Do you hide your anime/manga nerdiness?

(I don't like using the term "otaku.")

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.

Haha, being ANONYMOUS is the best.

>>1

I feel your pain.

Except only fags listen to anime osts lolol

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.

Only people who themselves enjoy animanga/jgames/etc. know about my hobbies.

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.

No.

>>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.

i don't have anyone to hide it from

>>8
Same. I think 1 person has asked me what my interests are in the last 2 years.

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.

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.

i am moe otaku

I'm fag, weeaboo and furry. Beat that guys!

(;´Д｀) My secret shame...I also eat flowers...

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.

>>15

Don't make me shove you in a locker, nerdlinger.

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.

>>1

This was me until I watched Genshiken. Then I realized what I was doing but still do it. So yeah thats my story.

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

I am Wapanese and PROUD of it.

-______________________-;;

>>17
Chotos >>>>> Pocky

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.

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.

>>22

And yet here you are posting on good old anime-centric 4-chan.  

>>23 I only use world4ch, and only when I'm superbored.

>>24
you clicked anime and manga, you silly man

Cool kids only read manga.

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.

H A K U J I N

>>27 if you don't care then why do you hide it from people?

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.

>>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.

>>31
-Nearly every release from ADV films

You spend way too much money. :s

>>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... ^^

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

>>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.

>>29
Why? It's not something I want to be broadcasting.

>medium fan of anime
>8 hours a day

sorry man. one of these things is not like the other.

>>34
8 hours? GTFO n00b.

>>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.

>>38
True story.

>>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.

why do waps exist? ugh maybe if they didn't other anime/manga fans wouldn't be so insecure about hiding their habits.