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Do you get embarrased by the Anime you have?

I am very much embarrassed by my interests. I don't like letting other people know much about my interests outside of things that are very 'safe', which is to say very 'respectable', although those things are so arcane and boring to most that the mention of them makes most eyes glaze over. Anime, manga and things like that, however, will draw intrusive, potentially pestering attention that I'd rather not surrender to. I'm not even comfortable discussing it with others, even sometimes friends, who have similar interests.

I'm having some closet fixtures installed tomorrow and I just finished covering my manga shelves, which are close to the closet where the installation will be done, with spare towels. Books like The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages or Perfecting Parliament will make most eyes roll up into people's heads in such a way that they might as well be invisible, but the colorful spines with strange or, though rare in my case, provocative images of manga seem dangerously likely to attract attention.