Any Fun Hobbies Outside of Anime?

[jammmessbolt]

Hey everyone,

I know we all love anime but I am curious what are some of your hobbies outside of watching anime. Do you enjoy gaming, reading, sports, or maybe something totally unique. I am always interested in learning what others do in their free time when they are not glued to a screen.

For me I have recently gotten into and it is been a nice break from my usual binge watching sessions. It is fun to mix things up sometimes.

I have also read this topic on this site https://www.reddit.com/r/MangaCollectors/comments/1coyvn9/what_are_your_other_hobbies_and_interests_sap_sac but I could not found anything helpful.

Looking forward to hearing what you all enjoy doing. Maybe I will even pick up a new hobby from your suggestions.

 

Best,

[Bolt]

[Otaking66lives]

I enjoy tabletop gaming(D&D, Call of Cthulhu, Vampire: The Masquerade), Geocaching and Munzee(Both are using an app to do a version of treasure hunting) and reading. 

[Animedragon]

I like building model railways. I'm currently 6 and a bit years into a project to build a model of a complete welsh narrow gauge railway set somewhere in North Wales. The layout is 009, that is it uses 9mm gauge track but 4mm/ft scale. It's great fun creating my own little world.

I'm also interested in photography, both still and video, I'll photograph or film anything that looks interesting, but especially trains. Any sort of trains, I prefer steam trains, but modern trains are just as acceptable.

[Sasuke]

I paint and draw when I have free time but I feel like school and residency training encompasses my entire life and free time right now. I also like to play football and pool. Archery is also something I'm very interested in and have been doing Archery since I was around 7 years old.

[Zeref]

I like to workout every day when I can because it makes me feel a lot better. Working out and running are 2 hobbies I have. I like to participate in running marathons for charities when I have the time to do this. I also enjoy a lot of Winter sports such as hockey, snowmobiling and skiing. I've done snowboarding before but I don't enjoy it as much, however I skateboarded a lot as a teenager and still do. There is a skateboarding park near to our house now and I go there about once a week at least. I have gotten pretty good at it and participated in a few skateboarding tournaments as a teenager but now it's mostly just a fun hobby to do on weekends sometimes. 

I recently started learning to do some plant care with my roommate since we've adopted a lot of plants and I've been learning about different plants, how to care for them, and thinking about constructing a small balcony garden. I was also learning to make graphics lately on Photoshop that are signatures and banners types which is something new for me. 

[Sakura]

Outside of anime I like to play a lot of games, mostly games I liked to play as a kid that are still pretty nostalgic to me. I also like to make graphics and do a lot of things on PS including coloring lineart when I get a lil bored. I've been helping @Zeref with GFX lately too, I don't think I'm a very good teacher but it's still fun for me.

I'm going to school for Marine Biology so a lot of my attention is on fish, and I honestly love fish even outside of school and work (and yes that includes fishing too). So I like to visit things like aquarium's, zoos, take boating trips, or visit fisheries. Visiting fishers can honestly be a lot of fun and pretty cool to be up close with all the fish, so I kinda do that for fun even when I'm not at work or school lol ~ 

Sports-wise I'm mostly just interested in Tennis, though I play it badly I still enjoy it and have a lot of fun when I do it ^^ 

I also like to make a lot of arts and crafts + DIY projects. Somehow I've gotten really good at building things lol but I like to decorate things and repaint things, mostly a lot of PC card holders for my K-Pop stuff, kind of a relaxing thing to do while watching tv, just working on craft projects like this. I also got kinda into the paint-by-numbers thing for adults on the art canvas things you can buy on Amazon. I'm no good at drawing/painting IRL so these are good for people that suck at drawing and things but still like to paint and create pretty things since it's numbered and outlined and some of them are really pretty when you are done with them :3 

[Clayton]

Black magic 

 

[froggy]

Outside of anime, I really enjoy reading romance novels. Especially ones that include fantasy themes. My backpack is always so heavy since I'm carrying novels, manga, and textbooks. Such a pain. Other than that, I spend a lot of time painting and drawing. I don't draw anime fanart at all, so I don' t think it counts. But, I've inked some manga and as time consuming as it was, it was also exciting to do.

[417Unlocked]

Outside of anime 

HOME- I love to create new ROMs for Android devices. Which I don't get to do much anymore because it is time consuming.  I live on almost 180 acres and most of it is wooded so I like to go hunting for deer * not big on turkey to much work*. I also enjoy playing the yugioh tcg and gaming *mostly PC assassins creed or the newest Zelda games for the switch

Sports-- I'm good at table tennis, pickle ball, hand ball/racket ball,  soccer/Futbol

I also enjoy getting tattoos when I can afford it I've almost got one sleeve done and about half of the other.  Don't know if that counts as a hobby though. 

[Sarada]

I'm part of my college's musical theater group, and it's my favorite pastime plus takes up a vast majority of my time. We have theater club meetings multiple times a week, and we're often busy with a production. Currently, we're working on our holiday show, having just wrapped up our last performance.  I get to travel a lot with this group and we've performed in several different states including New York which was by far the best. 

I guess you could call it a hobby but I study ASL and have taken ASL courses since I was 8 years old and first developed an interest in it. I took various ASL courses and initially thought about making it my college major, but I ended up choosing a different career path. I still take classes on it every week and at this point in life I consider myself extremely fluent. 

Another hobby of mine is tennis and it's probably one of my only sports interest outside of casually playing volleyball. My sister and I used to play as kids thats where I developed the interest. I still go to the tennis courts at least once every two weeks to practice it with some friends. 

I should include singing and acting on this list but it mostly goes hand in hand with the musical theater thing. 

Creating graphics also is a hobby of mine, something else I picked up from my sister. 

[Forlorn]

I'm not sure if it can be called a hobby, because I've heard people older than me that I've said this to say it isn't a hobby, but I think it is. The only real hobby other than anime that I have is playing games. Occasionally I draw abstract stuff, but I did that a lot more in school to pass the time so I'm rusty on that front. Games are really the only thing I've ever consistently been good at. Well, some genres I'm better at than others though.

[Wickett]

26 minutes ago, Forlorn said:

I'm not sure if it can be called a hobby, because I've heard people older than me that I've said this to say it isn't a hobby, but I think it is. The only real hobby other than anime that I have is playing games. Occasionally I draw abstract stuff, but I did that a lot more in school to pass the time so I'm rusty on that front. Games are really the only thing I've ever consistently been good at. Well, some genres I'm better at than others though.

Probably the same people who on the flip side think old English novels are a hobby.

[Forlorn]

2 hours ago, Wickett said:

Probably the same people who on the flip side think old English novels are a hobby.

This is the first time I've heard of that. o.0

[Wickett]

17 hours ago, Forlorn said:

This is the first time I've heard of that. o.0

Of old English novels?

[Zeref]

21 hours ago, Forlorn said:

I'm not sure if it can be called a hobby, because I've heard people older than me that I've said this to say it isn't a hobby, but I think it is. The only real hobby other than anime that I have is playing games. Occasionally I draw abstract stuff, but I did that a lot more in school to pass the time so I'm rusty on that front. Games are really the only thing I've ever consistently been good at. Well, some genres I'm better at than others though.

Gaming is a hobby. A hobby is something you do for fun in your spare time. If you play games for fun in your spare time that's a hobby. In fact the definition of hobby is "an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure." Anyone who says otherwise probably doesn't have anything better to do than complain about the "kids and their viddy games". 

[Forlorn]

On 12/5/2024 at 3:15 PM, Wickett said:

Of old English novels?

Of someone thinking old English novels, which I'm assuming you were talking about collecting them(?), would be a hobby. Sorry though, I kind of posted my response without really thinking. >< >< >< >< ><

On 12/5/2024 at 4:44 PM, Zeref said:

Gaming is a hobby. A hobby is something you do for fun in your spare time. If you play games for fun in your spare time that's a hobby. In fact the definition of hobby is "an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure." Anyone who says otherwise probably doesn't have anything better to do than complain about the "kids and their viddy games". 

Oh, cool. ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ Mom tried to get me into other hobbies, but I prefer to escape from the bitterness of reality into what game I may be playing at the time. Sometimes I kind of switch between games though because I can be indecisive at times. lol ^^; ^^; ^^; ^^; ^^; I'm relieved to know it's an actual hobby though. ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^

[Sakura Dragon]

I am a colossal Pokémon fan so I play the games often. Outside of my home, I enjoy shopping and hanging out with my friends.

[Nico Robin Fan 95]

Outside of watching anime, since last year october 2024 i draw but only when i have time to do this. Many years ago, i used to think that i would always be bad at this and that i just couldn't learn it at all. Even though i always wanted to draw, but back then i was not confident at all and also never motivated enough to learn it. But then last year i finally had the motivation to try it and i thaught it myself, but of course i'm still learning and it will take a long time before i can do it completely well. But because i'm so modest, i would always still think that there are better artists then me who do this longer than i do and who also do this for many years now. But of course i still have fun to draw and i'm happy to do this now. 

Same with writing fanfictions, which i mainly do since february 2025. That's also something, i never thought could become one of my hobbies one day. Because back then i thought i could never do write good fanfics, and no one would like them anyway. Even though i always wanted to mainly write stories, but back then i only wrote fanfics sometimes but then deleted them again and thought they suck anyway. But then this year, i also finally had the motivation to try writing fanfics and it's so much fun to do this. Nowadays i'm confident enough to release my stories for the public, so that they can read them. But of course i'm also very modest there, and still think there are better fanfic writers than me. But of course, i still have fun to write stories and that's the most important thing. So yeah besides watching anime, these two new hobbies are nowadays the main things i do in my free time, when i don't want to watch a anime, a cartoon, a youtube video, or when i don't want to read a fanfiction. I still have fun doing both, and i'm so happy that i finally had the motivation to do these two things. 

Edited April 24 by Nico Robin Fan 95

[Girltchi]

Playing some toys

[CornedBeef]

I spent a considerable amount of money on physical copies of some card games.

[Eris]

I play a lot of viddy games and I used to sketch tho not so often anymore. Lost inspiration for drawing or sketching. I play a lot of football with friends and other sports mainly. 

[Forlorn]

Not unless sleeping counts as a fun hobby. lol Oh, except nightmares aren't as fun.