How do you deal with secondhand embarrassment when you watch anime?
It's called "hiding your powerlevel".
I just close my eyes.
A couple of paces around my room and it usually works.
>>155968040
Poorly.
>>155968040
>when you watch anime
Don't watch anime.
>>155968040
I hold my hands around my throat and tighten the grip whenever something embarrassing happens. It works surprisingly well.
>>155968040
>How do you deal with secondhand embarrassment when you watch anime?
I don't know what you mean by this
It has never happened to me.
>>155968040
Pause the episode for a bit to catch my breath
>>155968040
I don't feel it at all.
>>155968040
I have become mostly desensitized to it.
Pause and do something else quickly to make me ashamed that I paused.
>>155968424
>>155968435
I don't have this problem, however I do have a problem with inconsistency like in Digimon 02, the Digimon Kaiser was know for a being a genius kid and was visually shown to do Judo and be really athletic yet at the end of his arc he gets his ass kicked by that pussy bitch Takeru.
Stuff like this really grinds me wrong it just completely utterly blows away any sort of immersion.
>>155968040
I cover my eyes and turn my head a little while I still listen through my headphones and try to cope with the pain
I pause, jump to my bed and roll around for a moment.
Still hard to continue after, though. Have to avoid series with high amounts of MISUNDERSTANDINGS and PUBLIC SHAMING
Mute the audio and just peek slightly till the scene is over.
>>155968530
How is it autistic to NOT have a sperg meltdown while watching cartoons alone?
Get real
>>155968659
>How is it autistic to NOT have a sperg meltdown while watching cartoons alone?
one of the defining traits of autism is lack of empathy.
I only get it when there are speeches.
>>155968659
Shows a lack of empathy? A sure sign of autism.
I close my eyes and mute the playerI HATE IT
>>155968040
Anime is mainstream now, every normalfag loves it these days.
>>155968040
Cringe and bear with it. Or pause the show and go make some food or talk with friends before getting back to it.
I haven't felt secondhand embarrassment for fictional characters since I was a teen. I guess you just grow out of it.
>>155968708
>>155968730
>empathy
>watching Japanese cartoons
You guys are warped, do you not have real friends?
>>155968792
It's just /v/edditors
>>155968792
>real friends
>/a/
>>155968601
are you me?
>>155968040
By not being a "le ironic weeb xxDDD" normalfag
>>155968827
The ones posting their epic lolautism shit are straight from /v/
I pause the show and try to suffer through it bit by bit.
Watamote took me ten hours to watch.
I just mute it and power through
>>155968792
Of course not. Real life people are all terrible.
>>155968040
Depends on the level, i vary from continue watching or pause, close eyes, lurk imageboards and return when i finally get the courage
>>155968040
Good thing anime is somewhat acceptable here publically
>>155968098
lurk moar
>>155968040
By not being a faggot.
>>155968160
>>155968397
How can you be autistic enough to do this but not autistic enough to not feel embarrassment?
Facepalm and keep going
There is still one reason to avoid watching cartoons and anime in public. So some fucking normalfag faggot doesn't take pictures of you enjoying something and post it on whatever shitty site they go to for le cringe.
This is my secondhand embarrasment anime of the season. Gotta pause and alt+tab a few times per episode thanks to all the awkward shit.
Enjoying it immensely
>>155969028
Because you can't just call everything autism and hope it'll make sense.
>>155969051
I remember when I was still in college, there was this girl in university library that would read hentai manga on the school computers in full view of everyone, no one noticed, or if they did , didn't do or say anything about it.
>>155968098
>>155968757
>>155968966
>>155969051
If you're too stupid to understand the thread, don't answer next time.
I can't watch romantic anime/manga anymore.
>>155969067
See, it's so debilitating for me I would have to drop the series, even if it is good.
>>155968844
I might be. It sucks because it locks me off form some "good" series because I just can't stand it.
Not worth it to go through all that shit, personally.
>>155969114
you're mean
What's with all the retards thinking OP is talking about showing your powerlevel or being seen watching anime?
Most of the times a quick pause does it. Sometimes I need to pause for quite a bit longer or even alt tab for a while. Sometimes when it's pretty bad I walk away from the computer and do something else. I remember it took me over an hour to finish one of the watamote episodes, don't remember which one it was though.
>>155969141
Crossboarders and newfags.
>>155969141
well you cant do any of this pace around stuff if you are watching in public without embarassing yourself
I don't really feel secondhand embarrassment from fictional characters but sometimes a character will do/say something that would seem totally innocuous to anyone else but happens to remind me of some autistic shit I did in the past and it will usually take me out of the scene and wish I was dead for a minute or two.
>>155969138
You're dumb
>>155969161
embarrassment =/= secondhand embarrassment
I saw this one loser one time watching love live on his laptop. I gave him a look of disgust and he closed it like a pathetic beta
>>155968040
You should have learnt how to eliminate your sense of shame by now anon.
>this threadthank god I'm not alone in this shit
>>155969138
It's not mean. How hard is it to google "secondhand embarrassment" if you don't understand the meaning?
Lazy posters are the worst.
>>155968040
pausing cartoon and f5 /a/
>>155969247
then why dont you just say fremdschämen like a normal person?
>>155969234
How can you enjoy a show if you don't fully immerse yourself in it
Flip the table inside my mind. Because I'm too lazy or too weak to flip the table. This rarely happen to me though.
>>155969141
Third world ESLs and people who don't lurk.
Threads like this remind me that there's many people more retarded au autistic than me
Tkey make me feel better
>>155968040
I learned how to not give a shit when it comes to embarrassing myself. How can you except me to do it for someone else?
>>155968040
I skimmed it tobeqhnesto.
>>155969298
I'm too busy feeling schadenfreude from you, you Kraut.
>>155969298
Go away ahmed
>>155969365
Nice
Depending on how much I still want to watch the anime seriously I try to bear with it or I partially or totally cover my vision to lessen the impact.
>>155969485
>normies
spotted one (1) normalfag
I dont
Its the reason why I dont watch anime anymore
>>155969542
Spacebar
Shitpost on /pol/ for 2 minutes
Resume
>>155968040
I pause it. Breathe. Then continue.
>>155969112
There's person like this who reads doujins on his laptop and shit during lectures.
Difference is that it's not a girl, but a bit fat load with a floppy stomach and an acnefilled face.
He once asked me for help because he was busy doing that instead of taking notes and he then threw an autistic shitfit over me being a dick.
>>155969562
No, you piece of shit.
>>155969715
DRILLS
>>155968040
Pause. Browse /a/. Continue slowly.
You guys are absolute morons.
What moments made you feel secondhand embarrassment the most, /a/?
HARD MODE: No Watamote or other shows about social rejects.
Pause
Try to understand why I'm watching this
Don't understand
Continue
>>155969821
a couple times in monster musume
>>155969821
Any Akko moment from LWA.
>>155969821
MC having no balls and being a faggot.
>>155969821
None. I'm not an autist like you guys.
>>155969365
But the germans have some pretty good words for this kind of shit.
>>155969821
This fucking thread.
>>155968040
Literally had to turn off chu2 because of secondhand embarrassment.
>>155969821
That scene in Evangelion where Shinji fell on Rei and grabbed her tit.
Oddly enough, I don't feel embarrassed for Shinji, but for Rei.
>>155969903
10/10
>>155969821
I hadn't felt second hand embarrassment in years until this happened.
>>155969562
That's just not true though. Did you mean to say reddit?
>>155969821Eh? Nandatte?
>>155968040
I dropped the show immediately. It rarely happened to me though. Last time was Re:Zero because Subaru is just so fucking retarded.
>>155969821
Speaking in front of lots of people.
>>155968040
Usually I laugh. Isn't that the intended reaction? Watamote is supposed to be comedy you know.
>>155969821
Watching Yotaro botch his Rakugo performance
>>155968040
I usually watch anime with myroommateso we can laugh it off together whenever something really awkward happens.
>>155969301
I'm not reading you here. What exactly would you need shame for when you watch your chinese cartoons?
>>155968040
by not being a faggot
>>155969240
Cosplayer a shit! Acute!
>>155970024
Re:Zero is terrible for this.
Subaru constantly acts like an idiot, but the worst thing is that he suffers through different loops and still doesn't wise up.
Even when he somehow manage to get his shit together, other characters still shit on him for no reason. It's fucking awful.
>>155968040
laugh?
that only real instances I've physically had to get away because of secondhand embarrassment was from reading Watamote
>>155970229
I dont know who this subaru is but maybey he just need an aniki to give him confidence.
>>155968040
Pausing it until it goes away.
>>155970205
>>155968040
Nod understandably to the character and try to forget about your own troubled past.
I usually do something like pic related.
>>155970071
Rekugo made me feel second hand embarrassment several times. There's something painful about watching people try to do good and get rejected silently
>>155968040
I know this hasn't much to do with the topic at hand, but this might be my only chance to post my OC.
>>155970493
That show had some fine bitches, it´s a shame it was a rushed adaptation and the manga´s story is a mess anyway.
>>155968040
Pause. Make tea. Attempt to watch and pause again.
Then likely drop the show.
>>155969322
>Third world ESLs
moot2 should block every non-/a/nglo country
>>155969903
How do you call getting embarrassed at /a/nons talking about their secondhand embarrassment? Thirdhand embarrassment?
>>155969989
This is the correct answer. Even if you haven't watched the show I challenge you to watch this and not feel anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFtzFROsmmU
>>155969821
Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo, more than once
Fucking christ that melodrama was the worst I've seen.
I've no idea how I watched the whole thing.
>>155969956
This
And can't really think of much else worth noting. I seem to mostly end up avoiding those kind of titles. For instance didn't watch chuuni or Re:Zero once I saw what they'd entail
>>155969821
Every Little Witch Academia scene where Akko was a spoilt cunt
I love the show, but watching her can be so painful
>>155970657
Well, while I wouldn't be opposed, I'd prefer all of Europe and East Asia to be able to post, as well as the Anglo countries.
>mc or, even worse, goofy side character does something
>sees up girl's skirt, something falls or something clearly outside of their control
>profuse apologizing and screaming for forgiveness while others yell at him
Do nips find this funny? Is it indoctrination to be subserviant and give hollow explanations? Why is this even in serious shows where it breaks all tension and continuity?
Why does it fill me with anger?
>>155970796
>Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo
I was too angry at the retarded characters to feel bad for them.
I stopped watching Genshiken when Madarame went shopping. I didn't really feel anything in the manga (or maybe it was anime original) but that scene hit far too close to home.
>>155970915
why?
>>155968040
I stop watching and listen to some music. I also laugh a lot and avert my eyes from time to time.
>>155970915
last I heard the genshiken manga has kind of changed into something else.
>>155969821
Attack on titan ep four when Eren ruins a perfectly nice party by giving a speech about the nature of humanity and runs out crying.
His friends loved it.
>>155970900
I think Nips genuinely have a retardation in their brains where their humor never develops past age 4.
Literally every "joke" in mainstream Anime that I've seen boils down to: someone does something kind of odd/weird, one or more characters has an overexaggerated reaction where they flail around and yell.
Like for real, why do the Japanese fail so fucking hard at producing anything legitimately funny outside of shock humor?
>>155968040
stop caring about what others think you retard
>>155968811
Just go to a cinema and watch how people react to any embarrassing scene.Or watch a movie with your non-autistic friends.Normal people react in some ways to this.
>>155970947
It went from a comedy manga about otaku with a bit of romance to a romance manga featuring fujoshi with a bit of comedy. The result is quite mediocre, but the art is god-tier.
>>155970924
Well I am not good at putting it into words but like he wants to dress nice and not be a loser but is afraid and thinks he isn't worth looking good or something like that.
>>155970947
It is finished. I enjoyed the fujo generation but I can imagine a lot of people didn't.
>>155971090
>a romance manga featuring fujoshi
and a tranny love intrest last i heared.
>>155971011
You sound like you've watched over 20 anime, maybe even 50.
>>155969365
Aryanfags BTFO
>>155970947
Literally fujo dreamland in Nidaime.
Which is funny considering how much it mocked it in part 1.
>>155971044
Kill yourself and then read the thread, retard.
Alternatively, google "second hand embarrassment", read the opening post and then kill yourself.
>>155968040
I pause the video and take a few breaths. This usually increases viewing time by about 10 minutes depending on what's going on in the episode.
>this entire thread
Do people really not know what second hand embarrassment is?
>>155971126
He's probably just watched some shounen and maybe some mahou shoujo and decided he knows everything about anime.
>>155969821
Hanasaku Iroha.
>>155971126
there are funny anime out there, but every popular show I've seen (popular as in, popular in Japan) is as funny as a 6 year old trying to do stand up comedy.
>>155968040
Humilaition is my main fetish. I jack off.
>>155969331
>second-hand embarrassment
>autistic
I have some bad news for you, anon.
>>155971176
>try to be funny
>be cute instead
Sounds like anime alright.
>>155971163
I think they do, but they relate it to 「seeing people being embarrassing in public in the context of anime」, rather then the topic at hand;「embarrassing things happening to characters in anime to which you can relate by empathy」.
This is probably due to English being not even their second language.
>>155970796
>Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo
I never finished that show but thought it was hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNETkxO-IRA
>>155971095
>It is finished.
did that guy fuck the trap in the end?
>>155969821
Anything resembling Naruto runI did it as a kid in middle school in front of my entire PE class
>>155969542
>one (1)
My least favourite meme just after 4 leaf.
>>155971280
No, I was very disappointed.
If I remember rightSue wins
>>155968040
I've seen too much shit to care. When something embarassing or stupid happens I just laugh at how bad it is, and that's probably the only source of entertainment you can receive from going through the motions.
>>155970776
I couldn't even finish it.
>>155971114
>tranny
You're supposed to call it a trap, anon. Get with the times.
>>155971291
Why does it look so awkward in real life?
>>155968040
Pause, do something else for a minute, unpause.
>>155968040
I just accept it.
>>155971280
Nope. Actual spoiler:the loli wins.
>>155968040
Stop watching. If I'm deep into it, and enjoying it, I'll maybe pause it, wait a bit and come back. If not, I'll just stop watching entirely: I'm not going to put myself through this shit just so that I can complete some shitty anime.
>>155971291
>>155970035
Look up second-hand embarrassment, fags.
>>155971331
now even a kiss or anything?
>>155969821
Re:zero, the moment when Subaru went on his little tirade in this hall full of knights while being told to keep his mouth shut. I just want to wanted to just through the screen and strangle the little retarded gay cunt.
It's more of rage thing thing, I guess. Typing this up made me mad again.
>>155968040
Go out and spaghetti until i replace it with first hand embarrassment
>>155971468
Picked up
>>155971512
No. Again it has been a while since I read it but from what I remember it seemed like there was a long period "Should I date hato.. But he is a guy!" and then it came to a conclusion of "Sue would be the least trouble so I will date her". I don't really get the point of the harem in Nidaime. Why include a trap if you are too scared to let her win?
>>155971889
could be the author planned for it but then got cold feet fearing a backlash
>>155968040
>Watch show
>Something awkward happens
>Pause video and walk around the room in a circle
>>155971650To be quite honest calling her a loli is a bit of a stretch, but she's a really petite and cute university student.
Close my eyes and loudly exclaim oh shit.
>>155968040
Stop, close my eyes, try poorly not to get drenched in sweat.
>>155971486
>>>155970035 (You)
Anon, I meant in anime. When people make big speeches or stuff in front of people they don't know, it gets me.
>>155968040
Cover my eyes with a pillow if I have one nearby.
>>155972028
Coupled with some nervous laughter and "is this really about to happen?"
>>155971915
Not unlikely, maybe it is just because I wanted Hato to win but I never really considered Sue to be in the competition. I was sure Hato would win.
>>155969821
all these years, and I'm still mad.
straight up paused the episode and had an autistic fit of anger for at least 20 minutes before even being able to come back to it and find out what happened. I'm not even particularly autistic, but I had this rage boil up from inside me. I'm still mad
Not anime but I get uncomfortable when someone is joking around with an ESL. I feel embarrassed for the ESL because I'm afraid they won't get it.
>>155972175
Context?
>>155972175
What's wrong with a dude not interested in a bunch of 25 cent whores?
>>155968040
Pause the player. Start hyperventilating. Feel dizzy. Resume watching
>>155972228
like the Birdemic director?
>>155972270
Nigger straight up got confessed to. No bullshit loud noise, no horseshit plot device getting in the way, none of the other girls interfered, no bullshit asspull. A real straight up, perfectly audible confession, that was very emotional.He pretends he couldn't hear her and makes up an excuse to leave, even though everyone in the room including himself knows very well that's exactly what he's doing.
>>155972290
If he rejected her I'd be mad as a meat-fag, but I'd still prefer that. BUT HE JUST FUCKS OFF. I love this show, but I hate this dickhead so much jesus christ
>>155969821
The one in the OP where the MC just gets up and asks the girl to show her armpits to the entire class was probably my first experience with it in anime.
I have watched that scene since, not as awkward as the first time around.
>>155972270
Main character spaghettis real hard and fucks everyone else over.
>>155969821
Any scene involving a guy walking into a room where a girl is half naked for them to both be embarrassed. In fact, I just stop watching that show entirely if it has one of those scenes
>>155968659
>cartoons
kill yourself
>>155969821
that scene from toradora where yusaku screams that he loves the president in front of the entire student body.
>>155972431
>>155972270
Oh and I forgot to mention, it's the ending of the penultimate episode of S2, and they sure as fuck don't resolve it by the end
I usually pause it and read some posts on /a/ until I feel comfortable getting back to it.
Why do I get the feeling that OP is an ironic weeb and a fucking Leaf?
>>155968040
Thank god, that Okamoto's new work is anything but definitely not secondhand. Even that blushing is quite refreshing here.
>>155972390
I don't know anything about that. I don't watch B movies.
>>155969821
90% of Oreimo
>>155972513
faggot
>>155970493
>but this might be my only chance to post my OC.
>My only chance
Holy shit you are right anon!!
Here is my OC
>>155972710
Has chapter 4 been translated yet?
>>155972608
fucking this
>>155972710
At least it´s not another "Guy finds chilhood friend after many years but now she is got turned into a experiment and there is conspiracies and shit" manga.
>>155972776
Damn I remember this one from 3 years ago. Time sure flies.
>>155968040
I move my hand up across my forehead, over my hair until the back
>>155972777
It was, but is stucked in editing. Mana Light promised try finish work in 10 hours, but it can take also another two days. Don't guarantee anything.
>>155972776
Kuroha has some nice legs holy shit.
>>155972890
Actually chapter 4 is bringing huge conspiracy with hint at question how children are born in alternate word. And also regarding childhood friend, MC directly said that Lumi "looks little like her".
>>155972893
>Time sure flies.
It sure does my good anon.
I only remember posting it a few times, my most mainstream OC is pic related.
>>155972710
>holding hands
Picked the fuck up
>>155973036
Was Lynn Okamoto in love with a childhood friend and uses his manga to fullfil his desires or something?
>>155972692
Fuck off crossboarder.
>>155968040
Is it called that? I always preffered "alien embarassment" myself.
>>155972943
Actually they all Brynhildrs have pretty nice bodies. Here are their official sizes:
>Kazumi Schlierenzauer - 159 cm, 76-57-81 (A-cup)
>Tachibana Kana - 150 cm, 80-51-72 (B-cup)
>Tokou Nanami - 160 cm, 86-56-83 (C-cup)
>Kuroha Neko - 163 cm, 89-57-87 (D-cup)
>Takatori Kotori - 163 cm, 102-65-90 (H-cup)
>>155973444
It´s a shame how little popular it is, the lack of fanart is killing, I thinkg I migh already have every single piece of fanart made from this show in my computer already, and I don´t have much.
>>155973123
Who knows. Maybe. At least his MCs aren´t traditional pussies. Moreover, new one even seems as real apha.
>>155973604
I loved when Murakami entered the hot springs to tell the girls something important, and the girls were all naked and started to "kyaaaa", he told them to shut up and listen to him.
pic related.
>>155968040
>How do you deal with secondhand embarrassment when you watch anime?
I don't get secondhand embarassement ever since I started going out with real girls.
You should just go see some naked ladies irl to get that fixed.
>>155969848
Recently picked this show up and yes, definitely. It was worse in the earlier episodes. The show is funny as hell at times so it makes up for it.
>>155968040
I've not felt second hand embarrassment from a movie or anime for the last 15+ years. It kinda stops once you stop being a kid. And anime is hardly embarrassing it's made by japanese assburgers after all.
>>155969821
when a character dose or say something very cringy.
>>155969848
>>155974195
>"hey, Diana(Akko), we need your help fixing the statue!"
Took me 20 minutes to get through that scene
>>155974909
I've actually skipped two lwa episodes because of the cringe.
>>155972175
The frame when he's smiling was better, made for some amusing "ha ga nai" shitposts.
>>155972602
how new?
>>155972710
Okamoto loves his girls embarrassing themselves.
>>155972028
Are you Paul Rudd?
>>155974062
>3DPD
get out normalfag
>>155975827
>get out normalfag
Why? Just because I like 3DPD girls as well as 2D?
Go cry in a corner over the fact your waifu is not real.
>>155975689
Except that this time it's not piss, but love juices.
>>155974944
Serious question here, how do you fucks who skip episodes enjoy series? I get it if it's a 200+ episode series where filler is obvious and doesn't do anything, but in a 12-24 episode series, every little bit is somewhat important at least
>>155974062
shouldn't you be on r9k or something? go there.
>>155976067
lwa isn't or rather wasn;t episodic at that point, though it looks like things might change.
>>155976072
>shouldn't you be on r9k or something? go there.
I have been here before you even got on the internet, if someone needs to leave that is you.
>>155976067
LWA doesn't have any plot, like most shows for kids
You literally have to be somewhere in the autism spectrum to get second hand embarrassment from cartoons if you are over the age of 18
>>155975978
go discuss your weekend with your coworkers
>>155974062
>>155975978
Disgusting.
>>155976215
>go discuss your weekend with your coworkers
Im a NEET, I don't HAVE co-workers.
>>155976288
>Disgusting.
Each to it's own. You don't see ME judging you for fapping to 2d girls to your heart's content.
I love it. It hurts but in a good way.
Usually I pause and roll around in bed for a minute.
I know this makes me sound like a masochist but I'm not, at least not when it comes to anything else lol
>>155968792
Are you new?
Never experienced it. Probably Because i never relate at anime character
>>155976333
dude go away
>>155976979
>dude go away
Nah, I have no reason to leave just because some beardneck weeaboo is triggered over my presence.
Just learn to deal with it.
>>155968040
I turn down the sound and look away for a few second until the scene passes.