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>>2582524

Still, the accolades Gaiman receives are not without merit. I personally try to not let an artist's personality, however idiosyncratic it may be, impede my appreciation of their work. I also generally ignore what is popular and what is not (mostly due to my misanthropic nature) and it only recently occurred to me that Neil Gaiman's work is starting to become popular among young people today.

Honestly, even if he does become an incredibly mainstream author much like Stephen King or Dan Brown, it would not detract from my love of his works since unlike the aforementioned two authors, his characters are memorable and have a great deal of substance. In a way, the cast of The Sandman is so well conceived that I cannot help but draw associations between that and ZUN's Touhou, each body of work containing such vivid characters that they naturally spark the imagination to create new imaginary scenarios for those characters to live out.

I mean, honestly, how can anyone read about Delirium and not immediately fall in love with her (art notwithstanding, I enjoy her personality more than the artist's interpretation of that character)?