It was choke full of realism since it's based on the author's personal experiences, which is the mark of a classic in literature but he could have made it even better even if it would change the genre of the history somewhat.
After some years of being a loser, the MC could have had a moment of introspection, realized he is a loser but doesn't need to stay that way, see all the advantages he has and work with them to become a better version of himself. He could take this inspiration from some shonen story he would find randomly on a bookstore while looking for more moe content.
We would see the efforts of MC, his seat, his tears, fighting against his mental illness with pure shonen autism, and his ups being intertwined with his downs and fall backs.
But no, what we got was simply a spiral into the abyss, until the MC hit a breaking point and was forced not by some romantic ideal, but by his bare necessities, to seek the bare minimum to exist, and continued living as an average, or under average human being.
It reads like a piece of Naturalism which I personally hate
So you want it to make you feel better at the cost of sacrificing its emotional honesty?
Lincoln Anderson
He didn't need to sacrifice emotional honesty, just intermingle it with another
Even with crack addicts I've never seen someone just drop head straight into nothing, they always have some spurs of effort
Jose Jackson
Watched it when I was a teenager and really enjoyed. Tried to watch it as an adult in a similar position to Sato's and couldn't finish it. it's too depressing and reminds me of bad times I want to move on from. It's a masterpiece, but for the wrong reasons.
>this could have been another dime a dozen romantic story about a loser that changes himself to be a chad thank god it wasnt
John Smith
>could've been a romantic masterpiece yawn
Isaac Parker
>It reads like a piece of Naturalism which I personally hate I don't struggle of being alone and relying only on yourself carries a better more profound message than wish fulfillment solshit harem garbage
Jackson Bailey
>chock but dont even use that word esl bro
Adrian Torres
>this could have been another dime a dozen romantic story about a loser that changes himself to be a chad >thank god it wasnt I'm saying it could be like berserk, not like the greatest discipline
Jonathan Stewart
>struggle of being alone and relying only on yourself carries a better more profound message than wish fulfillment solshit harem garbage Naturalism is not about struggling, it's about determinism and primal instincts. Essentially it is about saying humans are good for nothing monkeys driven by evolution for no greater purpose.
Josiah Kelly
>Essentially it is about saying humans are good for nothing monkeys driven by evolution for no greater purpose imo the series was critisizing exactly this, by saying that japanese social structure doesn't serve a greater purpose Satou becomes disillusioned with his thoughts and eventually going into the real world trying things out with no success
Luis Foster
Why are you mentioning classic literature and shounen autism in the same post? NHK is much better for not going down the shounen route. I hope you will never read real literature or you might kill yourself out of depression.
Austin Scott
Wasn't the point of the show that Satou and Misaki made each other miserable and were just using each other to seek solace?
Tyler Bell
>Expecting a Romantic Turnaround type of story about a documentary about Hikikamoris
That's a standard you ought to set for your own stories. You're trying so hard to self-insert and relate to Satou and his constant failures when you wish for him to succeed. You're wishing for the story to be yours, when it is not. I recommend making a story you want, whether that's your life in general, in a story, or both.
NHK ni Yokoso is supposed to be sobering, to reveal the self-inflicted suffering a lot of guys like Satou end up getting themselves wrapped up into. It's an epidemic affecting millions of young to older Japanese men who hole themselves up and become neets to reject society's burdonsome expectations of them, no matter the consequences.
Think about it: Satou avoided solving by watching porn, playing Mmos, getting involved in Multimarketing schemes, lying to his parents he has a girlfriend to keep his allowances that uphold his poor lifestyle, making an adult visual novel, went to an island to try and kill himself.
This isn't something cute and sweet with happy endings like in romantic animes, like Ore Monogatari. NHK supposed to be too real, and it was, but despite all of that shit happening, at the end, Satou sucked it up and got a real job and started to pick up the pieces, and even got closer to Misaki, you see that even more in the manga.
Evan Richardson
not your blog. fuck off faggot
Adrian Howard
>That's a standard you ought to set for your own stories. You're trying so hard to self-insert and relate to Satou and his constant failures when you wish for him to succeed. You're wishing for the story to be yours, when it is not. I recommend making a story you want, whether that's your life in general, in a story, or both. why yes, i self-insert as guts as well, how could you tell?
Owen Brooks
Real life not being anything like the epic stories you see in media was one of the main points of the fucking show.
Jaxon Rodriguez
Because you're basing your life values on things outside of yourself. If you want to be a neet, be a like Satou, if you want to be a guy who suffers a lot for no good reason, you can be Guts.
But it just comes to show: You're not living your own life, you're trying to surrogate another person's fantasy as yours. and while NHK and Berserk are both anime/manga masterpieces in their own right and genre, that's the author's story, not yours.
Consider what you really want if you want to be happy or satisfied with the creative process of coming up with sobering story with a happy ending. You can do that on your own without help, and be inspired by these productions.
That is all, see ya.
Hudson Brooks
>Because you're basing your life values on things outside of yourself I assumed you didn't learn your language from things outside of yourself either of course
Weird, I know so many people who lived epics. I guess it's a japanese thing to not strive to overcome your condition
Sebastian Johnson
>Conflates purpose to be as significant as learning a native language that you naturally learn via repetition and schooling.
Lincoln Barnes
>Conflates purpose to be as significant as learning a native language that you naturally learn via repetition and schooling. It kind of is bro
Jacob White
Well, you're talking about something that everybody already has to do, so it's kind of a retarded argument. Everybody learns a language, but not everybody figures out a purpose, so the difference is far wider than you're suggesting . Purpose is more important, because most people already know a language, what they don't know is why, or how, or what they're supposed to do with that language, of learning to become more conscious of the world around you through direct experience. That's why purpose is more important, because language is a given, necessity fulfilled in the growth and development of our childhood, of growing out of ignorance to become well-rounded. Purpose, and much more, comes from this.
Brody Campbell
>But no, what we got was simply a spiral into the abyss, until the MC hit a breaking point and was forced not by some romantic ideal, but by his bare necessities, to seek the bare minimum to exist, and continued living as an average, or under average human being.
proper authenticity instead of your bullshit shonen nonsense.
