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it's kind of like that snowball effect thing. It's been around for a while now, and way back near it's beginning, a few people found it who liked it, they spread the word, more people find out about it from other people and sites of fans recomending it and the more time goes by, it keeps growing exponentialy, plus on top of that, it's got a printed version to that draws in people who don't normaly read web comics. 3nodding

also, I've always found that whole quality of not being over the top a sort of comfy thing, like it's not to draining on you to read it. It's nice and relaxing in a strange sort of way.

or both! gonk I think story line is first priority any way in a comic, or it won't matter that i IS a comic, nobody will read it, just look at the pictures and leave, most people probably never coming back or buying any more of the printed version. That sort of thing is really insulting to the creator I'd think to have people totaly ignore your effort at a comic and just look at the pictures. Think of it like this- a video game won't be played for graphics alone either if the game sucks, people will like a lesser quality graphics game if the game play is better. 3nodding

well, in an odd way it is outside anime and manga. For it is about people who are *outside* anime and manga.

One aspect here - 1. otaku

It's the story of an otaku...for some of us obsessives, he's a lot like us.
I always find it oddly creepy how many of the personality traits I share.
Piro is shown with many flaws... and for me, there is somthing oddly encoraging in that.

We obsessives aren't being mad fun of. Nor are we being called under the impressesion that we are really great.

I like seeing an otaku not being made a cliche and laughed at as so often happens.

Aspect 3. Friends (extention of number 2)

Piro and Kimiko - the problem two have friends.
----- Just as, you and I have friends. However, it is not always easy to talk to them. Kimiko feels bad about putting her problems onto Erika, and Piro....well, he and Largo aren't on the same wave-length

again, reality. Piro and Largo are both otaku in their own way. However, they really have very little to say to each other

and those posts illistrate what i think -

Thanks Bluecherry!

hmm...I feel strongest personal feeling for the aspect in my first post though. I really think it's very important that Piro is not made a more sympathetic character. -poor guy.

What is it that draws Megatokyo to you the most?

Most of my friends read Megatokyo almost solely for Largo. I meantioned something he did once and they wanted an explaination. I even got a l33t hater to wind up speaking l33+ within 2 months just from reading it.

Without getting analitical about it all, if you don't read for the insanity and violence (Largo side), you read for the quirky relationships and delimmas that the characters face. Heck, even Largo was recent faced with one of those. Something to the tune of "Your game is yours. I am not forced to play, nor will I be. Go find someone willing to play." In translation it's something like "Your life is your own. Leave me out of it."

Basically, violence or self-inquzitiveness. Insanity or emotion. (Choose wisely.) Anything that can be composed of both of those factors at once is sure to have a large following. In anime it can be represented as something like Fullmetal Alchemist.

Personally, I find that fans that love somthing purely because of the images and pictures are shallow. Story's what counts.