Fake Geek Girls (x)
1. Alb is the definition of awesomeness.
2. She’s absolutely right. It doesn’t matter if a woman or guy has read every single issue of X-Men or started at AvX, as long as they’re reading comics, that’s all that matters.
3. Building off the above, who cares if they only started reading Avengers, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Hulk, Batman, Captain America, etc. because of they saw the movies? Again, as long as they’re reading comics, that’s all that matters. The comic industry needs new customers badly. They’re the only thing that will keep that industry alive and if the movies act as a gateway and makes a woman head on down to her Friendly Local Comic Book Store and pick up an issue of a comic, read it, and decide “wow, I’ve been missing out” and become a comic geek, then great! Fantastic! Awesome! If you love comics, then encourage that shit! Because every goddamn time some jack wagon with an inferiority complex attacks a woman for not being a “real geek”, they are killing the very thing you love piece by piece.
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Same goes for anime, manga, video games, and just all geekery in general. I absolutely HATED when the anime community flipped a tit when Toonami came to be, like, “Ugh you only watch the anime on Toonami,” or, “Pfft you only watch the dub,” or, “I’ve been watching Naruto since the beginning now all of these new fans are coming in because it’s on T.V.”
… what?!
Same happened with the Persona 4 anime, like, “Did you play the game? Ugh then don’t take to me.” Like… DON’T YOU WANT NEW FANS?! DON’T YOU WANT YOUR SERIES TO DO WELL?! I love the fact that people even know what Persona is, o.k.? The fucking game came out in 2008, do you know how awesome it is that people are still in love with it? Do you know how great it is that my old coworker picked up Golden and was like, “Now I see what you were talking about, this is great!” I’m not about to respond with, “Ugh you don’t know anything you didn’t pick it up back in 2008.” No, just… no!
The hardest part about being an anime fan in the 90s was that it was SO HARD to find, or if you found like a VHS tape it was hella expensive. Now that it’s out there and available you want to complain? I would’ve KILLED to have something like Netflix or Hulu back then. Series are actually syndicated now as they air in Japan. The Persona 4 anime would show up on Hulu the NEXT DAY! Back then, I had to depend on the sci-fi channel, or Fox, and series would just show up and disappear, unfinished, or completely out of order (Card Captor Sakura started on like episode 8) and just… there was no internet to go to, and… do you realize how great things are now? And you want to complain because of how people discover a series? Really? Netflix is what, $7 a month for streaming? I use to beg my parents for $30 VHS tapes that only had 3 episodes.
As for video games, this goes towards the long running series. I don’t care how you discovered Final Fantasy, or Kingdom Hearts, or whatever. I don’t care if your first Final Fantasy was 7, I don’t care if you only started Kingdom Hearts because Final Fantasy characters show up, I don’t care! I just want more people to like what I like, to talk to about what I like. I don’t care if you play BlazBlue but don’t know what Guilty Gear is, I don’t care, do you know how HAPPY I am that you even know what that franchise is? I don’t care if your first Persona was 3, or 4, or even Arena. Who cares! I’m not going to try and outfan you, as long as you don’t try and outfan me.
I actually HAD someone try and outfan me with Persona 4. First of all, you should be happy to meet someone who knows what the series is, be it because of the game or the anime. Second of all, if you really want to question my Persona 4 knowledge you’re going to lose – though it’s not a contest, and I wish people would stop treating it like that.
And the thing that kills me is when people complain about there not being enough fans of a series, or, “I wish I could find a girl who was into this stuff.” THEY’RE OUT THERE! You’re just too busy being picky about how people discover a series or franchise. "I wish people would understand my love for anime and games,“ THEY DO! THEY DO!! But you want to throw a fit because someone only knows about SMT because of Persona, or you want to throw a fit because someone’s anime knowledge reflects what’s on T.V. or Hulu or Netflix, you want to be upset because someone watched the Black Butler anime and hasn’t read the manga, just… STOP! If you really want someone to pick up the manga, just recommend it, that’s all. They’re not a lesser fan because they didn’t start by reading the manga monthly online, or watching the series before it came to the U.S.
The definition of a fan is someone who likes something, it doesn’t matter if they watched the anime but didn’t read the manga, or that they watched the anime but didn’t play the game. Them watching the anime means that, hey, here’s someone else you have something in common with. And you know what? Maybe if you treat them like a fan and not some lowly nobody, MAYBE you can TALK TO THEM about the manga and then maybe they will WANT TO READ IT! You know why I’ve never finished Evangelion? Because some douchebag in college said I wasn’t a real anime fan because I hadn’t watched it. You know what? Now I don’t even want to watch it. The wallscrolls in my room, the figures, the manga, none of that mattered to him because I hadn’t watched this ONE series. So now I don’t even want to watch it, you just killed a potential fan.
So just stop with this fake fan nonsense. Am I saying that there aren’t people who pretend to like a series for attention, or whatever? No, I’m not saying that. But I am saying that don’t call someone fake because you feel like you possess some superior knowledge. You don’t see Stan Lee going, "Sigh, I can’t BELIEVE this person only knows about Ironman because of the movie, I made the comics for a reason.” You don’t see the Persona creators going, “Damn that anime for giving us more fans, they’re supposed to play the game!” You know why? Because anime, manga, comics, video games, all of that is meant to be enjoyed by all, in any way, shape, or form.
And now I’m done ranting, I just… this argument gets to me.
