[quote="nalasimba83"]Im not obsessed anymore,got into harry potter.[/quote]
[quote="Nicholas"]Let's just say that people love anime like you love Harry Potter.[/quote]
FTFY.
The franchise of fandom you are into is irrelevant - What matters is that you are into
some kind of fandom, and that anime-lovers think of anime the same way you think of whatever you're a fan of.
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[quote="juhouh"]I don't know personally anyone who would like TLK at this level as I do[/quote]
I would totally freak out if any of my friends were TLK fans like on this website. Or even better, Nalaholics.
That brings me to another point: The Internet is a huge place with tons of people with different interests - There's bound to be some people with the same interest as you. In my case, that would be my affection for Nala. Websites like Nalaholics Anonymous exist as a platform for these people to come together and comfortably express their unique feelings without being looked down upon by the rest of society, and in doing so, these feelings are intensified, and can be harnessed and channelled in the form of fanfiction and fanart, or, lending the words of Simba Wiltz from Nalaholics Anonymous:
[quote="Simba Wiltz"]I was going to 'certify' people as Nalaholics and have a steady running list of those that qualified. Well, the qualifications have not changed, and they are unutterably simple. I created it in the guise of a hospital offering 'therapy' to people. The therapy was not to abate Nala cravings, but to intensify or control them. It was based on the idea of taking an aspect of personality, intensifying it, then using it in a productive manner. [/quote]
Read: 'The TRUTH about Nalaholics Anonymous' by Simba Wiltz, http://www.lionking.org/~nalanon/truth.htmThink about it: I would never be able to watch TLK with a friend and maybe even just casually mention that Nala looks beautiful in *that* one frame - They'd instantly think I'm some sort of weirdo and beat it down. I know for a fact that Juhouh is a conscript in the Finnish Defense Forces - Imagine how stupid he would look if his army friends knew he had affectionate feelings for a cartoon lioness.
On the other hand, communities like MLK comprise of open-minded people who understand and can live with people with such unique feelings and opinions, a sort of
magical, almost care-free utopia where we don't have to restrict ourselves in what we feel, think or say. It's in these places we can let go of the worries of IRL society and just be who we are.
Same thing applies to anime and the rest of fandom, people come together to form these magical-feeling communities and further develop their interest in whatever franchise they're into because they're perfectly comfortable with it. Oh, but wait, there's more:
[quote="juhouh"]Because so many people are obsessed with anime that's why, it's normal. It goes on with the mass and people can talk about it and everyone are like yeah yeah.[/quote]
That's right - Anime has become such a huge thing that even society is perfectly OK with anime-lovers openly confessing their interests and feelings IRL, so it's even easier to get people into anime because they're not put off by the thought of liking anime characters because lots of people
already like anime characters.
Meanwhile, we TLK fans are cooped up in our little Internet forums because we're such a minority fandom compared to anime, and people think that it's silly to be fanatic about a children's movie series dating back to 1994.
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