Currently Reviewing: Welcome to the NHK
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![Women cannot love what they pity. There may be some emotional confusion in the more compassionate (e.g., nurse types), who think that when they deliver the broken from their infirmity […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WelcometoTheNHK_ep9_shot1-115x115.png "Episode 9: Welcome to a Summer Day")
Episode 9: Welcome to a Summer Day
Posted on January 23, 2014 | No CommentsWomen cannot love what they pity. There may be some emotional confusion in the more compassionate (e.g., nurse types), who think that when they deliver the broken from their infirmity […] -
![Sato tries to clean his room. He goes out to lunch with his Mom, Masaki pretending to be his girlfriend. He feels bad. He tries to tell his mom their […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WelcometoTheNHK_ep8_shot1-115x115.png "Episode 8: Welcome to Chinatown")
Episode 8: Welcome to Chinatown
Posted on January 21, 2014 | No CommentsSato tries to clean his room. He goes out to lunch with his Mom, Masaki pretending to be his girlfriend. He feels bad. He tries to tell his mom their […] -
![This episode’s title refers to a two-day period before everything in Sato’s life will be placed under a pressure with which it cannot bare: parental scrutiny. Last episode’s humiliation in […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WelcometoTheNHK_ep7_shot2-115x115.png "Episode 7: Welcome to the Moratorium")
Episode 7: Welcome to the Moratorium
Posted on January 19, 2014 | No CommentsThis episode’s title refers to a two-day period before everything in Sato’s life will be placed under a pressure with which it cannot bare: parental scrutiny. Last episode’s humiliation in […] -
![My God, Welcome to the NHK is a downer, a depressing show with human misery front and center, 24/7. Sato’s misery might be the most obvious and direct, but it […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WelcometoTheNHK_ep6_shot1-115x115.png "Episode 6: Welcome to the Classroom")
Episode 6: Welcome to the Classroom
Posted on January 15, 2014 | No CommentsMy God, Welcome to the NHK is a downer, a depressing show with human misery front and center, 24/7. Sato’s misery might be the most obvious and direct, but it […] -
![At heart, Welcome the the NHK has a series of very dodgy relationships. Central is, of course, Sato and Misaki, a 23 year old man and a 17 year old […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WelcometoTheNHK_ep5_shot1-115x115.png "Episode 5 – Welcome to the Counseling")
Episode 5 – Welcome to the Counseling
Posted on January 13, 2014 | No CommentsAt heart, Welcome the the NHK has a series of very dodgy relationships. Central is, of course, Sato and Misaki, a 23 year old man and a 17 year old […] -
![An extension of the previous episode’s depravity, “Welcome to the New World” is like a trip into a weird hell for Sato. It’s a hell he thinks is a heaven […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WelcometoTheNHK_ep4_shot2-115x115.png "Episode 4: Welcome to the New World")
Episode 4: Welcome to the New World
Posted on January 8, 2014 | No CommentsAn extension of the previous episode’s depravity, “Welcome to the New World” is like a trip into a weird hell for Sato. It’s a hell he thinks is a heaven […] -
![Sato is loathsome. By the end of this episode, the NEET shut-in who can barely talk to other people has a) spent a week playing porny Japanese games, b) woken […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WelcometoTheNHK_ep3_shot2-115x115.png "Episode 3: Welcome to the Beautiful Girls")
Episode 3: Welcome to the Beautiful Girls
Posted on January 6, 2014 | No CommentsSato is loathsome. By the end of this episode, the NEET shut-in who can barely talk to other people has a) spent a week playing porny Japanese games, b) woken […] -
![Welcome to the NHK is fueled entirely by Sato’s ego, and his denial about his circumstances. At the beginning of the episode Misaki offers him a contract for her support […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WelcometoTheNHK_ep2_shot2-115x115.png "Episode 2: Welcome to the Creator")
Episode 2: Welcome to the Creator
Posted on January 3, 2014 | No CommentsWelcome to the NHK is fueled entirely by Sato’s ego, and his denial about his circumstances. At the beginning of the episode Misaki offers him a contract for her support […] -
![Hikikomori – social self-rejects. Sponging off of their parents, without the wherewithal to get out of their apartments, get jobs, get training, get educated. People who have seen the world, […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/WelcometoTheNHK_ep1_shot2-115x115.png "Episode 1: Welcome to the Conspiracy")
Episode 1: Welcome to the Conspiracy
Posted on October 14, 2013 | No CommentsHikikomori – social self-rejects. Sponging off of their parents, without the wherewithal to get out of their apartments, get jobs, get training, get educated. People who have seen the world, […] -
![The wrong tack to take when watching Citizen Kane, discovering the nature of Rosebud, is anger: “What the hell, it was a sled? That doesn’t explain a damned thing!” That […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/PAE13_shot3-115x115.png "The Final Episode")
The Final Episode
Posted on June 8, 2013 | No CommentsThe wrong tack to take when watching Citizen Kane, discovering the nature of Rosebud, is anger: “What the hell, it was a sled? That doesn’t explain a damned thing!” That […]