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Originally Posted by Midonin
I think I place more value on fan works than some other people, simply because of what they represent.
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Well, don't get me wrong, I think that fanworks are great.
For a couple years, I was massively into AMVs. I made about 100 myself (mind you, only a couple were anything fancy, since I was using Windows Movie Maker
). and watched likely hundreds of other AMVs.
I used to search DeviantArt regularly for images of my favorite anime shows/characters, and I found a lot to love there. Nowadays I surf the booru sites from time to time.
I've completed one major anime fanfic (The El Hazard of Haruhi Suzumiya), and am most of the way through a second (Madoka Magica: Pure Pink Pretty Lovers).
So yeah, I think that fanworks are awesome in general. But for the ones I don't like, they're usually easy to ignore.
I definitely think that fanworks have done way more good than bad for the anime industry, and for the anime fandom. I don't see a problem with fujoshis having their slice of that fanworks pie, even if I don't check it out myself (I did do
a semi-comedic yaoi AMV once though, based on how amusing I found it).