Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 52/@comment-76.227.148.214-20150305152356/@comment-5264252-20150305235215

I have seen Percy Jackson compared to Harry Potter quite a lot.

But that doesn't mean much, in all honesty.

People compare lesser-but-still-fairly-popular things to much bigger names all the time, but what matters is the reverse. I have never once seen anyone compare Harry Potter to Percy Jackson, which is a lot more important than people comparing Percy Jackson to Harry Potter.

I have never seen a Percy Jackson reference on the internet before, and that's coming from someone who was a fan of Percy Jackson for a while.

Percy Jackson does have a large fanbase, one large enough to give it enough popularity for ERB. But that fanbase is not only miniscule compared to Harry Potter, but far less as strong-standing.

And while yes, the Percy Jackson fanbase is still going strong after 10 years, that's not really something you can compare when the last Percy Jackson book (or "Heroes of Olympus" book, however technical you want to get) was released only just last October, which is really incomparable when the last Harry Potter book was released in 2007, a whole 8 years ago, and the last movie based on said book was released 4 years ago in 2011. Harry Potter's popularity is a lot larger and stronger after such a large gap in time, which Percy Jackson can't compare to yet when his last book was last released only very recently. Every time a Harry Potter book's release date was announced, I'd heard about it while growing up. Same with the movies. I didn't even know that the Heroes of Olympus line had even finished until only just now looking it up.

Will Percy Jackson gain more popularity in time? Probably, sure. But that's not something you can compare right now. Percy Jackson has a much smaller fanbase and general popularity than Harry Potter does. Plus, it's still smaller than around the time Harry Potter's books were still being published.

Do people compare Percy Jackson to Harry Potter? Yes, and I can see why.

But Harry Potter isn't something that can be compared to Percy Jackson in return.