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  • Jon Mitchell
    Jon Mitchell Premium Member last edited by

    This isn't an ecchi or H reference, (at least not necessarily)

    https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/guilty-pleasure/
    A guilty pleasure is an activity or piece of media that someone enjoys but would be embarrassed by if other people found out about it.

    • list itemmaybe a series that's so bad it's good (at least to you)

    • list itemmaybe a series that you still enjoy from your childhood, even though it's childish

    for me - something that would be out of character, if you knew me, you'd never suspect that my guilty pleasure is josei romance anime- for example I'm enjoying Domestic Girlfriend right now.

    I read banned books

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    • Rahul Balaggan
      Rahul Balaggan Staff last edited by Rahul Balaggan

      By that definition nothing is my guilty pleasure, even my coworkers and bosses know that I go to Anime Expo and AnimeNYC, and they know I like manga and anime etc.

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        BloodyGaikotsu @Jon Mitchell last edited by

        @jon-mitchell said in What's your 'Guilty Pleasure':

        Domestic Girlfriend

        That's a shounen tho lol
        But no, got nothing on me~
        I even share the weirdest stuff I read online~

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        • smashman42
          smashman42 Premium Member @BloodyGaikotsu last edited by

          @bloodygaikotsu It's shounen? What, the magazine it is in?

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            BloodyGaikotsu @smashman42 last edited by BloodyGaikotsu

            @smashman42
            Kodansha's Weekly Shounen Magazine (same magazine as Fairy Tail and Bakemonogatari)

            Aku no Hana was in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shounen Magazine not in a Seinen one.
            Junji Ito was serialized in a Josei magazine for a while too.
            Many people believe that Horimiya is shoujo but it's from Monthly G Fantasy

            Demographics really doesn't tell you anything about the story lol

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            • smashman42
              smashman42 Premium Member @BloodyGaikotsu last edited by

              @bloodygaikotsu ah, so your first lol there meant how people take what mag it is in as indicative of some important category? That really is lol-worthy "I've had my birthday, better throw this shounen/shoujo in the bin & get out a seinen/josei now"

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                BloodyGaikotsu @smashman42 last edited by BloodyGaikotsu

                @smashman42
                Yeah, smth like that.

                I believe it's better to remove magazine from first impression equation since it's not always indicative of anything.
                I found many shounens that read like shoujo and many shoujo that read like seinen moe romcom.

                Edit: ofc, there are a few exception when the magazine has a concrete policy to what type of stories they publish like Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara magazines

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                • Jon Mitchell
                  Jon Mitchell Premium Member @Rahul Balaggan last edited by

                  @rahul-balaggan

                  maybe you don't have a guilty pleasure then- or maybe there are titles among the anime/manga you follow that others would be surprised that you like.

                  for some a 'guilty pleasure' - might be a anime that you like but illustrates a 'gap' between what you like and what your friends/ coworkers would assume that you like. Maybe is that one thing that is a different genre than your usual, but you follow anyway.

                  another example: imagine a 'Hell's Angel' who's also a Brony

                  is there something within the Anime/manga/LNs that you are surprised that you really enjoy?

                  I read banned books

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                  • Rahul Balaggan
                    Rahul Balaggan Staff @Jon Mitchell last edited by

                    @jon-mitchell in that case I can say with conviction that I have no guilty pleasure, all I like is a good story that connects throughout.

                    I have read every genre from Josei to Yaoi and everything in between and beyond, as long as the story is good I would proudly say I read such and such.

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                    • Drone205
                      Drone205 Premium Member last edited by

                      I have no guilty pleasure series, if I like something I like something. I have no issues proclaiming my love of a certain series. Sure there are some series that I love but have a hard time recommending to people but that does not come from a sense of guilt or whatnot. I love the monogatari series but find it hard to reccomend to people; obviously the taboos are a reason why it's difficult as some people might feel uncomfortable with a loli-con MC. There are a lot more subtle reasons too.

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                        sinnoaria Premium Member last edited by sinnoaria

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                          BloodyGaikotsu @sinnoaria last edited by

                          @sinnoaria said in What's your 'Guilty Pleasure':

                          but that isn't due to embarrassment or anything like that.

                          Last bit sounds too tsundere not to point out~ lol

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                          • Raitoiro
                            Raitoiro Premium Member last edited by

                            With that definition if we exclude porn which is keep hidden for obvious social reasons, there's nothing i would really feel ashamed if people know i like it, since i don't really care about other people anyway.
                            But if i extend the definition to thing i'm ashamed all by myself for liking, then my guilty pleasure would be shitty isekai, the kind of isekai people who don't read LN imagine when they say isekai is bad. I find thoose book annoying then boring but at the same time kind of entertaining especialy the begining. So i start a lot of them that i just quickly drop and since they're all so similar they're all mix up in my memory. For some like Kenja no mago i keep reading just for the translator notes, i can feel him is loosing his shit at how bad the book is and it make the whole thing really entertaining.

                            Do you like death, war and misery ?
                            Do you like badass op loli who let nobody got in their way ?
                            Do you like vengeance story?
                            If so then then vote for The girl who ate a death god

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                              • tgquan67
                                tgquan67 last edited by

                                Everyone in the loop knows that I play a ton of eroge (even share a lot on my FB lol) and read/watch a ton of isekai/harem, but to people who don't know about anime I'm not sure they even understand what I'm doing.
                                And

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                                • Jon Mitchell
                                  Jon Mitchell Premium Member @tgquan67 last edited by

                                  @tgquan67
                                  Flaming counts for you. It’s ‘out of character ‘ and something that you don’t advertise

                                  Your guilty pleasure doesn’t have to be something ‘bad’

                                  The Sanrio/Netflix anime Aggretsuko has metal karaoke as the MC’s guilty pleasure (and emotional outlet)

                                  I read banned books

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                                  • Raitoiro
                                    Raitoiro Premium Member @sinnoaria last edited by

                                    @sinnoaria I think it depend on what you defined as an H-game, if it's something like Fate Stay/night, it's not a problem, if it's one of thoose game advertise on streaming/porn site then it's not really the same thing.

                                    Do you like death, war and misery ?
                                    Do you like badass op loli who let nobody got in their way ?
                                    Do you like vengeance story?
                                    If so then then vote for The girl who ate a death god

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