In the end NHK was full of shit

In the end NHK was full of shit.
There's literally nothing wrong with being a NEET.
The almost two years I spent as a NEET were the happiest days of my life. My everyday life was complete, I was carefreely watching anime and playing video games without worrying about tomorrow.
Then I started thinking this was wrong, felt guilty about it and tried to "improve" my life.
I got a real job and left my parents' basement. Now I feel miserable.
I can't watch anime or spend my days masturbating to japanese porn anymore. During my free time, I usually exercise because of my shitty job requires it, or I go out with my jackass coworkers because this is what I'm supposed to do.
I've lost everything. All I got now are some meaningless numbers on my bank account and my parents feeling "proud" about me. I pretty much have no interest for the stuff I used to love. I'd probably end up as a hobo if I tried to go back to my former life, so I just keep on working anyway.

I'm sorry for the whole /r9k/ garbage post, but Welcome to the NHK was a lie.
Being a NEET is the best thing ever, you should never stop doing what you like, even if the society, or some stupid cunt tells you it is wrong and that you should change.

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No the whole point of NHK was that despite them still being relatively normal with a few faults, they're still such sacks of drug and attention addicted dicks that they will never escape the life they've created for themselves. They're hopeless, whether its thanks to social anxiety, attention, drugs, porn, depression, etc.

Also yes, you will eventually stop being a NEET. Your parents won't live forever and your friends if you even have any will give up on you. Then where are you at, homeless on the streets with none of the things that make you happy struggling just to stay warm and survive.

You felt miserable anyway, you just distracted yourself from it through submerging yourself in fictional worlds.

Maybe it's time for a change in career.
tfw you realize you're miserable no matter what.

It's both. Modern life is shit and everyone knows that inside, but people have different coping mechanisms, the American way for example is lots of caffeine on weekdays and getting piss drunk the weekend. Ask to all those people who commit suicide every year, or all those workers with stress problems, or all those drug addicts.

...

Reminder that he has two right hands.

I think the whole point of being a neet for a while is to find something you would end up loving doing and apply yourself to it so when you stop your neets days you end up happy and not miserable like the vast majority of people.

fuck you
I can't unsee now

>human experience is universal
Some people are happier being NEETs, some people are happier not being NEETs.

Satou had a lot of problems unrelated to being a NEET anyway so it's still not a 1:1 answer.

You have to inherit some serious cash to remain a NEET for a lifetime, though.

Most people will end up in shit city sooner or later. If they don't kill themselves once the money well runs dry.

Nice, I'm gonna use this as a pasta.
kill yourself you wannabe burden to society

Watch it user.

My brief period of neetdom was the worst time of my life.

literally finished NHK 5 minutes ago, now I feel like shit
I had free time for the last two weeks and all I did was watching anime and doing nothing.
I'm so lonely, if I was a NEET I'd probably just off myself after a few months
even though I'd feel sorry for my parents
I just wand a cute anime gf to take care of[/soiler]

Fuck Misaki.

ayy newfriend just fyi, if you're finishing a post with spoiler text, dont need to close spoiler

t-thanks

I was a NEET for a few months between dropping out of college and joining the Navy. I quit my job one month before my ship date to get in shape, then my ship date got pushed back 6 months, and I had to move back in with my folks because I couldn't afford rent, had sold my car, etc. It was miserable'and I felt horrible for being unable to support myself so I'd cover all the housework and cooking and cleaning to make it up.
If you enjoyed your NEETdom and long for it to return, then you should consider killing yourself. Or live long enough to earn a liveable retirement check.

I can confirm this. It's true.

Just don't have kids, retire at 45 and be a NEET until you die at 76.

>>>/blogspot/
>>>/livejournal/
Fuck off.

>loser who dropped out of college trying to lecture someone

>implying I'm not gonna use the free college I get once I EAS.

>tfw rewatching NHK to try and motivate myself to not kill myself

If you enjoyed being a NEET you would have stayed a NEET. The fact you changed is proof you were unhappy. And you're still unhappy, which is exactly what Welcome to the N.H.K suggests will be the case.

To quote a pretentious Frenchman, man is condemned to be free. There is no escape.

>Takimoto wrote two Afterwords published in various editions of his novel. In the first afterword, dated December 2001, he stated that he was a hikikomori and was still recovering: "... the themes addressed in this story are not things of the past for me but currently active problems." In a second Afterword, dated April 2005, Takimoto admitted that he had not written "a single new story" since N.H.K. and that he was "reduced to a NEET, ... living as a parasite on the royalties from this book." He stated that he felt "completely unable to write" and "incapacitated." [1]
>yfw even the guy who wrote Welcome to the NHK is trapped as a neet
none of us are going to make it

tatsuhikotakimoto.com/2017/01/13/low-of-dame2/
>I felt a nice feeling somehow. I pointed at McDonald 's on the left side of the road.
>"Oh, there is a McDonald 's, there are 15 chicken nuggets seems to be 380 yen, so why do not you eat together?"
>"Sure."
>So that woman and I entered McDonald 's.
tfw when he goes from hikki to chad. 2017 is his year

>Welcome to the N.H.K was more than 10 years ago
>sympathized with it tremendously at the time
>haven't improved in the slightest since

>without worrying about tomorrow.

This is a constant concern as a NEET, I wish I was that well off.

>artistically fullfilling anome NHK is nowhere to be seen
>all we get is pandering kawaii bullshit and cheap escapism
What happened Sup Forums? At least im seeing stuff like Scum's Wish that dare to go against the grain, yeah it's not perfect but it's something.

Reminder that none of you. Not one of you. NOT A SINGLE ONE, NONE, will ever find a your Misaki. You will lonely walk all your life without romantic love to support you and without having someone to touch and rely on. All you wil have is your shitty SOL bullshit animes while you cry yourself to sleep for the rest of your life.

What happens to Satou in the near future?

you're absolutely right though

It was literally propaganda to convince neets to do what you did. It wasn't even trying to hide it a little bit. It was practically a government PSA

Don't watch propaganda designed to manipulate you and this kind of shit won't happen.

I already accepted my life is gonna consist of watching anime and playing videogames. All interrupted by eating and crying during moments of self awareness.

>I had free time for the last two weeks and all I did was watching anime and doing nothing.
iktf
i go to school but i don't have any friends so i spend most of my time outside class watching tv or reading to pass the time

Yeah being a NEET only works out if you are well off enough and your family is lenient enough. Otherwise you are going to be spending a lot of time worrying about tomorrow or putting off worrying about tomorrow (which is what I did for most of the two years). Its easy to look back on those years and thing "man it was great, I had all the time in the world to play games", but I'm forgetting that I spent most of that time in my bed staring at my phone because I was too afraid or too lazy to get up and actually look for a job.

>was a neet when i saw it
>eventually no longer a neet
>still a lonely emotional mess
>might never find a misaki to share my life with
The other day a really pretty girl smiled to me at college, i was surprised but i started talking to her, she then giggled and pointed behind me. She was talking to some guy behind me. I cry a little when i got home. Im starting to think there might not be a Misaki for me...... i know there isn't a Misaki for me.

this thread is so depressing
i want to love u all forever

No im not. Tell me im wrong. Just fucking lie to me. The lies keep depression from getting worse.

this is a fun post user

Holy shit, I've been here since 2003 and I never knew that until now.

I also only recently noticed that ctrl+s gives you auto spoiler tags.

I watch Anime while eating meals, I can get three episodes in even on a busy day.

just laugh at all these failed hikkineets, they're stains on Sup Forums

The worst part is that if you do find somebody, chances are it'll end up being even worse than being a lonely NEET, and then when it's over and you go back to being alone you're even more broken than ever.

ouch man, that fucking hurt.

lmao nerd

Where can you buy this?

Nowhere. It doesn't exist.

Who here actually enjoys being alone? I've been a lot happier after giving up on talking to people and attempting to make friends. The select few I keep in touch I've all known for over 10 years now, and I've only met up with 2 of them in the last 5 years (just because we all live really far away from each other now), yet I chat with them all monthly if not weekly.
I only say what is necessary at my work, and honestly, I'll flat out ignore people now if what they're saying isn't necessary to my job and my pay. Makes the days more bearable.
Seriously though, like being alone has allowed me to find great fun in nature, hunting, hiking, and /o/ and /k/ type stuff that I used to not care about.

Welcome to the NHK may not cure one of loserdom, but it's still cathartic. It's a sort of comfy commiseration, I glad I knew it in my time.


Has anyone read the manga? I've only watched the anime and would like to know if its worth exploring...I hear it's very different and that Misaki isn't half so kawai...

You're not alone...

> waste four years of your life
> "free college"
I can pay for the cost of my schooling from a normal state university in its entirety in less than one year of a normal job in my field. For that to be in any way cost beneficial enough to brag like a dipshit, youd better be going back to be a doctor/dentist/similar high risk high cost career. If you're doing something like EE or a trade, you're a complete fucking idiot. Enjoy the brainwashing.

It's just sugarpills.

There are no good jobs, every degree is a meme.

Talking to my online friends, and I guess Sup Forums, is more than enough social interaction for me. Socializing outside makes me tired and feels like a waste of time usually.

>Hikkikomori and NEET in 1990s
Write story about depression, despair, self improvement.
>Hikkikomori and NEET in 2000s
Write story about Isekai, Tensei, and trapped in video game.

>Whatthefuckhappened.jpg

>Being a NEET is the best thing ever
Doesn't he say at the end that he's realized it was a luxury?

NHK new viewers are getting memed into watching it. this show's reputation is so retarded

>The almost two years I spent as a NEET were the happiest days of my life
>almost two years
So you didn't even get out of the honeymoon stage? Try eight years, lol.

NEETs were rare in the '90s and awareness of them was pretty new. Stories in those days were written for normies and the plot revolved around the main character being a NEET and then being "redeemed," something the readers could go along with because they didn't understand the realities of being a NEET.

20-ish years later, NEETs have become much more common and they're a demographic of their own. Isekai and the like are pitched at people who have no hope of escaping NEETdom through normal personal efforts and who have no illusions that a cute girl is going to show up and pull them out of their hole. The only way they can envision "fixing" things is for the entire world to change around them and give them a chance to start over, because they feel like they're too far gone to climb back into normal life.

There were stories about neets in the 90s?

I spent about 6 years as a NEET and it's a pretty fucking miserable existence, then again all of life is. /edge

>There is nothing wrong with being a NEET
Imagine if everyone in the world was a NEET. If you can't figure out how that would work, then there is something wrong with being a NEET.

Being a NEET is a response to an otherwise 'functional' world though, that hypothetical is absurd. I am sure if society wasn't so full of pressures Sato wouldn't have been a hikkimori.

I didn't do it for the college. I did it because I was a red blooded american who loved his country etc, and needed a way out of California and couldn't afford rent and my warehouse job sucked. Free college is a great addition though.

NEET != hikkikomori
You don't have to be a social recluse of any nature to be a NEET, like-wise you can technically be employed as a hikkikomori.

And no, the hypothetical is not absurd. If there's a problem with everyone in the world doing it, then you shouldn't do it.

t. Immanuel Kant

Examples:
-Polluting
-Murdering
-Stealing
-Doing nothing to help society
-Leeching

by the way, NEETs do the last 3 of those.

>like-wise you can technically be employed as a hikkikomori.
like
working from home?

What do you mean? It wasn't pressure. Sato was a hikki because of his own insecurities and stupidity.

Working from home, home-schooling, online classes... the only qualification to be hikkikomori is to be a social recluse. You can have a job or be in education without social interaction, technically. It's hard but you can do it. That said, it's safe to assume a hikki is a NEET, most of the time, but not vice-versa. Being a NEET does not make you a hikki and most of them aren't hikkis. In fact, a chunk of NEETs are just teenage girls who drop out of school for shitty reasons (2cool4school) and never move out of their parents' house. They have no social anxiety or anything, they're just bitches.

>if everyone was a doctor that would be a problem
>so you shouldn't do it

Kant...his ideas on virtue ethics are insane. Lying for example is perfectly acceptable in some situations.

And even still, people wouldn't be NEETs if there wasn't support for them, so it's still absurd.

Right, but his insecurity was a result of said pressures. He felt he had to be a certain way, that's why he was aloof in school, it's why saved Yamazaki that one time, it's why he gave up college and had some kind of nervous breakdown because people were 'laughing at him'. Although I suppose that last one wasn't ever really explained well, but it's silly to think there's one exact moment that makes you a Hikki.

Kant's thought only works for negative things, you idiot. Being a doctor is not negative, polluting and being a NEET is.

Kant is an idiot who thought that you shouldn't lie to a murderer when he asks you where his victim ran to, yes. But his thought about "think what would happen if everyone did that" is a good one.

The only way of enjoying NEEThood is being rich. Were you rich, user, or where you mooching off your poor parents' money and hopes for you?

Why does he have two right hands?

Being a hikkikomori is bad too but I can understand it since they have extreme anxiety about social situations, etc.

NEETs have no excuse to not be at least looking for a job. They're just refusing to give back to society.
>B-But society never did anything for ME!
Bitch, without society that one, $1 McDonald's burger would cost you $500 DOLLARS TO MAKE. Society is the only thing keeping you alive right now.

Fuck you

I get absolutely sick of people who've done absolutely nothing wrong and would rather just stay in my room moping about the missed opportunities in life.
I don't talk to anyone outside of my family. My mother's a basket case (maybe I am too, but at least I don't entertain delusions about our situation like she does). All of the people in my neighborhood are scum and I outright hate them. Every time I go into public, I'm told that I'm hunched over like I'm expecting a fucking punch or something. I can't talk to people, and I fluster real easy.
I don't even know what the fuck to do.

Get a job.

Watch anime.

the novel was more of a gutpunch than the anime

you should all read it

much more suffering

There's everything wrong with being NEET. Manchild.

I don't like being alone, I just dislike being around people even more so.

It's a real bad book though. But it is short so that's a plus.

I found the hedonist.

You made me think about it though.

>But his thought about "think what would happen if everyone did that" is a good one.
only works if you regard other people as important as yourself

fix your posture by googling "how to fix your posture" and following the instructions

>Manchild.
The lowest form of non-argument.

Try the pose he is doing...

imagine him with his other palm on his face as well

his thumbs would face the same direction, which is impossible if the palms are facing the same way and have the same vertical orientation

...

I just want to say this to you right now user. Fuck you you just ruined my day. And I haven't even felt this depressed in months now.

/blog

>being this delusional

here, have your (You)

Being a NEET is bad by society standards, no need or reason to argue that. But that doesn't mean you should care, if you enjoy it.

NEETdom is somewhat nihilistic by default, so a true neet shouldn't actually give a fuck whether or not it's bad.

Welcome to the NHK isn't a lie, because by any exterior look at the situation, you're a leech to the world and a waste of space. The thing is, people that are NEETs do not have an exterior view of themselves, and nor should they bother to unless they're neets by accident.

There was harem comedy after that?
As I recall that was not the best arc there.

>two years

lol.. I was trapped for 10 years and now my career is over. Ironically the reason I stopped being a NEET was after watching this anime. I finally saw my life and circumstances from an observer point of view. It was a healing process. I still watch it from time to time.

As someone who has been a NEET for nearly 14 years, I found this anime to be trash and the message being trash.

>lol
Fuck off

I never thought I'd see so many people use the nonsensical 'neets are leeches' argument on Sup Forums of all places.
If you somehow have the means to be a NEET and the self-discipline to sustain yourself then by all means you should do it. No one wants to work and most people produce nothing of value in their work either.