I do :( Waps/wotaku who run around screaming about jutsus and wearing kawaii bishie Inuyasha t-shirts scare me. Even sadder, I'm further down the "hardcore" end of the fan spectrum than most local fans, watching and reading more obscure franchises, listening to soundtracks, and playing import games, as compared to only watching Adult Swim and buying Tokyopop books.
People don't generally like talking about other people's hobbies that they know nothing about, and the ignoramuses would find an obsession over Japanese cartoons extremely weird. People don't find out about my anime obsession until they walk into my room and see my box sets or bring up something that suggests that they're anime fans also.
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Anonymous2006-05-22 6:42
Only people who themselves enjoy animanga/jgames/etc. know about my hobbies.
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Anonymous2006-05-22 16:02
I don't go to lengths to hide my fandom. If someone asks me what I like, I would tell them, "Video games, anime and porn." but there is little about me that is telltale of these hobbies. The few posters on my walls might give these away but that's about all.
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Anonymous2006-05-22 16:03
No.
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Anonymous2006-05-22 16:25
>>5
And after I say I like "Anime" I then correct myself and say "Japanese Cartoons" because people look at me wierd and don't understand what anime is.
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Anonymous2006-05-22 21:07
i don't have anyone to hide it from
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Anonymous2006-05-22 21:42
>>8
Same. I think 1 person has asked me what my interests are in the last 2 years.
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Anonymous2006-05-22 21:45
don't discuss it unless asked, basically. even then, i make sure to talk a little bit about it and not a whole lot(unless someone tells me "hey man tell me about japtoons"). talking at length and in specific about your hobby is a very effective way to alienate the person on the other end of the conversation.
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Anonymous2006-05-22 22:04
I don't exactly hide it, but I avoid talking about it. All the anime people where I live are stupid waps who watch Inuyasha, Naruto and FMA on Cartoon Network (FMA was good originally, but it's not in english).
I'm more interested in the more deep (and often more obscure) stuff so I wouldn't have much to talk about with them even fi I wanted to. I also don't like I eat 7 bags of twinkies a day, or like my face got run over by a steam roller and contains a miniature version of the ring of fire.
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Anonymous2006-05-23 3:19
i am moe otaku
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Anonymous2006-05-23 3:24
I'm fag, weeaboo and furry. Beat that guys!
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Anonymous2006-05-23 16:28
(;´Д｀) My secret shame...I also eat flowers...
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Unknown black chick2006-05-23 19:03
i don't hide it cause i don't give a fuck what nobody says or thinks about it. dem niccas can kiss my black ass. i like anime video games and anything else that pertains to it. watcha gonna do, beat my ass? lol! i think not.
I'm not an otaku. Or, at least, I hope I'm not. I like anime and manga, I draw in the art style (though my style is slowly morphing into more of an American style), and I putz around on a few anime websites. But I still have a social life, and hobbies outside of anime. I don't worship everything Japanese (and I actually hate most Jrock), and no, Pocky really isn't the best fucking thing to be concieved by man.
In short, I have very little nerdiness to hide. :D If someone sees me reading a manga or listens in on me and my friends discussing something anime/manga related, fuck 'em. They probably listen to rap and watch reality TV.
This was me until I watched Genshiken. Then I realized what I was doing but still do it. So yeah thats my story.
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Anonymous2006-05-26 2:59
I'm a huge nerd when it comes to anime, but I leave other people out of it. I don't hide the fact that I like anime, but I don't go around advertising it either.
But since I'm anonymous here....
This is how bad my condition is:
-frequently listening to anime OSTs
-loves hentai manga/doujin
-always downloading something related to anime
-spent a small fortune on DVDs and manga
-ordered VHS tapes (just last month) just to see a series I missed out on when I was younger.
-makes anime wallpapers (good ones too!)
-sometimes draws anime characters (well)
-screen saver is a huge collection of anime wallpapers
-browses 4chan daily
-minoring in Japanese (but doing well at the top of each class)
-owns an Asuka resin model, even though I hate Evangelion
-owns a Sgt. Frog model
-no end in sight to my spending habbits regarding anime
If you ever see chotos at an anime convention or a convinience in Japan, do yourself a favor and get some. I have yet to find a place in America that sells them.
>>15
Alrighty then, you can let everybody view you as an annoying ass nerd just to save your nerdy pride.
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Anonymous2006-05-26 12:00 (sage)
I keep the small remains of weeabooism (fondness for japanese comedy for example) mostly to myself and loathe the poor bastards who still watch anime.
I hide it from everyone except my friends and family, and even then certain aspects of it I hide (hentai)
I may be a nerd, but who cares? I certainly don't.
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Anonymous2006-05-27 0:03
H A K U J I N
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Anonymous2006-05-27 12:15
>>27 if you don't care then why do you hide it from people?
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Anonymous2006-05-27 12:37
You need to show your pride and love for anime. Don't hide it. If you think your going to loose friends because of it, then screw them.
Find friends that love you for loving anime. Thats all I can say to you.
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Anonymous2006-05-27 13:35
>>1 >>19
Well I wouldn't consider myself as bad as that, but I do have a large collection of such and such. Here's my list:
-Have brought Manga consisting of TokyoPop, Darkhorse Manga, Korean Manwha, Del Rey and smaller publishers.
-Have downloaded images of Anime, Manga, hentai, hentai doujinshi.
-Have downloaded Japanese games with emulators and hentai games (don't really play with them anymore because of better games on the market)
-Nearly every release from ADV films, 90% of all the Gundam series, and lots of Manga entertainment movies (including the old VHS videos).
-Lots of built Mobile Suit Gundam kits.
-Downloaded songs and soundtracks from Anime.
Maybe I should start cutting down? I suppose I'm more interested in Anime & Manga than wanting a place to live in Japan.
>>32
Sorry I shouldn't have said that.. Not all their stuff is great, but I do try and buy complete series first. Like Nadesico, Rahxephon and Mahoromatic.. Nothing too much... ^^
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Anonymous2006-05-27 17:48
I'd consider my self a medium fan of anime. I have no posters, I have no box sets of any kind. I have the Berserk DvD's though, and all the Berserk manga Released in the US. I don't download manga, I like it when I can hold it type of thing.
I download only fansub'd anime, and never spend a dime on the stuff. When I watch anime I usually spend about 8 hours a day watching it until I'm done. Recently watched all 72eps of monster in about three or four days. Re-watching Gundam Seed:Destiny right now.
I used to keep current on a few shows, now I just wait for them to be finished. In all honesty, I was probably the biggest wap around these parts a few months ago. I wanted to go to japan, and la di da da, i'd live this pathetic and fabulous life tending to my bonsai garden. I got a swift kick to the nuts and woke out of that.
I hope none of you are professing to the same unrealistic view of japan that I did. It's a nice country, not somewhere you really want to live though. In anime you take most of what's good from it, and you can enjoy that from the comfort of your own country.
Love always,
A born again Wap
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Anonymous2006-05-27 18:02
>>34
I wanna go to Japan and see if I can live there, just because I've always been interested in it. I'm not dillusional about it, though. I know it probably sucks there just as much as it does here, but I want to at least try.
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Anonymous2006-05-27 18:03
>>29
Why? It's not something I want to be broadcasting.
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Anonymous2006-05-27 19:16
>medium fan of anime
>8 hours a day
sorry man. one of these things is not like the other.
>>37
I watch a series about once every three months. When I sink my teeth into something I desperatly need to finish it. This is what makes me an absurdly good programer, or so I hear.
>>35
That's good, it IS a place you should probably visit once in your life, everywhere sucks, and everywhere rocks if you know where to look. Just don't expect all the womenz to overflow into your pants because you're white. Also, most Asians think Anime is for kids.
- It took me a good US born (Cuban-Heritage) Women to make me realize not everything in this culture deprived wasteland I inhabit sucks.
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Anonymous2006-05-28 5:02
why do waps exist? ugh maybe if they didn't other anime/manga fans wouldn't be so insecure about hiding their habits.
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Anonymous2006-05-28 8:05
I was walking to grand central in NYC and some young white kid was playing JPOP loudly in his car with the windows down..
his mind, "some jap chick will come over and say OMG I love you since you play music from my country"
my mind, "damn, what a tool"
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Anonymous2006-05-28 11:39
>>39
Well, I do like the Asian women, and that would be a major reason to go. Really, my interest in Japan is more than just anime anymore, so I see no reason not to go.
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Anonymous2006-05-28 20:25
I dont hide it. I'm Lucky cuz most of my friends accept me or are just as otaku as i am. I just hate my elitist otaku friends that like to bug me because i may not know some really obscure anime they have seen. Personally, Tokyopop is too much of a shojo company for me. I stick with viz, SJ(for beet the vandal buster) and occasionally tokyopop but only for a few mangas.
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Anonymous2006-05-29 23:11
Oh god, I hide it like a leper hides a decaying limb.
The only thing I own in terms of physical dvd/manga is the excel saga box set, a french set of the evangelion manga, and the first 7 double edition volumes of Dragonball (the only ones that are any good) which are all nicely stashed in boxes under my bed. I only talk about anime/manga with only two of my friends that are into it, and the rest of the time I keep my mouth shut and download stuff on my PC.
My sis has been to Nagoya on business but she had a blast since she adores japanese cuisine and culture. She might bring me along on her next business trip. Better put some cash aside...
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Anonymous2006-05-30 1:01
I don't hide my interests anime-wise but I also know about and take part in the world around me. I may have a thing for Asian women but it's not exclusive by any means.. although most of my female friends strangely enough are asian (but that's due to shared intersts and mutual friends) I try not to get all hyper-enthusiastic about *anything* (anime or no) when I'm around anyone who wholdn't be doing the same...although I once got into a Starwars geekfight with a friend of mine and a cabnet maker in a historical reconstruction village...
the historic dude was throwing all this "star wars this and star wars that" and my friend and I double teamed him with geekyness... It didn't hurt that my friends company actually designed Yoda for the last movie. :)
I tend to try and distance myself a little when around folks I don't know whatever their interests.. you know the old Groucho Marx quote about not belonging to any club that would have him as a member? I just went to a Convention and some of those people scare the fuck out of me.
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Anonymous2006-05-30 7:58
I find anyone who is "HARDCORE 2 TEH MaX!" scary in a way that you want to distance yourself from them as much as possible very quickly. This applies to guys at my dojo who like to crush beer cans on their forehead, and upon realizing they are bleeding, get super hyper and yell asinine comments. This also applies to big anime/manga fans, with one exception:
I find con and anime club extremists even worse.
I dunno, I get a weird, bolting the fuck out of the room feeling when I find myself surrounded with people dreesed up like Kenshin and Duo Maxwell that frequently spout nonsense japanese phrases at any possible chance. And sometimes, Oh gawd, the smell...
Don't get me wrong, I get excited about stuff too. Fox example, I was a fucking spaz, jumping up and down, when I saw the Smash Bros. Brawl trailer (Nintendo 64 kid like proportions), but that was in the privacy of my own home.
I guess it just reminds you that fan is short for fanatic. And when fanatics group together and amplify each other, I get scared in a bad kind of way.
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Anonymous2006-05-30 12:40 (sage)
>>42
Take this from someone who's been there, and the person you're addresing this to. The women arn't all their cut out to be. Most of the single ones bleach their hair blonde, and get these super-tans which are the ugliest thing ever. The ones that don't follow this standard, don't shave -.- . It's like sandpaper, trust me.
I won't even get into the teeth. I'd take the average American woman over the average Jap woman. Given that only 34% of american women are over the "Overweight" BMI scale, I've got a good chance not to get a fat one :)
Ohh yeah, Japan has a lot of STD's now as well. They hide it very well though, and don't tell anyone. So be careful.
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Anonymous2006-05-30 12:50
I've never had to hide my anime/manga hobby, but when meeting new people... It goes over smoother if things like that are left on their own and not mentioned, unless someone else starts to bring it up. Especially when meeting Japanese people, I've never told I watch anime and read manga. If they're around enough, they'll figure it out on their own.
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Anonymous2006-05-31 11:25
>>40
any group has bound to have people taking it too far
I used to not hide it because everyone I knew in my school loved anime at one point in their lives. Seriously, girls loved tamahome from FY while guys joked about tentacle rape.
I hid it from my family though because they're really conservative christians I mean they saw one of my anime magazines with rei in a swimsuit and got an aggravating long talk about porn.
Now, I'm moving to america for college I'll probably hide it until I know other people are fine and won't freak out or anything. Also, it's really embarassing to look at people acting japanese.. well I'm guilty of doing this before but you shouldn't act something you're not.
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Anonymous2006-06-01 10:42
I don't show it off, but if someone asks I'll tell them I like anime. I have a bunch of anime and manga but only one poster related to it in my room. I usually end up giving them to my sister. A lot of my anime-loving friends, are unfortunately, weeaboos. I get so embarassed when they do something retarded like wear kimonos to school and talk to people about their hobby when the other could care less. Thankfully, I'll see a lot less of them because of graduation.
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Anonymous2008-08-14 18:04
I like Konata because she is a otaku like me, except she has friends. Oh god I wish I had friends too ;_;
Konata also likes videogames and she is kawaii. And there are lesbians in the show and that's good because I like lesbians and I will never have a girlfriend. Why am I such a loser?!
Konata is like my dreamgirl she has a :3 face I love that. She is also nice why aren't real girls nice!? I got dumped a lot of times but I love konata and she wouldn't dump me because she's so nice and cool.
We would play videogames all day and watch Naruto and other cool animes on TV, and I would have sex with her because sex is so good. I wish I could have sex with a girl.
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Anonymous2008-08-14 20:43
holy shit how fucking old is this thread
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Anonymous2008-08-17 15:40
I only really talk about/mention anime and manga to those who share my interests, otherwise I just sound like some retard who spends his life on the internet (the latter being mostly true, although I do have a social life somewhat.) If normal girls ask me my interests, I just say the usual, "Oh, just video games, TV, music, films, etc". There are a few (and I mean a few) girls I know who share my interests, and there are also a few guys which are good friends of mine.
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Anonymous2008-08-17 18:17
When i first got into anime i was a complete geek, trying to get my friends and other people into it and saying how great it is.
I got a few people into it as a matter of fact, but most of them just disregarded anime as childish. That's when i realised how close-minded everyone is. If i was talking about some cliché film then i bet most of the people would have checked it out.
Nowadays I keep it to myself, but look for signs that the people i'm talking to likes anime. Maybe hint at it to see if they pick up, or use a 4chan word to see if they recognise it.
Like the other day a guy at work said "do you read comics?"
And i said "i'm not really into western comics"
Now we share anime dvds and talk about it all the time ^^
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Anonymous2008-08-21 16:53
Huh. The text boards don't delete threads?
Well. I hide it, and wouldn't dream of telling anyone unless i thought they were into anime and such too, and then only if they weren't a shounenfag. Given that i live in a rural hellhole, people here aren't very cosmopolitan. Cosmopolitan here meaning "Knowing the difference between China and Asia" and "Not finding foreign names hilarious".