Currently Reviewing: Welcome to the NHK
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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 […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
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 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 […]