Why Don’t You Mention the Merits of Anime?!

There is a question that frequently arises: Why do you not acknowledge the merits of these works just as you highlight their flaws?
Do they not inspire hope, foster a resilience for life, nurture a longing for peace, and strengthen the bonds of friendship, along with other commendable virtues?

Our response is this: This argument, wrapped in the guise of empathy and fairness, is in reality nothing more than an age-old fallacy that beautifies ugliness and markets falsehood!
Not everything that momentarily warms the heart is beneficial to the mind, nor is everything that sparks enthusiasm in the soul fit for building human character.

Many of these works have accustomed audiences to quick doses of pleasure, only to leave behind a lingering void of attachment, delusion, and restlessness.

True, these works may adorn themselves with glittering slogans: friendship, loyalty, patience, perseverance, and never giving up. However, the question is not whether these themes exist, but rather: In what form are they presented, for what purpose are they planted, and at what cost are they acquired?
When virtue is showcased in a mold of exaggerated fantasy, impossible heroics, and manufactured emotions, it loses much of its educational value. It turns into a mere dramatic effect—consumed like a catchy song and then forgotten.

The greatest critique of these works is that they condition the mind for escapism rather than engagement. They teach individuals to anchor their hopes in illusory images rather than real-world action, and to substitute a complex reality with a world tailor-made to their desires.

Consequently, they foster a life lived within fantasy while weakening the capacity for contemplation, seriousness, and discipline. Those who grow accustomed to consuming content this way gradually begins to seek a superficial, packaged life—where every problem is solved with a scream, every pain is erased in a single scene, and every crisis is overcome by a mysterious power or a dramatic coincidence.

Furthermore, many of these works do not merely waste time; they hijack both aesthetic taste and intellect. They inundate the soul with visual and auditory clamor, conditioning it to excessive stimulation until reflection becomes boring, reading feels tedious, and reality seems too slow to endure.

This is one of the most perilous harms: that a person becomes progressively incapable of enduring honest effort because they have become addicted to easy entertainment, quick fixes, and ready-made emotions.

The issue is not confined to wasting time or inflating the imagination; it extends to the corruption of perception and values. Many of these shows normalize violence as heroism, rebellion as liberation, and supernatural phenomena as the path to meaning. They romanticize toxic relationships and blur the lines between strength and arrogance, boldness and insolence, and true love and pathological attachment or psychological fragility.

In fact, some even open doors to superstitious, magical concepts and ambiguous ideological and intellectual symbols, gradually tainting one's innate disposition (Fitrah) without the viewer even realizing it.

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Channel: Humat Athughoor (Guards of the Frontiers)
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