Previous to the 2024 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, some anime followers had no concept that rapper Megan Thee Stallion was an anime fanatic. However watching her speech as she introduced the Anime of the Yr Award, there will be little doubt about it: Megan is a weeb.
Personally, I’m Megan Thee Stallion’s latest fan and follower, and I hope I’m not the one one whose coronary heart she unexpectedly received. Regardless of not being too aware of her music and her profession, the best way her persona shone through the ceremony, and all the pieces I’ve came upon thereafter, contributed to a sense of kinship. United by nerdiness, let’s imagine.
Megan has beforehand cosplayed as different anime characters. One such occasion that broke the web – however not as a lot as not too long ago – was when she cosplayed My Hero Academia’s pro-hero Mirko. And, objectively, she seemed beautiful.
However, regardless that some like myself solely came upon about her ardour for anime not too long ago, the American artist has by no means really hidden it, in actual fact, and admirably, she appears happy with her nerdy aspect.
However when she cosplayed a feminine model of Satoru Gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen – who additionally received the Crunchyroll award for secondary anime character of the yr – the web went wild as if she had solid Area Growth over social media.
Megan Thee Honored One
When she “made it to Japan,” Megan Thee Stallion posted on her social media photos of herself dressed up as a feminine Gojo – arguably, probably the most broadly adored character within the sequence. The mix of the beloved rapper with the beloved S-rank jujutsu sorcerer took the web by storm, or, let’s consider, by Hole Purple. It escalated to the purpose that the hashtag “Gojo Thee Stallion” was trending on X (previously Twitter).
The match made in heaven had individuals collectively shedding their minds. A lot in order that many proficient artists scrambled to make unbelievable works of fan artwork, additional immortalizing the second:
If the Crunchyroll Anime Awards had been aiming at reaching a wider viewers and producing extra chatter this yr, they certainly have managed to realize the feat. Convey Megan Thee Stallion once more subsequent yr and I’ll sit down – together with many others certainly – to observe the occasion as soon as extra in 2025.