#i've been fooling you about how popular dgm is it's like the 10 of us still hanging in being Hoshino's Patrons --

[icharchivist]

I follow an obscure character tournament and the other day fucking LAVI from d gray man showed up and somehow made it to round 2 and I was just like "now I know I'm biased bc Icha loves him but how the fuck did someone think Lavi was obscure??"

MY SWEET BOY

and you didn't even send me the post??? my boy :( the original liar boy

honestly dgm is Schrödinger-type obscure and popular depending purely if you've been online in the late 00s. because it was the peak of dgm's popularity and it was inescapable, however the popularity completely died down back to being extremely obscure these days. (i mean. Allen wasn't even CONSIDERED for the "tragic white hair boys tornament" as if he WASN4T THE MOST TRAGIC WHITE HAIR BOY EVER. he didn't go through the horrors to be ignored like this.)

also huh. from my experience in the 00s. Dgm was popular in European fandoms for sure, and of course Asian fandoms as well (can't talk about more) but i can say that, in the way back, i didn't know many American fans. And for cause, the manga has been extremely censored in the US to the point of becoming incomprehensible, due to its religious themes.

DGM was always one of the major best seller in France, but it was always an underground manga in the US for instance.

So dgm is in a bit of a difficult position when you want to discuss its popularity and the popularity of its characters.

Lavi is easy in the top three of the most popular character in the story as well, but the fact he disappeared from the plot 12 years ago (and even more tbh since he was already absent from the two arcs that preceeded him officially disappearing) has put him on the backseat of conversations in the fandom, usually replacing him with Link who, in the same timestamp, ended up basically replacing him in term of screentime. So it's kinda complicated because we all love him and all talk about him and we all want him back but those 12 years genuinely put a backseat to any worthwhile conversation about him and as a result other characters are much more on the foreground.

(also not to mention the amount of people who misinterpret him, but considering i wrote about 50k only about Lavi on this blog before i'm not exactly unbiased there)

But yeah i'm. i'm absolutely not a reference point here, i like a lot of obscure things, and dgm is just. really in a weird position there.

But tbh i think, as to put dgm on a poll, might as well going with actual obscure dgm characters. Like Johnny, who went from background character to main character in the past ten years. Or the Jasdebi twins, just for me, personally. OR KRORY (shout out to my Krory loving friend who always remind me why it's important to love Krory). Or Miranda. Or legit just. anyone other than the main four characters lmao.

.... but then again i'm a Lavi slut through and through so Lavi sweep.

#again like my username is because of Lavi i'm not a reference of how people are normal about Lavi-- #i've been fooling you about how popular dgm is it's like the 10 of us still hanging in being Hoshino's Patrons -- #ichareply #ichafantalks dgm #ihavenotfallenyet