Demo: M-M-M- Ms. Random- I…
I'm in love with you… will you please go out with me?
Ms. Random: Oh, uh…
I wish I could, I guess, but I'm just an anime character.
I can't even see what you look like- it's a one way television ya know!
Demo: Uh… well… we can… work it out maybe…
Ms. Random: Don't you have a girlfriend anyway?
Demo: No, not yet at least- we're currently in a time where I was a juvenile delinquent!
Ms. Random: So… like a flash back?
Demo: Exactly~ Ms. Random: Yeah, it's not gonna work out-
besides, your girlfriend is a time princess.
I'm not getting on her badside…
Demo: Oh really, well… *sniff* you die in this episode!
So THERE--- WAH~ ( ,>,~,<,)
Ms. Random: Dumb f*king Kid- oh god… *comedic gurgle*
[sword slash = dead]
[intro]
Ah, love… what can we define love to be?
A doki doki in your kokoro?
A desu~ after each word?
Or just simply wanting to kiss them?
We will find out today on the Anime Connection.
But I can guess most of you were who are watching this video may have fallen in love or currently
in love with a waifu or husbando as of right now.
This video is actually important to the anime community because even though this has already
been beat to death, I'll add in some psychological viewpoints from my perspective of love and
insignificant emotions!
I'd like to thank Mirabella O'Neil for her help on the skit, and thanks to SoniLoid
for not getting jealous… and also, thanks to Whisper for also helping me out- these
guys and gals allowed me to take some examples from their own voice.
Just know this is a place of love and happiness- don't go scrutinizing other people for their
loves and infatuations, ok?
We're here to have fun and grow as people- we're here to make the world a happier place,
the only thing you have to do is accept us!
Ok, that sounded creepy- on the examples!
#1: Demosthenes Did you know?
I fell in love with a lot of girls… and I'm talking lots of girls!
I was that guy in school that was friends with everyone, but I could never manage to
bring myself to ask anyone out on a date.
And as soon as I got over one girl, another would make me go gaga and completely make
me fall in love again!
Of course, this fed into tv shows, as well as cosplayers.
Anywhere from all the anime I watched as a kid- Dragon Ball Z with Bulma, Pokemon with
most of the main girls, Yu-Gi-Oh with tea, and a few on digimon, naruto, Inuyasha, beyblade,
and others…
I was a very hopeless romantic with a lot of love to give… and I was too scared to
give it away… but now I can- and she's so happy I can- there's no way to tell you
how much in love I am within her!
You see, I like women… mainly, strong women with a sense of innocence.
I like to be the white knight on the shining rhino, but I do know that I'm very weak
sometimes, and I need someone to back me up when I fall down.
So yeah, that's the first rule of Anime Character Love: The Type of Character You
Adore!
No matter what, you always gauge people on their levels of what you expect out of someone
to fall in love with- anyone who is gay will also do this with the opposite sex, anyone
who is straight will do this with the same sex… it's all about if you act on those
impulses that make you have a certain sexual preference.
#2: VVhispr Over the years, I've watched over 100 different
anime or animated shows and movies.
Each speaking to me in its own way- some I laughed at, some I cried during, and others
angered me.
But when the show introduces that one special character, the one that sticks in your mind
the most, you develop feelings for this person.
It could be any emotion: fear, hate, joy, anger…
It doesn't matter.
That's when you know the writer has accomplished their job at making a believable person.
I've fallen in love with many animated characters because of exactly that.
In my freshman year of high school, I had moved into a new home and had not gotten a
TV in my room, so I had to watch shows on my iPod Touch.
I binged watched Bleach this way on YouTube, and random sites on the internet, and did
so with Inuyasha- *clears throat* at first I didn't know how I felt about the lead
female character.
I was unsure why I felt so weird why I watched it in full as I have seen episodes here or
there on adult swim and wanted to watch the full series.
After I reached the halfway- uh, halfway through season 3, I realized I was in love with an
anime character.
I felt excited but weirded out about it.
I felt embarrassed and ashamed.
As well, I thought if I told anybody, they'd laugh at me.
It's not embarrassing or shameful.
If the writing and design of a character are pleasing to your brain, it will develop an
attachment to that character as if they were real.
As if you had gone through the same experiences and could feel exactly how they feel.
Plus if you like hentai, then your brain is sexually attracted, to not to the animation
design, but the knowledge that the picture you are seeing is a human.
Not discounting any sexual preferences other than humans, but for simplicity's sake,
99.99% of the human race finds the human to be the most sexually attractive creature on
Earth- just sayin' At most, when you come to love an anime character
about halfway through their story, or past an intense emotional event, this is what's
known as Intimacy.
You've come to crush on them because you're empathizing with their situation!
This is also just one of the reasons marriages between two people who don't even know their
history apart or together are doomed to fail.
Like, you can be intimate with your best friend, or also someone who you don't view as a
taboo relationship.
Of course, taboo relationships are sometimes gonna happen, so you have to be careful what
path you choose to go down with that intimacy!
#3: SoniLoid What were my anime crushes?
When we see something we love, we immediately will choose either to pounce or to wait or
to walk away.
But, to fully fall in love with someone, you'd have to hear their stories over and over again
and their life to get even close to falling head over heels- if it's not that case,
it may just be a manifest infatuation based on physical quirks- not just appearance, but
also voice, actions, and the like.
This is called INFATUATION.
This is important; Infatuation is just one of three types of domineering loves that make
consummate love.
I'll hand you back over to Captain Mirabella of the Fenrir Pirate Ship for more!
#4: Mirabella O'Niel Ahoy, ladies and gentlemen, captain Mirabella's
here!
I think that each and every person who has ever got into something new has had the feeling
which I am going to describe.
You know, when you open some of Shakespeare's novels and you wish you could experience same
feelings, which are described.
You wish you could see several different worlds, which may be shown on paper pages or in video
games.
It may be space, it may be phantasy, in maybe steampunk, mixed with utopia...
But I think the closest dream for me was to meet some of my favorite characters from cartoons
and animes later.
Agree, fellas?
My first crush was a furry.
You know, that fox guy from Disney's Robin Hood, which was released lo-ong before my
birth.
I think because of that arrogant gentlemen-thief I am into...
Well.
Noble badasses.
I am a pirate of noble blood, after all!
But I was pretty small to understand, where this kind of enjoying the characters would
lead me.
I was...
6 or 7, I think.
Hormones went completely off the rail when I was 12.
Still liking the evil side, I wish I could be a part of a Pokemon world as a villain,
a member of team Galactic particularly - that toon on Jetix was my favorite.
Around that time I found that precious world of internet.
Roleplay forums to be exact.
Pokemon ones.
At 13 I came to the state, in which I have been living 'til today.
WEABOO.
I sank into the world of anime.
In each one there was a character, which I would mentally add to my harem.
First fanfictions, first original characters, first Mary Sues.
Ah, so nostalgic!
But..
Those were just the characters and phantasies.
No canon.
Like.
At all.
Just my own world of imagination of a teenage girl with no life except school!
Ha!
Ha.
Ha...
... ANYWAYS.
Year 2013.
I found a new forum Pokemon game.
But there was s-o-m-e-t-h-i-n-g different at that time.
I was 16.
And I had a new "crush".
And remember - that was just a sympathy.
But nothing more!
By the way, I usually tend to have similar tastes in my bishie-guys.
1) Usually, that was a guy.
2) A really tall guy.
3) Usually - villainous.
Most of the cases.
4) Gentlemen manners.
A bit flirty too!
As a HUGE bonus go long capes, coats, wavy hair or long hair with a low ponytail.
(And of course, there are exceptions!
One of the freshest examples is from "Boku no hero academia".
It should have been Todoroki...
But no.
A guy with a cool shadow and a raven-head stole my heart.
Tokoyami, my precious little birdie >w<) This time wasn't different, except the fact,
that this character was on a good side.
He was on my wallpaper, I was writing a fic about his presence and love story again, but...
You know.
Again, that was just my imagination world.
But what if all your phantasies became...
Real?
So.
When I saw the avatars of the administration, I was eager to write such a good profile,
so that *that* guy of admins would check it and say, that I am allowed to play.
At that time a lot of Japanese classic RPGs were gathering their popularity...
So a lot of players took characters from JRPGs as avatars.
Yup.
My dream boy at that time was Garry from "Ib".
A noble one, gentleman one, emotional, overprotective, ready to sacrifice.
Tall and handsome, also with a bonus as several my favorite Pokemon in his team!
But now, because of that dude, I can't call Garry...
As Garry.
There is a much more fitting name for that character!...
Basically, a girl met her dream.
Being cute, being polite and being interested in the same "fandoms" as himself, I won over
his heart in several days.
Via text and personal messages, of course.
That had used to be my curse...
But that is another story.
Also, when you are a roleplayer, it's really easy to describe all that fluffiness.
I lived like in a dream.
And that paradise continued for me...
Two months.
I almost screamed when he called me "princess", I was amazed, how jealous he could get towards
some NPCs!
How tender he could be, but sometimes he could get cruel, sly and...
Pretty scary.
For people who would try to harm me.
...But that was just a fairytale.
And, as we live in reality, not with a happy ending.
At first.
At the end of the summer, he left me with such words:
"I want my princess not to lost in the fake reality."
For a year I felt terrible.
He deleted all the profiles in each and every network, changes his phone number, cut all
the connections.
But.
You know.
I couldn't understand almost for a year, why had he done it.
But after a while I...
Got it.
I knew nothing about him was real, except that he studied for psychology.
I fell for a character.
I enjoyed being with a character.
But everything was fictional.
And he wanted just...
Help me.
Help me falling for reality and not to wait for something exceptional from a character.
That is a problem of many roleplayers, actually.
We fall for characters, such cool, outstanding and unusual.
But we tend to forget one thing.
Those.
Are.
Irreal.
And there are so many amazing things to learn and see!
Nathaniel, I want to thank you once more.
He was the one who helped me to make the first step to see, that reality is unfair, but can
be likable too.
And also that when you fall for a character, remember, that he is not alive.
Since that time I stopped shipping my characters with canon ones and gave myself a promise:
differ fictional world from the real one.
For now...
Well.
I have been obsessed with one anime character.
Figures, arts as a wallpaper...
All the same.
*Giggles* But this time I know: that is just a cool
character.
Nothing more.
Living in the real world is not a bad thing after all.
Try it!
Sail with the noble pirate and show the World, how marvelous it is!
The third and final piece to the triangle of love is Commitment.
This is what you'd give you yourself, or others you don't even like, like your boss,
or your students or teachers.
This love is also called empty love- but without it, you'll never be able to make consummate
love which is all 3 combined!
With Infatuation of Appearance, Intimacy of attitude and history, and commitment of self
and selflessness, we come to consummate love.
Of course, this is just the 3 single ones- each on can be combined without just one to
make another love: Intimacy + Infatuation = Romance
Intimacy + Commitment = Companionship Infatuation + Commitment = Fatuous Love (silly
or playful- pointless) These 7 complete loves are also the seven
loves in Latin texts.
• Eros (Romance) • Philia (Infatuation)
• Storge (Commitment) • Agape (Intimacy)
• Ludus (Fatuous) • Pragma (Companionship)
• Philautia (Love of self)
Consummate love is not exactly a Latin pretext of philosophical love- more or less, it is
a culmination of all of these loves.
In true consummate love, you'll be having romance, be feeling butterflies, will be committed
to them, be intimate by knowing their past, fool around every once in a while- together
hopefully, be companions and be the ultimate friends, and also love for yourself to know
that sometimes you have to sacrifice someone else's happiness sometimes.
What did you think?
Tell us in the comments how you feel about this, maybe give your own examples!
You can catch Soniloid's, Whisper's, and Mirabella's channels in the links down below!
Thank you all- my great friends.
I hope we can all do more collaborations together
in the future on thousands of different subjects! [outro]
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