By this i mean do you tell ppl and friends you met in school or where ever
as long as you met then IN PERSON.
Alot of ppl discuss anime and sutch on forums but thats not what i mean.
It just so happens to be that alot of ppl will not understand the amount of time
you spend watching some cartoon crap, right?
Tell me your experiences
I only tell ppl who i can trust and then not the whole truth at that.
I couldn't care less, all my friends (I think) know that I watch anime.
I'm not exactly going to go up to a person and ask them if they watch anime, but if we talk for a while, it may come up, I couldn't care less what they think, if they say you watch that crap, I'll say "Do you watch TV?" coz I think that's complete crap.
most of the people I assosicate with know, some of them watch anime themselves...
as for how did they figure it out? I have a dirty habbit of doodeling in the back of my notebooks, so I usually draw stuff from the latest anime i've watched, and while I was drawing DBZ like stuff, people recognized it, and from there, it's all history.
actually, I also think I spend too much time watching crap anime, more than 50% of what i watch is basically pure bred crap that doens't fit even on national tv...
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No i don't tell people just out of the blue that i watch anime. There is no reason to do so. I usually donät share to much of my personal life with other people. However if it comes up in a discussion or something i might tell people that i watch it.
Almost everyone I know watches anime so there's no real point in keeping a secret.
Most of my close friends know that Im an anime freak even though about 99% of them dont lke anime and for some reason they always tell me that I dont look like a person that would like this sort of thing
In addition to what PSJ said, I had never had the chance to tell people that I watch anime except once or twice when THEY brought it up to me (cuz I'm Asian). Telling someone you watch anime out of the blue is like a gay man meeting someone for the first time and annoucing that he is gay. It just doesn't make sense, there is no need for it.
People who try to "hide" their interests are pathetic morons. I have no respect for them.
Anime is one of my main interests in life, people usually get to know that very early when meeting me.
(Of course I don't scream it out randomly, I am naturally talking about when it gets brought up)
If they for some reason have something against that, I kick them out of my life with no further ado.
All my friends know that I watch anime cause it's really not something to hide since I like it. Everyone at work knows that I watch it cause they'll see me looking around the anime section and ask do I watch it which is usually followed by what have you seen, do you watch toonami or I can't get into that stuff. Like nests said I always get you don't look like the type of person that would be into that kind of stuff.
(Aeon's Top 5 Anime ATM)One Piece,Shakugan no Shana Second,Gundam 00,Naruto,Bleach
Same here with the "you don't look like it" stuff.
Just because you are a nerd you don't need to look like one. It's unfortunate that some people get so consumed that it effects their well-being.
Those people usually don't have a firm grip on reality anyways.Originally posted by: Terracosmo
Same here with the "you don't look like it" stuff.
Just because you are a nerd you don't need to look like one. It's unfortunate that some people get so consumed that it effects their well-being.
Its just like any other hobby. Yeah, I watch anime. I also build model ships, and study 3 totally different martial systems. All are hobbies, if someone thinks one of them is "nerdy" or whatever, then they don't really know much about themselves. Hell, some people love NASCAR...I'm not one of them, I can't see the reason for driving around a circle 400 times and putting it on national TV. Not to mention the trememdous waste of fuel. But if you like NASCAR, great, kudos to you.
This forum is just a great gathering place for people to discuss hobbies and interests alike....and slander the hell out of each other.
most of my friends either watch anime themselves, or dont know enough about it to have any strong opinion of it. For the latter, I usually introduce them to something they'd like and turn them into the former [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]
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like most of us (probably) i don't spend all day watching anime...just here and there , when i can. but i don't think watching cartoons (anime) is some dirty little secret... all my friends and family know i watch it and if they say something i proudly say you damn right i watch it! I even got my girl friend, and her younger brother and sister into some anime's.
doh sorry lag caused me to think i didnt post my first reply...
well, for me depends on who. my friends, i don't really care-- but i teach teenagers once a week and every once in a while, before class starts i overhear conversations about what happened during the latest ep of naruto..... >_<; they will never know!!
but it's a bit weird to consider anime as a "dirty" secret. why can't it be just a plain ol' secret?
Most of my friends know I like anime but none of them do (maybe 1 or 2 of them like it but thats it). They say that anime is stupid and all that but I don't really care. Watching anime and reading manga are things I like to do because their enjoyable. Besides, they are the ones who are missing out on great stories to be seen/read. So I wouldn't say me being an anime nerd is a secret for me. I'm proud to be an anime nerd and I'm sure most people here on GW are to [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img].
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I picked the 3rd choice. I talk with all kinds of people, and some of them aren't open minded enough to accept the fact that anime is much more than DBZ. To the people that understand that, I have to problem telling them. To the ones that *might* understand that, I tell a little bit. To the people whom I know won't understand that, I'll keep quiet unless they actually ask, which is very unlikely.
While I don't fit the nerd stereotype at all I am in fact a nerd at heart. I still get my fair share of girls and go out partying with the best of them, but I simply choose to spend a sizeable portion of my free time watching/obsessing over anime. I also have several other hobbies that I keep quietly to myself. I think there's a huge difference between trying to hide something you do and just not going around shouting about it to the world. I'm naturally a private person.
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This sounds a lot like me actually, I do a lot of both worlds... but very often I choose to not hang out and socialize and rather just abuse some anime & games. Some people find this weird, mainly ones who feel like "you don't have a life if you aren't out getting drunk 24/7", but I couldn't care less about those morons.Originally posted by: masamuneehs
While I don't fit the nerd stereotype at all I am in fact a nerd at heart. I still get my fair share of girls and go out partying with the best of them, but I simply choose to spend a sizeable portion of my free time watching/obsessing over anime.
I often get asked "how do you have fun doing absolutely nothing all the time?" well there's only one answer to that, that "doing nothing" is absolutely relative. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]
I don't really care if people know I watch anime. If people ask me about what I do in my free time, it inevitably comes up. I only know one or two people that are against anime. The rest don't really care, or else I've introduced them to anime and gotten them hooked. Also, watching anime is a social activity for me. I nearly always watch it with my housemates or friends. It's a lot of fun to watch with a group. We have an anime club at my school that I go to sometimes, and most people there don't look like 'geeks' per se. They're mostly pretty normal people that just get together for a common interest that happens to be watching anime.
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