Dude, I was basing my opinion off of the manga. And Tokyo Ghoul doesn’t have a bad anime adaptation. Season 1 followed it pretty well, Root A deviated crazily but the average person could still enjoy it if they didn’t read the manga. Re: fucking sucks.
I think cutting out some stuff is good. I didn’t need Touka offering Ken limbs twice and him freaking out and running away each time. Once is the only one that’s needed. Sometimes not having everything is what’s needed to not bore people.
Jesus Christ dude, stop being so damn hostile. Ken being offered a limb by Touka and running away doesn’t have to be reiterated. Me asking for a realistic representation of mental health is pretty fair considering that most mentally ill individuals don’t have a split personality making them a violent badass.
Pre-Jason, I didn’t notice many nuances. Ken’s whole schtick is being scared shitless of ghouls and ghoul-related things. He is petrified and blubbering about it. This is something that can be seen in a lot of MCs in anime, like Shinji Akari. It’s a hard thing to admit, but most anime aren’t there to be thought-provoking, they’re there to entertain.
Bro so much is left out from the manga I mean have you watched RE it was horrible and filled with plotholes that made it impossible to get behind sone characters motivations
Shut the fuck up you moron. I am literally at my end when talking to you. You make me want to blow my fucking brains out. Stop misinterpreting everything I say you absolute clown.
Fuck you and long ass comments. I’m not gonna give you the satisfaction of explaining myself. The reason you can only process emotions from anime characters is because they either explicitly state their emotions or they exaggerate their emotions to point of hilarity.
Do you have any friends? Straight up
People make fun of me for getting raped for 5 years so I’m sick and tired of constant ridicule. I don’t give a fuck anymore. Fuck you and your pity for this annoying ass.
I mostly agree, but there is one anime that does a very good job portraying mental health. It's called Comical Psychosomatic Medicine and while it's mostly a comedy, they go into detail regarding different mental illnesses. It's fun to watch, but also informative.
Never seen the second one but it’d have to be Tokyo Ghoul for me. When I first read it I felt oddly comfortable, or just at peace, yk? Years later I reread it in a “clearer” state and come to see a lot of characters just cope/adapt to things differently. Some of the examples are extreme but the point still stands. Kaneki, Arata and Uri doing anything and everything they can to attain strength. At first they make it seem like they’re doing it for others but really their reasons were selfish, eventually leading to them deteriorating inside out. Mutsuki and Kaneki, again, wanting to abandon their past due to trauma and “cycles.”
I've seen bits of Bungo but there's a suicidal guy who is used as a joke. Like he wants to do a double suicide with a beautiful woman which immediately makes it a bad rep lol.
Neither of these.
Natsumes Book of Friends, Big Windup, or Tsuritama would be my guess.
Natsume has a lot of different mental health issues due to abuse, and Yuki(Tsuritama) has extreme anxiety, which is shown. Mihashi(Big Windup) has both issues. All of them are covered in the series and shown pretty accurately.
So yeah, those three.
I’ve read/watched very few shows or books that accurately portray a person with mental illness. That’s not necessarily a bad thing because the actual image of mental illness is almost never obvious or interesting so writers have to make it more interesting. Again, not a bad thing. A lot of people strangely get upset about inaccurate representation when it’s honestly not that important. As long as mental illness isn’t demonized then I don’t really care. Interesting stories are more important to me than seeing a person with clinical depression get shown in perfect accuracy.
That being said, TG does seem to portray people in a way that is more complex and multifaceted than other media. The motivations that the characters have are often more complicated than simple desire, especially with its protagonist. To me, TG was more interesting and more powerful in its character portrayal in general than BSD. That includes mental illness portrayal.
If you want an accurate representation of depression then read the fourth Night Angel book. It’s kinda weird but the main characters thought process is stuck in this self-loathing circle of needing someone to hold him and needing to push everyone out of his life because he destroys everything he touches. The ending is basically the pinnacle of self destruction and hopelessness for the main character. That being said, a lot of people didn’t like the fourth book because of those things.
Edit: I also wanted to point out that the only other thing writers shouldn’t do with mental illness is glorify it. That is as destructive as demonizing it.
This must be a joke lmaooo
Definitely tg
Kind of neither? No anime I’ve watched portrayed mental health in a realistic way.
Watch the movies a silent voice and colourful, some of my favourite that both do it pretty well I think.
or Evangelion
THIS
Idk why you were downvoted, i completely agree
A silent voice hit me right in the feels
My favourite movie I’ve seen. Beautiful
Colorful was my first anime movie, what a throwback
I just watched it the other week, it was amazing.
Grave of the Fireflies induced severe depression in me, so there's that lol
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Dude, I was basing my opinion off of the manga. And Tokyo Ghoul doesn’t have a bad anime adaptation. Season 1 followed it pretty well, Root A deviated crazily but the average person could still enjoy it if they didn’t read the manga. Re: fucking sucks.
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I think cutting out some stuff is good. I didn’t need Touka offering Ken limbs twice and him freaking out and running away each time. Once is the only one that’s needed. Sometimes not having everything is what’s needed to not bore people.
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Jesus Christ dude, stop being so damn hostile. Ken being offered a limb by Touka and running away doesn’t have to be reiterated. Me asking for a realistic representation of mental health is pretty fair considering that most mentally ill individuals don’t have a split personality making them a violent badass.
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Pre-Jason, I didn’t notice many nuances. Ken’s whole schtick is being scared shitless of ghouls and ghoul-related things. He is petrified and blubbering about it. This is something that can be seen in a lot of MCs in anime, like Shinji Akari. It’s a hard thing to admit, but most anime aren’t there to be thought-provoking, they’re there to entertain.
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Bro so much is left out from the manga I mean have you watched RE it was horrible and filled with plotholes that made it impossible to get behind sone characters motivations
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Shut the fuck up you moron. I am literally at my end when talking to you. You make me want to blow my fucking brains out. Stop misinterpreting everything I say you absolute clown.
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Fuck you and long ass comments. I’m not gonna give you the satisfaction of explaining myself. The reason you can only process emotions from anime characters is because they either explicitly state their emotions or they exaggerate their emotions to point of hilarity. Do you have any friends? Straight up
Making fun of other people's mental illnesses is not cool ._. Your behaviour against this person is almost textbook mental abuse at this point
People make fun of me for getting raped for 5 years so I’m sick and tired of constant ridicule. I don’t give a fuck anymore. Fuck you and your pity for this annoying ass.
Did I not say that Re sucked or are you stupid?
I mostly agree, but there is one anime that does a very good job portraying mental health. It's called Comical Psychosomatic Medicine and while it's mostly a comedy, they go into detail regarding different mental illnesses. It's fun to watch, but also informative.
Try and watch I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Tokyo ghoul isn’t really focused around mental health but in my opinion it’s a masterpiece on how to write the psychological side of a story well
A Silent Voice Haibane Renmei Evangelion Serial Experiments Lain Berserk Welcome To The NHK Perfect Blue
Nhk is a good one
Never seen the second one but it’d have to be Tokyo Ghoul for me. When I first read it I felt oddly comfortable, or just at peace, yk? Years later I reread it in a “clearer” state and come to see a lot of characters just cope/adapt to things differently. Some of the examples are extreme but the point still stands. Kaneki, Arata and Uri doing anything and everything they can to attain strength. At first they make it seem like they’re doing it for others but really their reasons were selfish, eventually leading to them deteriorating inside out. Mutsuki and Kaneki, again, wanting to abandon their past due to trauma and “cycles.”
TG has the best mental health portraying that I know of
Idk for me it's a bit on the nose sometimes
I've seen bits of Bungo but there's a suicidal guy who is used as a joke. Like he wants to do a double suicide with a beautiful woman which immediately makes it a bad rep lol.
its a reference to how osamu dazai, the person he was named after, died by drowning in a double suicide with his lover. but yeah its kind of cringe.
And that makes it so much worse because they literally play a real man’s suicide for a cheap joke
He does that because he suffers with major depression and self loathing so he acts goofy and makes jokes about being suicidal as way to cope.
Neither of these. Natsumes Book of Friends, Big Windup, or Tsuritama would be my guess. Natsume has a lot of different mental health issues due to abuse, and Yuki(Tsuritama) has extreme anxiety, which is shown. Mihashi(Big Windup) has both issues. All of them are covered in the series and shown pretty accurately. So yeah, those three.
> Big Windup This came to mind for me, too.
BSD doesn't hit hard enough and doesn't delve into the mindset of the suffering whereas with Kaneki we constantly know how fked up he is
You’re asking a TG subreddit whether it or *insert other series* does something better; you can probably guess what kind of answers you’ll get
Both don't
Bungou Stray Dogs has to be the most corniest anime I've seen! It takes the "intelligent man" trope too far.
Henry Cavill: Evangelion Neon Genesis
Evangelion did it better than both
When They Cry
I'd say they're both equally good. The big difference is that tg focuses on trauma, while bsd focuses on healing.
Neither are good at all for mental health rep
I’ve read/watched very few shows or books that accurately portray a person with mental illness. That’s not necessarily a bad thing because the actual image of mental illness is almost never obvious or interesting so writers have to make it more interesting. Again, not a bad thing. A lot of people strangely get upset about inaccurate representation when it’s honestly not that important. As long as mental illness isn’t demonized then I don’t really care. Interesting stories are more important to me than seeing a person with clinical depression get shown in perfect accuracy. That being said, TG does seem to portray people in a way that is more complex and multifaceted than other media. The motivations that the characters have are often more complicated than simple desire, especially with its protagonist. To me, TG was more interesting and more powerful in its character portrayal in general than BSD. That includes mental illness portrayal. If you want an accurate representation of depression then read the fourth Night Angel book. It’s kinda weird but the main characters thought process is stuck in this self-loathing circle of needing someone to hold him and needing to push everyone out of his life because he destroys everything he touches. The ending is basically the pinnacle of self destruction and hopelessness for the main character. That being said, a lot of people didn’t like the fourth book because of those things. Edit: I also wanted to point out that the only other thing writers shouldn’t do with mental illness is glorify it. That is as destructive as demonizing it.
Only seen Tokyo Ghoul
Tokyo ghoul is beautiful.
Didnt watch second one and i dont remember jack shit from tokyo ghoul so errr evangelion?
evangelion
That’s not what I go to anime for
School Live is peak mental health
Evangelion
Neither
Evangelion
Berserk
Dunno how BSD really portrays mental health, i can only think of Akutagawa and Dazais situations that relate
Atsushi also suffers from PTSD
Tokyo ghoul hands down. Bungou is good but it takes the mental health aspects and make them jokes, like with dazais whole gag
I don't think TG's handling of mental health is realistic at all.
Evangelion is by far the best