Remilia Nephys 🖤❤️【Phase Connect】@Remilia_Nephys
You might wanna sit down, this is a long one... Wemiko sensei have a lot to say
"If you dislike harem, you're not an anime fan" is such a bad take cause saying someone isn't an anime fan because they dislike one trope is like as saying someone isn't a gamer because they don't like horror games.
Starting anime during COVID doesn't make someone a tourist and I dont think its right to put a label or condition to be an "anime fan"!
The year you started has nothing to do with much of a "fan" you are. Every anime fan started somewhere!
You know what a real tourist is?
Telling people u watch an anime and is a fan when all u did was see screenshots on twitter, basically watching an anime through screenshots or mini clips on tiktok, thats larping, and a tourist. Chiming in on "anime drama" or juding on a show saying its BAD or GOOD , eventhough you personally haven't even watch an anime. Calling an anime trash just because someone posted a 40 second clip that is not very relevant to the anime's main plot and dissing it as "trash show". NOW THATS LARPING TOURIST!
I personally dont mind harems, I think they became so popular because they're great wish-fulfillment/ self-insert show and they let different character archetypes shine like tsundere, kuudere, childhood friend, clumsy girl, there's a type for everyone, which then popularise waifu wars or "best girl"
It's fun! Like Rumiko Takahashi's urusei yatsura and ranma 1/2 back in the day really influenced a lot of harems we see now! Harem is just a troupe, like many troupe in anime, like harem, reverse harem, come in different form: slice of life harem, battle fantasy harem, shounen harem, comedy harem
Althought I have to say, I feel like the person who wrote this is in defense with how a lot of people who dislike someone for liking a certain genre. Maybe I could be wrong.. I feel like this person is very passionate with harems and nothing wrong with that!
I've been watching anime for a very long time and probably an unhealthy amount so this I can say, anime is incredibly diverse! That's what makes it special! There's shounen, shoujo, seinen, josei, slice of life, horror, sports, mecha, romance, psychological, fantasy, iyashikei, comedy, and many more! Nobody needs to enjoy every single one of them! Anime is for all! MOST IMPORTANTLY
It's perfectly OKAY to say "hey thats not my thing but I'm sure its someone else's favourite" instead of saying "u have trash taste" or insulting people who enjoy it" Like how I see people commenting on slice-of-life or isekai show by saying it's boring, no pacing, why people like this slops, all isekai are boring,
When isekai is just a troupe, there's bad isekai out there, there's good isekai out there or how slice of life is meant to be really slow and chill, someone you want to watch after a hectic day.
Just because you dont like something, doesnt mean it's bad, its just not your taste, and its OK to not like it, but its NOT OK to talk badly about people who like it.
Things like these really make it hard for new people to want to try watching anime, and it saddens me because I love anime, and I wish to share my love of anime for everyone.
At the end of the day, if you watch anime, enjoy anime, and support anime, you're an anime fan.
das all, thank u for coming to my ted talk