Is this weird?

[Asami_Shirogane]

When I read random books (such as the George RR Martin books) before watching movie adaptations featuring RL actors, I often envision them as anime characters rather than real people. This is primarily caused by my former binge watching weeb habits I used to have before the shackles of life caused me to get a job to survive. But I still have the tendency to envision them as anime characters as a means of getting immersed into the series. Is there something wrong with me or does anyone else have a similar mindset?

 

[EternalSunset0]

No. Speaking from someone just as weeb as you, no.

 

[iamaducklingwriter]

No. I lack in imagination department and I can't imagine real people while I read. I often see them as anime or animals...(don't ask why animals, I just do)

 

[Saileri]

That's just how your imagination works in the major aspect. Those who never got into animu or just really disliked it will envision things via "real life" filter or movie-like stuff. So, your brain kinda uses what you like. I've seen the change myself. When I started reading fantasy as a kid I didn't know of animu and my brain mostly used movies, then one day switched mostly to animated filter as I started enjoying these more than normal movies.

 

[Deleted member 29316]

The loss of imagination would make you into a boring adult, so it's fine if you imagine things and people that way.

 

[CheertheDead]

I somehow imagine it the other way around perhaps because all the live action adaptations that ruined my anime vision.

 

[Ruriha]

As long as it's stuck on your head, should be fine... I think. It'd be a different story if you started seeing everything as anime in real life.

 

[Pujimaki]

No... but if you're imagining a gore and seinen genre where you imagine them dying in a gruesome way.... Well, that's bad, I tell you.

 

[BenJepheneT]

Sometimes when I read a novel I avoid finding the adaptations or the visual counterparts.

It's to avoid being disappointed.

 

[Deleted member 46002]

I think that there is nothing strange about it. Nevertheless, I imagine my main characters in the anime world as well while I am writing :).

 

[Maple-Leaf]

Asking a bunch of degenerates whether you're weird is an easy way to get a no, but yeah I'm pretty sure that's normal.

 

[ZynGrand]

I do that sometimes. Nothing strange about it. I think it immerses me as well, too.

One significant memory I have of something like this is when I read the Percy Jackson book series.
I imagined the female lead as looking like a child I saw on the cover of a picture book. It was quite weird to see her as a real person in the movies.

I think it's funny seeing the real thing compared to what you imagine like if you read a Tomb Raider novel and imagined her as Dora the Explorer.

 

[K5Rakitan]

That sounds awesome! I might fall in love with more fictional characters if I saw them as anime characters. Just enjoy life and like what you like <3

 

[Asami_Shirogane]

No... but if you're imagining a gore and seinen genre where you imagine them dying in a gruesome way.... Well, that's bad, I tell you.

> George RR Martin
> Blood and Gore imagery

I don't think you can escape the inevitably of running into a scene like this. And considering I've seen gory anime like Hellsing Ultimate, my mind can perfectly mold a gory scene.

 

[Discount_Blade]

When I read random books (such as the George RR Martin books) before watching movie adaptations featuring RL actors, I often envision them as anime characters rather than real people. This is primarily caused by my former binge watching weeb habits I used to have before the shackles of life caused me to get a job to survive. But I still have the tendency to envision them as anime characters as a means of getting immersed into the series. Is there something wrong with me or does anyone else have a similar mindset?

Nope. I don't even watch anime anymore except to rewatch the ones I currently own on DVD. And I only own (Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, S-Cry-Ed, and all of Black Lagoon) and sometimes I go back into the classic Inuyasha or Yuyu Hakusho. I don't watch anything new. The last new anime I watched was Gundam's Iron-Blooded Orphans when that was coming out. The ONLY recent thing I've contemplated trying is the new Dragonball Super's and I'm still hesitating on it because the last Dragonball Z arc I cared for was the Cell Saga. I found the Buu Saga lackluster by comparison and Dragonball GT was just all-around lame to me. Naruto Shippuden's bullshit ending and the mere existence of Boruto is what finally broke me and now I can't make myself watch anything new anymore. Burnt too often. I also am far, far stricter on what manga's I read. If I see even a hint of some sort of development I despise, I drop it. Moderation is not a specialty of Asian/Eastern entertainment. I'm just fed up with certain tropes and plot-weaknesses. And yet even with all this, I STILL ALWAYS imagine MY characters and ANYONE'S character as anime characters in my mind as I envision something.

I think it's just something that happens after you watch anime. It's like a psychological sticky-thing that sticks with you even after you've lost the majority of your interest in that specific type of media entertainment.