>>62215632All forms of entertainment that are based on people are consumed through the same systems by which you "consume" real people. By default, they form parasocial relationships of some sort. Each and every one of them, from books to tv shows.
You can't enjoy an anime character (or any story) unless you connect to that anime character with the same brain connections with which you would connect to other people. The only problem is when people fail to differentiate where those connections come from and think fiction and reality are the same (and believe me there are VERY FEW of those), or when people give too much priority to that form of entertainment over their own life (and that's common to any form of entertainment, not just people-based).
Attaching "unhealthy" to that is nothing more than a generalization that stems out of how this whole discussion became politicized and turned into a buzzword mashup (no offense to
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>Hope I don't start a big argument with thisMe neither, It has always been something interesting to talk about. This general is pretty calm, I don't think anything will happen unless a turbotourist comes along
btw I'm having a date with this cutie, what do I do, friends...
