Onee-chan Wa Game O Suruto Hito Ga Kawaru Onee-chan depicts the transformative potential of gaming by showing how gamers can experience personal growth and self-actualization by adopting different avatars, cultivating social relationships, encouraging creativity and finding emotional relief through gaming.
However, it is important to keep in mind that excessive gaming can lead to neglecting other responsibilities and relationships.
Transformative Potential of Gaming
Gaming has emerged as an industry and is considered the pioneer of the metaverse, or shared virtual world. Not only can gaming provide entertainment but it can also offer transformative experiences to its players that foster growth and self-discovery by creating social interactions, cultivating creativity, or providing emotional relief. Finally, gaming provides life-long learning and problem solving skills development.
Gamers can identify with the struggles, desires and aspirations of characters they play – creating empathy and understanding among themselves that may ultimately lead to healthy and rewarding relationships outside the gaming community.
Onee-chan wa Game O Suruto Hito Ga Kawaru Onee-chan is an engaging anime that illustrates the positive effect gaming can have on individuals’ lives. By showing an older sister who changes when she plays video games, Onee-chan challenges gender stereotypes and encourages individuals to break free from restrictive societal expectations. Furthermore, Onee-chan is an erotic comedy which explores duality of character as well as family tension.
Disrupting Gender Stereotypes
Video games are an effective tool to challenge gender stereotypes and challenge social norms. Gender stereotypes are shorthand descriptions of people that generate judgement, justify hierarchy, and legitimise inequality; often reinforced through media portrayals of certain groups which reinforce bias.
Video game narratives often present female characters as passive and sexualized; video game stories enforce this bias by portraying women in stereotypical roles like damsel-in-distress or Smurfette (feminised versions of men) or simply objects of male gaze.
But gaming world can offer more nuanced depictions of femininity; Horizon Zero Dawn’s protagonist Aloy serves as an example. She is not overtly sexualized. Rost, her adoptive father, represents an ideal father figure; Teb is an admirable tailor who rescues Aloy from attacking machines. Additionally, gaming communities may provide supportive environments that encourage female gamers to avoid stereotyping stereotypes.
Cultivating Empathy and Understanding
Researchers recently conducted a study with middle school kids where researchers provided them with either an experimental empathy game designed for this study called Crystals of Kaydor or an entertaining control game called Bastion. The experimental game immerses players into an alien planet called Kaydor where their task involves helping locate missing objects while recognizing emotions on faces similar to our own.
Researchers found that gamers who participated in empathy training games displayed improved accuracy in recognizing emotions, rating their intensity levels and empathic accuracy as well as having more effective collaborative skills than those in control groups.
Games that focus on non-zero-sum gameplay — like school catch-wrestling or Hush, in which the player takes on the role of a Rwandan mother hiding from a Hutu patrol during civil war — help players develop relational empathy, which means recognising and caring for other individuals. Such games also enable users to gain situated knowledge — understanding that certain statements may be true or false depending on your perspective — fostering both emotional intelligence and developing situated knowledge.
Embracing Multiple Passions
Gaming used as a way to encourage creativity, experience emotional catharsis, and build connections can have profoundly transformative results. Immersive experiences provided by video games allow gamers to empathize with the struggles and desires of characters they control – encouraging empathy and understanding and ultimately leading to positive impacts in real-life relationships.
Onee-chan Wa Game O Suruto Hito Ga Kawaru, translated to “When My Big Sister Plays Games, She Becomes Different,” explores how gaming can provide an opportunity for personal development. Through virtual world gaming experiences, older sisters can develop problem-solving skills, socialize more freely and create their own identities away from society pressures.
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