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Title: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Waifu on March 30, 2009, 06:25:42 PM
I don't know if thus truly happens in real life but do defeats in action anime really equal friendship? I guess once someone has experienced the 'agony of defeat' they come to fear the person who had defeated them and become their 'friends', what hurts more than a wound from 'friend'? I don't know whether this is truly friendship or just plain brainwashing (or whatever the term is) to come around to that person's point of view but I don't believe that beating the crap out of some poor guy means 'friendship' or anything of that nature yet I see it all the time in shows like Bleach, Nanoha or even some other action show where the hero gets allies by beating them or 'befriend' them with their superior moral aptitude via fighting power. Is this truly realistic or I do just need to experience this in real life to get an accurate assessment of this?
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Nekomata on March 30, 2009, 06:28:52 PM
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Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Satoryu on March 30, 2009, 06:32:28 PM
not everyone has a change of heart after being defeated. some get really bitter, which is far more realistic. and some only lay off a little bit, turning a hatred into a simple rivalry. like Vegeta after the Frieza saga..
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: RMX on March 30, 2009, 06:47:53 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/HitomiNeko/5c475bea.jpg)


How many episodes of Nanoha would I have to watch to get to the acclaimed befriending?

Is this truly realistic or I do just need to experience this in real life to get an accurate assessment of this?

Sure, why would anime portray reality unrealistically?
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Nekomata on March 30, 2009, 06:58:26 PM
How many episodes of Nanoha would I have to watch to get to the acclaimed befriending?
last few episodes of the first series~
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Psycho Yuffie on March 30, 2009, 08:06:19 PM
G Gundam is pretty much all about this...
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Protoman Blues on March 30, 2009, 08:20:08 PM
Is this truly realistic or I do just need to experience this in real life to get an accurate assessment of this?

 :o

...Just so I'm clear on this, you're gonna go kick someone's ass, or have your ass handed to you, and hope you become that person's friend?
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Sky Child on March 30, 2009, 10:43:28 PM
There's no logic behind anime character's actions, but rather the people who wrote those actions for them. If it happens, it happens because the director told it to.
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Acid on March 30, 2009, 11:18:00 PM
But all the wrestlers are friends!

They love each other!
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Gaia on March 30, 2009, 11:25:15 PM
But all the wrestlers are friends!

They love each other!

Reminds me of Mucha Lucha, though it's not technically an anime, but I am sure it applies to Bakugan or Beyblade, which are. It probably applies to Pokemon as well, probably has whoever makes a friend, winds up in the opening of the show.

"Be a friend, by beating the [parasitic bomb] outta them and learn needless morals in the end!"
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Align on March 30, 2009, 11:31:12 PM
Actually, when I was still taking fencing lessons, there was the occasional time when I was up against someone at exactly the same skill level as me, and those times were by far the most fun and exciting - I could easily see bonding with my opponent post-duel if it weren't for the way it was set up, everyone switching around after a victor is declared.
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Sapphire✧9 on March 30, 2009, 11:37:19 PM
^ Casshern and Dio want to say hello to you GAP.
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Flame on March 30, 2009, 11:58:20 PM
As do Zero and Omega.
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Quickman on March 31, 2009, 06:18:14 AM
Is this truly realistic or I do just need to experience this in real life to get an accurate assessment of this?


I can give you an accurate assessment.  When I was regularly harrassed and/or beaten up, I grew to loathe my tormentors with a burning passion.  Other people I knew who were harrassed and/or beaten up also grew to loathe their tormentors with a burning passion.  If you're routinely beaten up, you grow to loathe your tormentor with a burning passion.

Unless you're some kinda masochist.  To which I say to each their own...
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Yami Blade on March 31, 2009, 06:28:14 AM
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b344/Zackarius_Lunas/Befriended.jpg)
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Fxeni on March 31, 2009, 06:34:43 AM
If it's a really close match in a tournament of some sort without knowing the other person beforehand, there's a slight chance. Otherwise... hell no.
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: borockman on March 31, 2009, 06:37:47 AM
Depends, I became a best friend with this one guy coz of ping pong games (aka beat each other up).  We become some sort of rival or something.  8D 
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Tickle Buffalo on March 31, 2009, 08:17:13 AM
I can give you an accurate assessment.

But were there superpowers involved? Superpowers are very important.
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Quickman on March 31, 2009, 08:19:34 AM
Ooh, good point.  Here, I was more concerned with the average schmoe, but apparently GAP was curious about those who're above and beyond us mere mortals.  Well, in that case... I can't accurately answer that.  Anyone here with superpowers?
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Solar on March 31, 2009, 08:22:28 AM
I say that if it's something competitive, like a tournament, then friendship is certainly a possibility. However, if it's a life or death situation, no [tornado fang]ing way that'd ever happen: "Oh hi, I'm the guy that was trying to kill you 5 minutes ago, lets be friends :D"
Title: Re: Do defeats really mean friendship?
Post by: Aresian on April 01, 2009, 12:58:56 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/HitomiNeko/5c475bea.jpg)


Yep. That's my answer.

... Please, as if I contribute anymore.