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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…

Apr 8, 2023 • Subscribe

Welcome to the NHK – 23/24 [Welcome To Misaki!Welcome to The NHK!] – Throwback Thursday

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…

Aug 11, 2022 • Subscribe

Welcome to the NHK – 1/2 [Welcome to the Project!/Welcome to the Creator!] – Throwback Thursday

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another season of Throwback Thursday. This time we are watching the otaku-fueled think piece Welcome to the NHK. There’s a lot going on…

Confessions of an Overage otaku

May 26, 2022 • Subscribe

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…

Oct 10, 2022 • Subscribe

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…

May 6, 2023 • Subscribe

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…

Apr 1, 2023 • Subscribe

Juliet

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…

Apr 15, 2023 • Subscribe

Mouse

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…

Apr 29, 2023 • Subscribe

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…

May 13, 2023 • Subscribe

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…

Cardcaptor Sakura, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

May 20, 2023 • Subscribe

Neon Genesis Evangelion

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…

Ani-Gamers

Jul 16, 2021 • Subscribe

111 - Welcome to the NHK vol. 4

EXPLICIT CONTENT as we talk about mature themes, you can skip the synopsis @ 3:18 Email: WeAppreciateManga@Gmail.com 111: Welcome to the NHK vol. 4 Chapters 16 to 17…

Apr 23, 2023 • Subscribe

5 Reasons To Watch: Welcome to the NHK

Don’t listen to the fridge.

Reasons to anime

Jun 22, 2020 • Subscribe

Welcome to the NHK! NHKにようこそ！NHK ni Youkoso!

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…

Yuu's Sanctuary

Dec 20, 2019 • Subscribe

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…

Jul 7, 2022 • Subscribe

Welcome to the NHK – 5/6 [Welcome to Counselling!/Welcome to the Classroom!] – Throwback Thursday

Hello and welcome back everyone, to another week of Welcome to the NHK! This is another really interesting week, we have a lot to talk about. From Sato…

Jun 10, 2022 • Subscribe

Welcome to the NHK – 7/8 [Welcome to the Moratorium!/Welcome to Chinatown!] – Throwback Thursday

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another 2 episodes of Welcome to the NHK! This week Sato manages to surprise me, Hitomi makes a small return and Misaki…

Jun 16, 2022 • Subscribe

Welcome to the NHK – 21/22 [Welcome To Reset!/Welcome to The God!] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome, one and all, to the penultimate week of Welcome to the NHK! From Sato to Misaki, Yamazaki to Hitomi, NHK is lining up all the dominoes for…

Aug 4, 2022 • Subscribe

Welcome to the NHK – 17/18 [Welcome to Happiness!/Welcome to No Future!] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome back everyone, to yet another good week of Welcome to the NHK. It feels like NHK has hit its stride recently. It was always somewhere between good…

Jul 21, 2022 • Subscribe

Happiness!

Welcome to the NHK Anime Review 95/100 – Throwback Thursday

When in your life you watch a show can matter just as much as the show itself. Perhaps you first found Tokyo Godfathers and its story of found…

Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Tokyo Godfathers

Aug 18, 2022 • Subscribe

Welcome to the NHK – 15/16 [Welcome to the Fantasy!/Welcome to the Game Over!] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome back to another week of Welcome to the NHK! This is another fantastic pair of episodes as, for the 3rd time, NHK leaves me absolutely floored. What…

Jul 15, 2022 • Subscribe

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…

Jun 30, 2022 • Subscribe

Welcome to the NHK – 19/20 [Welcome To The Blue Bird!/Welcome to Winter Days!] – Throwback Thursday

Hello everyone, and welcome to another week of Welcome to the NHK! We are nearing the end, and the arcs are starting to reflect that. Big character moments,…

Jul 28, 2022 • Subscribe

Winter Days

Welcome to the NHK – 9/10 [Welcome to Summer Days!/Welcome to the Dark Side!] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome everyone, to what will no doubt be a late week of Welcome to the NHK! I apologize for that, I’ve been playing a bit to much Path…

Jun 24, 2022 • Subscribe

Welcome to the NHK – 3/4 [Welcome to the Beautiful Girls!/Welcome to the New World!] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome back everyone, to another week of Welcome to the NHK! We are covering 2 more episodes this week as we watch Sato be pulled further and further…

Confessions of an Overage otaku

Jun 2, 2022 • Subscribe

How Not to End a Series: Welcome to the NHK

Welcome to the NHK is one of those things that should remind you of how a medium people think is for children – I mean, it’s a CARTOON,…

Jun 20, 2022 • Subscribe

Welcome to the NHK: Satou in the bushes with a camera

This was originally part of a “top 10 manga” post (like my top 20 anime post), but it got too long and sort of off-topic so I’m making…

flomu

Aug 4, 2018 • Subscribe

2000, Part 2: Retrospect Before Passage

Happy 2000 (all over again!) At the rollover of the 1990s into the 00s, fandom was digesting the collectability of Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, a...

The Golden Ani-Versary of Anime (1963-2013)

Jun 22, 2013 • Subscribe

Ceres, Celestial Legend, Boys Be..., Tomorrow's Joe, Haibane Renmei, Fighting Spirit

Log Time Podcast | Welcome to the NHK! — A(n) (Absolute Nightmare) Masterpiece!

Looking back on the rotation of shows we have on the docket for this podcast, it might not have been the best idea to watch Welcome to the…

The Backloggers

Aug 10, 2020 • Subscribe

In Search of Number Nine — An anime blog

Welcome to #TheJCS part 3

Introduction So I did hear that there was some confusion about what I’m doing with #TheJCS. Whenever I’ve participated in #TheJCS before, I’ve found it a daunting experience…

Aug 28, 2020 • Subscribe

Welcome to the Ballroom Part 2 (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing

The second half of the Production I.G Ballroom anime series went on sale during AL’s Easter week, therefore I used that opportunity to pick it up.

The Normanic Vault

Apr 9, 2021 • Subscribe

Welcome to the Ballroom

12 Days of Christmas 2014 #03 – Welcome to the NHK and Facing Reality

Welcome to the NHK is a special anime. It follows the university dropout Satou as he is forced to face the reality of having become a hikikomori –…

Anime Viking

Dec 23, 2014 • Subscribe

Manga Talk: Self Reflection in Downfall & Solanin

I read 2 series from Inio Asano. Downfall & Solanin were both very heavy reads and they complemented each other well. Downfall is a look at a person…

dadneedstotalk.com

Mar 16, 2022 • Subscribe

Shiage Hamazura: From Level Zero to Hero, Self-reflection and Redemption

It can be pretty tiring watching mean-spirited anime with edgelord protagonists who must take revenge on the ones that wronged them. With isekai being an oversaturated subgenre, having…

A Certain Dazed Producer

May 25, 2020 • Subscribe

A Certain Magical Index, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest

Welcome to Anime Xclamations

Welcome to my new blog Anime Xclamations! With this new website, I’m hoping that we can enjoy anime and learn a little bit about the Japanese language together.…

Anime Xclamations

Nov 17, 2023 • Subscribe

A Self Reflection: Reading and Watching for Reviews

Being someone who makes content centered on anime and manga on the internet can be a difficult thing to do sometimes. Especially seasonal anime reviewers. People who watch…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Sep 26, 2020 • Subscribe

Welcome to the Winter 2020 Anime TKO!

Ladies and Gentlemen, nerds of all ages! It’s that time again! Welcome to the inaugural round of the first Anime TKO of 2020! Voyager: That’s right, everyone! We’re…

GALVANIC

Jan 7, 2020 • Subscribe

Welcome To The N.H.K. - Sad Anime Guy

Welcome to the New AnimeBackWhen Today's episode goes over Welcome to the NHK (NHK ni Youkoso! about the Hikikomori Sato and his friends. The anime was created by Tatsuhiko…

animebackwhen

Jun 25, 2022 • Subscribe

Welcome to Star Crossed Anime!

Hey there! You’ve managed to find the new incarnation of psgels.net, one of the oldest surviving English language anime blogs on the web. Though our history may be…

Niko's Floating World ニコの浮世

Nov 23, 2019 • Subscribe

(4th Blogiversary Week) Self Reflection: Mecha Master? I’m But The Learner.

If there is anything that kind of bothers me, it’s being called a master of a piece of media that I still have a lot to learn about.…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Jan 15, 2020 • Subscribe

A Mirror Toward Self Reflection – Blue Period Ep 8 Review

As Yatora takes the first exam, a potential crisis turns into unlimited opportunity. This is a review and discussion for Blue Period Episode 8 on Netflix.

In Asian Spaces

Dec 12, 2021 • Subscribe

Blue Period

Shiki – An Analytical Breakdown Part 2

Sorry for the long gap between the last article and this one, anyway here it is. I hope you enjoy it Dr. Ozaki’s wife ends up being the…

The Illusion of Memories

Apr 12, 2020 • Subscribe

Welcome to the Ballroom Part 1 (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing

A series that suffered a poor fate on the streaming and US distribution side, but eventually made its way in the UK with its first English Blu-ray release…

The Normanic Vault

Dec 17, 2020 • Subscribe

Welcome to the Ballroom

Welcome to the Floating World

Welcome to the Floating World of Ukiyo. We’re not going to stop there, oh, no, we’ll encounter literary and artistic movements from throughout the brilliant minds of East…

Dec 22, 2020 • Subscribe

Pokémon

Welcome to the N.H.K. Review

Welcome to the N.H.K. is a psychological anime about mental illness, addiction, depression, and generally terrible people.

DoubleSama

Aug 26, 2023 • Subscribe