I asked this question this week and I decided to find out for myself if binging anime is more healthy than weekly watching it. By the end of this trial, I can say that weekly watching a series is pretty healthy, and binging a series is very unhealthy to your mental health and physical health. This is what I find out on my test.
You can’t stop clicking the next episode when binging
This is very unhealthy because you can’t stop the urge to press the next episode on the remote. This is because the brain releases this thing called dopamine which is the feel-good chemical on the brain. The brain trick you to press the next episode to find out what happens next episode, this is very dangerous because it hacks your reward system of the brain and can result in it being messed up and unmanageable. If you can’t manage your reward system or dopamine levels in your brain. This will result in your life being kinda mess up. If your reward system on the brain is messed up, your life will become the same too.
An example of this is when you can’t manage the reward system on your brain by binging shows, your sleep schedule will be messed up. When you can’t fight your urges to press the next episode your sleep schedule will take a toll on it. Especially when watching anime at night. You won’t notice the time passing by and when you look at the time, it's already 1 am in the morning. If you can’t manage this rewards system on your brain it will affect your sleep schedule that is important on a healthy body
Another example of this is when you watch and binge anime in the morning. When you do this, this will turn out to be a wrong decision in your life. Watching anime in the morning based on research and my experience will ruin your day. This is so true because again of the reward system on your brain is called “dopamine” when you activate it and have an excessive thing of this in the morning. It will hack your body to be not active and you will feel that your day is ruined. You feel your body become heavy and your eyes become heavy. This is so unhealthy thing to do in the morning, so you shouldn't binge or watch shows in the morning.
If you binge a series there is no sense of community
When binging something, you feel that you are the only one who is watching the series. In my personal opinion, watching an anime weekly makes someone not alone in the process. This is because when you watched it weekly, it is still a fresh thing that came out to date, so people will talk about it. Unlike binging things, people might forget what the anime is all about because it is forgotten in memory. Weekly watching a show is pretty fun even the series or anime you are watching is trash.
An example of this is when the redo of the healer just came out. People and their grandma talked about how to trash the series was. Even though the anime is kinda trash, to be honest, but still, the reaction of the people on that show was kinda hilarious to watch. It makes the anime more fun to watch because of the conversation you have and the talks on the streets.
Watching weekly is more fun because of these conversations and the sense of community.
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