...THE EFFECTS OF ANIME ADDICTION TO STUDENTS Thesis Statement: There are negative and positive effects that may result from Anime addiction. Introduction Anime is a style of animation in Japan which it can lead into addiction. Nowadays, anime addiction is very rampant especially among students. People with obsessive interest in anime are called otaku. I. Anime II. The negative effects of Anime Addiction to students A. Academic B. Health C. Behavior III. The positive effects of Anime Addiction to students A. Increased Social Interaction B. Interest in arts C. Interest in Japanese Language and Culture D. Relieves Problem E. Influence their English Vocabulary Conclusion Anime Addiction is affecting the academic, health, and behavior of the students. Their parents don’t like their child watching anime, because they can’t focus in their studies. But it depends on the child that he will balance his study and the anime or not. References INTRODUCTION Anime is a style of animation in Japan, heavily influenced by the Manga (Japan comic) and typically featuring characters with large eyes, big hair, exaggerated facial expression and it is classified according to its genre. Nowadays, anime addiction is very rampant especially among students. People with obsessive interest in anime are called, otaku (Ninai, 2011). This study aims to answer this following question: 1. Why is anime addiction? 2. What are the negative effects of anime addiction to...
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...Effects of Anime to the Fourth Year High School Students of the Surigao Education Center S.Y. 2012-2013 A Research Paper Presented to The Faculty of the High School Department Surigao Education Center Surigao City _______________________________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in English IV _______________________________________________ By: Abucejo, Kenneth Alfe D. Famador, Mark Virgel L. Yaun, Mary Allyssa A. Canibel, Maila Jane C Calang, Alfredrich P. Villarojo, Kerr John Felicia, Klint Daryl Gavino, Jamar February 2013 APPROVAL SHEET Effects of the Anime to the Fourth Year High School Students of the Surigao Education Center Prepared & Submitted by KENNETH ALFE ABUCEJO, ALFREDRICH CALANG, MAILA JANE CANIBEL, MARK VIRGEL FAMADOR, KLINT DARLY FELICIA, JAMAR GAVINO, KERR JOHN VILLAROJO, MARY ALLYSSA YAUN has been examined and is recommended for approval and acceptance for ORAL EXAMINATION. ENICYL C. FLORES ------------------------------------------------- Adviser ------------------------------------------------- PANEL OF EXAMINERS APPROVED by the committee on ORAL EXAMINATION with the grade of__ on February 2013. ZALDY P. BELOY, Ph.D _______________ ______________ Member Member ___________________ Member ACCEPTANCE in partial fulfillment of the requirements for ENGLISH IV Acknowledgement ...
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...Mikhail Go Title: Animé Addiction: Effects of watching Animé to Students’ Psychological Behavior Thesis Statement: Anime is the abbreviated pronunciation of "animation" that originated in Japan. Most of the Animé are made for general audiences, means that it suits all types of audiences including children, adolescents, and adults. There are categories of anime for girls, boys, young girls, young boys, adolescent boys, and adolescent girls, conservative adults, and non-conservative adults and so on. The subjects of anime range from history (past and future), to fantasy, dramatic, science fiction, popular culture, cyber-reality, adult, action, romance, political, and more. Because of the uniqueness and diversity of every anime's storyline, Japanese animation spread rapidly across the globe. Many students have become interested with this form of Japanese culture because of their relation to some of the story that depicts their life as a student. But not all of it can be a good example for them. Students who gets ideas from anime have a tendency of harming others or assume stuffs that they think will likely to happen because of following what they have watched. This kind of behavior might be alarming for the people around them and might affect how they’ll approach people in the future. Research Questions: 1. How can the students differentiate reality from the Animé they’re watching? 2. How do the students interact with other students who don’t watch Animé? 3. How do...
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...CHAPTER 1: The Problem and It’s Background A. Introduction Recently, there are a lot of problems in the society. A lot of them were problems of the students. Living the teenage life is a great experience. The teens tried many new things that can affect how they behave. A huge percentage of the total population of the Earth is thirteen years old to nineteen years old. Everyday there are thousands of kids who turns thirteen not realizing the huge changes in their live that they can face. Actually, all the researchers are part of teenage. Nowadays the teens are so busy doing some stuff for education, pastime and most of all leisure. The teens kept on enjoying their lives by simply having fun doing things with friends and classmates. Sometimes it goes to the point that they ignore studies just to enjoy or to have fun. The researchers also feel that way sometimes. All of the people living in this world definitely like to just sit around and enjoy but most of us just can’t. There’s nothing wrong in enjoying life but it have limits. One of the most addicting things to do is to use the computer. It is just so addicting it simply has it all, games, music, videos and many more. Another thing about computer is the internet or the World Wide Web. Internet is a huge part of human’s life in this century. It covers many things such as references for educational purposes, music and videos for entertainment, and many more. Nowadays, internet is not used the way it should be used...
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...line from the wanting to watch anime to needing to watch it. Our personal take on anime is we watch what we enjoy. And we truly like anime. But we keep thinking we should stop watching because it is childish. We purchase anime on rare occasions, and watch anime maybe once a week. Recently we have been watched a lot more anime than we should often since we found online site for anime. We’ve guess what we am saying is most of my friends and family "don't get the anime thing". Therefore, we end up watching anime on my own feeling something like a social outcast. Socially we am busy being as we am out of college, in a very exhausting job, trying to find time to date, into sports, looking into grad school, etc. we know there are others out there thinking the same thing. So what is your takes on this. Does anime become a social dysfunction? Portraying anime as a cultural thing can only go so far...I guess what they saying are "doing get the anime influenced". Therefore, we should end up watching anime on our own feeling something like a social outcast. Socially we are busy being as we am out of college, in a very exhausting job, trying to find time to date, into sports, looking into grad school, etc. Seems to that you’re only a casual anime fan, so were good. As long as we have a life that extends beyond anime, don't worry. When you start using Japanese words in daily conversation, sit at a computer all night every night watching anime, and withdraw from other activities...
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...The Effects on Watching Anime to the High School Students A Term Paper Presented To Ms. Inot Lourdes College In Partial Fulfillment Of The Requirements in English 2 By Justin L. Yu Bachelor of Science in business administration Feb. 25, 2014 Outline i. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………2 ii. Body…………………………………………………………………………………2 a. The effects of watching anime to the students b. The effects for the students who are watching anime iii. Significance of the study…………………………………………………………. iv. Objectives of the Study…………………………………………………………… c. Do Watching anime is important of not important to them d. The disadvantages of watching anime e. Finding a ways how the students prevent from getting addicted on watching anime v. Scope and limitations……………………………………………………………. vi. Discussion………………………………………………………………………… vii. Summary and conclusion………………………………………………..……… f. Summary g. Conclusion viii. Bibliography………………………………………………………………………. Introduction On our generation nowadays most of the students get addicted on watching anime or reading Mangas (a Japanese term of comic books). If a person likes anime too much, he or she will be called as an OTAKU(is a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests, commonly the anime and manga fandom.) Otakus follows their desire without thinking first. They also follows the anime series they wants. There are many factors that urge students...
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...Effects of Watching Anime on Study Habits of CSNHS Engineering and Science Education Program (ESEP) Students* By: Candelaria, Lex Oliver B. Sancho, Joseph Dominic A. IV-Jupiter *A term paper submitted to Mrs. Giselle DG. Avila in partial fulfillment of the requirement in English IV, Camarines Sur National High School, School Year 2014-2015 Table of Contents Acknowledgment Foremost, the researchers would like to express their sincere gratitude to theirEnglish teacherMrs. Giselle DG. Avila for the continuous support fortheir research, for her patience, motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowledge.Her guidance helped the researchers in all the time of research and writing of this thesis. Introduction Nowadays, Anime addiction is very rampant especially among students. 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 and having a good storyline that makes the students hook up. Another one is due to cool animation, which has a vibrant color that tickles their eyes every time they watched a single episode. Next is peer pressure, which influences a person to watch anime, when your group is expose to anime it will surely influence 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...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM INTRODUCTION Imagination is one of the conventional ways of students to deal resourcefully with unusual problems especially in day-to-day life experiences and specifically to their studies. Several manners such as watching a fictional movie is likely triggering their minds to think cognitively prominent. One of the evident matters as of now that elevates the learner’s creativity and imagination is the growing fandom of Anime, an animation from a Japanese literary book Manga. Anime is distributed into different genres such as fiction and non-fiction. It comprises the usual characters; the protagonist and antagonist. Through this, there is a fulfillment that they can get from viewing and find it a relaxation as well as their hobby in the middle of studentship. Our country though miles far away from “The Land of Rising Sun” is being influenced by their notable set of Anime. One great example of this is “Naruto” which made a boundless impact to the heart of anime lovers. Through technology, today’s students can really have the easy access to the internet in which they can choose to what specific website they can visit. It leads them to the realms of Anime in which they can watch directly or just download it. At present, there are problems that threaten the student’s learning. One of these is the existence of Hentai - basically known as an anime that evokes pornography. Pornography tends to exploit such a big impact on the psychological aspect of...
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...INTRODUCTION ANIME. Whenever I hear this word, I automatically switch my brain from serious and normal mode, to hyperactive and otaku mode. When I hear people talk about anime, I can't just leave them be, I'll talk with them! This is how freaky and weird I can be. I first started watching anime when I was a kid, but I took it to the next level when I was in high school. Are you wondering what kind of next level this is? I meant next level as, at first, I only watch it when I come across it. But now, I watch it because I want to. It became my fascination. When I learned that an anime is popular and it's really good, I'll watch it. I may leave my schoolwork undone and watch anime first. This became the topic of my blog. Anime. Hi! I'm a serious, fun, hyperactive, weird and crazy otaku. I'm Lissa Nubla and welcome to my blog! 1 - What is Anime? (The photo above is an example of an anime art/drawing.) So, what is anime? Why is it popular all around the world, just like here in the Philippines? Does anime affect the way of living of the people that watch or are addicted in watching it? According to the article What is Anime by Serdar Yegulalp that I read, "The word anime -- pronounced "ah-knee-may" -- is an abbreviation of the word animation. In Japan, the word's used to refer to all animation." Also, according to Katherine Luther, anime is essentially Japanese animation and in fact, the word 'anime' is a shortened version...
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...“A study about the effects of watching Anime to the study habit of high school students.” A. Background of the Study Anime is a type of cartoon but rather, it is complex, mature, broader, and even the animation drawing is on a higher level than that of a mere cartoon. Anime, which originated in Japan, is drawn by a “Mangaka” (artist) into manga (comic) drafts. These drafts are then rearranged, colored and synchronized by a hundred of staff. After the sequencing, a “Seiyuu” (Voice Actor) will give life to the character. One second of movement needs twenty-five to thirty-five drafts of drawing. Since it originated in Japan, most of the Animes shows the culture and hidden beauty of Japan, its technological advancement, friendship, love and student’s life, the Japanese way. Popular nowadays, Anime had touched the heart of many viewers. Some popular Anime such as DragonBall Z, Ghost Fighter, Naruto and Voltes V. This Animes had dominated the media industry in the past few years. Japan has a very unique culture. The Philippines, on the other hand, lacks that kind of culture, that is, its very own culture is made of by the mixture of cultures of other countries such as America, Spain and China. That is why many Filipinos are fascinated with such culture. Anime proposed amazing concepts and catchy storyline that is humorous yet fascinating. It also features some future ideas about what would take place in the future and what technological advancements can people expect...
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...Running head: ANIME Teenagers today are so obsessed to Anime because it does not only entertain and communicates with them; it also reflects their own problems and struggles in life. Jimenez, Mariannel C. School of Languages, Humanities and Social Studies Mapua Institute of Technology December 04, 2015 Anime Research Paper: Teenagers today are so obsessed to Anime because it does not only entertain and communicates with them; it also reflects their own problems and struggles in life. Anime is a big part of Japanese culture, with its popularity having also spread worldwide. It has been the most popular and victorious entertainment ever since, it is translated to different languages to be spread all over the world (Wikipedia, 2007). Teenagers today are so obsessed to anime because of the wide range of genres that enables them to choose which one they would like to watch. Teenagers enjoys’ watching anime because it gives them joy and it serves as an alternative to their problems and struggles in life. What Anime is “Japanese anime are animated productions featuring hand drawn or computer animation” (Wikipedia, 2015). The word anime can slightly vary depending on where you are. If you are in Japan, anime refers to the shortened form of romaji animashon but if you are outside Japan, anime refers to the kind of animation that is from Japan which is characterized by fantasy, vibrant characters, colorful grahics, and over acting scenes. In simpler words, anime is one of many...
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...Title: Anime Domination in a Student’s World Thesis Statement: Watching animes has various effects in a student’s life. I. Watching animes causes addiction to students. A. Students do not sleep just to watch animes. 1. They would have weakened their immune system for staying up late. 2. They will be sleepy in class in the next day. B. Some students are distracted in their studies because of animes. 1. They are chances that students will fail their subjects. 2. They will not learn something from school. II. Japanization brings happiness to the students. A. Most students that watch anime adapt the way anime characters speak. 1. They use Japanese or Nihonggo in communicating with each other. 2. They also name their selves after the name of anime characters. B. There are many cosplayers that dresses like an anime character. 1. Students would love to watch them and appreciate them. 2. Students feel that animes are real which they are dreaming of. III. Watching animes can create a student’s social life. A. When a student meets another student that loves watching animes, they would understand each other and they can be friends. 1. They would talk to each other about animes. 2. They would ask a copy of an anime from each other which will generate their social life. B. Students watch anime in a group. 1. The bonding between students is developed while they are watching anime in a group. 2. As...
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...Anime addiction and Its Influence to the Lifestyle of High School students of St. Mary’s College of Tagum _________________________ A Research Presented to ______________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in English IV By Acknowledgement This research paper would not be exist without the Help of our parents, who give us advice when we need them, Who inspires to work this research paper, they were a great source of support and encouragement. To Mrs. Dinah L. Mission who gives us this project to experience how to make a research paper and give us an idea to make this research paper complete. To all of our friends who give us support and to share their ideas to this research paper. To our God w Dedication This research paper is to the people who help us Table of Contents Title Page i Table of Contents ii Chapter 1 What is anime? Why is Anime Addicting? Does watching anime affect our personality? What can and can’t we learn from watching anime? How can anime influence us? What is anime? According to Dictionary.com “a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, Violence and, sexuality.” According to anime otaku (obsessed of anime) “essential...
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...games it is a popular pastime for others and it is a part of people’s daily life. The digital games can further expand the knowledge of users. In this game it is all about four pictures related to a certain anime which the user will guess. The user’s need to recall everything to answer the question and to go to the next level of the game. This is also one way to remember things through this application. It is about using pictures in order to retrieve memories connected to it and one process that makes use of pictures is called picture superiority effect. Most studies of the picture superiority effect have involved tests of memory for the occurrence of individual events, such as recall in which is the main objective of this study. If pictures however, receive complete semantic processing than words, this difference in processing could be an advantage for both memory of the individual pictures and for associations formed between pairs of random pictures. This research also intends to use the Anime and mobile game learning app in order to prevent forgetting what was present at young age. A mobile game applications that helps to exercise their brain to retrieved the information about anime that they are familiar with. Keywords: mobile technology, mobile learning and gaming, anime, memory enhancement INTRODUCTION In the 21st century, technology have become rapidly advancing in every field, including communication, entertainment, and among...
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...General Education Department Sociology Area 2nd Semester, SY 2012-2013 “The Effects of Otaku Culture to an Individual’s Study Habit” A Research Paper to be presented to Ms. Exzie Calubayan In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements in Sociology By Villegas, Claire Bridget R. March 15, 2013 Chapter One “It’s not just anime! It’s a way of life!” Introduction The real meaning of “Otaku” had a small debate when the US coined it as a term for people who are obsessed with the Japanese culture, with also a considerably large amount of love for anime and manga. However, the real meaning of the word “Otaku” could be viewed as negative for a typical Japanese person because “Otaku” literally means “Social Recluse” (Also note, it is synonymous to “Hikikomori”) specifically speaking, when one speaks of “Otaku Culture”, one’s head would immediately pop out the word “geek” or “nerd”. The culture mainly speaks about Japanese traditions, pop culture, anime, and manga. (Wikipedia, Retrieved 2013) Otaku culture originated from Akihabara, a district of Tokyo where it mostly sells electronic goods as well as a famous hangout for otaku individuals. Originally, “Otaku” during the old times meant “house” or “family” while giving an emphasis on respect when used as a second-person pronoun. However, as modern Japanese slang continued to grow in the busy streets of Tokyo when fans of well known anime titles such as Neon Genesis Evangelion and Hunter x Hunter, people now adopted...
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