spiderpig | from tachikomatic days (Reply)

Crossposted at my geek blog Tachikomatic Days

E.g. Does watching Bleach or Naruto (or God Forbid, someone even mentioned Dragonball) make me a totally retarded otaku not even fit to be called ‘otaku’? I’m kind of annoyed by the reverse elitist ways that people condemn Bleach/Naruto/GenericShounenSeries.

Granted, I don’t really watch Bleach or Naruto very often except for particular events which I want to see being animated, because of the unpredictable animation quality and the incessant amount of fillers, but I avidly read the manga of both. On the other hand, I could be a totally respectable otaku and watch only ‘good’ anime like, I don’t know, Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei or Last Exile and be like “BOW DOWN BEFORE ME YOU NARUTARDS!!!!!!”.

Of course, the number of lower caste Bleach and Naruto fans outnumber the ‘higher class’ and ultimately ’sane’ fans, but still…. I’m tired. What brought me about to this whole shebang was partly because of the really stupid claims of some forumers who claim that the whole ODEX witchhunt started because of Naruto and Bleach downloaders (apparently making up 90% of total Singapore downloaders).

I’m sorry to disappoint you to all you finger pointers but, Naruto is licensed by Bluemax and unless ODEX (and AVPAS by proxy) is so… ‘kind’ as to ‘help’ Bluemax out, I don’t see how it concerns ODEX. Bleach of course, is licensed by them and so I can’t vouch for Bleach downloaders.

Ugh.

What do YOU think guys?