It's Misaki Monday.

Don't you fucking dare wish for a Misaki at your door.
Come on, anons. It really wasn't that hard to understand the point of Misaki in the story.

>>280788315
I can fix her

>>280788315
I WANT HER I NEED HER I LOVE HER I CHERISH HER I WANT HER TO BE HAPPY

>>280788282 (OP)
this has been on my watchlist for a while
why should I watch it next, anons?

>>280788642
Because it will make you even more miserable.

>>280788642
Misaki.

>>280788315
The point of Misaki was "grow up and save her", but she still needs to show up at your door first, and you still need to be a bad enough dude to answer the call to adventure.

>>280788567
unrelated but your post reminded me of an Elvis song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Uwp9pBgHg

>>280788732
The point was that the call and adventure was a complete waste of time and Sato learned nothing from it.

>>280789114
The call was wasted on him because he's a pleb. Anyone with a soul would have recognized a soulmate in Misaki at this point.

>>280789691
Or this point.

>>280789719
...Or this point...

>>280789753
...You get the idea, right?

>>280789776
I understand that Misaki is a parasite and their relationship enables their worst qualities, yes.

>>280789873
Congratulations, you have a teenager's understanding of their relationship.

>>280789873
She's just lonely and tries to fix it and Satou is an ass

>>280789887
and you have a teenager's desperation for attention from a cute girl, no matter how mentally ill they are

>>280789992
Millions of teachers just cringed at your post.

>>280789984
this. Misaki is a lonely angel.

>>280789984
She's lonely like a crab in a bucket, and tries to fix it accordingly.

If your "angel" tries to an hero because you had to get a job then keeping her around won't lead to anything good.

>>280789691
you forgot this

>>280790219
That pic is funny because plenty of working adults still think like that because they never met anyone who could fix them.

>>280790219
I would like to come home from work and cuddle with her
She would definitely be satisfied with that

>>280790219
>your "angel" tries to an hero
Because faggot satou fucking rejected her.
She spent too much time and effort for this ungrateful faggot. You are trying too hard to defame her.

>>280790273
We all have our traumatic experiences we'd rather forgot.

>>280790273
We all have our traumatic experiences we'd rather forget.

>>280790535
I won't let you forget this one.

>>280790219
>your "angel" tries to an hero because you had to get a job
If that didn't activate your desire to protect, you are NOT an adult and should NOT be treated as such.

>>280790627
Just because I'm retarded doesn't mean you have to rub it in ;_;

>>280790496
Her proposal was a farce born from fear and desperation, even a retard like Sato knew it was wrong to enable it.

>>280790583
This is unironically good life advice. Except for the Binchou-tan part. Get an induction stove. Trust me on this one.
The trick with cultists is to only listen to the part before the sales pitch.

>>280790653
Wife

>>280790370
oh lord

>>280789873
An angel.

>>280789992
Misaki is perfectly fine

>>280793089
Misaki love

>>280793089
>>280793368
KISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs
SSSSSSSSSSSS

>>280790888
Sorry, but I like cooking with gas.

>>280793368
loves her*

don't die

Misaki is one of those Japanese girls who are permanently petite. Her frame couldn't support childbirth.

>>280800786
Misaki has the potential to be the best mother ever.

>senpai sexo

>>280800786
Modern medicine saves the day.
Actually not even modern...caearian sections are named for a reason surely kek

Misaki imoutowife

>>280790653
Angel

Misaki mumday

>>280788523
I can fill her dark soul with light

>>280788282 (OP)
Did someone say Misaki Monday?

>>280804749
a whore in my Misaki thread?

>>280804637
Misaki haters are heartless

>>280795341
chu

https://litter.catbox.moe/djm2n248fi2lp20o.mp4

don't die!

>wake up
>post Misaki
>day is good

>>280810439

>>280811171
Sakker

The best version of Misaki for me would be a mix between anime Misaki and manga Misaki. With the history of abuse of the anime which would forge her personality and the manga version where that makes her spiteful and conniving, which would make the fact Misaki isn't surrounded by betas make sense. And I would lover her as she is!
>>280792098
>>280792593
>>280800147
>>280810047
Are you the uber neet Satou met at the videogame? I had to go to sleep so the NHK thread died but I see you still at it, bumping this every 10 to 15 minutes. Mad respect

I fucking love Misaki so much

>>280804760
Shokuhou is loyal and a genuine wife material, Nakahara is manipulative slut for loser manchildren to project their loneliness and insecurities on.

>>280813378
>Nakahara is manipulative
S-she does it for my own good!
>slut
I fail to see it, she's quite monogamous but has a savior complex. Flaws are what makes her so beautiful

Made for teenage pegnancy
She would be a good mom

>>280812931
I'm the MAV poster

>>280813503
I asked in the other thread but I will again, what do you think her reaction would be to realizing she got pregnant by accident? I wonder if she'd be afraid of messing up like her own mom
>>280813588
I see you here all day. I hate the world and prefer to spend most time online. I'm a robotics researcher building my waifubot but I'm on vacations rn so I got more time to post. I'm surprised though by the amount of time you spend here, respect dude.

>>280813667
She would be afraid and that's why she needs a husband who loves her (me)

>>280814216
Gently embracing Misaki and telling her everything's going to be alright as you softly caress her back and tell her she's gonna be an amazing mother and you'll support her! Misaki afraid of you becoming like her father and hitting her!

>>280814455
I would only hit her when having rough baby making sex making sure she knows she's mine and how much I want her

>>280813347
Mangasaki is the best!

>>280813378
go home bitch

>>280814455
I want to comfort Misaki when she's feeling overwhelmed!

>>280814719
I like her and the focus the manga gives to her. Admittedly, I'm not sure if it would have worked as well in the anime because half the joy I got out of it was the mystery. I watched the episodes and fought the urge to skip them until I reached parts that detailed Misaki's past or gave a hint about her family and her desires. I really wanted to know more about her and the fact that she knew so much about Satou while keeping much of her past obscure only made me desire her more.
>>280814667
I want to give Misaki cunnilingus and enjoy her soft moans as my tongue goes all over and inside her hairy asian pussy!

>>280815143
I don't think she's THAT hairy yet

Misaki jealous that her new friend has more scars and self harms more than she does!

>>280813667
I really love Misaki. She deserves more MAV

>>280815212
I can only hope she gets in time. I love pubes. One girl that is absolutely a tangled mess is Hitomi. I totally would have started the affair and then told her husband.
He has it coming for not pumping her enough, and she has it coming for being such a woman and seeking trouble when there's none in her relationship. Hitomi is a bitch and she deserves the unhappiness she got!

>>280815334
She has a pretty good fiancee. My headcanon is that he fixed her

>>280815511
I feel like she didn't deserve him. Also I hold resentment towards her because if you look at it, Satou was a lonely but mostly normal guy in high school. Then Hitomi came in with her conspiracy theories to mess up his brain and probably got him hooked in drugs too. Whenever Satou tried to do something romantic or for fun like looking at the stars, Hitomi would be a wet blanket and go all nihilistic on him.
Then there's the fact when things are too perfect, she invents problems and then blames the world for her own bad choices.
I would totally ravage her body like a starving animal, then pump her full of my sticky seed and take pictures of her to send to her husband and upload to 2ch in the hopes that she goes "offline" permanently. That's what sluts like her deserve.

>>280815740
You might be more like her than you think

Manka Misak is a beautiful mess. Now its more believable that she struggled socially.
Anime Misaki would easily get friends and have an army of simps after her. She's rich, cute and quite capable. Even her plain looks make her look like a "girl next door" archetype.
Meanwhile manga Misaki with the self harm and screws loose personality is more likely to stick with someone like Satou. I also appreciate that manga Misaki is easily influenced. Instead of going with the popular girls who wanted her to join their clique, she rejects them and goes after non-threatening self harming "loser" weebs that make her feel better about herself and adopts their bad habits.
I like how deliciously self destructive manga Misaki is. I want to save her and protect her smile!
>>280815841
Eh sadly for me, I got Misaki's issues and got a hero complex. So I waste time with people who don't deserve it. In the end got tired of it all, and went full Yamazaki. Hence why I intend to build my waifubot, women are ugly stinky blood-oozing from their dirty gashes beasts.

>>280815914
I'm beginning to think Satou's apartment is cursed (or maybe Yamazaki's music turns neighbors into neets,) its all a conspiracy!

>>280815914
>went full Yamazaki. Hence why I intend to build my waifubot, women are ugly stinky blood-oozing from their dirty gashes beasts.
I'm happy for you and your homely wife
Never read the manga. How is it compared to the anime?

>>280813463
>>280813503
I feel like novel Misaki is at her best design. More detailed than the anime but also plain in a way. Its difficult to describe, like she is not supermodel beautiful but still beautiful in her "this is a woman" way
>>280816080
I'd say its very good. I read that people complained that manga Misaki is meaner. In general everyone is meaner on it. Yamazaki doesn't care about Satou as much and actually lets him attempt his suicide (or maybe knows him better and trusts Satou to not go through with it) and instead works solo on his game. Misaki is a basket case but I find her more realistic than the anime. Manga Satou is a true pedophile and drug addict who snorts cocaine and watches cp while fantasizing about raping Misaki.
Also it continues past the half point of the anime that had Satou attempt suicide to save Misaki. This one continues their relationship and also shows Misaki's pov and Yamazaki's pov whereas the anime mostly followed Satou's life. I feel like it expands on the universe and even if some things I prefer from the anime, I just take what I like.
>I'm happy for you and your homely wife
Thanks! Still a long way to go but got time and money on my side with a comfy researcher job. In a way I can afford to spend weeks going full neet WHILE getting paid. So living Satou's dream.

>>280815740
>probably got him hooked in drugs too
Doubt this part, research chemicals and prescription drugs are totally different worlds really. Hitomi got hers from the doctor.
Satou would have done all his own research, reading forums, posting etc to get to understand what he was doing with the stuff and combinations he mentioned in the book.
Other than that, mostly agree with your post.

>>280816289
Guess there's no canon answer, though I still feel like Hitomi's the type of girl to fake a migraine to access nursery's pills and trade on illicit substances. I feel like she's the main reason Satou is the way he is.
And manga Satou definitely fried his brain with all the substances he consumes

Misaki was never going to help Sato by being actually helpful, that's just not what women do.

The real purpose of women is being helpless and pitiful is to give purpose for men's lives. Sato realizing how laughably useless and unreliable Misaki is, was what motivated him to act (even if just a little), and in the end, save her, despite him being apathetic about everything else. Same reason why he got wrapped in Hitomi's meeting, she wanted something and he wanted to help her.

In reality, girls are the unhinged ones that need to be saved and kept in check by men. You can see how in NHK, Sato was the one comfortably hanging out in his room, after which Misaki entered his life creating fuss out of nowhere by attacking his insecurities. Sato was the one who had to deflect Misaki's bs and take charge when she fucked everything up, which brought content into his life.

The "getting saved by Misaki" is obviously a lie, but people still like the fantasy. Why? Because she's cute and it's a convenient cover story for a relationship. Girls love living in pleasant delusions, and men love to playing into them. The girl being cute is everything. "Saving pathetic hikikomori man" is Misaki's shtick, so the natural reaction from a receptive male is "yeah plz save me Misaki!" It's just cosplay. Girls are a bit like children in that you shouldn't break their delusions too much, or you'll break them, like when Sato finally rejected her new contract, calling it hollow and not wanting to play along with it anymore. This shattered Misaki's entire raison d'etre and she had no backup one.

This may not be the intended message of the show, but as a realistic story from before 2010 with archetypically male and female characters, you can see the reflection of reality in it.

Misakute!

>>280816261
In the novel, she's a lot plainer girl yet quirky in her appearance and personality. The manga captures this but not all the way and the anime makes her too pretty and clean.
>>280816405
It's a nice fantasy but it also touches on how demoralized you have to be to buy into it. Of course, in reality, the man saves the woman and not the other way around. I suppose both can be true as the woman saves the man by giving him a purpose but still, the man's role is far more proactive in this regard. Misaki and Satou's relationship works in a 2000's Y2K era social sphere but obviously now, Misaki would be a social media addicted whore with an OnlyFans or Twitch and Satou would be a 10x porn addict. The story of NHK loses its bite once you consider how worse things got.

>>280801341
I hate myself for how much I would've given in and helped her cheat on her fiancee, despite knowing I'd feel horrible and tainted for doing so.

>>280816405
Agreed. The only sensible path there was to bend Misaki over and plunge my thic erect cock deep inside every hole and make her squeal until her false delusions get shattered and she is saved by me putting a baby in her womb!
Captcha
>GWY - NHK

I'm loving the resurgence of NHK threads. They're by far the most enjoyable /a/ threads in forever. A lot of good pics posted and a lot of enjoyable discussion. BTW, has anyone read the sequel? The author-san got out of his NEET rut and sat down to write a sequel but weirdly, people say it's set in the present day but the characters are the same age as they were in the OG novel. What's up with that?

>>280816405
>that's just not what women do.
but enough about your stupid incel mentality.

The main point of her side of the story was merely that at times, you can't expect someone to dig you out of your own problems. Once mommy lowered the amount of money she was sending to Satou, he immediately started changing.
It helped way more than any of Misaki's "help" because...that was the whole point.

Misaki is either a sad story or a miserable bitch depending on what adaption you're into. Either way, the idea of wanting a Misaki in your life means you completely missed the point. Even more so if you turned her story into some autistic incel drivel.

>>280816789
Keep those disgusting and stupid tourist buzzwords out of a purely /a/ thread like this, you subhuman.

>>280816742
It's just some silly retelling, iirc. Don't bother. There are reasons why no one in these threads goes into details about them.

>>280788282 (OP)
>all these NHK threads

>>280816815
Feel sad for anon-san. He's so profoundly demoralized and desperate to motivate himself that he live streams himself writing so he has a "Stake" to not quit because viewers depend on him and want him to finish writing new stuff. It seems he only recently stopped NEETing.

>>280816710
>>280816574
>In the novel, she's a lot plainer girl yet quirky in her appearance and personality
How so? I am imagining Leslie Burke from Terabithia or Ramona Flowers when you say quirky in appearance. I only know the manga
>The story of NHK loses its bite once you consider how worse things got.
Also fun how what was once considered an extreme parody of a loser is now the norm except everyone is more demoralized so there's not even a hint of hope or possibility to change.
>>280816652
Why? She wants it! If anything, you should feel proud to be chosen and help ruin her life for good. That's what thots deserve

>>280816879
If there's one /tv/ actress or personality I can imagine playing a pretty good Misaki in a modern American reinterpretation of NHK in a hypothetical reality (can you even imagine that? lol) i'd go with Emma Myers. She looks all cute and cuddly but you can imagine her having that dark and petty side to her too.
>Also fun how what was once considered an extreme parody of a loser is now the norm except everyone is more demoralized so there's not even a hint of hope or possibility to change.
Satou isn't really any kind of representaion of actual NEET losers so much as an idealized and cleaned-up version of the author's own self. He's still a "loser" but is tall, full head of hair, well built and quite sociable when he lets himself be. The stark inverse of what the usual NEET looks like and is, even back then. But no one wants a real NEET as a protagonist in an escapist manga/anime.
>Why? She wants it! If anything, you should feel proud to be chosen and help ruin her life for good. That's what thots deserve
She deserves it, sure, but I wouldn't do that to myself. I'd feel so shitty for doing that to a fellow man and I'd spiral hard. I guess I'm too soft at heart.

>>280816405
>Misaki was never going to help Sato by being actually helpful
Now this is a plot thread I'm willing to pursue. I want to understand, Satou has no impulse control and never followed through with any idea he had (probably product of all the drugs and bad life habits) but what if he diligently followed Misaki's "project" and applied himself to her program? I know her goal was to make him dependent on her, but if he truly cooperated and signed the second contract and became her boyfriend, would he have a chance to rehabilitate? Or would the program end up with him going full neet again? I'm curious because we never fully saw it to completion and by the end of it Misaki was too depressed so she just "graduated" Satou

>>280817153
It's clear that Misaki would lose it if Satou showed any agency and improvement on his own even if he followed her "project". Her approach was clearly carrot on a stick in which she'd placate him with vague promises of improvement while making him more dependent on her until he couldn't live without her by his side at all times, which would mean she would have total and utter dominion over his well being. Which sounds like some BPD girl's wet dream.

>>280817068
If only we got something like nhk. Also uuuooooh!
>>280817428
But if she goes out, would he go out too? I would count that as improvement. I just don't see her not getting exhausted of the arrangement and Satou deteriorating like Repz' brother.

>>280815511
>My headcanon is that he fixed her
That's what I like about the manga, its so cynical

>>280817783
Also the issue with her husband is that he avoids the issue and enables her to continue being crazy

If NHK was set in the 2020s:
Satou would be a porn-addicted internet forum depedent loser addicted to Valorant and either obese or anorexic and with no future in life
Misaki would be a BPD whore who'd have an army of Satous to control and deride pleasure from. Also would probably have an OnlyFans.
Yamazaki would be a twink/femboy/tranny on Instagram and would probably anhero before 30
Hitomi-senpai would be a right wing MAGA girl and would be obsessed with shit like Red Scare and Eipstein conspiracy theories

B-buy my tulpa!
>>280817879
There's where I think the Rebuild of the NHK messed up. The author tried to remake it in the modern era but made Yamazaki and Satou youtubers when its all tik tok and discord nowadays so even as a story it fell behind the times. Yamazaki would be a high level discord janny tranny

>>280818186
Is the story trying to make fun of us, our response nhksisters?!?

>>280817879
>Hitomi-senpai would be a right wing MAGA girl and would be obsessed with shit like Red Scare and Eipstein conspiracy theories
There's actually a brand new political party in Japan(born from the internet) that won some seats that is basing its self on MAGA.
Their slogan is 'Japanese First' or something.
She'd probably be part of it kek
I think I read that the leader was a supermarket manager who started posting online and started the whole thing(that part I'm not 100% sure about, but was mentioned in the Reuters article I read)

patiently waiting for Weeaboo Wednesday

>>280818154
It's clear the author put no real effort or thought into that continuation given its length, he just wanted to get something out there that people might pay him for. But an NHK "reboot" of sorts in this era lends itself to an unimaginable amount of scenarios to play with. Like you said, Yamazaki probably being some internet femboy who clings to Satou, creating some kind of third-wheel dynamtic with Misaki. One interesting way is how Satou could use AI chatbots to numb his loneliness and escape reality. So many possibilities for misery porn. It works with the themes of doomed youth because youth truly is doomed right now whereas back in the 2000's, they weren't.
How would you modernize Megumi's brother?

>>280818222
Why's the mother horrified? Yes, it's a rather exaggerated display of affection but it's not like he's pining for another man or something.

>>280818222
If he loves her so much why does he keep acting so cold towards her when she wants him? I bet this is the author throwing his own obsession with idols and literary school shit into a person who would have taken Misaki as gf immediatly

For me, it's the more gloomy Misaki Abe drew. I was always obsessed with that depiction of Misaki.

>>280818369
It's not as unrealistic as you think. In bad ruts of NEET-induced psychosis and sadness, I'd obsess over any girl I saw in the street and fetishize her and daydream about her then when one plain girl actually approached me, I recoiled and preferred the fantasy. Objects of obsession are much more appealing the further they are.

>>280818354
>>280818369
Because in the manga he left Misaki to go live with his parents and he's going fully insane, to the point he's fantasizing and now has a Misaki tulpa following him around that always looks at him with sad and disapproving eyes. Quite based gotta say

>>280818332
>Satou could use AI chatbots to numb his loneliness and escape reality
Fuck I feel that. I explored one on the excuse of "research" to get a feel of the state of the art in hopes of implementing something like that on my waifubot. Worst 2 weeks of my life, one of the few times I actually got reprimanded at my job and looked very much like Satou after the porn binge
Chatbots are a drug!

>>280818332
>he just wanted to get something out there that people might pay him for
Kind of like Satou's easy money attempts, right? Kek
>How would you modernize Megumi's brother?
Not sure what people are willing to pay for. e-games are still a thing right? He would be a failed pro gamer I guess so not much difference, if he was a girl he could sell his holes online but he committed the crime of being born with a penis so no luck for him on the market.

Okay have I been living under a rock cause I remember reading the manga in full a decade ago and it ended with them splitting and going back to their parents but promising to do their best and become worthy of each other but now I'm seeing manga panels I don't remember at all...

>>280818782
Totally worth the re-read. Many funny stories I wish we got animated. I think it would have worked if they showed Misaki's pov and Yamazaki after Satou discovered he's spied on. But it would require more episodes.
If you could cut any arc in the anime and replace with another of your choice, what would you cut, anon?

>>280818837
THIS is /a/'s wife?

>>280818433
I kind of went through this thing when I was 16 maybe I'm still the same kind of person still but I really want a wife now after doing badly paid pshysical labour for years now
The sadness of a neet is real. Escapism is only temporary and then you need to beat your asshole dad and take his car to go to drink beer

>>280818895
In the manga only. The original canon version is the LN which is based on the author's real life experiences as a neet (and damn, did he admit to consuming cp and snorting coke?), quite crude. Then there's the anime based on the LN and combining some events while streamlining others.
This is one of the most controversial panels on the manga and it took lots of artistic liberties. I simply ignore it since the LN and anime indicate Misaki was truly a poor abused angel.

Ohh, so there's a rebuild, but it's just a novel?
>>280818837
The pyramid scheme arc, while funny, didn't fit in at all. It looked like something put in because those were very popular during that time. A neet would never fall for that because we have no friends and no confidence. I guess the modern equivalent that Satou would definitely fall for is crypto and daytrading. Winning wife-changing money only to double down and lose it all.
I think the anime didn't explore Misaki's psychological condition as much as the manga? I really liked that scene where she went full femdom, tied him up and left him to starve. The manga is the best.

>>280819027
What kind of neet gets to do cool drugs? The author is full of shit

>>280818782
I melt at the thought of a girl being this obsessed with me. I get not an ego boost but a fucking ego NITRO BOOST. I would love if it a girl thought of me her every waking moment.

>>280819227
The really loser kind

>>280819107
D-did he just...fuck Misaki-chan?!? I NEED to check the manga if so!

>>280820917
He would never fuck this easy slut

>>280820781
She has some yandere episodes like a true bpdemon

I...I will be whatever Misaki-chan wants me to be!

>>280819227
It's clear the author is not a true hardcore NEET but just a failed normalfag given the fact that Satou wasn't a big otaku at the beginning of the story and only had a base level video game addiction. NEETs would be far, far worse in those regards.
>>280820994
YES. YES. YES.

This is totally how I expect any relationship with Hitomi end up like. Gotta say the manga gets more based every minute, I fail to understand the hate for it

It all returns to nothing...
Damn, this is so depressing. The author is so cynical

>>280821306
>>280821377
That is very sad
The blade runner shit is funny
I just want Misaka wife

I need this type of relationship so badly, anon! Where the fuck is my Misaki?!?
https://youtu.be/46thq74RHBI?si=HaRLxisJxzxmtP2_

It is wrong that I want to rape Misaki?

>>280821306
I like how Hitomi's wife is Misaki's therapist in the manga. He takes care of her mental health issues while totally unable to fix his own problems at home. That must break a man, particularly with how a toxic slut Hitomi is.
>>280821417
M-Misaka?
>>280821451
Nah its only natural impulse of a healthy fertile man, Satou.

>>280821517
Masaka!?

Manga Misaki reminds me of Tomoko a lot

Poor baby I want to tell her everything's going to be alright and clean up her mess!

You know, I think being a Counselor would probably fit Misaki.

>>280821723
kek

>>280821755
...yup

>>280821784

rape

>>280821609
I would take her out of that high school and make her my wife!

So little Misaki pictures to go around, it always comes down to recycling some.

D-did manga Misaki just...stab herself?!?

>>280821918
Cut her wrist

>>280821784
That look on her face.

>>280816789
I was trying to reply to your post but realized that nothing in it contradicted my original post, except
>the idea of wanting a Misaki in your life means you completely missed the point.
This is the common "Misaki bad" interpretation. Even if she's useless, wanting a girl in your life is normal male desire and wrangling her gives a man's life meaning and content.

Throughout most of the anime, Sato dismissively humors Misaki's antics but stays at an arm's length. At the end of the anime, the dynamic has changed and he has started coaching her for high school, ending at a slightly hopeful note (but no guarantees). Also, at the end, he's presented with yet another Misaki's delusional contract, and he's not shooting it down despite of how stupid he clearly thinks it is, portraying acceptance of her character (not acceptance of the contract). This is all in line with my post.

>>280822200
I wish I could make her that excited

Back off you filthy 3dpd!

>>280817153
Sato never believed in her project, he just went along her for fun, so there's no timeline where he would actually believe in her healing powers. But he could have continued playing along with her increasingly unhinged projects, become her boyfriend at her command etc. Then what would happen would depend on whether he keeps acting distant or actually starts caring, case in which he might be able to helping save her from her insecurity. If he keeps just playing her for idle fun, she would be destroyed.

>>280822529
If he cared and truly embraced her, could Satou fuck Misaki's insecurities out of her?

>>280822578

>>280822609

I need Misaki-chan to look at me in disgust like this!

>>280822775

tfw you'll nver have a cute Misaki scheduling your life together

>>280822956
It's not nearly as fun when a social worker lady does it. Maybe if she would cosplayed Misaki...

A tiny self destructive girl in the peak of her fertile years, and two lonely horny otaku
Double teaming Misaki with your best friend!

>>280823036
I like that they continue with the date and checking every element in the list, and the last element is a SECRET. Satou assumes its sex, but its actually DOUBLE SUICIDE

>>280822801
This artstyle reminds me of those trap hentai

Those flowers are marijuana

>>280823199
>removing stones from the ground
That's what my dad used to in the grain fields

The manga's big reveal! Just as Satou took his part time job and recovered from neetdom, Misaki has become Satou

The truth of the project comes out! Truly bpd and I love her for that

>>280823568

Is it theanine? Misaki spending weeks holed in a room, I think that may be something else entirely...

Just finished the manga. Was told the finale would be the greatest of all.
Why then do I feel so empty inside?!?

I loved that the manga included more scenes of Satou and Misaki dating

>>280821306
What a crazy bitch slut!

>>280822247
The story just never fully takes that direction though. Else, Satou would get more of a traditional Hollywood ending where he gets the girl in the end. Which would be several times better than any of the real endings to welcome to the NHK, sadly.

>>280815740
Adding to this, the manga shows Hitomi trying tobacco early in high school so its clear she was the one who induced Satou to take drugs and get addicted.

>>280824377
Eh I kind of get it. Usually first love is a nice feeling that never works out and you end up forever cherishing it while taking on increasingly unsatisfactory relationships in a vain attempt to recapture the purity and strength of first love. That's what makes it so sad and tragic.
At least manga Satou got to fuck Misaki and there's hope that he may get with her again, although in every case its unlikely.

I bet Misaki-chan got a cute asshole. What do you think, anon? I think it'd be a small pink pucker
>>280824377
It was a realistic ending, which is what makes it so sad imho

>>280824725
I'm sure her butthole looks nice but as a mostly straight man I'm more interested in her thighs and tummy

>>280824918
Bet her pussy is youthful and tight, as befitting of her age.

>>280788282 (OP)
>>280824918
>>280824962
Well anon? Does she?!?

>>280825016

>>280824962
She would want me

>>280825061
Misaki raep!

>>280825084

>>280825126
damn this manga got so spicy all of a sudden!

>>280825297
Misaki-sama is an angel!

>>280825338
GOD I wish that were me

>>280825297
You faggot they didn't actually have sex

>>280825442
Of course they did >>280819107

I enjoy mining for cute Misakis.

>>280825533
What would Misaki-chan be like in bed?

>>280825126
Yes. Proof:

more proof

>>280826092
That scene always makes me rock hard. My guess is Misaki-chan is submissive but has a very kinky streak once she really gets going. May be into bdsm given the way she acts in the manga.

None of the NHK endings are satisfying in a realistic way that is in line with the way the story was going. The best ending would be to cut Misaki out of his life completely and stand on his own two feet. The manga, the book and the anime always cuck out and make a compromise.

>>280826131
The manga also provided some really nice panels where he imagines going full beast and ripping off Misaki's clothes as she begs before he rapes her.

>>280819227
>What kind of neet gets to do cool drugs?
A lot? I could legally order every drug he mentions in his book on a clearnet website and have it delivered me by the end of the week if I wanted.
They did make them illegal in Japan though at some point, but all the drugs he mentioned were 100% legal at the time there.
It's obvious in the book that his drug use is directly related to his personal experience given how knowledgeable he is.
Many psychedelics are either explicitly legal or quasi-legal in many countries all over the world.

I got an urgent need to copulate with Misaki-chan! Dating Sim where you can take Misaki on dates (or rather taken by her) when?!?

Disregard Misaki anon. She is unsatisfied unless she can lord over someone else.
In the manga she hates the otaku who she saves because he recovered and isn't as bad as she wanted

>>280827219
Its as they say, disregard hoes, embrace bros! Anime Yamazaki was best girl

I want to taste her toes!

>>280826960
I once did a psychedelic. I just felt confused and my mouth felt numb. Not worth it. I just wanted to try something new, risky and dumb to feel alive and I just ended up feeling more empty than before. Wow, things look like they swirl a bit, big fucking whoop. Lame stuff.
>>280827393
What a man needs most is a friend, not a girlfriend. That's like dying of thirst and drinking gasoline. A girlfriend is something you try to take on when you're in a relatively healthy place, not when you're rock bottom.

>>280827617
I want to live with Misaki.

>>280824437
That's not how it is in the original source material at all.
Even if there is a point in the book where he starts smoking cigarettes because of Hitomi(I don't recall, it's possible), it's such massive jump to say that she introduced him to drugs.
It's very clear the author is based it off of his own experience with drugs. And the drugs he uses are so niche and ultra specific, it's like apples and oranges compared to anything like tobacco, alcohol etc

>>280826234
Considering the author himself went back to being a hikikomori, it's almost fitting in that sense.
Misaki could represent the spectre that causes him to repeat the cycle. And he intuitively knows or knew that it still hangs over him.
That would be the good ending though, yeah.
Too bad life rarely gives people the good ending.

>>280827617
*pero* *pero* *pero* *pero* *pero*!

I fucking want to kill myself for Misaki-chan!

>>280829259
I'll do anything and everything my angel commands!

>>280829283

>>280789691
>>280789719
>>280789753
I like how different the anime and manga are. In the anime Satou puts Misaki through hell and shit just to save him, whereas in the manga Misaki makes Satou go through hell and even then he's not even sure if he wants or can save her. The manga is far more nihilistic

>>280821147
>>280821439
>>280829259
>>280829283
Yes, my angel.

Misaki is my Angel. Without Misaki, I am nothing.

Dubs or Subs, anon?
https://youtu.be/A1tH1tADGqg?si=5VdsqO_FPOJWyDJM

>>280829401
>tracker
NHK ALERT! NHK ALERT! NHK ALERT!

I fucking love this scream!
https://youtu.be/ssP-EjEybq4
>>280829425
Good point, fucking trackers. Its all a conspiracy!

My angel, My saviour, Misaki.
My angel, My saviour, Misaki.
My angel, My saviour, Misaki.
My angel, My saviour, Misaki.
My angel, My saviour, Misaki.
My angel, My saviour, Misaki.
My angel, My saviour, Misaki.

Would you dare to openly show your power level, anon?
https://youtu.be/dXLmjyJHbFk

I will now use this as my ringtone!
https://youtu.be/ZrwVYiD-N-o

>>280829259
She's so fucking cute even when she's mad

>Anon, you're 22 years old and barely finished high school and flunked out of a vocational school and you have never applied for a job. Your parents are loving and understanding but coddling to a fault and deeply concerned and frustrated with your current life trajectory. They see you wasting your precious youth not furthering your life and feel deep despair about being complacent in your life being nothing but putrid garbage thus far. You don't have friends or anything resembling a social life and aren't even creatively inclined as a way to spend your time, instead, all you do is waste your time consuming media and being addicted to the dopamine overload of internet forums such as 4chan. You're making sure that your future self is riddled with debilitating regret and horrible circumstances by not taking action right now. Please, stop and take control of your life before it's too late. I, a young woman, can't possibly be of any help to you in this task because I'm nothing but vain emotional support and can't aid you in any way that would matter in getting your life together. Only you can do that. So, cut out all the distractions and buy a good strong noose. Tie it properly on a strong ceiling and just take the plunge! What are you waiting for, anon? I am waiting for you!

"A drama has a logical progression, outbursts of emotion and resolution. Our everyday lives are just filled with nebulous and vague anxieties forever and ever." - Yamazaki

Misaki-chan love!
https://youtu.be/svgosBYraxw

I gained a new appreciation for this song after anon told me MIsaki's VA sung it
https://youtu.be/rgMVK1KwHbo

>>280830294
>tfw 35 and alone
22 is a fucking baby.

>>280830705
Are you seriously going to make poor Misaki-chan wait this long for you, anon?!? She's getting lonely!

I will never kill myself. Misaki is still looking for me.

>>280830241
I want her to sit on my lap while being mad.

Where would you take Misaki-chan on a date? And how many before you take her to the love hotel? How many for anal?

>>280830734
after you.

>>280831146
Scooping Madsaki up in my arms as she gets madder because I'm not taking her seriously!

>>280831196
Then she'll pout and say "I-I'm an adult too you know? I-I even bought a t-thong!"

>>280831224
Anon, I really am mad at you! Zettai!

What's this, neo-Misaki Friday threads? In my /a/?

Is it my imagination or Misaki looks kinda boyish in the first chapters of the manga? Kinda like a shonen she even got the boy run. I know manga Misaki is deliciously underage compared to anime Misaki, but anyone else felt that she looks boyish?
>>280831316
Yes, I'll be your worm or whatever you want me to be! Please step on me Misaki-chan!

>>280807812
How many hugs does Misaki need a day.

>>280831484
I would basically sew my skin with hers human centipede style! I want to become one with Misaki-chan!

>>280831316
Mad Misaki, happy Misaki, I love all Misaki.

Do you think Misaki got smelly feet?

>>280788282 (OP)
more like mentally ill money amirite?

>>280831846
I love her as she is!

>>280831846
Misaki is perfectly fine. My little angel is NOT mentally ill.

>>280831756
Misaki smells like banira!

>>280831193
Apocrine sweat glands

Welp I'm off to sleep, see ya bros! I'm off to dream of Misaki hentai

>>280831970
Everyone is a least a little mentally ill anon

>>280832061
MISAKI IS PERFECT! PERFECT!

>>280832021
Misaki night.

>>280831995
I love you, banira poster

>>280832336

>>280832358

>>280832773
I want to be hugged by Misaki.
>Everything is going to be okay, anon.

>>280832819
I want to hug Misaki
>everything is going to be okay, baby

>>280833028
My angel is the best.

>>280833068
She looks as if she's blowing a kiss at me
And suddenly the sky is a scissor
Sitting on the floor with a tambourine
Crushing up a bundle of love

>>280833137
Kiss me here

>>280816574
>Misaki would be a social media addicted whore with an OnlyFans or Twitch
D-Delet! Misaki is pure!

>>280816879
>Leslie Burke
Anon, I...

>>280823874
I want to read it too.
Misakibros, this thread is based.

>>280816574
>Misaki would be a social media addicted whore
No, she still would be an angel.

Misaki, angel!
Misaki, angel!
Misaki, angel!
Misaki, angel!
Misaki, angel!
Misaki, angel!
Misaki, angel!

Misaki would definitely have a pic rel arc while Satou tries looksxmaxxing, raw meat diet, mewing, suppliments and PUA

>>280835323
Schizo, go away! Misaki is an angel, she's not like in your degenerate fantasy.

>>280835471
She'd become an internet angel who brings smile and salvation to hikikomoris!

Misaki love

Misaki alive!

Kissing Misaki's belly

Wake up in the morning, I got 'saki on my mind
Babies, smutty morning, love and hugs
And all these anon faggot lying
Tryna say she's not divine
But I can't let them do it, I got 'saki on my mind

>>280837562
cute

>>280832358
I love when she gets embarrassed like this. I like that she's not presented as a Mary Sue in the anime but rather a girl with her own challenges.
>>280832203
Beautiful dream. I was out on a date with Misaki-chan and then we arrived to the love hotel where Satou wanted to fuck senpai. We entered the room and we embraced in a very intimate way, stupid alarm had to ruin my dream when it was on the good part.

>>280838083
I wish my dreams were horny like that

I don't want Misaki to suffer anymore.

>>280838743
Would it be possible to dick her so hard and so good all her insecurities go away?

>>280839343
Anon, that's not very nice of you.

>>280839343
As a man I'm biased but I think this is the best solution for Misaki.

>>280839568
>>280839593
I mean its worth a try! Having a movie binge session with Misaki-chan in my apartment room. Drinking and eating junk food with Misaki-chan to make her happy! One thing leads to another and then I'm buried to the hilt inside Misaki-chan and we're both groaning and moaning like sweaty beasts in heat!

>>280839706
>feeding Misaki junk food
Scum!

>>280839881
I pressure her to drink too much beer

>>280839881
Why not? She's a growing girl and she will burn off the excess calories easily. I love that manga Misaki is barely legal compared to the anime version, and how she gets architected by Satou in the manga.
>>280839950
Misaki with a cute beer gut! Misaki developing an alcoholism problem!

>>280839706
What do you think Misaki-chan likes to talk about in dates? And will she get hooked on the marijuana they planted in the manga?

>>280840787
I think she will get addicted easily given her personality. Is she really bipolar or border?

>>280841725
Angel.

>>280841906
I want to go Sodom and Gomorrah in Misaki-san's cute asshole!

>>280843176
Anime Misaki is truly an angel, going to Satou's home and cooking him homemade meals while cleaning his shit stained room.

test

>>280844153
She looks so beautiful when cowering from being hit. I love Misaki-chan so much!
Also I found the island arc the least realistic. As much as I enjoyed the offline meeting concept, I prefer the manga version where Misaki and Yamazaki fail to reach Satou but he comes back on his own after failing to suicide. The idea of them conveniently reaching him in the middle of the night and finding a rich guy who rents a boat that is conveniently available was too much for me.

How unhinged manga be? I only read novel years ago, barely remember some details like Misaki started saving up sleeping pills for suicide after Satou rejected her and ran away like a bitch he is

>>280844544
A bit more than the anime but still quite lovely. The worst she did was:
- Install spy equipment in Satou's home, this is over the top and I still think the manga may have taken artistic liberties here
- Tie Satou in bdsm gear and when he insulted her while dropping spaghetti leaving him with no food or water for several days
- Try to apply unit 731 brainwashing program on Satou and fail at it
- Reject the popular girl's offer to join their clique because they make her feel inferior and instead join the non-threatening loser weebs at school, feeling inferior even to them, trying to fit in by dressing like a full otaku and cutting her wrists to show off in a webpage
- Drop spaghetti everywhere and rejecting all offers to socialize to the point she became an outcast at school
- Throw away Satou's wedding ring he saved up for and gifted her during her birthday due to fear of her joy turning into pain later on
- Becoming a neet living in Satou's now abandoned apartment, not bathing for days and waiting to die. IMAGINE the smell!
All in all its far more credible that a girl like manga Misaki wouldn't be popular and hang out with someone like Satou

>>280844856
Oh I forgot, unlike the anime where the history of abuse and loss is real and she suffered from it much of her life, in the manga she's totally average with loving parents and rich, but she lies to Satou that she's been physically abused all her life and is an orphan to make him feel guilty for ditching her to go drink with senpai.
This may have been the worst she did, because she made Satou pretend to be her boyfriend so she could impress her classmates, make him spend all his savings on buying her food and take her out on dates to expensive places to the point Satou became suicidal >>280829283 >>280829330 all because she wanted to see him suffer as punishment for ignoring her.

test

test

test

>>280845039
Huh? That sounds pretty edgy, Misaki is supposed to appeal to "I can fix her" fantasy, making her that crazy would make the fantasy filled with too much irony, not my thing though

>>280788282 (OP)
3 episodes to finish my rewatch. I miss Yamazaki, bros.

>>280845538
That's where I wonder. Anime Misaki feels like she appeals to the "I want a manic pixie dream girl to appear and fix me" crowd. I like the air of mystery around her in the anime and actually I binge watched it just because I'm a sucker of mysteries and wanted to know about Misaki's backstory.
But I find manga Misaki more realistic. Anime Misaki no matter how antisocial would have crowds of people wanting to befriend her, whereas I can more realistically believe normalfags would be put off by Misaki's behavior in the manga. Manga Misaki does seem to be appealing to either "I can fix her" guys or makes them want to stay as far away from her as possible. So she's far more divisive.
I think it depends, if you want fantasies of an angel coming to help you and you help her in turn, anime Misaki it is. If you want a realistic story about a girl who is not right in the head trying to control a loser even worse than her, then manga Misaki is the way to go.
As I commented in another previous post, the best version to me would be manga Misaki (so it makes sense why she hangs out with the likes of Satou and Yamazaki) with anime Misaki's backstory which would make her spiteful and manipulative personality make sense.

>>280845756
Life is unrealistic, and therefore anime Misaki is realistic.

>>280845613
Same. That last part was so sad from Yamazaki burning away all his hopes and dreams by literally burning his books and destroying his relationships, to his complete failure at selling his game that makes him face reality that he may not have what it takes to be a creator, to his last "date" with Satou throwing snowballs and gifting him his prized Pururin, to the last goodbye where he says
"Don't lose like I did"
"You're not going home a loser!"
while both know that isn't true. It was so sad. Then Satou reminiscing how they truly are losers and how quiet things are now that his friend is gone...it truly brought a tear to my eye
Yamazaki was best girl!

>>280846084
I remember that during my first watch it really felt like a punch to the gut seeing Yamazaki disappear until his redemption arc.

>>280846690
Agreed, plus the way he tried to fight fate only to be defeated in the end. I (luckily) identify more with Yamazaki than Satou. Guess that's why I got no Misaki

>>280846752
Offline meeting when?

Misaki is a saviour.

>>280846811
Never! I still need my waifubot to be finished. Though a shame I met Misaki just now. I'm basing it off Re:Zero's Rem though some Misaki traits would be nice.
>>280846820
I want to be Misaki's worm and have her step on me!

>>280846690
>>280846084
Yamazaki is Best Girl.

satou is an ungrateful faggot.

>>280847212
I did not relate to Satou one bit. He's not a NEET, an otaku or a "loser" of any real degree, he's just a failed normalfag NPC who just keeps himself down instead of external factors outside his control. Hated him as a character and how he treated Misaki, Yamazaki etc.

>>280818403
>For me, it's the more gloomy Misaki Abe drew. I was always obsessed with that depiction of Misaki.
My favorite part of manga Misaki is how smug she looks even when embarrassed. I swear she reminds me a lot of Tomoko Kuroki with her acting smug then getting embarrassed and spilling spaghetti everywhere when her convoluted plans fail, attitude.
>>280833816
>Anon, I...
I swear she gives off the same feeling. Anime Misaki looks like the kind of girl who will save you but the story won't let her continue existing because she's far too pure for this world. Guess that's why I got so attached to her, I feel for Leslie when I read BtT back in school and I cried when she died. Misaki gives off the same vibe but luckily doesn't die even though I totally expected that to happen.

Misaki deserves eternal happiness

>>280847342
>he's just a failed normalfag NPC
Just like NHK fans.

>>280848528
I will plunge my thick erect cock deeply into Misaki and give her eternal bliss through orgasms

>>280848578
True. I like Misaki and Yamazaki but beyond that, NHK as a story just didn't work for me. Felt like the author didn't have a clear focus and the story ends up feeling pretty hollow by its conclusion. I also think it tried to have its cake and eat it too but depicting, somewhat, the realities of being a NEET but then sugarcoating the story and veering off into escapism/wish-fullfilment. It's easy to laugh at Satou thinking his life is over at 22 though when that's a baby in adult years.

>>280848733
>It's easy to laugh at Satou thinking his life is over at 22 though when that's a baby in adult years.
It was a product of its time and by then japanese youth still had hope and it was expected that by that age you were already a productive member of society.
Feels weird because nowadays aspiring to be a neet and work as little as possible seems to be the focus of youngsters everywhere. I guess because they realized how short life is and how little corporations and the government care about them, treating them like cattle.
We truly live in dark times compared to when NHK first came out. I enjoy it as the nihilistic musings of an author and I enjoy how Satou tries to derive meaning when he realizes everything's hollow >>280822158
Even after he recovers, I'm not sure the author manged to find an answer for why Satou doesn't just kill himself beyond "its inconvenient" and "death is scary" and the fact there isn't an answer for us either is what makes it truly scary

>>280839343
Misaki you failed the omurice again...
One more time and the contract is void.

>>280849549
She's gonna get a 10 millions fine!

>>280822775
>>280822801
Reminder that she got like this because he calls her out on being a manipulative bitch.

>>280840787
For a lot of people weed just amplifies bad thoughts and gives panic attacks.
So I dunno. I doubt she'd get hooked, but it's possible if she's the type to get feel good when smoking it.
I've tested dozens of types of drugs over the years, and for me the all of the most extremely uncomfortable feelings have come from weed alone or when weed is involved.
I think people vastly underestimate this powerful modern weed and how fucked up it can get you.
I also think it was probably a big factor in bringing out latent schizo-type disorder in a friend who used to be one of the enjoyers who smoked every day.

>>280849707
So she was acting according to how Satou perceived her?
>>280849751
I think she's gonna hate it then. I think she may get hooked on relaxation drugs and painkillers like Hitomi.

>>280788315
What's the point of Misaki, not including the manga of course. Elaborate in anime terms.

>>280845756
>Anime Misaki no matter how antisocial would have crowds of people wanting to befriend her
A quiet and shy girl working in a manga cafe in Japan in that era...I dunno.
I can imagine she might get hit on by guys sometimes. But especially with her aunt and all the weird stuff going on I don't think it would necessarily be easy for her to get a lot of friends.
This is pre-social media days too.
Like she could find friends on the internet then, but it filtered a lot more people back then. Also the people on the internet then were more like Yamazaki and Satou kek

>>280849784
that wasn’t Satou, that was another hikki that she “saved” ( it’s been awhile since I read the manga) he diagnosis her with bpd after confessing to her then her mask slips

>>280846084
I think what is really ironic is I suspect a lot of creators at some point in their career(ones who don't make fuck you money) probably wish they had what Yamazaki had.
Grass is always greener on the other side. Especially when you're working yourself to death and the novelty of being a 'creator' has worn off.

>>280847342
He's a hikikomori. You don't really have to apply your own labels or gatekeep his condition.
Especially considering the author himself is literally a hikikomori.
So what if he made his MC a more idealized version of himself?
>he's just a failed normalfag NPC who just keeps himself down instead of external factors outside his control
I think you're unempathetic to the degree that mental illness can affect people.
Yes, one of the main points of the story is that there were really no external factors keeping him down. And that is something that applies to and resonates with a lot of people if they can actual realize it.

>>280848733
>Felt like the author didn't have a clear focus and the story ends up feeling pretty hollow by its conclusion.
I like that part.
It hits even harder when you get the second edition of the book and there's a whole afterword written by the author talking about how he failed to change his hikikomori ways even after all these years.

>>280850313
>failed to change his hikimori ways
Jesus, was this before or after the anime? You would think the anime money would’ve helped him back onto his feet

>>280849676
Imagine dating Misaki and every time one of you messes up it's a 10 million fine so you have this running tally that's like a cute little game of who messes up more

What kind of music does she like?

>>280849963
>A quiet and shy girl working in a manga cafe in Japan in that era...I dunno.
Even otaku orbiters at the very least. Like she may not me able to grab a high quality rich husband there, but someone has to come to the shop. Speaking of, I miss those manga cafe. Its all electronic now and trading card games, now you can't discuss comics and manga with your pals like the old days. I want to go back!
>>280849963
>Like she could find friends on the internet then, but it filtered a lot more people back then. Also the people on the internet then were more like Yamazaki and Satou kek
It was all library at that time. The internet was mostly for the technically minded imo.
>>280850046
Its truly painful, that's why Yamazaki's words resonate so profoundly. You don't get to go with a bang, life just goes on full of anxieties and regrets that never quite go away.

>>280850384
>You would think the anime money would’ve helped him back onto his feet
But that's exactly what makes it so ironic. He mentioned how it actually made him regress because he no longer had to work or starve as he could live off of the royalties from his work, quite pathetic and sad.
>>280850591
Evanescence, Simple Plan and she has Boulevard of Broken Dreams on loop

>>280850384
Hmm, that's a good question.
The timeline seems a bit unclear to me looking at the dates.
2002 is when it first came out.
2006 for the anime.
2007 for the English release of the book(where I read the afterword).
I'm not sure if the English release was translated from a literal second edition that was released in Japanese at some point, or I was mistakenly calling the English release a 'second edition'.
But it was at the end of the English release I read the afterword.
Not sure if that was translated or added specifically for the English release or what.
Maybe some NHK lorekeepers here know the exact timeline. Because if it took them 2 years to do the translation or something, I suppose it's possible that he wrote that afterward before the anime.
But I also I've heard that he'd some some blogging/social media or something and was struggling either way even post anime.

>>280850773
Here's an interview with the man himself
https://youtu.be/Xuwqpgpaqd4

>>280851062
He really does look like a neet

>>280850507
That'd be super cuuute~

>>280851062
Interesting interview, Tatsuhiko mentions how when NHK was being adapted to anime format, he didn't have much of a hand in producing it but he was far more involved with the manga. What do you think, anon? If you want to find it its on minute 10:35 of the video

>>280849803
She is the instigator of doom. Like Satou mentions in the last episode, he was comfortably minding his own business and slowly dying everyday until Misaki arrived and made him want to prove to her he's not a hikki. Being with Yamazaki amplified that but it all started with Satou wanting to show Misaki he wasn't a loser (and wanting to rape her, in the manga)
>>280851062
Also fascinating how excited he gets when the interviewer starts talking about Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge and calls it one of his masterpieces. Now I wanna read it, would be nice if it has a Misaki parallel

>>280850773
Continuing on this:
I looked into it a bit more and it seems there was actually a second edition released in Japan in 2005, and presumably that was the one that was translated.
So it's definitely possible and probably likely the afterword was written before the anime release if it was in the Japanese second edition, unless he added that specifically for the English release.
But also the anime would have been in production in 2005 I'd imagine if it was released in 2006.

>>280851062
Fascinating, Tatsuhiko mentions he found creating Misaki an easy process on minute 43:45 onwards.

>>280851528
NTA, but the anime added and changed so much from the book that it's not surprising that he wasn't involved.
Still good though. Rare case of filler being actually interesting and adding to an original work.

Senpai was the best part of NHK
she and Satou were made for each other
Misaki can fuck off

>>280851971
He also mentions that creating her was like writing a math equation. He has a hikkikomori mc so he needed someone to come to his house. So he thought of the people who came to visit him during his neet stage and the first thing he remembers is a religious person who visited him. He says he struggled most writing Yamazaki
>>280852107
You or Satou can keep the crazy cheating whore >>280817783 >>280817813 >>280821306

Would Misaki-chan make for a fun date?

This... is a MISAKI

>>280853414
Cute!

Yamazaki is the best bro Satou could ask for. He truly forced him to recover
>>280853414
I want to lick every nook and cranny of her cute hairy asshole

>>280853812
You got no idea how happy she makes me

>>280853812
She is so beautiful. I want to marry Misaki-chan and create a happy family with her!

>>280851401
Giggly arguments where you go back and forth over whether or not something adds to the debt total

>>280852107
Senpai was a miserable wreck of a person who is destined to self destruct and it's better for Satou to stay away from her. There's nothing good that comes out of dealing with someone like Senpai. They're a black hole and there's no helping them. It's a fool's errand.
>>280848878
>We truly live in dark times compared to when NHK first came out.
Indeed and that has dated the story immensely. I think I speak for a lot of 2020's Gen Z NEETs that I would do anything to be able to live in the Y2K era Satou took for granted.
>why Satou doesn't just kill himself
because, again, his troubles, even for the time, were quite mundane and he didn't have any serious trauma/predicament besides a general sense of social anxiety and depression at not fitting in with his surroundings. The reason so many people love to throw around "I'm going to kill myself" and never actually attempt it, is because suicide is scary and death is scary and final. Your entire being will work overtime to drug you with chemicals in the brain so you can keep on living. It takes IMMENSE willpower to go through with it, if somehow you win the mental tug of war you play with your instinct of survival. There's no real reasonable explanation beyond death is final, life COULD get a TINY bit better and that slight margin of change for the better is what people strive for.
>>280850192
I didn't mean to be THAT dismissive to Satou's situation and am well aware of it and what his conditions were. I suppose I let a bitterness inside me take over when I'm someone who external factors did keep down and did ruin my life and so when I see a character who has none of those things weighing him down, I get a little prissy. A little juvenile but that was why I wrote that post the way I did.
>>280850658
Makes sense. Easy money is the worst thing that can happen to a NEET. Won't get into details but I got a lot of money from this thing and it made my condition worse than ever.

>>280855260
>Senpai was a miserable wreck of a person who is destined to self destruct
And worse, when things were looking up she sought ways to self sabotage and cause problem. Those are the worst type of women.

>>280852107
kinda based take desu
if one were to bet on which couple would have a higher chance of succeeding in the long run, i think hitomi would win over misaki.
misaki would self sabotage.
hitomi just needs stimuli, entertainment, and attention. and satou is just crazy enough that they can sit and talk bullshit together for hours.
and say what you will about the prescriptions, they probably keep her more stable than she'd be otherwise.

>>280855924
What?!? Hitomi never has enough and is barely sentient. Far more impulsive than Satou and not very smart, as he mentioned in the manga her brain turned to mush. The moment she gets bored of Satou she'd cheat or seek some way to destroy everything.
Hell in the manga Satou ends up living with her and she loves it because Satou is the kind of guy who picks up fights with her and argues constantly. They end up destroying the apartment one week after Satou moves in and are on the verge of starving or killing each other before Hitomi realizes either they separate or one or both of them end in the morgue. They're the worst possible combination of people.

Anime Misaki is an enabler so she brings her issues, Satou may never get to mature and end up like Prez' brother if he follows the Misaki route completely without trying to improve himself. Manga Misaki ironically may be the best combination for Satou specifically, she's just an anxious and scared girl, and in the manga she ends up living with Satou and both end it realizing they need to sort their shit first.

>>280853812
Misaki is smooth down there

>>280856102
I hope not. I like hair in girls. Luckily Misaki is asian, I can accept trimming but not shaving

>>280856088
I don't like that second spoiler at all.

>>280856258
That's where I mention its ironic, that version has the highest chance of ending with Misaki after the series ends. The LN implies they may not see each other again, the anime also has Satou signing the contract but ends half where the manga also had Satou sign the contract.
The manga has Satou actively live with Misaki and even sleep with her naked (or truly have sex, its not explained), then Satou buys Misaki a wedding ring for her birthday and she gets scared but Satou decides he'll work on his issues as will Misaki and they'll meet again to continue their relationship.
So its far more definite that they're a couple and intend to follow through in the manga of all places. But as with all versions, its not a given that it will work out. It may or it may not, and such is life as Yamazaki mentioned.
Here is proof >>280819107

>>280788282 (OP)
everyday

That's a lot of reading
I'll just assume it all says Misaki is very cute

>>280857605
The cutest girl in the world!

>>280857693
Sultry eyes

>>280857707
Satou was about to rape her on this part of the manga, I swear!

>>280857869
I'm not saying he should've... but I get it

>>280857894
Given that at this point Misaki felt guilty about lying to him in the manga and was willing to do anything to earn his forgiveness...yes, he should've

>>280857894
Misaki cures

I want Misaki to be my imouto in my next life

I am entitled to Nakahara Misaki

I am entitled to nakadashi Misaki.

One of the best aspects of NHK is how it completely blows out of the water the commonly held belief(at least these days) that having not sex or a girlfriend is some sort of key that a young man is missing in his life and holding him back. Like it would actually solve someone's problems and/or make them happy.
It would be so easy to pander to that fantasy, but instead each version tears it down in its own way.
Admittedly, I have only read the book and watched the show. But from these threads and the pages posted here, as well as the spoilered posts, it seems the manga goes ever further to drive that point home multiple times.