Depends on the friends. I have a loose 'you tell, I tell' policy. If I know about their hobbies I'll tell them about mine. A lot more of my friends have gotten into it recently (without my external influence). Can't really be embarrassed by something that the majority of my friends have begun to do.

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Well I don't know If embarrassed is really the word. I go to a Christian school now and I've told one or two people I read manga. But not really what I read, and if I did, I'm afraid they would be all jumpy on it. So I've refrained from telling anyone really anything about it. But at least their are other people who share the same hobby. 😳

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I don't go announcing it the world, but if a friend asks "do you read manga?" I'll answer honestly: "yeah, every now and then. I used to read more when I was younger."

I don't announce it, but I do cite things I've read from mangas now and then and if anyone asks, I would answer that I'm an avid manga reader. My friends don't care enough what I like and my hobbies, and it just doesn't influence our conversations.

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Nah - but I usually leave out what kind - Yaoi 😁

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I was really embarrassed about this hobby when I was younger, and then it just became a habit for me to not talk about it. Now I'm not sure wether I'm embarrassed or not, I just don't see the point in shouting about it either. If someone asks, I'll answer I guess. 🙄

No, nothing to be embarrassed about. We sometimes joke in a healthy way. Well actually it I who does. To be clear not making fun of it

Only my other nerd friends know...but I don't hide the K-Dramas, because I don't really find that something to hide. I watch those when there are hot male leads. For manga my close friends know, and only 3 know the extent. Anime isn't really hidden, but people have to really pay attention to me to figure it out.

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Nah - but I usually leave out what kind - Yaoi 😁

And adding on, only 3 people in this world know about the yaoi (including my sister, who tells people I watch gay porn, the creep). I think I would lose friends if it was common knowledge...

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My friends read manga and are all really nerdy, we also read a lot of books, if I was uncomfortable reading manga around my friends they wouldn't be my friends because that would mean we don't actually like each other for who we are.

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I wasn't in high school but now that i'm in college...seems to me that when I say I read manga it is not clear to them that it is NOT animated (they think I watch naruto on tv -___-'' )

1. watch naruto nor read it...
2. there is story for older readers and they don't get it :C

so I don't talk about manga much...and when I talk about something I've read in a manga I say in a book or in a ''BD'' ( which means Comics)

I'm not ashamed, it is just anoying to explain the concept and my interesse in some manga...NOT NARUTO DAMN IT

I'm old (hint: on my eighth year of work now) and almost all of my friends do not read manga. While I do not deny the fact that I read manga, it's not something that I declare voluntarily. So I guess it's a 'yes'. Lol.

I'm not old, neither am I young though... but it is known to most of my friends that I'm quite childish and that I still let myself be engulf in things like manga and books and other stuff that you may find immature and weird... but I never hide it to any of them. In fact, my friends are actually forced to listen to all my ramblings about the newest manga I've read, so that's a definite NO. 😃

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Depends on the friend. But I know this wannabee cool person, he tells me that if I tell his friends he reads manga, I will be in trouble. : P Wimp.

Hmmm, maybe.... I just don‘t tell them that I read mangas, but I think they know that I watch anime...
I also don‘t let other people that I don‘t know, know that I read manga..

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Nope. I've probably admitted other things that most would consider far more embarrassing than reading manga. 🤣

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