ConCONcon 2020 – page 13
…and ANOTHER long wait between new pages. I swear I’m not INTENTIONALLY turning Conventional Wisdom into a bi-weekly comic, it just keeps working out that way. THIS time, the problem is that I wanted the old re-posts to get to the point where a set of Otakon comics would be ready to go up on what would have been 2020’s weekend. And it worked out! It took a CRAP TON on re-editing and re-posting of other stuff to finally get to that point, but it’s done, and I can finally draw some NEW stuff again!
So, some people might find the situation depicted here a bit ridiculous. After all, us Grumpy Old Otaku are always complaining about how Kids These Days don’t know anything about any shows more than a few years old, let alone twenty. Still, if you’ve ever been to an Opening Ceremonies, or really ANY event where they rattle off a long list of the shows a guest has been involved in, you know for a fact that there’s always THAT show that everyone gets waaaaaaaay more excited about than any of the others. And you also know how awkward it is when one of those “others” is the new thing they showed up to promote.
And yes, that’s yet more fictional anime names that won’t mean anything to anyone until I finally build that ConCONcon wiki I keep talking about…
Poor voice actors who people only care about due to one Anime/Dub they did. Particularly when it was done years ago. I can see how this is a normal thing for them.
It’s especially interesting when you can see the clear divide between people who got into dub acting because they love anime and the people who just took a random job for some quick cash and DESPERATELY want to get people to stop ignoring all the other stuff they do.
It’s only logical – If New Thing were already that super popular, then they wouldn’t need to be at ConConCon promoting it in the first place. So the fact that they’re at ConConCon promoting New Thing implies it is in desperate need of promotion.
Besides, since likely most of the people showing up for their promotion of New Thing are there at all because they loved Old Thing, they should be happy that Old Thing has so many enthusiastic fans, they’re still waaaaay better off than those other poor chumps who don’t have an Old Thing that people love them for and have to actually promote their stuff from scratch.
(Not that there’s really any chance that New Thing could ever be half as awesome as Old Thing, since, after all, I watched Old Thing way back when I was 85% less jaded, so it is automatically far better. I’m not going to watch it again, though, lest I find out that Old Thing wasn’t nearly as good as my memory of it, and destroy yet another pleasant memory of my youth. That happens a lot.)