Thread 282954267

How come it remains niche?

it's popular

>>282954267 (OP)
Yes, very niche anime that half of the world watched

>>282954302
>>282954303
you guys need to get out of /a/ more, among the people who have watched 25 anime or less, none of them have watched nhk
it's only in the +60 anime demographic that maybe someone has checked it out
and even here on /a/ the threads are far in between and usually die with less than 30 replies

it's very popular, but it's not talked about much because most people can't empathize with it. So they passively watch it once and move on.
And to NEETs, it's a very dismal look at otaku, and a reminder that some random girl isn't coming to save their from their shut-in ways.

>>282954501
By that standard almost everything but basic battle shounen is niche.

>>282954501
>it's only in the +60 anime demographic
Still casual level
>and even here on /a/ the threads are far in between and usually die with less than 30 replies
That's not true at all. It gets talked about way more than most other shows from that time period while not getting any new material since.

>>282954501
I don't know about demographics, but back in the day, especially in mid 2010's when anime really started gaining steam in the west, it felt like you couldn't go two steps without someone mentioning it. Now it is rarely brought up because it doesn't involve much waifu faggotry since no fan service = no brand recognition. Thus, i assume people of your 60+ demographics were probably still soiling diapers when this show was popular and everyone else had already watched it

I havent been invested (as in, listen to songs n shiet) in nhk since 2019. I decided to check "Hitori Bocchi" and this is what I come across.
Some things never change it seems, that comment section remains depressing.

>>282954267 (OP)
It's a very well known and popular anime, though?

>>282954501
>among the people who have watched 25 anime or less
lmao

>>282954899
>then I died
Ahhh it's a ghost!

>>282954810

A lot more people are into anime now than back then. I doubt most anime fans todays have seen Kill la Kill.

>>282954267 (OP)
WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME

>>282954943
imagine that was unironically the last thing he ever wrote before going anhero
epic
if i ever killed myself i'd prob do the same

>>282954267 (OP)
do you really want the same npcs twitter crowd that enjoys demon slayer to watch this?
>bruh, I'm such a hiki neet bruh. anyway I got to go to work tomorrow. wanna go partying later?
>brooo it's she like a teenager???
>lol misaki is literally me I relate to her SO much (a manipulative bitch)
>why doesn't he just stop being sad???

>>282954609
This. NHK's target demographic is niche, although maybe you could extend it to all depressed people even if they aren't neets/hikkis. The average normalfag can't easily self-insert and it's too real for the average neet. Almost every second of the anime reminds you of the fact that you're digging yourself into a hole. It's one of the least escapist media out there, in part because it never allows itself to fully indulge in misery porn. The ending is bleak and uncertain but still allows for the possibility of Satou's life improving in the future, which ironically makes it harder to accept than something that's just complete despair. I'd go as far as saying that the difference between the average isekai and something like oyasumi punpun isn't actually that big, as both ultimately escapist.

>>282955391
>>bruh, I'm such a hiki neet bruh. anyway I got to go to work tomorrow. wanna go partying later?
I mean, normalfags have already been faking depression because it's "trendy" since around 2010

Would you guys like a 1/1 manga adaptation? What about a remake of the anime keeping the OST and story exactly as is?
I would really like the first one. Animated manga misaki could be fun.

>>282954501
you suspiciously come off as sounding like someone who has seen less than 100 anime and think anyone who's seen 250+ has seen "a bit too much"
casual.

>>282954501
actually that would be true a year or two ago. it blew up for some reason and 10> anime crowd watched it.

>>282955912
>The ending is bleak and uncertain
The ending is actually quite hopeful

>>282955912
They do say that
>Sometimes, a weak act of pity is the deepest act of cruelty
To pretend that there is even the smallest chance that it will get better in the future, you bound the foolish enough to believe in it while also berating them as it the reason it hasnt gotten any better is their own fault.

NHK most terrible act is having a semi-hopeful ending like >>282956376 said and not letting Satou feel the sweet relief of death.

>>282954267 (OP)
Because I'm gatekeeping it

>>282956376
Bleak is not the right word, but it's definitely uncertain.

>>282956451
It's cruel in the same way it's "cruel" of your immune system to raise your temperature and weaken you when it fights an illness in your body.

>>282954684
NTA, but if someone made a statement like:
>everything that's not battle shounen or romcom is niche
I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
Maybe add isekai or something in there for modern times though.
It's something you'd have to define and dive into statistically though with a good sample. And no one is going to do that.
But it's not such a crazy statement on the surface imo in the sense that I wouldn't be surprised if it was right to some degree

>>282954501
>and even here on /a/ the threads are far in between and usually die with less than 30 replies
Kind of agree what what you said before. But you're not paying attention to how frequent the NHK threads are on here. Maybe some die before 30, but there are often ones that get 100s. Maybe even weekly? I don't know exactly.
They're not even necessarily only about NHK, they're more of a dumping ground for various groups like neets, Misaki worshipers, 'Satou is literally me, I'm 22 omg wtf' type of shit...
But they're there.

>>282954267 (OP)
its shit
>remains niche
its not niche when you spam this shit that is better of forgotten daily, there is daily spam of it.

>>282956598
Its cruel in the sense that you are perpetuating suffering for an unknown chance in an undetermined amount of time that things will get better, thats hope. Its basically pic related.

Im not even saying its necessarily a bad thing, but its 100% cruel.

>>282956451
>while also berating them as it the reason it hasnt gotten any better is their own fault
I mean, the show clearly shows that as soon as they become hungry, those NEETs very quickly manage to find a job. It makes that point twice, actually.

>>282954267 (OP)
I could've sworn there was some controversy about the author of this following some sus accounts on instagram years ago but i can't find anything about it anymore.

>>282957499
Both situations are unrealistic though, he's absolutely right that it is a weak act of pity.
>bursts into a mom & pop shop and begs for food screaming like a weirdo, not only do they help him but they also give him a part time job
>while on the edge of starving to death, rushes into a low skill construction job and starts the same day but the only thing he really does is stand around and redirect traffic, even gets a free lunch
These things don't just work out instantly unless you're insanely lucky. You'd get thrown out or have to show up to work several times before you got to eat. "You just have to try a little bit and everything will work out!" is incredibly naive.

>>282957909
>These things don't just work
Well, they don't anymore

>>282957050
>As long as we're alive, good things will come
No it's not pic related. Again, nhk's ending doesn't promise happiness. It's only "cruel" in telling you that you can't exist in that state forever, and that by doing something you at least open yourself to the possibility of becoming happier. Which is objectively true when compared to the shut-in stasis that might as well be death.

>>282957641
>controversy about the author of this following some sus accounts on instagram
suspicious in what way?

>>282957909
>"You just have to try a little bit and everything will work out!" is incredibly naive.
this comes with the implicit of "yeah you're gonna have obstacles and failures too"

>>282957909
They are simplified and dramatized (in the brother's case) but they still work in the real world:
>desperate man sucks up his pride and begs until he gets a job
>hungry man looks up any low wage job he can find to pay the bills even if he doesn't like it

>>282957909
The real lesson is, never try.

>>282955912
>NHK's target demographic is niche
Failed normalfags are not "niche". I'd agree with you if NHK were about genuine schizoid autist, but it is not.

I think it was a nice show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ma3AUEl90s

>>282956687
>Misaki worshipers
How come they are the most controversial

>>282956972
>its shit
why?

>things will get better
no they won't

The end of this is always disappointing.
Hard to sell the anime, manga or novel with that in mind.

>>282959212
Probably a few reasons.
But one of them is that waiting for a Misaki to come into your life and save you generally isn't a viable strategy. Plus that was arguably one of the main points of the book and show.

>>282959677
how would you end it? apart from having satou kill himself

>>282959807
Hollywood happy ending with Satou getting Misaki. Fuck it. Him just getting a job is realisitic, but boring.

>>282960627
but he did already end up getting misaki, both in the manga and in the anime

>>282954267 (OP)
It was way more popular back in the day. It’s just 20 years old and doesn’t have as much of an impact. Plus in this day of flashy colors and crunching the fuck out of animators to make their cartoons more smooth, the animation here is pretty lacking.

It’s still one of my favorite anime (although it hasnt aged as well as I thought it would as Ive grown older). Alongside Lucky Star, it’s a wonderful time capsule into mid 2000s-early 2010s Anime culture. It’s an era that doesn’t really exist anymore. I think the difference between whenever or not a weeb knows about it or not is through what method and when they got into anime.

If someone got through anime via TikTok or Instagram in the late 2010s/early 2020s, I highly doubt they’d watch this.

I will say, though. I am kinda surprised it hasn’t gotten grown even a little bit of popularity given the “Depressed Teen to Young Adult” anime and manga have gotten way more popular. Getting into Evangelion back when I was a teenager got me into Lain, which got me into this show and Goodnight Punpun. The other series I listed got really popular with this generation. Especially since being a NEET seems to be more relevant nowadays.

Maybe it’s also due to the fact being a NEET in 2006 is different from what being a NEET is like nowadays? Also, ironically, Sato seems to have way more friends and outgoing in comparison to a lot of shut-in nowadays. A NEET nowadays would probably have to live with their parents cause and just door dash his groceries. Being a NEET back in 2006 still required you to actually leave your bedroom and the CoL was fair cheaper

>>282957909
I think

1.) This was made 20 years ago when the economy and job market were completely fucked

2.) I think it’s more to smooth out the narrative. Could work with scenes of Sato applying to a billion jobs but the message is still the same. Being a NEET is a privilege. Once you actually gotta take care of yourself, you can’t afford to just lay around all day indulging in porn and anime.

>>282960917
death note's still pretty popular, actually i think all the other "main" anime that came out in '06 are still fairly popular

>>282954267 (OP)
Because its shit

>>282961064
>This was made 20 years ago when the economy and job market were completely fucked
>were
i cant speak for japan but shit's definitely worse now

>>282961109
why?

>>282961143
>>282961064
*weren’t

My sleep quality has been shit. Can’t write as well

>>282961284
thats alright

>>282959592
Yes, they will.

>>282962311
I gave up on life as soon as my scalp gave up on me.

>>282954501
>https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/282477708/

>>282958665
Hikikomori neets are a step beyond failed normalfags

>>282963110
if you spoke to someone in your classroom once and weren't a shut in since the womb you're a "failed normalfag"

>>282956376
the source material is over 20 years old, it's expired media

>>282959748
But I need her!

>>282963371
guys im 24, people already look me weird when I say I like 18yos
i need my misaki ASAP before I reach ugly bastard status

>>282958154
They are inviting fictions. "With just a small push you'll be singing on your way to work." Why don't they show ex-neets being bullied and ostracized by their peers? Why don't they show the burden of sending hundreds of applications just to be rewarded with a dead-end job where you bust your ass for just enough to not starve? Where's the incentive to submit oneself to this ordeal when you don't have any relationships or ambition to fuel you? You are working to not die. That's it. There's a reason people end up neets, and it precludes them from effectively rejoining society when forced to, a fact downplayed in neet-related media.

>>282963385
>guys im 24, people already look me weird when I say I like 18yos
hahahahahahaha

>>282963484
>>282963385
*laughing at the people, not you

>>282963385
>reach ugly bastard status
Take care of yourself first and wait for Misaki like everyone else. Please don't be like the faggot satou.

>>282963498
I'm already diffuse thinning and I'm too much of a pussy to hop on finasteride.
It's over.

>>282959748
>>282963371
The truth about Misaki's character is that she initially appears to be "she can fix me" bait but it turns out she's actually "I can save her" bait.

>>282963559
Just shave it off and be the next Jason Statham.

>>282963656
if i lose my hair I'm unironically roping, sorry for my parents who will be very sad but i fucking refuse

>>282954267 (OP)
Incel chuds like you all taking yourselves out of the gene pool is a blessing, please stay away you pathetic genetic dead end freaks.

>>282956972
>>282961109
>>282963724
samefag

>>282963707
There is a shit ton of men who are completely bald that women get giga wet over. But you have to go all in, you can leave a little hair. Once you decide it's time to go bald, you gotta commit to it being 100% shaved off. Being toned helps with the aesthetic.

>>282963768
Sorry
>You can
I mean you can't*, no hair allowed not even a super short trim.

https://youtu.be/qJVPM0CC3cE
4u Misaki lovers

>>282963766
Seethe incel loser, you are a failure and your death will be the end of your bloodline. Your genes are worthless.

>>282963852
samefags will call you an incel but never a liar

>>282963876
>He keeps seething
You will die a virgin, unlocked and unwanted.

>>282963428
The only reason people end as NEETs is because someone enables them.
And they might not enjoy wageslaving, but knowing you're not a burden on others and that whatever you buy is truly yours make you feel better than you'd stuck as a NEET.

>>282963852
Your ideas are even more. I will destroy this retarded species with 2D as revenge against women and normalfaggots.

>>282964160
Some countries allow you to NEET off the govt. At that point you'd only be a burden to "society" but imagine giving a shit about that in modern times.

>>282964194
You won't do shit, your pathetic little tantrum will be heard by no one, no one cares about you. You are a worthless incel and nothing more. You will never feel the touch of a woman.

>>282964309
>being a burden to your parents, fellow anons and anyone you ever cared about through their taxes
>and not caring
wtf anon

>>282964438
If they dont go to me they are goin to subsaharan mothers to afford her 8 children.

>>282954267 (OP)
it was boring. dropped 15 min in.

>>282954501
Back around the time it came out it was popular, zoomer. It wasn't exactly Haruhi level, but about as big as Lucky Star was. Just like how 90% of the popular shows from a decade ago aren't mentioned as often any more, time moves on.

For what it's worth, anime wasn't mainstream until about a decade ago. I get the feeling half of /a/ doesn't realize this any more.

Just recently did a rewatch of this show and while aspects of it I find interesting, I feel it doesn't hit as hard as it should, for all the lows the show reaches it tends to pull its punches for all the side characters except for Satou and even then the anime leads him to eventually get a job after nearly starving to death and inevitably reaches some form of a "romantic" relationship with Misaki, even if he never got to fulfill his fantasies of being with his Senpai.

I'm making my way thru the manga and light novel currently and I'm surprised they didn't focus on Satou's drug use more in the anime, it's never acknowledged once, but I assume that's probably censorship? Same with Yamazaki being a more hardcore lolicon, but the anime alludes to this with a brief comment by one of his classmates that Satou overhears. I hear Misaki is more of a bitch in the manga, and while I find her to be manipulative and weird, I can sorta understand her mentality, in a way her and Satou are kinda meant for each other but idk if broken people should be left to fix each other up even if the ending to the anime implies a relatively more hopeful end for the two, although I don't think the equivalent of a "cold war" suicide pact is particularly hopeful. In any case, Misaki is cute so I'll give her a pass and Puzzle is one of my favorite anime OPs of all time, although the remix in the second half can go to hell for removing the trumpet.

Captcha:YYDHK
Is it a conspiracy?

>>282955135
>>282954267 (OP)
Havent watched the show completly saw couple of episodes and it was kinda boring so stopped. The story is the guy is a complete mess and he meets that girl she helps him a lot. Then he learns she was a bigher mess then he was and he helps her out in the end. I found the story kinda sad so gave up.

>>282955912
I always though most manga and anime fans are neets or are
Hikakomori. The whole isekai anime is a neets or hikakomori fantasy. To die and to restart again with special powers really resonates with me being a somewhat hikakimouri

>>282965178
I guess a good face, decent height and full head of hair could be considered "special powers"

Accept her as your angel.

>>282965480
Maybe

>>282954267 (OP)
There are no Misakis in the real world.

>>282965757
And you are wrong.

You VILL reach 100 replies!

>>282965142
Misaki doesn't really help Satou in any meaningful way. Yamazaki was a bigger positive influence on him (when he isn't getting him hooked on porn but that was Satou's own fault).

>>282954267 (OP)
>>282963724
>>282955912
>>282956376
>>282956451
The real message of the anime is stop worrying about the future, that is the real root of all anxiety and depression
If you think about it, Satou saved at least 5 individuals from commiting suicide through the show. My theory is that the campfire Satou started was the real reason they didn't went through with the pact because it made them realize how small their problems really were
It's a "bad" ending if you are expecting some sort of continuation, just like Misaki and Satou, who are still trying to "solve" life and control their future. However, if we read between the lines, Satou finally admits that he "loves" Misaki, something that the audience takes for granted since the first episode but nit really confirmed until the last episode. Remember that Satou always lies. During the last scenes, they may not be expressing their love but that's part of their character's flaw, they can only communicate their feelings through complex games and conspiracies
From this perspective the ending is a happy one because they are together, that's all that matters

>>282963768
How about the monk aesthetic?

>>282966284
WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG

>>282960627
Satou does get a happy ending with Misaki. She's not ready to immediately start dating with everything she's going through but they're building up to it. It's a "life will continue" ending which perfectly fits a show like Welcome to the NHK.

Misaki is evil!

>This cute angel is evil!
I do not believe you

>>282959592
>>282963559
try topical minoxidil plus rosemary oil mixed with a carrier (coconut oil, for example)
this thickens hair and promotes growth, there are ways around this without hormone fuckery

>>282954267 (OP)
I don't think it's that niche, it always gets bought up when discussing the best anime of that decade, and the subject nature is relatable to a lot here including me
it does a good job of showing how you can spiral downwards when being shut-in, and the fact that the ending isn't a fairytale one grounds it nicely

>>282963385
>>282963385
i'm 32 and I like 18 year olds. in fact, if I had nba tier money, i'd date 18 year old cosplayers forever in catgirl cosplays while they are only allowed to say "nyaa" its too late for me. i clearly have issues

>>282963468
jesus

>>282967138
>Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
>Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
>Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

>>282954267 (OP)
nowadays even cowboy bebop is a niche

>>282963468
The rats couldn't have known that they were in an experiment. In the real world, you do get plucked out every now and then. It makes sense to behave exactly as they did if your goal is to minmax sadness and happiness.

>>282967247
It's because without evil there would be no good.

>>282968000
>without homosexuality there would be no heterosexuality

>>282968046
Unlike homo/heterosexuality evil and good are defined as opposites. You need one to have the other. If you never felt bad there'd be no meaning to feeling good.

>>282968172
Evil people like you should not exist.

>>282968000
I get that, you need evil to appreciate good, but I'd take a world with more good and less evil, because right now almost everyone is living a life where the good times are like occasional breaks strewn in-between constant struggle and misery. For me, in particular, I've become unable to enjoy anything good, because I just wait for the next disaster. This is not a world created by a benevolent being.

Misaki can save you from the system.

>>282968213
mean.

>>282968229
One of the core points of the show is that your life probably doesn't suck nearly as much as you think.

The point is Misaki is an angel.

things got better for me desu
saved up some money from a shitty job, ran away to sea to teach english for a few years which got me out of my shitty family situation
just run away, lol

>>282954267 (OP)
Because 90% of the Western audience can't relate at all.

>>282968613
How's life now?

>>282968621
good, about to turn 31 and my seanigger wife is a great cook
never ever going to go back to canada

>>282968635
you couldn't get a white woman lol

She's waiting

>>282965178
>The whole isekai anime is a neets or hikakomori fantasy.
What are you talking about? Have you ever watched a single isekai anime? It its almost always the overworked salary man that is tired of working and living this kind of life.

>>282968635
Nice

>>282968655
still better than being 34lvl wizard like me

>>282968749
he's a jeet ignore him

I'm 33 and haven't worked in over a year, no luck getting hired anywhere, suicide might be my only legitimate way out physically and economically. NHK always hits me hard as fuck because it never got better for me despite trying my best.

>>282968789
Get a job you fucking bum

>>282968635
>SEAnigger
why would you call your wife that..

>>282968812
Im trying
nobody wants me, man

I think the message of NHK is that you need to make a story based on you shitty life to get out of your shitty life, I would hope with how much shit posting you niggers accomplish here, you're more than capable of making a grounded story inspired by your sad existence, then you can escape your NEET life like the author did.

>>282968789
As someone who's been a NEET I dont get how you can't get a job. I get that you don't WANT to, but if you're really desperate how can't you apply for some shitty retail job? They always need someone. Doubt they even check your CV or experience, they're just as desperate as you are.

>niche
>rec list anime core

>>282954267 (OP)
it's by far Gonzo's most popular work

>>282968655
why would ANYONE want a obese canadian slampig

>>282957499
> NEETs very quickly manage to find a job and hold it
>no workplace mobbing or bullying at said job
>all bystanders automagically stand up for them instead of do nothing or join in on the mobbing
>NEET returns to being NEET in a vicious cycle completely out of their control
>Japanese literally invented the word "hikikomori" and pretend to not understand why people are that way.

Yeah its very unrealistic and definitely made by some slant eyed twitterfag.

>>282963559
You should try be in my shoes, I'm on finasteride + minox and it isn't doing anything. Tried dutasteride and it gave me ED.
I'm just giving up on romantic relationships now.
I'll never kill myself though LOL, I'm gonna be a leech forever, my life is everyone elses problem now bwahahahahaha

>>282968819
Have you ever met a passport bro who actually liked the culture/customs of the place he goes to, because most of the ones I know only go to get hitched

>>282970220
The culture/customs of the places a passportbro goes to must necessarily be shit otherwise he wouldn't fare getting a girl there any more than in his homeland.

>>282966959
This, the only thing the show didnt touch on enough was ants, because whenever a thread of neets bitching about being neets goes on long enough they always start bitching about ants

>>282958035
>suspicious in what way?
He was following child model/actor agency accounts and got found out because he was commenting on them.

I could also be making shit up because i memory sucks lol.

>>282970962
/a/ is still... good?

>>282958035
>suspicious in what way?
He was following child model/actor agency accounts and got found out because he was commenting on them.

I could also be making shit up because my memory sucks lol.

>>282971257
There is literally a scene where Satou stalks little girls. Given that nhk is almost an autobiography this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who can put 2 and 2 together.

>>282964923
The anime is a massively neutered version of the story and paints Misaki in a much more positive light, for easier consumption by a wider general audience.
Narcissistic spiteful cunt Misaki is the true version, and why I always hated threads NHK threads on here. "tfw no Misaki angel" nigga you don't want that shit, you missed the point entirely.

>>282954501
>60 anime
Oh you.

>>282971257
You're probably thinking of someone else because I never heard of anything like that
Author did get involved in a cult sorta

>>282954501
It was absolutely within the first 25 anime I ever watched. Maybe first 10 even

>>282971448
Same, I think it was in the first 30 at least

>>282955912
>failed normalfag
I don't know how this works.
I'm in high salary job, live alone and have good relationship with family.
Have good few friends and invite them over my house to play tcg/vidya.
But
Never gf, but no virgin
300k collection of anime girl figurine/doujin, including lewd lolis/dolls/dakis. But i can't show it, is in a separate room, the rest of the house is reddit tier stuff with few, more modest figurines.
So i'm an irredeemable autist? Or just a failed normalfag?

>>282972030
I assume a failed normalfag wants to be a normalfag, so if you don't want to be a normal guy living a normal life talking about normal things with normal friends then I guess you're not a failed normalfag.

>>282972030
>So i'm an irredeemable autist? Or just a failed normalfag?
"Normalfag" and even "autist" are context-dependent terms. It doesn't make sense to use them as general labels unless you mean the actual medical condition called autism (for which one can get tested). You're a normalfag in the neet sense, you're not a normalfag in the sense of having some hobbies that are socially unacceptable, etc, etc. So what are you even asking?

>>282954501
>you guys need to get out of /a/ more

Reboot where Satou becomes like Alex Jones, Misaki cuts herself and is even more problematic, and Yamazaki spams crying emojis and is MGTOW

>>282970032
uhhh based?

>>282968819
Its pretty hot to call your woman a slur.

>>282971442
I recall hearing something like what anon said somewhere around the late 2010s

>>282966396
>stop worrying about the future
I did that, now it's the future and I realize I should have worried more. Horrible advice, would not recommend.

>>282974174
It doesn't make a difference whether you worry or not. Your problem wasn't not worrying about the future

>>282974174
yeah now you're worrying about your past, which is even worse because you can't change it

>>282974224
Worrying about things can, or rather should, spur you to action when it's something you can change.
>>282974372
It's not really a worry, more of a realization.

>>282974174
i think they mean not stressing over the future
obviously you should still build it

>>282972860
cutting yourself isnt trendy anymore

>>282954501
anon, if you think I even acknowledge that anime exists outside of here, you are delusional

>>282954501
>and even here on /a/ the threads are far in between and usually die with less than 30 replies
what the fuck do you want to talk about, it's a 20 year old anime, with even older source material.
What is there to say? Satou is a schizo retard, Misaki is a deranged psychotic bitch and none of the other characters are any better. They're all mentally ill.
Go read some Asano manga like Solanin or Reiraku already, stop clinging to the past.

bump

>>282975972
>stop clinging to the past
why?

Mouse Road

>>282958316
Never get up

>>282964923
>drug use
>probably censorship?
Yeah, for sure.
He was an expert in what were once legal research chemicals, but the 'legal' status generally doesn't last. Especially in Japan.
And even if they were legal at the time of the anime, they'd still censor drug use in general imo.
It's actually kind of irresponsible in a sense to even let people watching the anime know that there's all these legal drugs out there. Especially some of the combinations he was doing in the book, which were arguably kind of dangerous(he was combining serotonergic hallucinogens and MAOIs for example). Or at the very least he was doing stuff that could bring out latent mental illness in some people. That happens without combining anything in people who are predisposed.

>>282979026
>least he was doing stuff that could bring out latent mental illness in some people
weed does that, it's a really low bar

>>282954501
it's still a popular normie anime, even if you like it

>>282978700
Probably the only man in history to look better bald.

>>282963330
I always love watching the gatekeeping from the sidelines, one of my top 5 favorite things in these threads.
I hope these threads never go away.
There's so many guaranteed topics that will spawn each thread.

>>282971389
In the manga it’s a lot clearer with how depraved it is. I think he even uses real names, from what I gather from the Mal forum on episode 3.

manga or LN, what's better?

>>282972439
But someone will always try to gatekeep him kek

>>282979698
i dont remember anything about the LN other than that chapter about satou talking with some church dude
the ending was the same as the anime wasn't it?

>>282954267 (OP)
I refuse to watch shows that try to “help” or “better” me. I don’t need anime to point out my flaws so watching shows like NHK feels completely pointless. Same reason I refuse to watch Eva. I don’t need Anno to tell me to touch grass, if that’s what they want then I might as well skip the whole show and just go outside like these creators want me to

>>282981211
it doesn't you retard, how would you even know if it did

>>282981362
you can cope all you want but people talk

>>282982180
and you will never know whether what they say is true or not, without actively engaging with the media in question

>>282981211
Neither this nor eva are shows that try to "better" you (safe for the rebuilds which are irrelevant). But you know what actually don't watch them.

>>282982484
but they are though (at least nhk)

>>282984365
how would you know without watching them?

>>282975972
>Misaki is a deranged psychotic bitch
No, she's just a troubled girl with trauma

>>282954267 (OP)
I'm still waiting for my Misaki.
I'm still waiting for my Nagisa. (From Clannad)
...Bros. I watched NHK for the first time when I was about 17, and I've re-watched it again for the final time a few months ago, at the age of 31.
KEEP THE FLAME ALIVE, BROS.
LET'S NOT GIVE UP JUST YET.

>>282954267 (OP)
It's not battle shounen

>>282987515
how's your hair doing?

I bet misaki looks cute as fuck with a summer tan

>>282968213
misaki with green eyes doesnt look like misaki
give her back her cute poop eyes!

>>282989419
Wrong
Vanilla > Chocolate

>>282954267 (OP)
It's almost 20 years old. If it didn't become mainstream when it was released, why would it become popular now??

>>282989912
jeez anon, how dark do you think a tan makes you?

>>282991628
island gooks get a yellow tan.

>>282992296
Hmmmm...

>>282968000
>>282968172
You say that but good can still exist without the massive amounts of excessive suffering in the world.

>>282954501
>Old show isn't talked about as much with new people
Shocker

>>282984365
No. nhk is just the author's life.

>>282954267 (OP)
its a popular "niche" choice, similar to how people who want to say they've see 'underrated anime' pick lain.

>>282954684
anime exists for a variety of genres, considering how few shounen people tend to pick compared to the vastness of varying anime - you could argue its shounen thats niche.

>>282954501
The anime is weak and the ending in the Manga was meh. It doesn't get discussed because it was always a early 00's weak manga.

t. read it week by week upon release

>>282955912
Those thighs are do die for

It's Misaki Monday!!!!!!!