How do you hide your power level?

dont. pretending you dont watch anime is as obvious as wearing anime merchandise

>watching normalfag shows

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I don't. I openly admit that I love animation, that I collect animation art books and that I watch anime. The trick is to love animation as an art form. If you tell people that you watch French, Russian and Japanese animation, that you have an interest in visual directing, storyboards and animation techniques, then nobody will look down on you for watching anime. You're not a weeb. You're an aniphile.

What if you don't care about any of that and you just watch it for the cute girls?

Then you should get used to people shaming you.

I don't hide it. But whether it be anime or gardening, people don't like to hear about hobbies they're not interested in, so just don't mention it to normalfags.

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Why would you want to? Hiding your powerlevel is an holdover from when embarassing *glomps you OwO* weeaboos were all around.
But you know what I find truly embarassing? Pretending to not like something completely harmless even though you love it, just to appease disgusting normalfags who probably hate your guts anyway.

For real. You rejected total normalcy by consuming japanese cartoons for teens on the regular already- why do you still cling to the total approval of society then? What is there to lose? If simply watching anime makes you lose something, is that something even worth keeping?
If anything, being a completely normal dude who happens to like anime openly does a lot more to help the public image of anime watchers than a dude pretending to not like anime who then sanctimoniously points and laughs at people who feel free to express themselves, as awkward as they may be. If you hide your true self you've not only given yourself a pernicious habit, you're a coward too.

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i don't. If someone ask me i say my hobbies consist of watching cute 13 year old anime girls drinking tea.

Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings

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this

Basically what everyone else said: don't bring it up.

But on a slightly related note, if you've already befriended someone who doesn't know you watch anime, don't worry about trying to hide it. If someone stops being friends with you because of that interest, fuck em. At worst, they'll trash talk you, which you should be able to handle if you're actually friends, and at best, you can convert them.

>What is there to lose?
Your job, for one thing.
>being a completely normal dude who happens to like anime openly
>being a completely normal dude
So I see we're speaking entirely in hypotheticals and not about situations that could actually apply to any of us

I read books (fiction and non-fiction), play games, and watch the occasional movie, but I can never talk openly about any of those because people either ignore me or make fun of me when I express any kind of passion for something, even my own mom. So in that way, being into anime doesn't really change anything for me.

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>reject total normalcy
>don't cling to the total approval of society
If you have these two traits why would you ever want to socialize dumbass. Hiding powerlevels are for introvert/antisocials

>being insecure about your interests
>wanting to hide your "power level"
I just bring it up if someone asks, and you should too.

I tell them I'm a japanese TL and that pretty much gives me a free pass to say anything related. I can back it up too since I actually speak japanese. Most people won't ask any further

In normal conversation anime will never come up. Normal people don't like to hear about other peoples hobbies if it isn't relevant to the current conversation.
The way to fit in with normalfags is by mastering small talk. A master can make a Shakespearean level dialogue out of something as inane as the placement of ketchup on a table.
If you want some help with this, go watch fifty episodes of Seinfeld.
What you want to go for is George. But don't go full George, or else people won't wanna be around you anymore.

Some of you guys seem to live in some sort of dystopian place where mentioning anime in public will automatically get yourself arrested and sent into a normalizification camp.

/thread

There is no need to be obnoxious about your hobby but at the same time there no reason to shy away from having those around you understand your love for a hobby.

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Watching anime as an adult is not a normal hobby at all unless you live in Akiba.

What's the problem with being seen as weird?

I don't talk about it unless they bring it up

Depends on the anime.

Watching shounen or the flavor of the month isekai is perfectly normal, if not a little quirky. The only people who will make fun of you are trashy douchebags and thots, and even the douchebags at the very least watched DBZ in their childhood.

But for the love of god, don't mention your love of cunny or any moe SoL shows in public unless you're talking to other weebs. Most people will think you're a creep or possibly even a pedophile.

There are things you don't tell to other people. Do you tell people that you watch porn for example?

>boomer mother over my house while I'm at work
>when I come home she asks "what are all those Japanese dolls in your closet"
>tell her they're valuable and I like collecting them
>later wonder how she knew they were Japanese

I once recommended a friend to watch made in Abyss, boy was that a mistake

my mom reads manga and made me watch endless eight with her when I was a kid.
What kind of dolls were they?

The only person who ever asked if I watched porn I told the truth to. Nothing in our relationship changed. I get what you're trying to say, but personally, I don't see the point of lying in situations like that and I've never benefitted from it. Everyone I know also knows I watch anime and my life has only gotten better because now they actually buy me things that I like for eg my birthday isntead of the perfunctory shit I usually got, and also I can just do little things like have an anime keychain or phone wallpaper because I stopped worrying obsessively whether or not people would find out about a mundane hobby that, compared to let's say hunting wild game or building sex dolls, really isn't that weird.

It's more fun to live, double, triple or even quadruple lives. The taboo aspect of it is part of what gives it it's flavor. That's why its not as fun to watch american cartoons. Well that and because they're shit. But people will just think of you as a lame manchild if they find out, whereas if they find out you watch anime you are an extra pathetic creepy manchild. That's the taboo! That's the fun.

It's why being gay isn't even cool anymore. It's too accepted. If I was gay I would unironically still want to be closeted because having people be all "supportive" of you just because you like dick is annoying. I'd rather be bashed. If. IF.

>Most people will think you're a creep or possibly even a pedophile.
And they're probably right you sick fucks. But that's what makes it fun! Embrace your secret world, O weeaboos. Just look at how normies are already ruining anime with their youtube reaction videos and flavor of the month tastes.

Just like Yea Forums was better when people either had no idea what it was or thought you were a terrorist for going here. Mark my words, if ALL anime becomes mainstream to the point where politicians are wearing hentai print shirts to the halls of congress (we are already at the "rappers and celebs wearing hentai shirts in public" phase) you will realize it has now become boring and trite. The zest will be gone. The thrill will be gone.

Mark me, O weebs.

Porn is actually more mainstream and acceptable than hentai or even anime. And who is judgmental about hunting wild game besides eco-freaks and PETArds?

This. Even Japanese people have to hide their power level.

I don't know. I, personally, don't derive satisfaction from any medium because of extraneous factors associated with it. Perhaps when I was a teen but not any more. Furthermore I don't feel the need to live a disingenuous life, and above all else I don't care whether or not random people think I'm a creep (as if they would even care about me in the slightest in the first place, which I can guarantee you they don't). I don't try to have my life revolve around the perceptions of others, at least.

Dunno, most people in a big city will look at you weird if you tell them you go hunting moose regardless of anything. Personally I don't find it weird.

I like a lot of other things than just anime. Talk about normalfag shows/movies, sports, news or whatever

They weren't even "true" dolls, just some big ol Madoka RAHs. My mom is an old woman who's never heard of anime in her life (or so I believe) so it really surprised me that she knew they were Japanese.

>Been watching anime since I was 12
>Was also a super nerdy thing
>Other kids in school would get bullied for watching it
>Media made fun of people who liked it
>Yea Forums always encouraged hiding your power level
>Ashamed of my hobby
>In mid 20s now
>Liking anime is starting to become in vouge
>The thing I've been hiding my entire life and was shamed for liking is starting to permeate into pop culture
>The mainstream internet and Asian kids are starting to use the words and memes I've been using for over 10 years
>It's "cool" now
>Being embarrassed about like anime is so deeply ingrained into my soul that I can't be happy that my hobby is finally becoming social acceptable

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I tell normalfags I haven't seen any DB or Saint Seiya since 10 years ago, then they leave me alone.

Only works in spiclands though.

What if your mum secretly has a powerlevel even higher than yours?

This happened with bideo gaem and being a fag as well. Give it 200 years and being a rorikon will be the same way

>200 years
Pedophillia is already slowly becoming normalised. We live in an age of acceleration. I doubt you'd need to wait longer than 10 years.

I think that's too soon. It may be somewhat palatable in 20-50 years but it'll take longer to become truly acceptable and encouraged. Too many people still believe it's flat wrong and until they die things'll change slowly. If age of consent in the US gets significantly lowered nationwide in less than 20 years I'll eat my hat

Furious regular masturbation to doujins.

If we start the indoctrination now, then it's just the boomer generation and most of the millenials who need to die off before it's accepted completely. A workable scenario I'd say.

I hide everything i like from people unless those interests align with them, to present myself as the most ideal person to them

Level 1 : sugoooiii bakayaro Sasuke kakoi
Level 2 : Hide your powerl level
Level 3 : Yeah, I just fucking love anime.

When things go mainstream the content typically changes

Most mainstream animes are still generic shit

Although im even starting to see cgdct becoming popular with my sibling and his friends, hes 8 years younger

Jusy be happy that there will be more of your hobby, even if a lot of it is shit

This is what I thought with vidya, but to this day no game has ever surpassed Dwarf Fortress. Everything is shit

melonpan

Vidya is like the exception, its only degraded compare it to music, like jazz before it got popular
I sas going to say hiphop but that also got fucked

Dward fortress is a very niche game, and I think that the lack of any competitors has less to do with the mainstream appeal of games in general, and more with the appeal of dwarf fortress even within circles of gamers.

Its a lot easier to say you dont like anime then have the follow up questions, stereotyping and judging so forth.

Like saying you used to game meant you were an anti social neckbeard with bad hygiene. Now its weird if you dont game as a guy

>Your job, for one thing.
What kind of job gets you fired for talking about anime? Over the years a number of people at my office have been anime fans of varying levels, amazingly none were fired (much less for talking about it).

>Its a lot easier to say you dont like anime then have the follow up questions, stereotyping and judging so forth.
It would depend on who asked, I suppose (most people who hate anime don't ask you if you like it), but I think telling the truth is ultimately the superior choice.

If you could lose your job because you admit to liking anime, then chances are the problem is you; that you are some kind of fuck up. Don't blame anime for the risk of getting fired.

You don't. The trick is to not be a complete sperge whose life revolve only around anime and can't function properly outside of talking about anime.

I'm already weird for not being married, I have no perfect normalcy score to lose at this point. Make yourself valuable and no one gives a shit what your hobbies are, unless they share them (and some people do).

>say you watch anime
>ME TOO user
>I FUCKING LOVE DEATHNOTE AND DBZ HAHA
>KAMEHAMEHAHÀAAAAAAS
>Gochiusa? Is that a pokemon haha
>Btw come watch end game with ke this weekend its my favorite anime

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I just don't talk about any of my hobbies. I never like dealing with all the questioning and stuff. I wish I could just be left alone but having to interact with people is a fact of life.

It's almost as if internet anime communities are perfect for attracting socially inept people who are likely to have social anxiety and are paranoid or have difficulty functioning in normal crowds.

Very few people would accept watching cgdct in the real world

Good taste

>Gochiusa
Why would you talk to as normie about a "pedophile" anime?

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Literally don't talk about manga/anime unless another person brings it up first. However usually that person cannot hide their powerlevel at all and I do have normalfag friends that I also like to hangout with so I can't associate with those kinds in public.

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I don't
whenever I see someone about naruto I arrive waving signs and telling them to fuck off because sasuke is the best character ever in anime and I glare at them like sasuke because sasuke is cool

how do white people handle being known that they watch anime? For Asian it's a pretty easy pass.

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>endless eight with her when I was a kid.
holy shit, how old are you?

dude... that was 10 years ago

I teach, so I don't particularly want my students to gain much insight on what I do outside of the classroom. Keeping a professional barrier like that is important. Explaining away things like why I read Made in Abyss would be cripplingly distracting.

What I do, however, is when the kids are talking anime, I feign a befuddled interest, listen to them and nod my head, as you would expect an adult out of the loop to do, mention a vaguely positive comment that could apply to any medium, but then follow it with the absolute worst hypothetical criticism of the show that I already know to be true. It takes the form, "Hmmm... sounds unique, as long as it doesn't end up being [insert series's weakness]" before proceeding to rapidly change the conversation away from anime/manga. It's always fun to watch their reaction afterward.

Black too these days
Not liking some form of hiphop isnt though
Also every white young person automatically assumes they can impress you because they listen to mainstream garbage

The question is, why would you even be in a position where you need to say you like watching cgdct shows? Do you guys only watch cgdct? Do you not have any other hobbies at all? You can simply say some safe normal stuff like reading or working out in your spare time and chances are your coworkers won't probe any deeper. "Needing to hide powerlevel" is ignoring the bigger issue, which is why would you ever be in the position to talk about anime in the first place. It's work, people just go there and interact on the surface level and tolerate each other enough to get shit done and get paid. You don't need to divulge any inner secrets so saying shit like "well moe shows is embarrassing hence the need to hide" is a moot point.

Pretty sure it's just the US. anime is just another form of entertainment in european countries just as it is in asia.

By not talking about it and ridiculing others that try to start up that convo by calling the weird for watching cartoons, unironically.

No it is not. Even in Japan, watching anime after a certain age is considered sick. Excluding family shows and ghibli ofc.

Once your normie coworkers consider you the 'weird guy' in the office it's only a matter of time before you're fired. There are a million other monkeys who can do your job and no one wants to be bothered working with one who watches anime as an adult. If you work in a setting where other people have obscure interests that's great but in most normie occupations admitting to things like watching anime is just asking to be the first person let go when your office decides to downsize.