Just once I'd like to see Satou out smart someone. Now I know that he is a hikkimori with zero self confidence, but by the end of this episode - in which he is heartlessly conned out of precious rent money by an old school mate - it's as though he has talked himself into being ripped off.Satou must know that he is buying into a scam, so why do it? Subconsciously perhaps it's an attempt to escape his bedroom life style; spending rent and food money to the point where you need to sign up for a financial loan will surely mean that hi..
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Impressions: Ok, so my hopes for a nice, serious situation with some sort of tragedy involving Satou’s mum has been beaten down and crushed. On the other hand, the scene when Satou is told his allowance was cut was a work or art! Probably the best freak-out animations in the series I’ve seen so far. Satou’s [...]
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Hmmm. Whilst I understand why Satou’s mother needs to let things be for the purposes of the plot, she knows what’s up with him and turns a blind eye to his situation, which doesn’t make much sense. Whilst the episode was cute and all in a fairly standard will-they-won’t-they-way, I had hoped for an actual [...]
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There was always going to be a twist behind the real world identity of Mia. "She" was too perfect, Satou loved her too much, and NHK! isn't about Satou being in love. I certainly didn't see it being Yamazaki though - jeez, that was cruel of him. And then there is the flash-forward to Satou's soon to be 50-year-old fat balding old man still leaching off his parents. Brutal and depressing - basically I'm glad this arc looks to be ending soon. Satou's melodramatic over reactions to the..
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Download the new ED (Full version mp3 – 10.0mb) Right click link and select ’save target as’ or ’save link as’ Impressions: Like with Innocent Venus, I didn’t watch these two episodes earlier because of all the new shows, but now that I am sort of free, I can do these. Even though the money is probably going [...]
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Just when it looked like Satou’s situation had reached a turning point, it all goes pear-shaped again with another distraction that provides him with another ‘convenient’ escape from reality. The news his mother delivers in her phone call isn’t an announcement of bereavement or some emergency as hinted at by the sirens in the background…it [...]
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If Satou’s mother doesn’t know he’s a hikikimori, why is she paying his rent? I find NHK quite painful to watch sometimes. Watching Satou dig himself deeper and deeper through his stupidity is quite cringe-worthy; come clean, you idiot! Whilst I guess he’s right that he’d get sent back to Hokkaido to live with [...]
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The relentless waves of depression continue unabated with these two episodes as Satou (hardly recovered from his suicidal exploits) stupidly falls foul to the life sucking world of MMORPGs. These highly addictive and never ending online games are undoubtedly one of the major forces behind what is becoming a worldwide epidemic of hikkimori, but what if, like Satou, you're a hikkimori before even signing in? You already have no work and no responsibilities - so there is no reason for a break, you can just play the game all day and all night wit..
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Welcome to reality, indeed. After the last episode it’s inevitable that the tension is wound back down to normal levels but we are still treated to some insightful character-driven stuff thanks to the emotional fallout. We see some more of the Offline Meeting group and the strange dynamic between Satou and Misaki gets some attention. The [...]
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Is it Yamazaki in the frog suit? How ironic was the Pururin conversation in Yamazaki’s class? Does the sound director know how terrible the animation is most of the time in NHK? Man, what a mess Satou is. It seems to me, though, that he’s mostly just gone completely paranoid; surely that’s something that you’d [...]
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This episode was an ordeal to watch. Not because it isn’t good - in fact, it’s possibly the best one yet - but after it succeeded in making me care so much about the characters some really bad things are happening to them now that make it an almost painful experience. For all the bits of [...]
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(don’t ask me why I’ve done this…) Sigmund Freud, or Why NHK Is A Little Tedious Sometimes - A Poem By Me, Aged 22. I watched an episode one day Of Welcome to the NHK This episode made me annoyed But not because of Sigmund Freud True, Mr Freud was in the show Called NHK ni Youkoso Yet he or Jung might understand My [...]
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For some odd reason, I was expecting Satou to be the hero of this episode, but today I doubt he will ever be a hero - just like Yamazaki says, people "like him" aren't suited to dramatic ends. In a word, depressing. Hitomi is selfish and cruel, her reasons for coming back into Satou's life were superficial; he is her fail safe option, a shoulder to cry on when she feels down and clearly she has no romantic interest in Satou. He has been dragged along as her token sacrifice.Misaki's "confession" was nearly as bad ..
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Ep 9 (Welcome to the Summer Days!): It is the beginning of summer vacation for students at Yamazaki’s school and Yamazaki announces, while drunk at a party, that his game will be finished by Comiket. Since they only have a month to finish it, Satou starts working on a laptop in Yamazaki’s room. He is writing [...]
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Impressions: Whoa – suicide? I knew Kashiwa was depressed but that’s going a little too far. It’s true that she faces problems everyday, such as her unreliable boyfriend, her job and unfriendly co-workers, but I’m pretty sure heaps of people go through those things all the time. I seriously doubt it’s just those things alone that [...]
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