Currently Reviewing: Welcome to the NHK
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![Lifelines get threatened, and truths are revealed, while the desperate show their desperation plain. In Welcome to the Blue Bird, the tragedy of Megumi’s brother Yuichi is brought to full […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Welcometothenhkep_19shot_1-115x115.jpg "Episode 19: Welcome to the Blue Bird! and Episode 20: Welcome to Winter Days!")
Episode 19: Welcome to the Blue Bird! and Episode 20: Welcome to Winter Days!
Posted on January 6, 2017 | No CommentsLifelines get threatened, and truths are revealed, while the desperate show their desperation plain. In Welcome to the Blue Bird, the tragedy of Megumi’s brother Yuichi is brought to full […] -
![This review could be subtitled “Welcome to Dramatic Tension.” Since it crossed the halfway point in its twenty-four episode run, Welcome to the NHK seems to have discovered that, hey, […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/WelcometoTheNHK_ep13_shot1-115x115.png "Episode 13: Welcome to Paradise & Episode 14: Welcome to Reality")
Episode 13: Welcome to Paradise & Episode 14: Welcome to Reality
Posted on February 14, 2014 | No CommentsThis review could be subtitled “Welcome to Dramatic Tension.” Since it crossed the halfway point in its twenty-four episode run, Welcome to the NHK seems to have discovered that, hey, […] -
![Most episodes of Welcome to the NHK have a muted sense of humor. It’s as though the anime creators decided they had twelve good jokes, so decided that one every […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WelcometoTheNHK_ep12_shot1-115x115.png "Episode 12: Welcome to the Off Meeting")
Episode 12: Welcome to the Off Meeting
Posted on February 4, 2014 | No CommentsMost episodes of Welcome to the NHK have a muted sense of humor. It’s as though the anime creators decided they had twelve good jokes, so decided that one every […] -
![Sato and Yamazaki work on the game. Hitomo (old high school flame) has a mild fight with her boyfriend. She takes a shower, takes a pill, goes on an Internet […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WelcometoTheNHK_ep11_shot2-115x115.png "Episode 11: Welcome to the Conspiracy")
Episode 11: Welcome to the Conspiracy
Posted on February 2, 2014 | No CommentsSato and Yamazaki work on the game. Hitomo (old high school flame) has a mild fight with her boyfriend. She takes a shower, takes a pill, goes on an Internet […] -
![NHK‘s slice of lack of life approach makes it a little difficult to analyze. Not only does very little happen in each episode, but each small action is analyzed to […]](http://explodedgoat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WelcometoTheNHK_ep10_shot1-115x115.png "Episode 10: Welcome to the Dark Side")
Episode 10: Welcome to the Dark Side
Posted on January 29, 2014 | No CommentsNHK‘s slice of lack of life approach makes it a little difficult to analyze. Not only does very little happen in each episode, but each small action is analyzed to […] -
![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 […] -
![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 […]