The setup: In Episode 9: Welcome to a Summer Day, Kaoru Yamazaki manages to work up enough balls to ask out his crush, one Nanako Midorikawa, to see some fireworks but is turned down. This is enough to make anyone drink, but there’s more. The reason Midorikawa says “tomorrow’s no good” is that she has an anime audition at that time. This comes off as a contrived excuse for being too busy, a phrase Yamazaki knows all too well from a similar situation that traumatized him as a child. Fingering the nerves of that sensitive scar, Midorikawa’s rejection parallels the instance where Yamazaki’s childhood crush ends up going to the fireworks display with another boy after having said she had to see her sick grandfather instead. His crush and the boy she’s with at the festival are espied by young Yamazaki, who then pulls a Kamen Rider-esque mask over his head and stomps off heartbroken. After Midorikawa and her friends leave and all is clear in the hall, Yamazaki grabs an action hero promotional poster, pokes eyeholes in it, and puts it in front of his face like a mask (keep this in mind for later). Evening comes, and Yamazaki storms into Tatsuhiro Sato's apartment in full alcohol-induced vigor. Yamazaki has managed to drink his sorrow away and even get excited over the upcoming summer comic market.  This new found enthusiasm is spurred on by a boast he made during a drinking party to his classmates about how his current project, a "gal game," would put all his other classmates' projects to shame. To make good on the boast, Yamazaki must push Sato into the dubious realm of productivity (not something at which a hikikomori normally excels.  Sato does give his all to work on his contribution (the script) to the gal game, but his recent conflicted feelings about his hikikomori counselor Misaki Nakahara stop him in his tracks at every turn. That calls for another drink. And another. Frothing with Usahi (Asahi) beer and rage, and fueled by the past and present indignation suffered from the whims of women combined with Sato's inability to work, Yamazaki attempts to bolster Sato’s spirits and get his head on straight with a little chant that is one of the greatest moments in drinking...the dirty whore rant: Drunken Otaku: Welcome to the Drunken Rant – Welcome to the NHK Episode 9 was originally published on Ani-Gamers on March 5, 2012 at 2:09 PM. Unless you are reading this in an RSS reader or a blog aggregator that credits the original authors, this version has likely been illegally copied (or "scraped") from our site. If you believe a site has scraped our content, please contact us so we can take action against the offender.
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The setup: In Episode 9: Welcome to a Summer Day, Kaoru Yamazaki manages to work up enough balls to ask out his crush, one Nanako Midorikawa, to see some fireworks but is turned down. This is enough to make anyone drink, but there’s more. The reason Midorikawa says “tomorrow’s no good” is that she has an anime audition at that time. This comes off as a contrived excuse for being too busy, a phrase Yamazaki knows all too well from a similar situation that traumatized him as a child. Fingering the nerves of that sensitive scar, Midorikawa’s rejection parallels the instance where Yamazaki’s childhood crush ends up going to the fireworks display with another boy after having said she had to see her sick grandfather instead. His crush and the boy she’s with at the festival are espied by young Yamazaki, who then pulls a Kamen Rider-esque mask over his head and stomps off heartbroken. After Midorikawa and her friends leave and all is clear in the hall, Yamazaki grabs an action hero promotional poster, pokes eyeholes in it, and puts it in front of his face like a mask (keep this in mind for later). Evening comes, and Yamazaki storms into Tatsuhiro Sato's apartment in full alcohol-induced vigor. Yamazaki has managed to drink his sorrow away and even get excited over the upcoming summer comic market.  This new found enthusiasm is spurred on by a boast he made during a drinking party to his classmates about how his current project, a "gal game," would put all his other classmates' projects to shame. To make good on the boast, Yamazaki must push Sato into the dubious realm of productivity (not something at which a hikikomori normally excels).  Sato does give his all to work on his contribution (the script) to the gal game, but his recent conflicted feelings about his hikikomori counselor, Misaki Nakahara, stop him in his tracks at every turn. That calls for another drink. And another. Frothing with Usahi (Asahi) beer and rage, and fueled by the past and present indignation suffered from the whims of women combined with Sato's inability to work, Yamazaki attempts to bolster Sato’s spirits and get his head on straight with a little chant that is one of the greatest moments in drinking...the dirty whore rant: Drunken Otaku: Welcome to the Drunken Rant – Welcome to the NHK Episode 9 was originally published on Ani-Gamers on March 5, 2012 at 2:09 PM. Unless you are reading this in an RSS reader or a blog aggregator that credits the original authors, this version has likely been illegally copied (or "scraped") from our site. If you believe a site has scraped our content, please contact us so we can take action against the offender.
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I think I’m going to drop NHK now. This episode just exemplifies everything I’m growing to dislike about NHK. Yamazaki and Satou aren’t only unlikeable, they’re not particularly interesting either; a stereotypical geek turned up to the max paired with a depressive recluse with little interest in anything other than fantasising about girls just don’t [...]
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WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD What a happy end to an episode of NHK! After spending more than half the ep on hearing that damn Yamazaki and his crappy sap story, we are treated to a nice end with Satou + Misaki ^_^. I mean, from hearing his story, I can understand why Yamazaki distrust women, but he disgusted me with his [...]
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As you might have guessed from the lack of recent updates I've had my hands full lately. Suffice to say I've had one hell of a time so all things considered the lightweight, feelgood escapism of episode #9 is all the more welcome as far as I'm concerned. This ep gives Yamazaki some much-needed background, adding more details that allow us to understand why he's the way he is. To say the poor bugger is a little embittered is an understatement...or ...
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An unusually positive and uplifting instalment of NHK!, I wasn't planning on commenting on this episode but the sparkling festival fireworks always get me. So bright, so beautiful, so romantic. Even Yamazaki gets some lovin'.This is so far the best episode, a dizzy mixture of jilted love and romantic despair, it astutly comments on the fickle defensiveness of macho human nature. Yamazaki had his heart broken by his first love and subsequently hates girls, but the moment he gets a little fem..
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