Hikikomori anime Thread Hikki 10/09/17 (Mon) 08:05:14 2df4be No. 644 [Last50 Posts]
I'm pretty sure the majority of us on here know about Welcome to the NHK. as it's probably the most popular hikki anime but which hikikomori anime character do you relate to the most /hikki/??.
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Hikki 10/09/17 (Mon) 11:28:29 1613c3 No. 647
I can't stand any of them. They're cliche caricatures made for happier people to gawk at.
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Hikki 10/09/17 (Mon) 17:33:27 16a53b No. 660
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Hikki 10/09/17 (Mon) 20:27:51 2df4be No. 678
>>647
I understand why you feel that way anon.
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Hikki 10/09/17 (Mon) 20:37:42 f1aa00 No. 679
>>660
I got into video games when I was very young, so I've had a long time to find both timeless classics and obscure gems that no one played. Anime, on the other hand, I can't bother myself hard enough to watch. Every time I tried, whether it was normie recommendations or more obscure stuff, I have never found one that I genuinely enjoyed. And considering I've never seen a single good one, I never feel inclined to bother again.
Shame, feels like I might be missing out on some good stories.
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Hikki 10/09/17 (Mon) 20:54:15 2df4be No. 682
>>660
>>679
You guys are the first two hikkis i have talked to that don't like anime.
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Hikki 10/09/17 (Mon) 21:08:09 3593b6 No. 685
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Hikki 10/10/17 (Tue) 00:03:54 1556ec No. 693
I don't watch anime very often, in fact the last one I watched was JoJo's Bizzare Adventure: Battle Tendency and that was about 5 months ago. I like anime well enough, I just haven't set aside much time for it, which I know sounds silly as being a hikikomori and staying in my room all day means having nothing but time to waste on whatever. Of course even when I did watch anime more frequently, I never really found any characters that I deeply relate to.
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Hikki 10/10/17 (Tue) 01:22:37 2df4be No. 699
>>693
>Of course even when I did watch anime more frequently, I never really found any characters that I deeply relate to.
What about Satou Tomoko or Kiri KOMORI??.
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Hikki 10/10/17 (Tue) 02:44:51 fc652b No. 706
I'm slowly getting into anime because of friends and i'm really fond of Tatami Galaxy. The main character isn't really a hikki but i'm sure most of us will relate.
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Hikki 10/11/17 (Wed) 00:38:35 1556ec No. 760
>>699
I can relate with Satou mostly on the basic level of being a hikikomori, outside of that his worldviews and hobbies are a bit different from mine. So I do relate to him, but not on a profound level. As far as Kiri Komori, I'm not actually familiar with that character. I've never been a hardcore anime viewer, so there are a lot of animes that I just don't know about.
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Hikki 10/11/17 (Wed) 04:23:55 2df4be No. 766
>>760
>I can relate with Satou mostly on the basic level of being a hikikomori, outside of that his worldviews and hobbies are a bit different from mine. So I do relate to him, but not on a profound level
I find Satou and Tomoko to be the most relatable i can relate to Satou very much as i do see myself in him and i have actually gone through a lot of the same things he has as well like when he gets his hikkineetbucks cut in half i had that happen to me once i also once had a noisy neighbour who would blast rap music in the middle of the night i also can relate to him in terms of the conspiracy theory stuff too as i can be a very paranoid person not gonna lie Satou seems like someone i would want to have a beer with just to talk about how crappy the world is with him as for Tomoko i can relate to her on the basic of having really bad social anxiety and loneliness and the feeling of wanting to be accepted by your peers when you were younger but at the same time hating them for not socially accepting you.
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Hikki 10/11/17 (Wed) 18:36:41 2df4be No. 790
>>760
>Kiri Komori, I'm not actually familiar with that character
She is the character in the op pic.
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Hikki 10/13/17 (Fri) 17:39:34 1556ec No. 925
>>766
I was thinking on it, and I realize I do have a bit more in common with Satou than I had originally thought. For instance, I had to go get groceries today (always an exhausting endeavor) and as I walked by the other people, I could feel their eyes on me and I couldn't help but think what Satou thinks when he's around other people. That voice in the back of your head that says "these people see right through you. To them, you're nothing but a worthless hikikomori."
>once i also once had a noisy neighbour who would blast rap music in the middle of the night
I currently live near a small Islamic family who often play their Arabic-wailing music throughout the day. I can't stand it.
>as for Tomoko i can relate to her on the basic of having really bad social anxiety and loneliness and the feeling of wanting to be accepted by your peers when you were younger but at the same time hating them for not socially accepting you
I actually started watching Watamote for the first time last night, I saw the first two episodes and I love it. Tomoko is almost like a female version of myself. Like when she's thinking of her classmates as 'sluts and idiots' despite going home and playing perverted video games. Or when she's in the McDonalds, and her classmates show up, so she's brainstorming strategies of how to exit without being noticed. Or how she talks to her family just fine, but when it isn't a family member, she freezes up. Or when she's going to meet her old friend from middle school, and all week long, she is desperately looking for things to say to make herself sound interesting. I imagine I would do the exact same thing in her situation.
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Hikki 10/13/17 (Fri) 19:05:29 2df4be No. 928
>>925
>I was thinking on it, and I realize I do have a bit more in common with Satou than I had originally thought. For instance, I had to go get groceries today (always an exhausting endeavor) and as I walked by the other people, I could feel their eyes on me and I couldn't help but think what Satou thinks when he's around other people. That voice in the back of your head that says "these people see right through you. To them, you're nothing but a worthless hikikomori."
I do this as well.
>Tomoko is almost like a female version of myself.
I was just thinking the same thing.
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Hikki 10/14/17 (Sat) 16:05:47 22feeb No. 955
how would a NHK/watamote crossover be like?
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Hikki 10/14/17 (Sat) 21:34:13 2df4be No. 963
>>955
>how would a NHK/watamote crossover be like?
It would be a toxic relationship.
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Hikki 10/16/17 (Mon) 01:49:32 691d86 No. 984
>>766
>as for Tomoko i can relate to her on the basic of having really bad social anxiety and loneliness and the feeling of wanting to be accepted by your peers when you were younger but at the same time hating them for not socially accepting you.
I just started watching Watamote and really feel the same. Also the ways she tries to be accepted, trying to analyze normies and media, then trying to mimic that behavior. I used to do that kind of thing. The failures and embarrassments she endures hit so close to home it hurts.
>that scene when she tries to walk past her classmates by mimicking them
>gets called ugly in front of her brother
everything in this show is like a parody of my life, i can't believe i avoiding watching this
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Hikki 10/16/17 (Mon) 02:14:31 2df4be No. 986
>>984
> the ways she tries to be accepted, trying to analyze normies and media, then trying to mimic that behavior. I used to do that kind of thing. The failures and embarrassments she endures hit so close to home it hurts.
I know that feel bro i also use to do this kind of stuff as well.
>Everything in this show is like a parody of my life
That is how i felt about NHK.
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Hikki 10/16/17 (Mon) 19:31:55 1556ec No. 1003
>>984
I started watching Watamote recently as well, but I find it more enjoyable than painful. Even though Tomoko is a lot like me, I more relate to the times when she says 'to hell with them' than the times she tries to be like them. She does remind me a lot of how I was back in high school, and I still share many similarities with her now. But I don't (especially now) exhaust myself trying to fit in with people that I don't like and don't respect. Not that I think I'm above them, I just don't have anything in common with the average person, nor would I want to.
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Hikki 10/16/17 (Mon) 21:55:22 2df4be No. 1010
>>1003
> I just don't have anything in common with the average person, nor would I want to.
I don't blame you anon.
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Hikki 10/18/17 (Wed) 22:10:53 89b84d No. 1084
>>682
How about a third? I stopped watching a lot of anime a few years after I graduated in 2006. I gradually strayed away from such interest. I would watch a couple here and there over the years but that's it. I don't watch as much as the others do like someone who watches Kdrama religiously.
There are a few exceptions that I do need to watch like FLCL, since they're going to have 2 seasons. Sometimes Gundam. Depending on the story.
As for Welcome to the NHK, I watched that in 2011, if I remember correctly. The problem is that I can't relate a whole much but only certain aspects of it. Still, to me an anime is an anime and its depiction is loosely based to the real thing. People shouldn't really relate to an anime but rather should relate the root of it, the actual concept.
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Hikki 10/19/17 (Thu) 01:07:38 6fbd2a No. 1087
>>1084
>if I remember correctly. The problem is that I can't relate a whole much but only certain aspects of it.
The novel is a lot more realistic and relatable than the anime.
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引きこもり 10/23/17 (Mon) 10:29:34 8fb367 No. 1255
>>644
I really liked nhk, because all characters incarnate parts of me, so accurately it is frightening. The agoraphobia, the obsession with escapism, the fear, terror, of being rejected and abandoned, pill abuse… even some small, insignificant details they did surprised me by how familiar they were
But if I had to choose one, of course it'd be yamazaki. Sure there's a lot (too much) Satou in me, but honestly I'm just yamazaki with some severe social anxiety
>>766
It's a shame tomoko's anime/manga is only good for the first few chapters
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引きこもり 10/23/17 (Mon) 11:02:54 6fbd2a No. 1256
>>1255
>It's a shame tomoko's anime/manga is only good for the first few chapters
The manga got really shitty and the anime was good but had a crappy ending Tomoko had no character development what so ever and instead gave up on trying to become popular and ran back home and ended up a full on hikikomori in the end.
>I really liked nhk, because all characters incarnate parts of me, so accurately it is frightening. The agoraphobia, the obsession with escapism, the fear, terror, of being rejected and abandoned, pill abuse… even some small, insignificant details they did surprised me by how familiar they were
The anime was good but i feel the message it gives in the final episode is that your problems will be solved simply just by going out and working which we all know isn't true and in the end everyone Satou knows is happy and is having a successful life while he is stuck in a dead end job and unsure if he will ever succeed there is a lot of Satou in me the conspiracy theories his social anxiety paranoia obsession with escapism, the feeling of loneliness agoraphobia and the fact that he is a hikkineet these are all things of Satou i can relate to as for yamazaki i can relate to him on being really into anime and Otaku culture being pressured by your parents to do things you don't want to do. And his disinterest in women in the early episodes.
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引きこもり 10/24/17 (Tue) 03:11:15 5ab54e No. 1269
>>1256
>the anime was good but had a crappy ending Tomoko had no character development what so ever and instead gave up on trying to become popular and ran back home and ended up a full on hikikomori in the end.
It didn't quite appear that way to me. For one thing, the anime is a comedy, and most comedies don't have heavy character development anyway. Aside from that, I doubt Tomoko went full hikki, she still had Yuu-chan as a friend, also that student council girl showed an interest in her. If the show had continued, it's possible she would have slowly gained friends and gone out more. However, since most of Tomoko's comedic charm in the show came from her social inadequacies, the show would have lost the elements that made it worth watching, and it would have become as bad as the manga. That's just my take on it.
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引きこもり 10/24/17 (Tue) 06:02:58 6fbd2a No. 1270
>>1269
>It didn't quite appear that way to me. For one thing, the anime is a comedy, and most comedies don't have heavy character development anyway
That's true i guess this also applies to what i was saying about NHK. too as it did have some character development but not a lot in the end and that is why i like the novel a little bit better than the anime because it's a lot more realistic in terms of being relatable but the anime does still hold a special place in my heart.
>Aside from that, I doubt Tomoko went full hikki, she still had Yuu-chan as a friend, also that student council girl showed an interest in her. If the show had continued, it's possible she would have slowly gained friends and gone out more. However, since most of Tomoko's comedic charm in the show came from her social inadequacies, the show would have lost the elements that made it worth watching, and it would have become as bad as the manga. That's just my take on it.
Actually i agree if it did continue i would hate to see it end up like the manga too By the way anon have you seen Rozen Maiden or Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei those are both other great hikki animes.
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引きこもり 10/24/17 (Tue) 23:49:59 5ab54e No. 1291
>>1270
>this also applies to what i was saying about NHK. too as it did have some character development but not a lot in the end
Yeah, Watamote is similar in that there is only a little bit of development. At the end of the anime for instance, when Tomoko invites Yuu-chan to her school's cultural fair and she ends up having fun. It feels like the first time in the anime where she saw Yuu-chan as an actual friend, rather than just a tool for social leverage.
>By the way anon have you seen Rozen Maiden or Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei those are both other great hikki animes.
I haven't yet, but since I just finished Watamote a couple days ago so I will check these out next.
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引きこもり 10/25/17 (Wed) 00:52:56 6fbd2a No. 1294
>>1291
>Watamote is similar in that there is only a little bit of development. At the end of the anime for instance, when Tomoko invites Yuu-chan to her school's cultural fair and she ends up having fun. It feels like the first time in the anime where she saw Yuu-chan as an actual friend, rather than just a tool for social leverage.
In one of the early episodes i remember she called Yuu-chan a slut.
>I haven't yet, but since I just finished Watamote a couple days ago so I will check these out next.
Rozen Maiden is really good and has some really funny moments i'm sure you have seen the character Suiseiseki around on the internet in the past as Rozen Maiden is where the Desu meme actually came from if you remember that from old school 4chan also a warning ahead of time there is no dub of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei so you will have to watch it with subtitles Kiri Komori is the hikki character in the anime and the character in the op pic.
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引きこもり 10/25/17 (Wed) 00:59:11 6fbd2a No. 1295
>>1291
Also if you can't find Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei anywhere it can be found here this anime has 3 seasons as well by the way so a lot to watch.
https://ww3.gogoanime.io/category/sayonara-zetsubou-sensei-
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引きこもり 11/08/17 (Wed) 23:01:13 b99643 No. 1619
Been watching Kamisama no Memochou recently it's a detective story about a bunch of NEETS who solve crimes and the group is led by a hikikomori hacker named Alice..
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引きこもり 12/19/17 (Tue) 08:11:31 e92cfb No. 2594
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引きこもり 01/06/18 (Sat) 06:37:47 62a6f4 No. 3144
>>928
I think that's what a lot of people like about that show
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引きこもり 01/07/18 (Sun) 02:39:43 62a6f4 No. 3182
I started watching NHK yesterday and it's pretty good but I don't like how a Misaki is there out of nowhere to rescue Satou, that's not what happens in actuality, people mostly do not care about us or know we even exist, if you want to get out of it you have to do it yourself, no one will give you a hand. It's a fun fantasy I guess. Rest of the show I like.
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引きこもり 01/07/18 (Sun) 02:47:51 b9003a No. 3184
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>3182
I recommend the original novel it's a lot more darker and realistic also the manga as well here is an audiobook of the original novel.
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引きこもり 01/07/18 (Sun) 13:30:30 09d9bb No. 3186
>>3182
Considering the author was, and still is a hikikomori (just a rich hikki now), that somehow gives it a little more meaning. Also, keep watching, Misaki is not as simple as it seems
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引きこもり 01/07/18 (Sun) 23:13:42 b9003a No. 3201
>>3186
It would be awesome if he posted here.
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引きこもり 01/08/18 (Mon) 00:06:55 62a6f4 No. 3203
Just got done with the episode where they get suckered into buying useless antineet supplements… I really like this show, sad it's only got 20 or so episodes but I can see it dragging on and going down in quality if they dragged it out longer.
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引きこもり 01/08/18 (Mon) 00:11:15 b9003a No. 3204
>>3203
>I can see it dragging on and going down in quality if they dragged it out longer.
And this is the exact reason why the Watamote manga is shit the quality dropped but the anime didn't do this.
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引きこもり 01/10/18 (Wed) 02:32:09 62a6f4 No. 3327
finished nhk last night, I liked the show overall but the ending I did not find great, I liked that in the end sato cured sato and I'm happy he got the girl in the end but it also makes me realize that this is a fantasy, truth is even if we do find jobs at some point we will still be alone… just spending 8 hours per day working in most likely an unenjoyable job, then come home and feel the same loneliness minus the feeling of shame from leeching off people, there really is no solution
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引きこもり 01/10/18 (Wed) 02:44:27 b9003a No. 3328
>>3327
>there really is no solution
This is the sad truth also i recommend watching other hikki anime like Watamote Rozen Maiden and No Game No Life.
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引きこもり 01/10/18 (Wed) 02:50:21 62a6f4 No. 3329
>>3328
watamote I have watched but it's more a young hikki anime not really the same problems and I cannot relate as well because I just dropped out of school at 14, couldn't deal with it, I appreciate they try to make good endings where the MC recovers and everything is happy but… just makes me feel bad because I know these are things I will never have. I will check the others out
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引きこもり 01/10/18 (Wed) 09:42:56 09d9bb No. 3347
>>3201
It would, but Japanese hikikomori don't know this place exists, and even if they did, they'd have no reason to post to an English-speaking forum.
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引きこもり 01/10/18 (Wed) 10:04:11 b9003a No. 3349
>>3347
>It would, but Japanese hikikomori don't know this place exists, and even if they did, they'd have no reason to post to an English-speaking forum.
Well this place is mainly an English speaking board but both english and japanese can be spoken on /hikki/ also yeah i just recently realized that there are no Japanese hikkis on here i think it would be kinda cool if there were to be honest.
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引きこもり 01/10/18 (Wed) 21:04:36 3e8bd2 No. 3371
>>3349
>i just recently realized that there are no Japanese hikkis on here i think it would be kinda cool if there were to be honest.
Agreed. Shut-ins come in all shapes and sizes, from every corner of the world, but the hikikomori phenomenon originates from Japan. It would be incredibly fascinating to get a Japanese hikki's perspective on these matters.
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引きこもり 01/10/18 (Wed) 23:04:22 b9003a No. 3389
>>3371
I think they hang out on 2chan??.
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引きこもり 03/02/18 (Fri) 00:11:41 b9003a No. 4611
Thought i would make a list of hikikomori characters in anime.
Akira Renbokōji Kakumeiki Valvrave
Alice Kami-sama no memo-chō
Gasper Vladi High School DxD NEW
Himawari Shinomiya - Vividred Operation
Izumi Takanashi Working!
Jinta Yadomi Ano Hana
Jun Sakurada Rozen Maiden
Kazuma Ikezawa - Summer Wars
Kiri Komori Sayonara Zetsubō-sensei
Matsu Sekirei
Nancy Naga Those Who Hunt Elves
Ryūnosuke Akasaka - Sakura-sō no pet na kanojo
Sasami Tsukuyomi - Sasami-san@Ganbaranai
Sora and Shiro No Game No Life
Sagiri Izumi - Ero Manga Sensei
Takumi Nishijou Chaos;Head
Tatsuhiro Satō Welcome to the NHK!
Tomoko Kuroki - Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dō Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!, (Watamote)
Yutaka Itazu Higashi no Eden
Yuu otosaka - Charlotte
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引きこもり 03/03/18 (Sat) 09:44:16 9dd176 No. 4627
>>4611
I've only seen No Game No Life, NHK and Watamote. Apart from these, do the rest also have hikikomori main characters or are some of them just side characters?
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引きこもり 03/03/18 (Sat) 12:13:21 b9003a No. 4629
>>4627
> Apart from these, do the rest also have hikikomori main characters or are some of them just side characters?
Besides
Jun Sakurada from Rozen Maiden and Takumi Nishijou from Chaos;Head and the others you mentioned most of the other characters on the list are side characters.
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引きこもり 04/10/18 (Tue) 19:38:36 6a51e5 No. 5222
Surprised nobody posted it yet.
One of the best animes I ever watched in my entire life. The only reason the protagonist is not an hikki is that he can't afford it (he ends up being homeless in fact)
>The year is 1995. After graduating from high school, the young Kaiji Itou has moved to Tokyo in hopes of finding a steady job. Two years later, he's still unemployed and in a state of depression. Kaiji wastes what little money he has on cheap gambles, alcohol and cigarettes on a daily basis. To feel better about himself, he sabotages expensive cars and collects their emblems. One of these cars belongs to Yuuji Endou, a yakuza with ties to the financial empire Teiai Corporation
>It turns out that Endou has been searching for Kaiji for a while, ever since he co-signed a contract for his friend Furuhata, which left him with a large debt. Endou also wants Kaiji to compensate for the car's damages. Kaiji is left with a choice; he must either spend 10 years working off the debt in a labour camp, or board a gambling cruise called "Espoir" (French for "hope") where he will be able to pay off the debt in one night… If he wins.
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引きこもり 04/11/18 (Wed) 21:49:44 b9003a No. 5228
>>5222
So this anime is about a homeless Neet??.
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引きこもり 04/11/18 (Wed) 22:10:42 6a51e5 No. 5230
>>5228
I don't want to spoil you anything. Try to watch the first 2 episodes and I'm sure everyone in this board will like it. I'm a recovering hikki that works at home and that anime helped me a lot
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引きこもり 04/11/18 (Wed) 22:14:55 6a51e5 No. 5231
>>5230
The general themes are: loneliness, if it's worthy to trust others, conflict between generations, desire of redemption, poverty, wagecucking, what does it really mean to be a loser etc…
Every thing using the world of illegal gambling, with realistic gambles
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引きこもり 04/11/18 (Wed) 22:16:47 b9003a No. 5232
>>5230
>I don't want to spoil you anything. Try to watch the first 2 episodes and I'm sure everyone in this board will like it
Alright ill. give it a look and check it out.
>Im a recovering hikki that works at home and that anime helped me a lot
It must have a better message than Welcome To The NHK does if it actually helped you a lot.
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引きこもり 04/11/18 (Wed) 22:42:00 6a51e5 No. 5235
Ps: many sites explaining the plot talk about "kaiji's friend" he has no friends, at least not at the beginning
https://otakustream.tv/anime/gyakkyou-burai-kaiji-ultimate-survivor/episode-1/
>>5232
The author, Noboyuki Fukumot unlike the author of welcome to the nhk apparently managed to fix his life. I can suggest other works by him.
One interesting thing is that there are no female characters in almost every work he has done.
The first is Akagi. The less hikki of the ones I'm suggesting. It's a cult from old cuckchan /a/, in 2007. It's about a weird mysterious kid in post WW2 japan who terrorizes yakuza. It's about fear, fear of dying in particular.
The second one is a manga and it's the most hikki one.
The name's Strongest Man Kurosawa.
Kurosawa is a 40 something guy without a family, without a single friend, virgin, ugly, not even very smart and without a single talent.
He's not an hikkikomori because otherwise he would starve to death, instead he works in a costruction company doing manual labour.
The series is about him and his daily struggles, for example he fails to get friends at work, he almost get arrested when he tries to do a good action only because it's ugly etc.
One day he gets beaten up almost to death by highschoolers, and that's when his legend begins, because he decides to get revenge and by taking it he will manage to actually get friends, albei weird ones.
Again can't spoil anything, but this has a very inspiring message, and literally 0 normalfag bullshit like "just b yourself" or "just try harder".
I reccomend starting with Kaiji since it's the most accessible of the 3, then Kurosawa and then Akagi
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引きこもり 04/11/18 (Wed) 23:00:41 b9003a No. 5236
>>5235
>The author, Noboyuki Fukumot unlike the author of welcome to the nhk apparently managed to fix his life.
I read somewhere that Tatsuhiko Takimoto recently got out of the hikki lifestyle after 16 years and has now found a way towards a better lifestyle, and is incredibly active online and in the community he lives in. He's also learned a good amount of English over the years from his time in isolation and also dabbles in music production a bit now.
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引きこもり 04/11/18 (Wed) 23:05:21 6a51e5 No. 5237
>>5236
Yeah I read that he also suggests meditation and nofap to get out of situations like the ones he was in. I agree with that, it works a lot
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引きこもり 04/11/18 (Wed) 23:12:30 b9003a No. 5238
>>5237
Meditation and nofap may not actually get you out of the hikki lifestyle but doing stuff like this or at least trying to will keep you sane so you don't lose complete control of yourself and go off the deep end while in isolation or trying to get out of it.
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引きこもり 04/12/18 (Thu) 20:56:56 6a51e5 No. 5240
Let me know if you like Kaiji
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引きこもり 04/13/18 (Fri) 12:22:12 b9003a No. 5248
>>5240
>Let me know if you like Kaiji
I will thanks for sharing these anon.
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引きこもり 04/13/18 (Fri) 16:08:01 ce3220 No. 5251
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引きこもり 04/18/18 (Wed) 16:52:02 ad5606 No. 5308
Well did you watch kaiji?
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引きこもり 04/19/18 (Thu) 03:06:22 b9003a No. 5313
>>5308
>Well did you watch kaiji?
Yes i did start it 2 nights ago i am really enjoying it.
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引きこもり 04/24/18 (Tue) 04:30:40 ad5606 No. 5369
>>5313
Let me know when you finish it
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引きこもり 04/24/18 (Tue) 08:23:35 b9003a No. 5372
>>5369
>Let me know when you finish it
I definitely will.
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引きこもり 06/16/18 (Sat) 04:57:57 a724a1 No. 5806
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