CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

to cry for fictional characters? Is it ok to be sad when something doesn't go right in a story? Is it ok to feel the character's pain? Is it? Let's just say some people told me I wasn't mature because of this...and that I take fiction way too seriously....I'm starting to feel like something's wrong with me...Why is it...when we're little we can be sensitive like this...but once we're older....it's looked upon as strange or weird?

I think it's absolutely fine. While I've never cried for a fictional character (and I rarely cry for anyone/anything in real life anyway), I've had quite a few characters I really felt pain for or was really upset when things just didn't go right. I think it shows you're a very caring person and the character description has been done well enough to make you feel for even fictional persons.

i dont think anything is wrong with it

example....I cried five times today over that PPG doujinshi....*sniff* great...here I go again...

*sniff* what about watching movies?

There's nothing wrong with crying over fictional characters. I'm sure I speak for a good deal of the people at CAA when I say I've cried for them more than once in my life. A good storyteller is able to make the reader or the viewer feel right along with the characters - it's perfectly natural.

I sure hope not! I've cried over fictional characters.

As been in the department of Sociology in University of Washington Seattle which Sociology is been define as scientific Study of human group behavior I find such behavior a normal process of human emotion. That God created us as social creature that we been socialize to feel certain things so it is nature to feel attach to a ficitional character or characters that we can identify with. And feel the pain and joy as they have so as for you it is within the range of been a normal human being so you are ok bakura_fan and for the rest of you if you feel like to cry over fictional characters please do it is nothing wrong with it.

Why not? I think it's a good way to develop compassion for other people. In reading about a fictional character's life and sharing their pain, you learn that you can feel other people's pain if you take the chance to get to know what their lives are like too.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting emotionally involved with a story as long as its not interfering with real life too much; if you go into a depression over some anime you watched, it might be best to take a break from it! In any case, no one has a right to make fun of you for getting attached to characters, even if you cry once in a while.

On the other hand, it sounds like you're taking the Power Puff Girls a bit too seriously. I'm only on chapter 2 of the comic, but cartoon network PPG was made just for laughs, not tears, and I dont think this manga version has strayed too far from that yet. I myself have laughed a few times at how the author portrays all the C.N. characters

When you get caught up on the doujin, you'll realize why she cried...I teared up as well.

There's nothing wrong with crying for fictional characters. How many people cry at movies that are fiction? Just means you're senstive to the pain of others and, like someone else mentioned, the author connected with you. I cried at the end of Spindle's End even though it was a happy ending.

i cried in the first spiderman movie....

badaboom, badabing

heh heh heh! i cry at fictional characters all the time, or... cry FOR them i guess you would say..... hey, i cry in star wars....

Nah, there's nothing wrong with crying for them. I don't cry too often, but I cried when my favorite anime character died; I cry for him every time. I've cried for characters in a book before too; the stories are so well written sometimes that you feel like you really know the characters.

Well I just got done reading PPGD chapter 4 and I cant blame you for crying now; that thing got a lot darker than I would have expected!

if there's something wrong with you, then we're all crazy too XD

there's not a thing wrong with it. just be yourself. if you wanna cry because something bad happened to your favorite character, then go ahead, and ignore people when they criticize you for it.

What if it's your own family that critisized? *once and effected alot*

^^ My dad thinks I take things waaaay too seriously. I cry in movies, over books, sometimes even just touching chain emails. I don't think they're meaning to say there's something wrong with you, just that they wouldn't cry over something like that. But as you can see, there are tons of people who are more sensitive to this kind of stuff.

Families usually criticize over a lot of stuff, I think it's meant more in fun than actually saying something is wrong. My brother and sister and I make fun of each other's clothes, music, food, the like. We never mean to hurt the other or say they have a problem, it's just what family does. ^^

Nope! Nothing wrong with you. Like someone else said, though, if it's making you truly depressed... maybe there's something else going on under the surface that gets triggered by other things that are seemingly "trivial."

Anyway, I cry at books and movies too, sometimes. I've cried hard at certain Stephen Lawhead books. I cry every time I watch Kiki's Delivery Service, and that's not even sad. It's normal to cry for fictional characters. Just make sure you are keeping fact and fiction in their rightful places, and not letting fiction affect real life too much.

YOu know what crying over a character's struggles usually means?

It means that the story was written by a skilled writer. Making you feel their feelings is how they make their money.

I have no problem with being emotional about a fictional story.

Rai