Ah, memories...

God sometimes fans being assholes are the reason why I rarely talk in forums and worse, might kill my enjoyment of a series. Petty I know.

No, no, I get where you're coming from 100%.

Petty? Isn't this just the natural reaction? I mean, obviously fans being jerks aren't new but it really is best to distance yourself from something toxic ASAP. I think you did the right thing.

What series are we talking about anyway?

[QUOTE=Talisman;807410]No, no, I get where you're coming from 100%.[/QUOTE

Nah I mean petty by how toxic fanbases can potentially ruin my enjoyment of a series. Back then I stopped watching Netflix Voltron due to its fanbase. I also stoppef watching the Arrowverse because I can't stand the Olicity fanbase.

It's why when it comes to anime I very very rarely talk about it, since anime fandom can be more volatile than usual.

I was at the Ultraman subreddit where I learned that Geed's actor is a huge fan of Ultraman Justice so I said I wondered if Koichi Sakamoto included Justice in TAC as a favor to Geed's actor. The OP for some reason got really and posted 3 paragrahps and lowkey insulted me so I called him out for being a jerk when I wasn't even being rude. OP probably realized that and deleted the comments sadly.

Sidenote I've seen that the Rider subreddit can be pretty toxic so I rarely go there.

I 100% agree that fanbases can have some really overbearing individuals. I've heard the horror stories of the My Hero Academia fanbase, I cut ties with Star Wars before it got really bad, though I never truly interacted with a fanbase, so I'm pretty lucky to be a recluse.

That said, as there are annoying people, there are also good people among those fans, maybe it's just me always looking on the bright side of things, but I find it best to not associate yourself too much with any specific fanbase, especially the ones with the most exposure and popularity. I understand we all like to talk about things we like, but in this day and age, that's something that's hard to do, and it's disappointing that most people can't get into these amazing franchises without being bullied for their views or innocent misconceptions.

So what I'm saying is: Don't let others tell you how you should view the things you like. Heck, we have a whole thread dedicated to unpopular opinions in Toku, and nobody's destroyed us yet.

At any rate, I just recently saw the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Movie. It's really good, but I don't think it's anything mind-blowing either, nor is it the greatest Anime Film (Ghibli is it's own category) ever, but I still really enjoyed it.

I just got into Demon Slayer as well and while I love it, I kinda found it baffling as to why it has overwhelming popularity? Like, it's great, but not genre changing. It was pretty surprising for it to be the highest grossing anime movie as well as for the year 2020 (despite primarily releasing in 2021 worldwide).

I guess that's how some people see the MCU.

Don't feel like you missed out. There are many, many reasons to not watch Legendary Defender.

Speaking of, I was genuinely surprised when Shonen Jump editors did not pull their usual shenanigans of forcefully extending the story for Demon Slayer. Because they tend to do that with Dragon Ball being one of their victims. It actually ended when it had to and maintained the scope which was new for me.

I think I might be slowly going insane in my room so I think I'll step outside of my house tomorrow for a change of pace.

I remember being a part of a group of readers who thought that Tanjiro demon would become the new antagonist after Muzan's death and Nezuko would become a demon slayer to stop her brother so I was a bit disappointed it didn't go that way. Once I got past it, I did recognise that Demon Slayer ended on a perfect note; not too long and not too short. Sure it was shorter than other shonen series but that's kind of the whole point: Tanjiro was never fighting to save the world, he was fighting to bring his sister back to normal. A nice story that reminded us that sometimes smaller is better.