EXPLICIT CONTENT! Inspired by today's manga, Will talks to Steven about his own personal ordeal with depression and suicidal ideation. They speak about their own relationship troubles. As well as how easy it is for people to become dependent on that which is not healthy for them. All in all, 'Welcome to the NHK' shows us that manga can deal with real, dark and murky issues albeit easily digestible when it is done with a humorous tone. Skip synopsis @ 4:19
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109: Welcome to the NHK vol. 2
Chapters 6 to 10 'Welcome to the Moratorium' and 'Welcome to the Heaven'
Story by Tatsuhiko Takimoto
Art by Kendi Oiwa
English Translation by Katherine Schilling and Zachary Rau
Lettering by Star Print Brokers
Tatsuhiro Sato is a 22-year-old university drop out and hikikomori who believes in conspiracy theories and has been a social shut-in for 2 years. One day a religious woman with a leaflet knocks on his door accompanied by a Mysterious young girl called Misaki Nakahara who eventually helps him from becoming a social shut-in as they do weekly therapy meetings.
Sato's neighbour is an incel and old acquaintance named Kaoru Yamazaki who happens to be a raging otaku and a computer programmer. These two people will help Satou on his journey to change himself.
Satou is being distracted on the game project he is making as he fantasizes about Misaki being in a porno. Kaoru helps him snap out of it by saying how women will cause them trouble. Kaoru talks about his past lost love and how a girl broke his heart only for his female classmate to call him saying she Is free to see the fire-works festival that night. Kaoru (like a "simp") runs to her.
Misaki knocks on Satou's window and invites him to the festival too.
The fire-works festival brings back memories for both Satou and his old school friend Kashiwa-san who happens to call him and come to his apartment the following night. They drink heavily and Satou invites Kashiwa San for a vacation, misinterpreting and assuming something else, Kashiwa San thinks Satou Is talking about the offline group meeting that is planned for the summer so she decides to take him. Unfortunately for Satou this is a meeting of suicidal people who plan to kill themselves once they spend some time on a private island owned by one of the suicide pact members.
Misaki who has secretly bugged Sato's apartment over hears of the offline meeting. Misaki becomes visibly scared once she realises what is going on and goes to Kaoru for help to find and stop Satou. During this time Misaki tells her feelings for Sato to Kaoru and that she wants to be an angel to help him.
Eventually the suicide pact members change their mind and find reasons to live but this makes Satou become suicidal. Satou tries to kill himself but manages to knock himself out, he wakes up with Kawashi telling him he is safe and they are all going home. Satou returns home and meets with Misaki.
Topics:
First love and bad luck in relationships
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Chasing girls
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Suicide pacts
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Depression
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Drug dependency
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