Satou realizes that he can’t continue living as a NEET forever and wants to escape the lifestyle and overcome the conspiracies of the NHK but he is too afraid and doesn’t know how to go about it. The origin of his obsession with conspiracies seems to be an upperclassman named Kashiwa Hitomi with whom he spent a lot of time with in high school. (Nihon Hikikomori Kyoukai / Japan Hikikomori Association/Society) is working around the clock to ruin his life and make sure he stays a shut-in forever through any means necessary. He is a complete conspiracy nut who believes a giant organization encompassing the whole planet called the N.H.K. The main character of the story, Satou Tatsuhiro, is a college dropout. They absolutely have to and make just enough money through various means (parents, relatives, jobs that can be done from home, and rarely part-time jobs outside the house) to survive and continue their hikikomori lifestyles.
They don’t leave their rooms/houses unless They feel uncomfortable in presence of other people. The number of people living the hikikomori or NEET (Not pursuing Employment, Education or Training) lifestyle are increasing everyday worldwide but they are predominantly concentrated in Japan among the adolescent male population. The dictionary definition of hikikomori is "a state or condition of acute social withdrawal". More than half of you are probably wondering what a hikikomori is So that explanation should probably come now before getting into the review of the series. is the story of a 22-year-old hikikomori/NEET named Satou Tatsuhiro. Such masterpiece anime must be a conspiracy. All the aspects of this anime are high qualitative. Psychology is described as much as possible faithfully, all the reasons are named correctly, emphases are placed where they needed.Īrt and sound do for this work and don't have any serious shortcomings. In 'NHK' it is shown somehow exaggeratedly but the inner life is described entirely faithful. It is impossible to meet for such humans but only they can understand each other. You think that people around get everything easier and live merrily and sociable but you simply can not see the same as you as they also are dissociated from the world. There are no N.H.K., there is no god, there are only nonchalance, loneliness and despair. You've got tired from struggle along on your's own not at once but gradually. Problem of self-concept and fear of the life is urgent for many people, but the feeling of hopelessness and despair appears only when there is nobody to support you. You aren't able to get rid of solitude if you feel your purposelessness and pettiness. Every joke provokes not a roar of laughter but the sad smile as you recognize yourself and your troubles in 'fictional' heroes.Įven if you have a job, relatives, interests, it doesn't change anything. Tragicomicly - you want to weep, smile, think ironically and philosophize simultaneously.
In 'NHK' everyday events are not shown grotesque and mockingly as in parodies and not weightly depressed as in psychological thrillers but somehow chaotically and Hateful everyday life gets emotional colors and draws a wide reaction with slowly walking real life on the our side of screen. It doesn't perceive as something fictitious. Collection of troubles and problems we can meet in our life. 'Welcome to the NHK' is a kind of collection. Some times it was amusing to watch, sometimes it was painfully.