{"id":639,"date":"2006-08-15T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T12:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=639"},"modified":"2006-09-06T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T09:00:11","slug":"welcome-to-the-nhk-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the NHK – episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Welcome to the Project”<\/p>\n

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I cannot believe that I watched this, a television program with a guy fantasising about a girl dressed as a nun masturbating, on the train. Sitting next to my mother. Who had down her reading to see what I was watching. She then proceeded to watch the rest of the episode with me, and the whole situation rang to me of this<\/a> (absolutely NSFW ever).<\/p>\n

After my battle with mortification was over, I got to reflect on this episode: it’s actually the pretty interesting tale of a hikikomori<\/I> who wants to make good. I’ve heard that the humour goes down as the anime cannot maintain the preversion level of the manga, but it’s intriguing enough that I don’t care about that.<\/p>\n

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Satou Tatsushiro is a NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) hikikomori<\/i>. He has avoided leaving his apartment for three years and is tormented each day by neighbour playing the OP from a magic girl show called “Pururin”.
\nTo Satou the world smacks of conspiracy. His very hikikomori<\/i> nature is a result of that conspiracy. One day a woman knocks on his door, promoting a complimentary pamphlet about the looming hikikomori<\/I> threat. Struck by the terror that people will recognise him as a NEET, Satou heads out into the world to get a job. He is picked up by Misaki, who runs a project to free hikikomori<\/i> from the bonds of their condition, and to destroy the NHK: the Japanese Hikikomori<\/i> Society!<\/p>\n

Actually, I don’t know if the conspiracy is real or just paranoid fantasy. Who can ever really be sure of that? For all I know, this site is being monitored by a corporation that aims to cost me my job and my education by implicating me in a giant loli smuggling ring. I’d better hide the Nabokov I’ve got next to my bed …<\/p>\n

In all seriousness, this is pretty danged good, getting the facts of the paranoid hermits down pat. Or at least, getting what I would imagine to be a paranoid hermit down without seeming to resort to sickening stereotyping. Yes, Satou is not a cool fellow, and yes, he is silly. Yet he is endearing. I really don’t know how to approach the character, because I feel that everything that I’m saying about him is going to turn out to be a filthy, filthy lie.<\/p>\n

I can’t tell you just yet exactly how Welcome to the NHK<\/I> will go because I think I’m expecting something different to many other people. I’m expecting a series that deals with an important social phenomenon in an interesting fashion (ala Rozen Maiden<\/i>). Maybe I’ll have my life ruined, maybe you’ll next see me on the cleverly named Dragon Quest<\/i> island of Purgatory, hanging out with the later to be inexplicably alive high priest Rolo.<\/p>\n

Give me some time: I’ll probably cover the next few eps in one hit because I’m not being particularly constructive over here.<\/p>\n

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