Why Hate Tea?
I’ve seen it on many a site: "Anzu supporters, beware!" "Must hate Tea." "Anti-Tea/Anzu". Since I’ve been a big Yu-Gi-Oh! fan like I am now, I’ve never been able to understand it. Some Tea-haters give reasons such as "She’s annoying" or "All she talks about is friendship" or "She doesn’t serve a purpose in the series," but I think she is none of that.
She might talk about friendship a lot, but to me, it seems like reinforcing an idea that needs to be said in today’s world. Do you realize how many people have forgotten the value of friendship? This is coming from my perspective as an American college student, but it seems as if society is becoming more and more isolated. People wanna stay home and watch "MTV: Real World" instead of going out and actually experiencing the real world for themselves. Reality TV is more popular than reality itself. You see what I’m getting at? As we isolate ourselves further away from reality and stay in our homes more and more (and I‘m as guilty of this as the next person), we isolate ourselves from people, and I believe Tea’s/Anzu’s true purpose in the series is to drill the idea of true friendship back into society’s consciousness.
Friends don’t mean what they used to in people’s lives. It used to be that friends were people you confided in and whose shoulders you cried on, whose presence was physically tangible in your life. Now, friends are people you talk to on AIM, that you blow off because of a TV show or a sports event, and whom you don’t eat with because you have to multitask during lunch instead of enjoy the meal. Tea’s brand of friendship, therefore, is a dying brand. It’s a brand that right now, at this second, is going belly-up. She devotes all of her leisure time to worry about and support her friends---something that in this day and age is almost unheard of. Tea is a cheerful optimist in the face of danger, when situations look most bleak, even though one knows that she fears things won’t turn out right. Most people today are pessimistic and apathetic: "Oh, it’ll never work---you might as well not try it." However, Tea’s response would be, "Keep working at it---I know it doesn’t look like anything’s happening, but keep trying, and remember, I support you!"
Come to think of it, I wonder if that’s why she’s hated so much in the YGO fanbase---because society doesn‘t operate the way she does anymore?
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