143 - See, poking fun at the fans usually feels really, really meanspirited to me, so I wish writers would just ignore it, you know?
It's tough for me to say, because I think sometimes a shoutout can get misinterpreted as an insult as well.
I was just thinking about an episode of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei where they use an exclusive restaurant as a metaphor for coming into a series partway through to make jokes about 'first timers'; a newbie eventually gets the boot for being annoying, and then a bunch of superhardcore fans show up and get all nitpicky, and then they get the boot too. That show pokes fun at fandom a lot, but I find it to be quite funny and you can feel the love for the fans there as well, since it ended up being kind of a cult series.
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It's tough for me to say, because I think sometimes a shoutout can get misinterpreted as an insult as well.
I was just thinking about an episode of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei where they use an exclusive restaurant as a metaphor for coming into a series partway through to make jokes about 'first timers'; a newbie eventually gets the boot for being annoying, and then a bunch of superhardcore fans show up and get all nitpicky, and then they get the boot too. That show pokes fun at fandom a lot, but I find it to be quite funny and you can feel the love for the fans there as well, since it ended up being kind of a cult series.