
Does most anime series name their whole series after the name of the last episode?
The anime series, "Welcome to the NHK" was, how should I put it... fabulous! The story was neat, the background music used in most situations were very suitable, and the second ED theme was pretty nice too.
Well actually, I have been wanting to watch this anime series for a long time. The truth is I've already read the manga online and listened to the ending song a long time ago but never got the chance to download the anime series as I used to have a bad HDD space problem. After dad bought a 300GB harddrive the problem was solved indefinitely.
A long time ago, I found out about the existence of this anime when I was looking up information on (Tsubasa Chronicle) Sakura's voice actress, Yui Makino. It seems that Yui was also the voice actress of Nakahara Misaki, the main female character of "Welcome to the NHK" anime series. I then started searching for details of the series and found myself rather interested in it.
Basically the anime series tells the story of the life of a male hikkikomori, Sato, and his fateful encounter of a young lady, Misaki. Misaki, seemingly for no reason at all, started to help Sato in various ways, including giving lectures for him to gain courage to return to society. The story goes on with Sato meeting various people from his high school days and getting involved with their matters, including involving in online gaming, creating a H-game, being cheated into a multi-level marketing, joining an offline suicide party, etc.
The reason I am hooked onto this series is because the story is so close to reality and the characters are so pitiable. There are many conversations between the characters that I find quotable and usable in real life, e.g. Quote by Misaki: "Sexual harassment warrants a one million yen fine!". Besides that, I can feel the closeness of the story to myself, unlike some other anime series where the story seemed so far away. I mean like I can feel that even I may end up a hikki myself if I were to lock myself in my room playing computer the whole day.
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Makes me want to laugh at myself for making this post. The real truth is that I was already spoiled as I have already read the manga and I knew what was going to happen in most of the situations. I have to comment the anime creators for following the mangas so closely that they didn't even missed small details. How should I say, they'd even elaborated it! Like say, the construction of the net at the cape to prevent people from dying if they were to jump of the cape, they'd even add a new character: the taxi driver.
NHK is definitely one nice series. I'm out.

