Indonesia people usually watch anime when they were children, but Japanese watch anime regardless their age. Instead of being entertained or pleasure, people may get a lot of values in the anime itself.
Skeptic views said that watching anime is a wasting time activities. They think like that, because they don’t regard anime as a source of values teaching in the modern life. They think that it will poison children mind, and stray their own future. But, we ought to see a different perspective about the anime. Anime contains a lot of living values that we need to learn in our world.
Anime offer us values of living in the world. There are courage, friendship, empathy. The values of courage usually is given by shonen animes (watch animanga genre) . We may see courageous action of a character in order to beat the boss, they teach us how to be a greater person through a lot of training, experience, and will. In our life, we may implant that action towards our life with having a strong willed mind to achieve our goals, having a courageous action to initiate our dreams, rising up from heavy nightmare and having endured our pain when we are learning something new. We may learns this value in One Piece, Naruto, etc
The value of friendship is offered in a dense proportion in the anime. We often see a character defend their friend, save his friends from danger, even sacrifice himself in order not to get their friends hurt. This teach us a lot about friendship that we should be there when our friend need our help, we should not be egoistic (makan temen), and so on so forth. Bleach, Ao No Exorcist have a dense friendship values
Empathy is the ability to understand another person's feelings, experience, etc (Oxford Advanced Dictionary). It is in the anime. Anime contains a touching scene, a different perspective that we may feel. It often tell us to understand others feeling, not to being cruel, and even give us an understanding how miserable a war is. This will give you a lot of an understanding about others feeling, different perspective, and conflict avoiding. We can sharpen our empathy in watching Gundam 00, Ao No Exorcist, One Piece.
So, in the end, anime has its own good values to teach us, and we’re supposed to see that anime will not only bring harm but also great life values we need.
