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What's A Fandom That's Not Very Popular?

Shokugeki no Soma/Food Wars. A cooking-based shonen with a lot of food porn, and borderline porn porn.
 
While not a rare fandom, i'd kill for a good Fate/ RP on BMR.
 
I love an author called John Gwynne, The Faith and the Fallen series. He seems to have been a bit overshadowed by the success of Fantasy and historical fiction on TV at the minute. I'd always encourage more people to read him.
 
Dunno if it's necessarily unpopular here or if my luck of the draw has been poor, but I've had plenty of difficulties finding partners for something related to fighting games. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Soul Calibur, that kind of thing. I think it's some combination of the genre of games being niche as well as my request thread for it perhaos coming off as a little selfish (heh, a little) but out of the requests I've gotten or the reauests I've sent out for it, very few had taken interest.
 
I have had a hard time finding people that like vampire the masquerade. I miss it and it seems like few people are into it anymore.
 
I'm honestly not sure if this counts as a fandom, but it seems like it's got simultaneously harder and easier to find fans of musical theatre. On one hand because of shows like Dear Evan Hansen, and Hamilton so many younger people are starting to talk about theatre. On the other hand though, it seems like all I see people talking about are the recent shows. No one is really talking about or going to see any shows made before 2010. All the forums where people would talk about who should've won Best Musical however many years ago have become an endangered breed. It feels like a community I've been a part of for longer than I can remember has either disappeared or changed beyond recognition.
Now after typing all this I feel like an old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn.
 
Handmaid's tale.
Historical. No fantasy, no timetravel, no 2019 people in a costume. These days I'd go for WWII or maybe Roman times.
Star wars, not too cheesy and more mature, with a brain (character development, realistic within the fandom, psychology)
Mafia, historical or modern, with a brain
TWD with a braaaaaaain (sorry)
Dark HP (Tom and aged up Ginny getting the diary, I guess that's too niche because no taker)
Dark, mature Stargate. I'm sure Sam and Ba'al could be very interesting either in a reluctant cooperation or kidnapping plot.
 
Stillatbay said:
I'm honestly not sure if this counts as a fandom, but it seems like it's got simultaneously harder and easier to find fans of musical theatre. On one hand because of shows like Dear Evan Hansen, and Hamilton so many younger people are starting to talk about theatre. On the other hand though, it seems like all I see people talking about are the recent shows. No one is really talking about or going to see any shows made before 2010. All the forums where people would talk about who should've won Best Musical however many years ago have become an endangered breed. It feels like a community I've been a part of for longer than I can remember has either disappeared or changed beyond recognition.
Now after typing all this I feel like an old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn.
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If it's any consolation, people can expand past that! I speak from personal experience; I admit I got into musical theatre because of Hamilton, but since then I've been working my way backwards. I recently discovered Sondheim and fell in love with his work.
 
Emmaline said:
Funny thing is, I came here to say "any urban fantasy that isn't The Dresden Files." :) Every time I mention enjoying the genre people are like "Oh, like Dresden?"
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I was kind of assuming the thread was asking about fandom RP, not just general geekdom.

The only book I regularly see mentioned in req threads is Harry Potter, and if it's anything else it's either all about vampires or a strictly fantasy series (ala GoT, Mistborn, Dark Brotherhood, etc).
 
One fandom I dont see often and that I wish more people would do is the hyperdimension neptunia series!
 
Despite how popular of a series it is to read, I've seen pretty much nothing here or on gaia for RPs set in the Cosmere (the universe of the Stormlight Archive/Mistborn Series/Warbreaker/Elantris/etc books by Brandon Sanderson). Granted, I'm not quite sure what sort of plot one would even run, that wouldn't just end up getting wrecked when Mr. Sanderson himself puts out a new book (which he does with absurd speed!). But it's a universe with such fantastic magic systems, clearly there must be something!

Similarly, there's awfully little Wheel of Time calls-for-RP. Some, but far less than I would've anticipated.

Also, I am resigned to my fate of never, ever finding anyone to RP something set in the universe of the Dragon Prince/Dragon Star trilogies by Melanie Rawn. Sigh.

Re: urban fantasy fandom, I think part of the problem is that unless someone wants to play a canon, there's little differentiating it from generic "urban fantasy". I will readily admit that even in my "no-specific-universe" urban fantasy RPs, I borrow from Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, Laurell K. Hamilton, Patricia Briggs, etc. I just have no interest in playing the specific characters given in the books. I suppose I could say the same thing for fantasy lit, but I find it a bit more compelling to play in one fixed magic system that's well-detailed in how it works, than to play in a setting that's mostly like real life but with some very specific tweaks (versus making my own tweaks).
 
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