[ComatoseBunnySnatcher]

Originally Posted by sugarbasil

^^Because I had collected the whole season (when only one season had come out) on subbed fantapes when it first came out on TV in Japan, spending a fortune on on those tapes and spending weeks trying to find them. My friends and I became huge fans and it became our favorite anime, and no one knew of it. Then all of a sudden it went onto Adult Swim on Cartoon Network and it became the biggest mainstream fandom consumed by otaku f-tards all over the nation, and my friends and I started having problems with people at school (we were in like...8th grade or something at the time, and I'm out of college now) telling us that they were just like...the biggest Inu Yasha fans of all time and that we were just bitter that we weren't as big of fans as they were. And one of my friends cosplayed as Kagome back in 2000 at Acen and only one person at the entire convention had heard of her. Someone even told her that she made the character up and made her very upset. Then the year that Inu Yasha came on Adult Swim there were (we counted) 56 Inu Yasha cosplayers just on Friday night alone. That and people just became huge dicks over their obsession with Inu Yasha and became really rude.

So my friends and I just stopped watching it and became really angry over the whole thing. The Inu Yasha fans were such *******s and it was just overloved. It's like a song being overplayed on the radio. I think Inu Yasha was probably one of the biggest animes to convert people to anime.

And then all of a sudden my friends and I were flipping channels and happened to catch Dearest on the end of Inu Yasha and I flipped. I was so angry because I knew all of the stupid Inu Yasha fans were going to all of a sudden love Ayu, and it was really annoying. And in fact, that week all of a sudden I had like...3 otaku idiots come up to me (because word around the anime community was that I was a huge Ayu fan) telling me about how much they loved her and how they had listened to everything of hers in less than a day and that we should have an Ayu party. I was so pissed.



...

Granted, that was years ago when I was like...14 or something. Nowadays I just kinda roll my eyes, but I don't get nearly as angry or upset. I'm not into that stuff anymore so it doesn't affect me nearly as much. Though I still look back on it with extreme bitterness.

*hands chill pill*