Tatsuhiro Satou is a hikkikomori, one who secluses himself at home and finds it difficult to have a job or go out of the house. He meets a strange girl, Misaki, who for unknown reasons, schedules m…
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Hello and welcome everyone, to the finale of Welcome to the NHK! We have a lot to talk about this week, some of it bad, most of it…
NHK ni Youkoso 11-14: The Off Meeting
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Aoi is an office lady who dreams of a “normal life.” She tells her her friend that she wants to get married. Chi-chan appears to accept it. Aoi,…
Medium Matters: Welcome to the NHK
In the beginning, there was a novel called Welcome to the NHK. I haven’t read it. Now that it’s a collector’s item you have to pay like $60…
5 Reasons To Watch: Welcome to the NHK
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111 - Welcome to the NHK vol. 4
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109 - Welcome to the NHK vol. 2
EXPLICIT CONTENT! Inspired by today’s manga, Will talks to Steven about his own personal ordeal with depression and suicidal ideation. They speak about their own relationship troubles. As…
110 - Welcome to the NHK vol. 3
EXPLICIT CONTENT! Today’s episode, Will and Steve talk about videogame addiction and Hikikomori culture as it pertains to this volume 3 Welcome to the NHK. Our protagonist falls…
113 - Welcome to the NHK vol. 6
Will and Steven are perplexed by the plot as it shuffles along but find time to discuss the characters and their relationships to one and another, be it…
108 - Welcome to the NHK vol. 1
Will gets Steven to read one of his fave mangas, a story that revolves around the lives of several young adults all living in or around the city of…
112 - Welcome to the NHK vol. 5
Today’s episode contains explicit talk since we are talking about a manga about a porn addict who lives with his parents. It’s Welcome to the NHK! Skip plot summary…
114 - Welcome to the NHK vol. 7
Steven and Will talk about the characters near the completion of their developed arcs. Specifically speaking about BPD (borderline personality disorder) and musings on what type of person…
115 - Welcome to the NHK vol. 8
The conclusion to the manga like most Japanese slice of life and coming of age drama adds an expected air of ambiguity. But for one, we could not…
Review: Rebuild of Welcome to the NHK
Tatsuhiko Takimoto’s Welcome the NHK is an important piece of 21st century fiction that provides a vivid fictional account of social problems in turn-of-the-century Japan. Based on the…
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Welcome to the NHK – 13/14 [Welcome to Heaven!/Welcome to Reality!] – Throwback Thursday
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the 2nd cour of Welcome to the NHK. This week we finish up this whole “suicide cult” think, learn a bit more…
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Welcome to the NHK – 7/8 [Welcome to the Moratorium!/Welcome to Chinatown!] – Throwback Thursday
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Welcome to the NHK – 11/12 [Welcome to the Conspiracy!/Welcome to the Offline Gathering!] – Throwback Thursday
Normally this is where I welcome everyone to this weeks episodes of Welcome to the NHK. I have this whole spiel about what happened this week, maybe try…
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Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau, Volume 5 (ささやくように恋を唄う)
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Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau, Volume 6 (ささやくように恋を唄う)
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Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau, Volume 3 (ささやくように恋を唄う)
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Like a Savage (野蛮人のように, Toru Kawashima, 1985)
A blocked writer is dragged into intrigue while searching for “adventure in the night” in Toru Kawashima zeitgeisty drama.
Welcome to the Self-Reflection: An Welcome to the NHK Anime Retrospect Part 2: Hitomi
If N.H.K. came out today, anti-vaxxers would make Hitomi their Waifu Queen and wish that she was real so she would talk to them on how COVID-19 is…
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To Sleep So as to Dream (夢みるように眠りたい, Kaizo Hayashi, 1986)
A detective becomes lost in the labyrinths of cinema while chasing a ghost of the silver screen in Kaizo Hayashi’s ethereal ode to the silent movie
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Welcome to the NHK: Satou in the bushes with a camera
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This is an excerpt from a publication on the famous Mystery Visual Novel Umineko no naku koro ni. As it left many questions open, there is probably a…
