Are you embaressed to let your friends know you read manga?

14 years ago
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No, I try to make them manga addicts and have succeeded several times.
this.
but that just goes for my friends

14 years ago
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Some of my actual friends know, yes. I am not embarrassed they know or would know. I have... 5. I haven't told a couple of them just because the subject never really arose. I'm not hugely into it, anime especially, it's mainly just something I do to pass the time.
The other people, who I claim to be "friends" but are just my tools to pass the time (my real friends don't live near me anymore) I have not told. Those people are prejudiced and I would not tell them, because I would be mocked. Not that it really matters if I were, but I kind of use them. So... Yeah, once they're not needed anymore I wouldn't care.
This probably sounds harsh but the "other people" really are a pile of douches. I blame it on where I live and my age group. I hope when I get into University people are more mature and open-minded.
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14 years ago
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Well it depends which kind of friends.
My equally nerdy friends? not embaressed at all. The cool cats who I do sports with or drinking buddies? just thinking about it makes me blush 🤢

14 years ago
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I'm embarrassed to let my Japanese friends know, because then they'll think, "God, all Americans can think about when they think of Japanese is manga and anime. Wannabes."
I don't want to be thought of just as a girl who loves the Japanese culture and language for anime... Although it is a big part.
I wouldn't be embarrassed to walk around naked in
a room where all my friends are present.
Why would I be embarrassed about manga? <_>
Nope, but I do get quite a bit of crap about it.... then again, I also get crap for playing too many video games and not acting enough like a girl, so whatever.
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14 years ago
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Nope, though most of them don't read and have no clue what I talk about half the time XP Maybe I wouldn't flaunt the genres I read though.... Nut my best friend knows all my guilty pleasures

14 years ago
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Nah. My friends don't really care about that sort of thing. I'm pretty much the dork of the group, so they just roll their eyes and grin. shrugs
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14 years ago
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Heck no! All my friends read manga too! What's there to hide? XD

14 years ago
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Well...people in my country here, even youth are in for a bit of surprise if u tell them you read manga(s)....but watever is it...no embarassing at all.

14 years ago
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Not embaressed at all, I tell everyone that I love manga, anime and cosplay. Sometimes I tell that I love manga right after my name like an introduction. Also more that half of my friends are otakus so no worries 😀
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14 years ago
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Nope, but the place where I grew up, a lot of people didn't even know that manga/anime existed so when I explained it to them what it is, I always got the question: "oh so you watch Pokemon?"
While I never watched that show cause I don't like it at all.
So tell me, what's it like living in a constant haze of stupidity?
14 years ago
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Hmm...
I never thought about it.
I just read whenever i want, and all of my friends know about it. 🤣
So i vote for "NO"
Well I also have a something I like, and my friends also have something he/she likes, even if it is
something crazy, I would still think of them as a best friends. 😀
If i want to read something than i read it, who cares what others think or say. If they are my friends they accept me like how i am.
In middle school, we only had Marvel an Dc comics, mangas wasn't available, i was the one who brought the comics and passed around in class.