Sort of. Remember that it was made by NEETs for NEETs, so unless you're a NEET with suicidal inclinations, you won't understand/appreciate even a half of it.

>>839
I'm not a NEET and I liked it because it was a fun dark comedy with fun lovable characters.

>>841
That's because you watched anime. Try manga. It's pointless anyway if you can't relate. "Fun"? My ass. Every second show is "fun". It's like appreciating Lucky Star because Konata is cute and silly.

yeah, it's a masterpiece.

Seen it when I was in school. I guess it predicted my timeline. Never though I'll end up as NEET on imageboards, worrying about very real conspiracies.
NHK ni yokoso also does expose sects, cults, marketing pyramids and other social phenomena

Also a great cultural artwork before invention of soyjack degradation

the protoagonist 'got saved' by getting hired and was able to find a job. Oh boy, I've tried to get at least average or even low pay job. the competition is insane against people who'll work for pennies.

>>Lucky Star
that is for newf*g. it always has been.
real men watch azumanga.

>>842
The manga was fun as well. Perhaps you should trying having fun yourself…? Trust me it's fun.

>>846
Fun is denied to me. I suffer perpetually.

>>835
nhk suffers from a similar problem as many western works wherein the author attempts to depict some aspect of reality by divorcing their own neuroses and pathologies from the depiction (seeking to create an 'objective' view of the phenomenon in question), and fails due to subconscious leakage of their own pathology into the work. the fact that the author is a nervous hikki wreck who hates himself detracts from the experience of the ln and show, because he's not really able to portray neetdom in a fair light, and he pretends as though the unfair light he shines on it is somehow unbiased. it's not a bad show, but this has always annoyed me to some extent.

>>851
>objective
>objective work of art
did he have to make a documentary

>>852
the point is that it's framed as objective when obviously any look at hikki/neet life will be tainted by the perspective of the author

>>851
Does "objective" even exist?
everyone have their own personal point of view, lens, angle, unique expirience.
Maybe, just maybe, some folk are different. Maybe wizchan does better job at representing. Who knows?

Anime hadn't enough wojacks to become popular in West.

>>853
I don't want to be mean, but this seems like a pointless viewpoint to have. Art is personal, obviously it's not going to be objective the way the structure of a cell or laws of physics are objective.

>>857
>>854
i genuinely don't understand what in my post has made multiple people misunderstand it. maybe i'm a bad communicator.

my point is (please read the following lines carefully) that welcome to the nhk presents itself as an objective framing of neet/hikki life when it is tainted by the perspective of the author. i have no issue with art taking a subjective viewpoint in it's addressal of certain issues, the problem comes when the writer or artist claims that this subjective viewpoint is reflective of the objective truth, when it's clearly not. nhk does this, which is why i dislike it.

>nhk does this
quote?

>>860
how or when does it take the objective standpoint? doesn't it, by being shown from the perspective of Sato, whose very first scene is him indulging in a delusional fantasy, if anything suggest the opposite?

This is a dumb argument, the author wrote about his experience as a hikki/neet its written from experience.
If you enjoy work made not from first hand experience im sure there are others out there that you may enjoy.

>This is a dumb argument
just for a second there i forgot this is an imageboard

>>846
Stay silly everyone

>>860
>welcome to the nhk presents itself as an objective framing of neet/hikki life
Media-illiterate individuals should not be making false statements with such confidence.
Are you implying that Misaki's existence is supposed to be realistic, that the author truly believes that there's a cute BPD angel out there for every NEET? The story is unrealistic from the start, that's the whole point.
It works because everyone in Satou's situation wants a Misaki. It's pandering to a fantasy that it then purposefully crushes. In other words, nobody can save you, because everyone is just as messed up as you are, or worse. Rather than present itself as objective, it runs with an unrealistic fantasy trope that it turns upside down.
The seemingly 'objectively realistic' events/quirks of the story that you have misidentified as an attempt at a documentary style are simply a) the fact of its following the slice of life format and b) the author drawing from his own experiences and feelings, which is necessary in writing something relatable.

>>1026

Did you only watch the anime or have you read the manga and novel?

>>1028
Anime, novel, rebuild, manga. The novel is great and though I didn't love the manga as much as the other iterations, there's some cool stuff in it like pic rel which I like to think is Takimoto's actual apartment from the time or close to it. What's your favorite edition?

>>1029

The manga is my favorite.
Nothing wrong with the novel or anime but it got me first and stuck, i feel it tells the story better.

I will have my own Misaki. I wont give up

I tried to watch the anime but dropped it in just 2 episodes because I felt that the humor was way over the top for my taste, if the novel is any different I might give it a try some day.

>>1034
Most anime tend to have their humor be over the top if you really think about it.

>>1035
When a girl starts shouting or talking loudly just to make a funny scene at least it's cute, when a guy does it it's just annoying. All the animes that I've enjoyed with a significant male presence didn't have much of it, I also feel that a story about a hikikomori would work much better if it was something serious. I can still give the novel or the manga a chance because there's no sound in those so I cringe substantially less…

>>1039
>when a girl does it, it's cute
>when a guy does it, it's just annoying
Double standards, much?

ah yes, the anime that made me realize all I need to do to stop being a NEET is starve because someone didn't cook food for me.

Has anyone read the author's new "reboot" of welcome to the NHK? I remember his afterword in the original novel where he talks about despite the success that years later he was still a NEET, so I'm curious if that remained the case and especially his perspective on the change in otaku culture from heisei to reiwa.

The anime is definitely my favorite adaptation so far. i recently finished the manga and it didnt feel as grounded as the anime…if that makes any sense

>>1105
I agree with you anon after a point the manga just started too feel unhinged and a bit lost… Like when they suddenly planted seeds.

>>843
>>839
I honestly feel like it depicts how heart crushing NEET life gets, how you can't crawl away, and how hopes die through each day. How others lose hope in you, and how the only way out, is at the end through yourself.
How you push away friends you once had, cycle through hobbies, all just to look for an escape. For hope. And the fact that you just keep looking for someone to relate, to understand. Only for nobody to be able to get you. The ending song for the anime defines it for me.