Forum - View topicDo you get embarrased by the Anime you have?
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Tempest_Wing
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I've been thinking about buying the two Nyaruko sets which are at a reduced price btw, but the simple fact that it would be embarrassing to have them sitting on my shelf keeps turning me off. Like the idea of having my parents or, the electrician or anybody seeing a colorful box with anime girls in the cover makes me shudder. Does anybody have this problem as well? I mean, look at this: http://www.rightstuf.com/rsimages/primary/813633014043.jpg
Would this not embarrass you?? {I've taken the liberty of editing the next-to-last line because apparently TRSI is not allowing ANN to access the image. --nbahn} |
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Nico877
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I don't buy stuff that embarrass me and I have about 200 Japanese Blu-rays on my shelf, so no. Think you'll be fine with Nyaruko.
Would you be as embarrassed if you had one of those pink Sex in the City boxes on your shelf? Probably not as it's "socially acceptable" as long as it's not a Japanese cartoon. |
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Ortensia1980
 Posts: 803 Location: some town near Amsterdam |
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I'd have no problems displaying those Nyaruko sets at all to be honest.
I've got plenty of anime DVDs/BDs, posters and figurines and plenty of people have seen them (mechanics included) and it's never bothered me. And if it were to bother some of my guests, then they can just look the other way. |
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Alan45
 Village Elder Posts: 9836 Location: Virginia |
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Short answer, NO.
I have both of those sets and find them perfectly reasonable in appearance. Shelve them with your other shows and likely no one will notice in any case. If you have enough figures, even the wildest ones are lost in the crowd. I do have a few posters that are probably not appropriate for general viewing, but they are not on display in any case. If it is your hobby, own it. Never be afraid of what you love. |
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Maidenoftheredhand
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No not really as I wouldn't buy something if I was embarrased by it. Although I do have a few guilty pleasures (just bought Fushigi Yuugi and I find it fun to watch but it's basically a soap opera).
Also I love the series but I sm not a big fan of the Yoko cover on one of my Gurren Lagann DVDs (just not the target audience for that image) |
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phia_one
Posts: 1657 Location: Pennsylvania |
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No, I enjoy the anime I own. I do admit that I was a little self conscious when I first got into anime 10 years ago. Obviously I'm past that point.
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bones2039
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The box art has never stopped me from buying any anime I'm interested in, however I will be careful on which shelf I put certain shows on. I live with a friend that is very Catholic so I make sure my more ecchi titles are somewhat hidden from display.
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Tempest_Wing
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I guess that's why I'm still a bit self-conscious. I'm still starting out. |
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Ortensia1980
Posts: 803 Location: some town near Amsterdam |
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^ I was that way when I started buying figures at first (main reason that I never bought the Queen's Blade Echidna figure from Megahouse) but you get over that with time.
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Polycell
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Frankly, I was - then the maintenance people actually came over, I found I gave exactly 0 flips about them seeing my figures and posters, or even if they were shittalking me in Spanish.
Of course, they never got a chance to look at my one ecchi figure, which is strategically hidden behind my monitor(and the light-and-shadow effect looks neat, too). |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7983 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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If I was buying something raunchy looking in person, perhaps, but usually no. Once it gets shelved in my collection all you can see is the spine anyway, except for some franchises and long series that take up less shelf space if I face them differently.
I actually kind of like how my shelves are pure visual, colorful chaos. There are actually quite a few fanservice titles mixed in there, but you can't really tell unless you know what you're looking for. |
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zawa113
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Hmmmmm, there's the one thing. My friend is getting married, so I found some used hentai DVDs and VHSs for her for cheap. But she's only finally announced she'd be getting married in May and I've had those things sitting on a shelf for like a year. I bought them soon after she got engaged, yargh! They're supposed to be a bachelorette party gag gift, man! (And I hope she goes through with the plan to have it at Six Flags, though I don't think I should bring my gift into the park with me). Seeing as her fiancé owns all of La Blue Girl on VHS (the spines make a picture!) I think this is appropriate, lol.
For the most part, I got over it. I used to hide my JRPGs behind the "normal" games back in high school, but growing up is embracing what you like, so long as it's legal and not child porn. I just have them organized by system now, but I've kind of run out of room and gotten less picky (though I do like to group the Pokemon, Tales, and Megaten games together) I'm actually struggling to think of any anime I own that I'm actually embarrassed about, not even my "so bad it's good" section of Eiken and Mad Bull 34 are enough to embarrass me. But I will definitely admit that I used to be, back when I got into the fandom during high school. Even with friends who also liked anime. I mean, what if I had something on my shelf that they didn't think was cool enough? But now I'm like "If they don't like Princess Tutu, they simply don't know any better!" But now, I've become a regular at a comic shop I learned about after college that regularly has half off sales (sometimes 60% off on holidays), and I will pile between one and fifteen books at a time sometimes on the counter and fork over my card (but dude, I get like, fifteen books for around $100 or less sometimes!) and I'm not embarrassed about it at all. I did actually decide to ask if I'm the only one who goes there to mostly get manga, and I'm not! Woohoo! I think it helps that the guy who runs the store doesn't seem to care what I'm buying (unlike those jerks at the other store, who seem to actively look down on me for reading "inferior comics" and don't have good sales anymore anyway, it's why I jumped ship), so I don't care that it's a 20 minute drive, it's worth it (and I can do other errands over there, and they have some better food places in that area, I justify the trip). |
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st_owly
 Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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I'm basically on first name terms with the staff in my local comic book shop, and they don't bat an eyelid when I buy shrinkwrapped BL stuff with explicit content warnings on the front. The staff at the chain bookstore don't seem to either. I hide it from my parents though, and have been doing so ever since I was a teenager
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Ggultra2764
 Subscriber Posts: 3872 Location: New York state. |
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Not necessarily for me, but likely for my mother. Years ago while I was in college and just started getting into anime, my mother occasionally got me random anime volumes and movies on VHS and DVD since I didn't have the money to get them due to having to put money aside to cover tuition. At a used video store, she unknowingly winded up getting me a hentai title called Kama Sutra. I had to wind up informing her of this with the obvious hints that she missed and she was completely mortified by it. For a time, it was something joked about by my family members and she never heard the end of it as a result.
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geishageek
 Posts: 571 Location: Pleasant Valley, NY |
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Not embarrassed at all. I happily buy explicit BL from Barnes and Noble with a smile on my face.
I remember when Welcome to the NHK started to be released as singles and a lot of my friends would never buy the singles in store as the covers were "too risque" for them. I would happily saunter up to the counter at Best Buy with them in hand and pay for them as if they were any new blockbuster they were selling, making certain the covers were front side up so the cashier could see them in all their glory. I also picked up Sensitive Pornograph on DVD (a very explicit BL title) from the localish Sun Coast before it closed and had a 15 conversation with the one of the hottest men on earth about the appeal of that type of media. I also read hentai and BL out and about in public (my favorite are the reactions I get at the airport when I travel) with not a care in the world. I have no shame when it comes to things I enjoy. |
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