at first there was only my brother.
none of my friends at school knew what manga was. at all.
i tried to invoke their interest in the subject. in the process there was something quite fun happened, majority of people reacted to gruesome story like Gantz. anyway, they started picking up titles i recommended.
and so i created my own group of otakus

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Not really at the moment. I only have one friend who also likes manga but he lives in another city and we only talk about recent chapters about mainstream shounen manga which are updated weekly. The (very few) friends I have around me don't really read manga. One who does, I don't really see much. *shrug*
Feels really lonely now in Uni when I compare to the time when I was in school. During elementary school, a bunch of people read manga like crazy. We trade mangas to read and everything. Hell, a lot of people started drawing their own mangas for us to enjoy.
Junior high was basically the same, as we stayed with the same groups of people in elementary school.
High school came and everyone got separated to different schools. Came across several otakus, though we talked mostly of shoujo series. Two of the guys in my class were quite the otaku too, though I can't really keep up with their preferences (yandere and moe things).
Good times, good times. I'm thinking of having a Manga Appreciation Society or something, but we have to get 30 members to open a club. And I'm mostly antisocial, so yeah.

Wow that's exactly how I started reading manga myself, don't get me wrong I was only watching anime before that. Mind you I didn't know about manga (meaning didn't know that anime was based off manga). So I over heard some guys on the subway talking about gantz, so I went and watched it, but it never got to where they were talking about. I went to yahoo answers to see what's up with that, then I found out that the manga was ongoing, that moment was the pivital moment in my otaku life. And I owe it all to thoughs random guys in the subway, after that I read Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu, then a whole mess of mangas (around a couple hundred including one-shots)

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She says "yada!" but we all know she doesn't mean it.

Honestly, no. But i like only talking about it online. reading manga is like my secret hobby ;]

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"Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived."- Dalai lama

Yes, mostly its just about how to make it relevant to the listener or the conversation.

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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown"

I talk about this stuff with my Asian friends...... >_____> I have rarely ever talked about anime and manga with my non-Asian friends..... s:

And I also talk about stuff with select MU people<3.

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I guess I'm lucky in this area- I have tons of asian friends that know of different animes and mangas (of course not ALL my asian friends) and I have other non-asian friends that also like anime- thou not as much. However, thank god, they are not the type to only see naruto and bleach. But, I think that as I (and those around me) get older, conversations about anime/manga decrease

with my sister only. hahaha! I influenced her for reading it.
But lately one of my friends has been reading manga because she was curious why I'm so addicted to it. lol

I'm an otaku and I have a few friends that share my hobby, and even see me as their sensei because I know so much about it =/

My only 1 best friend, the only dude i can talk manga/anime stuff with....the rest , it hard to even mention manga/anime stuff with , but yes, they do know what those are...but they kinda shy to talk in the open not to mention read them -__-''...and just like the rest of the people post here, most of my friend know only Naruto and Bleach

I live in Switzerland over here most people my age like 96% would say "anime ohh thats that weird japanese sex stuff". so normaly i learned from a young age (like when i was 14 years), never tell anyone that i enjoy manga. Else they will think of me as a pervert or at best a strange person, but recently times changed.After i learned a profession i went back to college. in this college most people are younger than me by 4-8 years and there are alot of people who like anime. Still most people tend to not talk about it. but i know of at least 10 people who i would consider to be really deep into anime/manga.

Plus you no longer count as a pervert at least (worst they will think of you as strange)

best thing happend like half a year past, when i could really make an impression on a girl with my knowledge in japanese (even though it is really limited)

A few years back when I first started watching anime and reading manga, I had nobody to talk to except my younger brother who used to watch/read Naruto with me. He still does, which is awesome, and we can talk in detail about it a little so I'm really happy about that. I mean, I love talking about Naruto so much that I get so excited I get the shakes xD hahaha I'm such a freak~

But he's not interested in anything else, sadly.
For a while he was all I had to vent my obsessive otaku-ness, but then a new girl came to my school 2 years ago and she became my new otaku friend ^-^ I could talk to her about things and she would understand my passion. Then other people in my group of friends kind-of got interested too.
I go to a nerdy "selective" school >_____> so there were no problems with being seen as a freak, because there's actually worse people than me there haha xD I'm really glad I had that environment around me, because I wouldnt have been able to hide my weirdness anyways

And recently I abused my best friend and made her be interested in Naruto (anime), and so I had someone I could discuss plot junk with, which made me really happy. She also started reading some other manga, but not scanlations.

Though for some reason it really pisses me off when I'm talking about something really deep and sad in Naruto and then she's just like "Yeah, it's cool I guess. *fangirls over Kakashi* "
I'm like: RAAAAGE Y U NO UNDERSTAND WOMAN?!?!?! ;__;
That attitude just pisses me off for some reason. I guess it's because I don't really have anyone who loves Naruto as much as I do, in rl anyways. I met a girl from America on the internet a few years ago who loves Naruto as much as I do which is awesome; but I just wish I had more people I could talk to.
I don't have anyone to talk with about Gintama or Sket Dance. Or yaoi. D: It makes me so sad ;_;
NEED MOAR OTAKU'S D:

Oh. I get to talk about it a lot. Mostly with boys though. I haven't really met a lot of girls who like anime/manga.. But since I'm in the art club, I'm quite surrounded with people who like them. tumblr also has a lot of people who likes them. Although it feels like, there are more anime/manga lovers in the internet, there are still people who like them. I don't feel like I have to be silent about liking it.

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A while ago I had a friend that liked anime, but she was more of a gamer and we didn't share tastes. I could talk to her about manga and anime though. Another friend, since she saw that we had fun talking about manga, decided to pick up one and now she is addicted to it. And she reads really fast (but without cherishing it! ). Now that they have left to study at another school though, I have nobody to talk to about manga. Sure there are people in my class that read/watch manga and anime, but I don't talk to them much.

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First, non of my friend had known about manga, but now 2 of my friends are taking intrest in manga and anime.

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