Attention "Death Note" Fandom

[redwoodalchan]

 I would treat the slash ships in your fandom with more gravity if you didn't treat them like they were the end-all be-all of shipping and the "Death Note" fandom in general.

Seriously--the mind boggles at how SO MANY PEOPLE could watch a psychological murder mystery about a notebook that kills people, and come out of it with nothing but gay bishounen porn to show for it!

(Before anyone asks, I'm not trying to come across as homophobic. I actually buy that Light and L might have a thing for each other. I'm complaining about how very, very overgrown this fandom is with shipping in general and slash shipping in particular)

Comments

[outstretched]

As a person who participates in anime fandom: ...aren't all anime fandoms like that, though?

[rosehiptea]

When the Death Note manga first started being scanlated I saw stuff about it on my LiveJournal friendslist a lot, and I thought it was a yaoi manga at first because that seemed to be all anybody talked about. I didn't realize it was mostly about a notebook that killed people, though I guess I did know that part.

I'm not exactly complaining because I guess people will just do what they want to in fandom... and I do have a ship in Death Note... but reading this kind of made me laugh remembering that.

It's not only anime fandoms though. I remember someone saying in a community that people kept trying to get them to watch M*A*S*H and they expected it to just drip subtext everywhere which... it really doesn't.

(My Death Note ship is Rem/Misa. I'm weird that way.)

[guardians_song]

To be fair, in the Death Note fandom, the 'canon flavor' of the region includes ludicrously intricate dozen-chapter schemes... with approximately half of each chapter being devoted to text bubbles. It probably intimidates and discourages the casual fans from attempting to mimic or equal the canon, which (fandom being fandom) leaves only one thing...

OMG TEH YAOI!!11!