Is Killing
Stalking fandom a “cancer”?
The answers
is: yes, unfortunately, but not ALL of it.
There’s
this whole discussion about how certain fandoms are a cancer to the anime/manga
community, what they meant to say with this is: a group of fans that ruins the
experience of other fans by their annoying, often obsessive and immature ways. I’ve
found those obsessive fans everywhere, not only in this community, however
their presence is STRONG here, the KS fandom is getting notorious for its craziness,
specially thanks to the fujoshi who are particularly hated.
Here’s what
I think:Killing Stalking is NOT a series for kids, it’s a dark, psychological
thriller, full of abuse and emotional manipulation, the characters have
complicated mental problems that a 11 – 16 year-old WILL NOT understand, I’m
sorry if you are one of those 14 year-old who absolutely love KS, you shouldn’t
be reading it, and it’s very possible you DON’T understand it.
Don’t call
me names in the comments, it’s just a fact. That’s why age restriction exists,
not only to avoid traumatizing a young mind, but also because the theme is too much
for a younger mind to understand.
Let me give
an example of what happens when a “kid” watches something with more substance: I heard from a student (16ish…I’m not sure)
that she didn’t like a Silent Voice much because the romance was not shown, so,
in her words, the movie failed in the romance area. I responded by explaining
to her that silent voice is not a love story, and she didn’t get it, she
insisted that it could have at least a kiss or something, no matter what I said
she didn’t understand that IT WAS NOT A LOVE STORY.
Killing
Stalking has a similar problem: a lot of fans want to see Sangwoo fall for Bum,
or being more loving towards him. It doesn’t matter if I explain that Sangwoo
is a psychopath, they don’t care, they want to see their romance. He’s a psychopath,
there will NEVER be any real deep feelings, there’s a lot of manipulation, yes.
There’s the feeling of ownership, yes. Romantic love? Never.
READ ABOUT PSYCHOPATHS,
PLEASE, but they probably won’t, because it’s a dense, difficult subject to
study.
My point is
immaturity is a major cause for this annoying fandom, it’s even more obvious that
they are immature when they tell you that they understand Sangwoo’s a
psychopath, but Bum could “cure” him or “something”.
WHAT?
A cure for
a sadistic psychopath? A cure for a serial killer? In what world do you need to
live to believe that? A Disney world, a world that only naïve kids and some teenagers
live. THERE IS NO CURE. The only cure for a psycho is the death penalty.
One thing
is to wish for them to be together forever, killing people, having dirty sex,
torturing together, etc… But, please, understand that doesn’t mean they love
each other, they are sick. Sangwoo doesn’t have the ability to love and what
Bum feels is not love, he’s obsessed not in love.
And,
please, don’t even star with the “but this”, “but that”, it’s not gonna happen,
again: read about psychopaths, read about stalkers, read about how sexual abuse
can affect people.
Crazy scenery:
What if Koogi herself turns KS in a love story? It’s unlikely, but….what if she
did?
I’d stop
reading it.
Killing
Stalking is the story of a disturbed stalker that gets “stuck”
with his “obsession” who happens to be a Serial Killer. That’s what I love
about it. There are plenty of romances on the internet that I can read and
think pink, glittery things about it. KS is not one of those, and if the author
went nuts and decided to make a psychopath fall in love it’d be just very
bad writing.
So… what
can the community do to stop the “cancer” from spreading? Not much.
Thanks to
piracy the stories are online for everyone to read/watch. Behind the computer
everybody can write the crap they want, so
we can only try to educate people, explain things and ask people to keep
it respectful…..but many 13’s boys/girl have no interest in listening to
others, nor care about being respectful, so we just have to be patient or ….
keep a safe distance.
p.s: I am a
fujoshi, I love everything BL and Yaoi, the thing is I’m also over 30, so...
very low tolerance for teen crap.
