I think they can be depending on the content, but aren't necessarily. I'm not anti-technology or foreign cultures in general, so I wouldn't want to see them banned, but I think that in a healthy person's life they should be used only in moderation. Video games and anime are great in that they can have a social element and bring people closer together. I wouldn't say that video games and anime are degenerate themselves but they most certainly can promote degeneracy and degenerate behaviors, especially if used too often. It's all about moderation. It's also about knowing the difference between your distinctive, core culture and auxiliary cultures you experience in entertainment. My upbringing was Russian-American; my core identity is European. Anime and games are heavily Japanese, which is a fascinating culture, but I am fully aware that they are a *secondary* culture to me, not a primary one. I am not Japanese. As long as a person knows what their core culture is and how it should guide their personal choices, I don't see the harm in some exposure to secondary cultures.

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For me personally, a few anime series strongly reinforced my personal commitment to European traditionalism, Utena and NGE being core among them. The overlap between anime fans and NRx is quite noticeable, and I don't think it's exclusively just an artifact of the fact that NRx has a lot of young nerds.

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Any real man is going to primarily focus his efforts on the real world and accomplishing things there, not a fantasy world.