to share this thought with all of you:
Anime moves faster than the speed of light and still has mass, it can be on two places and in none at the same time; its also it's own dad who died before it met its mother, Anime is hope, imagination so just enjoy it for what it is. And if you ever find out something is not entirely accurate or just plainly wrong. Cudos to the author, for making it so good anyways.
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