I get what you’re saying, in Wind Breaker, fighting is how a lot of the characters communicate. That’s part of the theme. But it’s clearly shown as something tied to their specific environment and circumstances, not as a normal or healthy way for everyday people to solve problems.
The story doesn’t frame it as “this is how you should handle conflict.” It frames it as “this is how these characters, in this world, deal with things.” There’s a difference.
If simply seeing characters fight after saying “let’s talk” made kids copy it, then decades of action series like Naruto or Dragon Ball Z would’ve normalized that exact behavior already, but society hasn’t shifted that way.
Kids don’t usually imitate the literal mechanics of a fictional world. They understand context. And if someone genuinely thinks “talking = punch someone,” that points to guidance and environment issues, not the existence of a story.
Fiction can influence people, sure but it doesn’t override parenting, education, and real-life consequences. (▰˘◡˘▰)
Ah that's nice to know. But in our place in Philippines, kids copied animes THE WAY they want. When tokyo revengers was shown here kids fight's like mikey, they are copying mikey's kick and even kazutora's hitting someone with baseball bat LIKE IT'S A JOKE because it's cool, because it's trend. They even copied Todo from jjk and yuji's blackflash. So i just think that if this became an anime kids will copy, i thought it is the same with every countries' kids. I never knew that it was just in our country.
Haha I promise it’s not just the Philippines kids everywhere copy whatever is trending at the time. When Naruto was huge, people were running like ninjas in school hallways. When Attack on Titan got popular, everyone was doing the salute and pretending to fight Titans. Even outside anime, when The Matrix came out, people were trying slow-motion dodges like they could bend bullets
Trends make things look cool for a while, especially to younger kids. But copying a pose or pretending to do a move because it’s hype isn’t the same as a show causing real violence. Most fans just enjoy it and move on.
I totally understand your concern though, especially if you’ve seen some kids take it too far. I just think it’s more about trend culture and supervision than the anime itself. Otherwise, every action show in every country would’ve caused the same problem on a massive scale. ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
Haha that’s fair honestly same, I think most of us copied cool anime moves at some point. It’s part of the fun of being a kid.
I didn’t take your comment as something super serious either, don’t worry. I just wanted to explain my perspective a bit since sometimes it’s easy for tone to get misunderstood online. But yeah, I totally get what you mean. (●'◡'●)ノ
Yeah, I figured that’s what you meant. That’s why I explained my side too, since posts like that can be easy to misunderstand online Tone doesn’t always come across the way we expect.
But I’m glad we talked it through. At the end of the day, we both just enjoy anime and understand it’s all part of the fun. No hard feelings at all (=・ω・=)

Kids will copy this. Like "c'mon let's talk!" Then throw punches.