Random question for people who read manga?

-Okay so i have a very close friend but fairly recently we have gotten in to a few little spats over manga



the problem is that I'm not up to date with BLEACH and she gets all pissy over the fact that "I don't have a right to call my self a fan because I didn't read the whole thing" but honestly I've just been really busy plus I can't help but feel like it shouldn't matter because I really like bleach a lot and the truth is that like I said my summer so far has been actually pretty busy. also one more thing that kind of makes me upset is when she says "Jess, sometimes I feel like you need to stop calling yourself an anime/manga fan all together" that statement to me takes it a little too far because I am up to date with Naruto (which I've been reading since I was a kid), Soul Eater and have finished Death Note and FMA (which were some what short) plus for the hell of it I read the Kingdom Hearts manga despite that I had finished the games so idk why she needs to say something like that. So my question is do you think my argument is valid and have you ever needed some more free time to catch up with what ever manga you read in other words am I not alone in a situation like this



LOL btw I'm reading bleach now and I started like almost two weeks ago and chapter 223 HERE I COMEYou know what? If you really like Bleach, then you're a "real" Bleach fan. If you really like anime, then you're a "real" anime fan. You don't need to meet any special qualifications to be a "real" fan of something, you just have to like it, and your friend's weird and arbitrary standards mean nothing. Frankly, it strikes me as a little pathetic and petty that your friend feels like she has to put you down over something as trivial as who has read more Bleach.



A hobby is supposed to be something fun you do in your spare time. It's not a competition, not a race, not something you do to prove something to someone, and not something that you should feel like you "have" to do. And yes, obviously everyone has things in their life that take up time and can prevent them from spending as much time as they'd like on their hobbies. You're not alone. And we all have different priorities. Maybe your friend's priorities are manga first, everything else second. She either has more free time than you, or she chooses to use that free time differently. Just because your priorities are different doesn't make you any less of a "real" fan. Don't let her convince you otherwise, and don't engage in these spats. Politely tell her you're done talking about the issue and that you don't consider reading manga something to compete over or argue over.there's really no need for you to finish it all up just to become a fan

for me, as long as you really like it, then you can call yourself a fan

maybe you're friend just have a different point of view when it comes to being a fan, after all, it almost, just almost and not really entirely, seems like what she's saying is that if you haven't read every piece of manga, you can't call yourself a fan LOL xD

anyways, this is my own opinion and we can't help it if we're busy, right? sometimes, we just really need to put mangas aside (though we don't like to do that :P xD)
i'm a fan of bleach and keep up to date, but i'm also a fan of deathnote and when it was still coming out i was never up to date because i liked reading the chapters in chucks instead of one-by-one (it made the story flow better, and i enjoyed it more). I think she's just being stupid
There is no actual definition of a fan of anything.



Just because you're not up to date doesn't mean you're not a fan. I'm a fan of Death Note, yet I have only watched the first ten episodes and never read the manga. I'm a fan of the Phoenix Wright games, yet haven't finished a single one. I'm a fan of Ranma 1/2, and I can recite the entire story. Backwards.



Speaking of Ranma 1/2, I'm a fan of all Rumiko Takahashi's works. I need to read more of Kyokai No Rinne.....



Tell your friend that you are a fan - she's just a bigger fan.