Tag: Welcome to the NHK!
Diary of an Anime Lived: The Slice-of-Life Age, Part 3 (FINAL)
On the strands that make up “slice of life” in our day, and what it means to be a fan in this time where it…
Welcome to the NHK! Vols. 5 & 6–Lying To Yourself
The story in the Welcome to the NHK! manga has now fully departed from that of the anime, and the bleakness is almost stifling. Still,…
萌我一如(Moe-atma-aikya)
萌我一如(Moe-atma-aikya) Mike and Ray from AnimeDiet strongly recommended Welcome to NHK, so I watched it. And this was so interesting that I watched 24 episodes…
Anime Diet’s Hidden Gems – Reviews, Discussions and More
Anime Diet Presents: Best Kept Secret of Anime Diet’s archive, part 1. Looking for previously unread articles? Then our 10+ hours of work combing through…
Aversion and hikikomori
Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei makes the argument that the hikikomori complex is an elaborate form of aversion. In fact, all the people portrayed in the show…
Welcome to the NHK! Vol. 4 – The Infinite Layer Cake of Misaki
Because that is what she is so far–like Heath Ledger’s Joker, who knows what kind of background or upbringing she really has? Who knows how…