You know, now that I've read your review I totally see your points and I do agree with most of them (I was charmed by the ~love story between the two narrators though, so I guess I was an easy sell on that part). The fact that the dragons hardly got enough show-time of their own does feel glaring in omission, as does the fact that we hardly got to know most of the Dragon Corps.

AND OHHH FANDOMS. I have yet to watch more than snippets of X-Files here and there, but yeah...weren't it and Highlander some of the big Ur-Fandoms, also re: slash? I mean, of course the Ur-Fandom to end all fandoms is Star Trek but yeah XDD AND WEIß KREUZ AHHHHHHH lol I used to get SO FUCKING ANNOYED at how half the collective fandom would fuck up the spelling on Schuldig's name. SchuldiCH was at least a smidge better than Schulderich or whatever the other prevalent spellings were though... And the fangirl German! Hee :DD

And yeah, guilty as charged! Though I really started reading shounen-ai through Gundam Wing and also Weiß Kreuz, and through that somehow made the jump to Harry Potter. And THE REST WAS HISTORY. Or something XDD