Do You Hide Your Hobby?

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Do You Hide Your Hobby?

Postby CodeZTM » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:54 pm

Yes, I consider anime and anime music video making a hobby in general.

Now, the question. Do you hide your hobby? I mean, do you put away the anime collection or the plushies or the desktop wallpaper when people/family come over?

Personally, I have a dual philosophy on this one. It's generall not in the best interests of me as a college student to have tohru honda on my desktop, holding a cat and a rat on display in the library. So I usually have a separate account for college/home. I definitly haul all my anime stuff locked up in my closet whenever relatives come over. This is for two reasons. For one, I get laughed at for like "Pokemon" when the poster is obviously Kino's Journey. For two, my cousin got out my DVD collection, looked at the "pretty pictures" and then got up, but accidentally stepped on my Ah! My Godess discs. Thus, it's not only just for the desire to not have an akward conversation, but also to protect them as well.

It's also because of the fact that I HATE the stupid questoins. "Why are you watching cartoons? You're 18!" "Do you have to "catch em all" in this one too?"

I'm having a lot of pokemon references if you haven't noticed. That's because everybody in my poe-dunk little town in arkansas only know Pokemon as a Japanese anime, and some really intelligent people know about Naruto. Believe it?

So I now ask you!

Do you hide your hobby? If so, explain why.
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Postby Vivaldi » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:56 pm

yes.
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Postby AaronAMV » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:07 pm

I hide my youtube name because it sucks, but I like to show off to my friends. I mean really, the stuff that we can do is amazing! My friends have been to me, "dude that's so cool!" I like getting praised. If we enjoy something why should we hide it? Who cares what people think, unless like you CC, they step on your DVDs. ;_;
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Postby Chrono63 » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:12 pm

No.
I don't go around shouting "I watch anime, look at me", but it's not like I hide it if a conversation leads in that direction.

Oh, and when my friends say how I watch pokemon and such, I joke along with them. ;)
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Postby Vivaldi » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:19 pm

Oh wait, why?

Well, first of all let me say that I don't really "hide" it per-say, it's way to much for me to put in a closet when someone comes over. And I don't have as much obvious stuff like posters except for a small portrait of Ed and Al Elric (though the kino poster sounds totally awesome.)

I don't really have any excedingly younger relitives that'd I'd have to worry about the safty of my collection, but most of the time when I show somebody the "videos" I'm making or the show I just bought, I get a odd looks and kinda a "um.. yeah.. that's cool...: and they change the subject. At least they're polite I suppose (except for one time I mentioned miyazaki, and someone mutter under his breath "I dispise anime"). Same reason I don't really like to direct people I know to my youtube account.

Also, my cousins have the notion that anime is "like, you know, like, like, really, like, bad and stuff." At the time I thought they ment in a quality sense, so quoting sturgeons law I told them yeah, alot of it is, but there's alot of standouts. They gave me a queer look, and I later found out they ment bad as in the "mind in the gutter" sense.

This was at a family reunion, and we're christens too, so it was extra awkward.

As for older (or younger) people who give the "do you gotta catch them all in this one too?" line for something like kino or GITs, I just give them a real short spiel on how they were made for an older audience, and probably have higher philosophical and story quality then any TV show they've ever seen.
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Postby Malificus » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:21 pm

no. I don't.

I'd go as far as to say I advertise it.
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Postby 8bit_samurai » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:28 pm

For me it's more of a "don't ask don't tell" thing. Nobody really asks, so I don't really tell.
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Postby Immorrel » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:38 pm

I'm with 8-bit on this one. While I'll never hide my stuff, I don't bring attention to the fact that I collect anime, make AMVs, or play video games. If it comes up in conversation, I'm more than happy to share my experience in the matter, but it isn't something that I would start a conversation with a random person about.
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Postby wurpess » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:43 pm

No, I don't hide it. At all. I don't advertise majorly or start talking to a random person about it (Not that I talk to random people IRL anyway.), but if it comes up, I will join in the conversation and I do not shy from wearing my anime related shirts. None of the anime stuff goes in the closet when people visit. With both my bf and I into anime, people kinda expect the apt to be a gallery of Otaku-ness. (Between all the wallscrolls, figures, anime, random manga thrown around, computer wallpapers, plushies, etc.) And my family thinks the whole AMV thing is kinda cool. *^_^*
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Postby AaronAMV » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:47 pm

Immorrel wrote:I'm with 8-bit on this one. While I'll never hide my stuff, I don't bring attention to the fact that I collect anime, make AMVs, or play video games. If it comes up in conversation, I'm more than happy to share my experience in the matter, but it isn't something that I would start a conversation with a random person about.

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Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:26 pm

What everyone else has said. Don't hide it like a grown man's teddy bear, but neither do I flaunt it like some kinda gay pride parade.
RonnieDaking wrote:i like my anime like I like my women, from japan and speaking english

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Postby Sukunai » Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:18 pm

Hide? Your kidding right?

My Haruhi poster is positioned specifically so that it DOES get viewed from outside the hobby room.

My desktop wallpaper has anime girls wearing clothing only because the wife would be annoyed otherwise (she expects me to at least be at least that under control :)).

I don't keep people as friends if they would make dumb ass comments about my anime.
And frankly you can make your friends, family you're stuck with :), although my family knows better than to give me a reason to rip them a new one.

Gotta keep in mind though, I think smoking is for losers with no will power and vulnerable to peer pressure, Religion is for people afraid of the dark and suffering a crisis of reality, and I prefer politics at the end of an assault weapon.

Most people aren't stupid enough to laugh at me because I like anime.

That, and being "popular" hasn't been important to me for hmm at least 30 years.
Wait, it wasn't important to me then either.

My advice to anyone dealing with someone laughing at your anime hobby, laugh right back at them, and ask them straight faced "what makes you think your opinion ever meant bugger all to me?".
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Postby LeapofFate » Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:28 pm

8bit_samurai wrote:For me it's more of a "don't ask don't tell" thing. Nobody really asks, so I don't really tell.


x2 on that statement.

Even if people knew I like anime and edit to it[some of my friend do know that], they shouldn't care. It is your life.
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Postby 8bit_samurai » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:09 pm

8bit_samurai wrote:For me it's more of a "don't ask don't tell" thing. Nobody really asks, so I don't really tell.



To expand on my statement (since I was on lunch break at the time) I hide my anime in plain sight with my other DVDs. There are times when someone asks to borrow a DVD (it's a small town), they see an anime I have and may or may not ask what it is, so I tell them what it is if they do ask. Sometimes they ask what it's about so I tell them what it's about. Nobody has borrowed one yet, so I guess I don't give good reviews on anime :/ One of my friends was interested once and said he might borrow one later, but he hasn't yet. He's the same person who I showed a sub I had awhile back and said he'd watch it if they were talking in English. He's also the same person who has the Spawn animated series I been meaning to borrow but I haven't yet :/
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Postby Kalium » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:18 pm

I don't hide it, but I also don't advertise it. I've got no reason to.
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