Everything I read changes my life a little bit. Life is just the accumulation of various experiences and media counts as an experience so yeah. As for the biggest changes I've had from media, I'd probably say re-monster since It was what made my first transition from manga to WN, thus wasting so many hours of my life in highschool, and making me just a bit more chuuni.
Yeah, everything that happens to you will change your life. Also Boku no... Spoiler Hero Academia ruined my life. Well no, but you get the point.
I remember reading that with my first Isekai. A lovely novel in which I discovered what necrophilia was. lol It was one in which a slime eats the corpse of a female classmate and becomes her if I am not wrong.
Pokemon got me into the anime world. And I think" violet evergarden" was the one that made me discover asian novels. This site, and that there were asian novels being translated. "Vampire knight" anime and "nagi no asukara" were animes that got me further into the otaku world. Let me not forget "fairy Tail". And Korean dramas ...or asian dramas "what is wrong with secretary kim". As for webcomics... "knight fanstatic Knights" which i didn't know was a webcomic manhua. Searching for spoilers of it I went to a certain post that talked about Korean dramas and BAM I started watching them. Going back to webtoons "transparent cohabitation" also influenced me and "shall we have dinner tonight?". Since then I am an addict. Ps. The first korean drama I watched was because I wanted to know the webtoon spoilers for Love 020 aka a slight smile is very charming.
My addiction to anime began in 2011- 2012 I was in middle school. I am glad it started at that time since there were more anime being translated and more sites to search for them. And I am glad my addiction to novels started 2018-2019 since before there weren't that many translators and I would have suffered.
Wanna know the main reason why I could speak English? I read Naruto when I was in middle school using Google Translate, word by word, after I did it quite frequently, everything had starting to make sense to me, and then in Highschool I tried to improve my grammar although it's still not perfect until now
Martial God Asura. After a 700-ish chapters I started to REALLY hate reading harem stories. Made me way more picky in regards to plot holes, etc. too.
Well done! Great way to learn English! I had two ways, one was writing “luuuv” letters to my crush in English, and second was a semi-forced watching of some teen horror movie by my classmates. For some unknown reason that movie was very popular. Skip beat! anime got me into manga... that counts as a work which changed my life in some way, I guess
The major one i guess would be from Persuit of the Truth but it was a mix of this and a talk with a friend of mine. It was a phrase "When you learn who you are, you... are no longer you. When you no longer know who you are, you ... will be you" This is the most recently one, because as I was talking with my friend he said he once used to hate something his father do, latter he realised he did a similar thing and he did the same because the one he grown up learning from were his mother and father so he did had a little habits not even he knew about it, he taked then for granted and only when he started to see himself did he realised that he was not what he thought he was and learned what he was.
Funnily enough, Coiling Dragon was probably the most important to me. IET has some kind of calmness to his writing that really appealed to me. There was something in how he portrayed Linley's idealized life that really echoed with me. I can't quite find the words to express myself, but I still remember how I felt while reading that text. How I imagined Linley and just how peaceful it must have been. I guess it taught me it's okay not to react emotionally to something? To detach and not react to certain things. I'm pretty sure that realization has helped me get past a lot of emotional issues in the last few years. I'm a bit surprised myself after thinking through why I still remember Coiling Dragon so vividly. Huh.
It's One Piece for me. I didn't know anything about this anime, manga web novel world but accompanying my brother while he was watching one piece got me really excited about it. It gave me a whole new wiev about frendship and what really matters most in life, things like that. Then I started watching others bc one piece left a great impression on me. Already loved reading since I was a child so getting into wn was inevitable I guess
I'd say a lot of works affect me, but they all hit different. The most significant ones would probably be novels that touch upon the aspirations of people, such as God's Song, or the Genius of a performing arts high. While they may be in the realm of fiction and the mcs tend to be geniuses within this category of books, they are oddly relatable because of the amount of passion they put into pursuing their goals. It's fascinating, the amount of energy that goes into small details that one who has no interest in the field would ever know of, and it makes me think about how some people chase their dreams and others abandon them with time. Or maybe I'm just captivated by the sheer focus of those mcs, who knows. We can't live off passion alone irl, and sometimes we have to make sacrifices just in order to scrape by. But reading about them feels like I'm taking a step into an alternate timeline where anything is just...possible? idk But they motivate me, somehow or other
Hmm... There is a book series called the Uplift Universe by David Brin that had a big influence on keeping me sane while I was a teen. The Berserk anime was the reason that I started to read manga. The Chrome Shelled Regios anime was the reason I started to read LNs. The anime Seto no Hanayome made me laugh when I was really depressed. Muv-Luv Alternative made have a moment of catharsis when I really needed one.
Invisible Dragon. Now I hate every single person ,who dare to utter that name. Edit:- Right now I am hate my self for uttering that wretched name.
I don't think any anime or manga has changed my life. But The Legend of the Galactic Heroes really changed how i perceived the genre