What if all of your favorite characters are from a series of indie/doujinshi PC vertically scrolling shooters (shmups) that relatively no one has heard of in comparison to games played on consoles because it's a niche market that's been pretty much forgotten in America because no one seems to play shmups anymore, but the series itself has a wide fanbase among people in that niche?

EDIT: Wow, that was one sentence. xP