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.

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"

>>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.

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.

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...

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.
 
 

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.

>>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.

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.

>>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.

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.

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.

holy shit how fucking old is this thread

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.

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 ^^

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".