6 Anime With Surprising Life Lessons

SAO is an incredibly popular and controversial anime, which sees our cast be stuck in a video game.

Kirito, Asuna, Klein and co all spend two years stuck within a virtual world together. Forming relationships, memories and real human bonds.

Even if this all takes place within a setting that has no bearing on reality, no physical impact on the world. The time they all spent together was real. Those moments that brought them closer, they were important to them.

Their bonds are important enough for them to remain friends in the “real world” after the Nerve Gear disengaged. Their bonds are their reality.

It matters not whether people spend time in a virtual world or not, at the end of the day the result is the same, both will disappear someday. What matters is that we live, what we do with our lives.

Do we live for the sake of our own desires and the misery of others, hunting down other players and killing them like the members of Laughing Coffin?

Or do we make the best of whatever situation we find ourselves in, enjoy the small things life has to other, love and be loved like Kirito, Asuna & Yui do in their little house in the woods?

What truly matters is the bonds we share and what we make of our short time on Earth. Regardless of whether or not others deem those memories fake or unimportant because they’re online.

It’s a pretty beautiful analogy for the rise of the internet and the changing ways in which people connect with one another.