Hello, welcome!!! In this post we will learn about Animes that never existed if the characters went to therapy. Among them animes well known to the general public.

Animes that would never exist if characters went to therapy

Death note

First, if a mental disorder could be played by any character, narcissism would be Light Yagami, the main character of Death Note.
Among the listed symptoms of the disorder, we can include: excessive need for admiration, lack of empathy, inability to deal with criticism, sense of grandiosity and being recognized as superior. Thus,
Light starts out as an ordinary boy. However, throughout the anime his actions and personality change due to the power of the notebook. Furthermore, this power helps him to develop his personality disorder more and more, reaching the point of “God of the new world”.
Therefore, therapy could help him deal with the disorder and the way he deals with society in the face of his narcissistic desires. In this context, even if he found the book, he would learn how dangerous the power he wields is and that he has no right to deal with people's lives the way he did during the plot.

Steins;Gate

The anime tells the story of Okabe who proclaims himself as a mad scientist. In fact, he accidentally discovers a very unusual way of traveling through time, using a modified microwave device and a cell phone.

In this way, Okabe demonstrates various compulsive and obsessive behaviors throughout the anime that lead to the conclusion of the plot. However, what starts the whole story is the obsession he develops with traveling through time and contradicting scientists of the time, which leads him to develop his own laboratory and start carrying out experiments.

Thus, therapeutic work would help the character to better deal with his obsessions, which would help him to have better interpersonal relationships in the scientific environment. In this way, it would be possible for him, together with other scientists, with greater research and better structure, to develop his theory of time travel in a much more favorable environment, avoiding the main events of the anime.

Fruits Basket

Now, this anime tells the story of Tohru Honda, who tragically loses her mother in an accident. So, helpless and unable to temporarily live in her grandfather's house, she decides to build a shack and live there, without telling anyone.
Therefore, this decision is central to the plot of the story, leading her to visit the home of her classmates Yuki Souma and her cousin Shigure. Thus, the girl starts to live with them, and witnesses the entire plot based on the family curse, which involved the animals of the Chinese horoscope.

On the other hand, if the girl had psychological support, she probably wouldn't fall into such a deep depression that she would want to isolate herself from everyone. In a way, moving away from her family, the only one at that moment who could support her.
Some stages of grief cause people to sink into feelings such as depression, anger or denial. Thus, Tohru demonstrated that she was trapped in these phases, denying her family's help was a way of denying everything that happened, and that somehow, things could continue as they were before her mother's death.
This way, accepting help from family or friends, she probably would not have known Yuki and Shigure's house, which would drastically change the events of the anime.

Yu-Gi-Oh!

Now, an example of an entire society that needed therapy.

Where, the anime takes place in a world dominated by games, the most popular being “duel monsters”. Thus, society basically lives around the game, which shows that at some historical moment the entire population ended up becoming addicted and becoming almost a hostage to the cards. What's more, we see people who are completely obsessed with the game and think that everything can be defined in a game:

Betting addiction is a serious thing in anime, from huge amounts of money to betting on the souls of family members.
Things get so strange that the bandits don't attack you using weapons, but rather through DUELS.
In this context, you may even question, what about the whole story of the pharaoh, Egyptian gods, relics of the millennium and everything else? But, they probably still existed even if the characters went to therapy. Still, what we question is the decadent way in which humanity is transformed because of gambling and gambling addiction.
Therefore, addiction to gambling and gambling is serious, as our body is very prone to becoming addicted to things that give us pleasure and big companies know exactly how to exploit these weaknesses.

Animes that never existed if characters went to therapy – Top 03

91 Days

Here, we have the story following Angelo Lagusa who had his family murdered due to a mafia dispute.
Thus, years later the protagonist receives a letter with a proposal for revenge that makes his main motivation in life to be revenge against the mafia that murdered his family. So, initially Angelo infiltrates the mafia family and tries to gain their trust.
In fact, mourning is a theme widely explored in anime and is constantly a motivator for the characters' actions. In fact, the fact that the character does not have psychological support means that he ends up experiencing his desire for revenge intensely.
In other words, Angelo would need to have done some work to accept the death of his family, however painful it may seem, to understand that what was done is irreversible and that revenge would only make the whole situation worse.

Castlevania

Now, the animation is based on games released in the late 80s and popularized in the 90s. Furthermore, it tells the story of Dracula and his army of demons who plan the destruction of humanity after the murder of his wife.
In this way, Castlevania is yet another story about an unbearable desire for revenge due to unresolved grief after the death of someone important, which motivates the character throughout the plot.

naruto

Finally, the anime tells the story of Naruto and his entire development to become a ninja. However, his entire motivation is based on the bullying that the character constantly encounters.
In this way, the anime was considered an honorable mention, because throughout the plot the character's motivations change, and even if he went to therapy to help him with bullying, he probably discovered other motivations for becoming a hokage.

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