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The Ballad of Childhood is full of details that allow us to speak about the autobiographical character of the work. The narrative begins not with the traditional story about the day of birth, but with the "hour of conception" — this artistic device literary scientist Vladimir Novikov called "grim grotesque". [16]
Welcome to the N.H.K. revolves around the lives of several young adults all living in or around the city of Tokyo.Many different lifestyles are shown though most of the time the story focuses on the concepts of being a hikikomori (a reclusive individual who withdraws from society), anime otaku, and having most of the characters experience intense feelings of depression and loneliness.
Often hikikomori start out as school refusers, or futōkō (不登校) in Japanese (an older term is tōkōkyohi (登校拒否)). Hikikomori has been defined by a Japanese expert group as having the following characteristics: [17] Spending most of the time at home; No interest in going to school or working; Persistence of withdrawal for more ...
Mahiro Oyama is a hikikomori living with his grade-skipping wunderkind little sister Mihari who is a researcher. One day he wakes up as a young girl after being drugged by Mihari, as a part of her Big Brother Rehabilitation project. She forces him to take a shower and wear feminine clothes upon a health checkup.
Asahi's brother-in-law, referred to as "Sensei" by the town's children, is a self-described "hikikomori," or shut-in. Notably, he is never given a proper name, and no one else in the novel seems to mention him, leaving it to the reader whether he truly exists. [4] [8] "Grandpa", Tomiko's father-in-law, is silent throughout most of the novel.
A story about The Talkative Man, a recurring character in several short stories. Some hunters bring a dead tiger into town, and The Talkative Man tells a story to some children. When he was a fertilizer salesman, he stayed in a tiny village overnight in their train station. He left the door cracked because it got too hot to sleep.
The 143-page one-shot web manga Look Back, written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto, was published on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ online platform on July 19, 2021. [3] It was collected by Shueisha in a single volume, released on September 3, 2021. [4] The one-shot was published online in English by Viz Media and Shueisha's Manga Plus platform. [5]
The story then jumps to the year 2018 where they are all huddled around a television watching a news station reporting that extraterrestrial life is heading towards them. The discussion of what is going to happen comes into the picture and they all decide it would either be like Contact or The Day the Earth Stood Still. A year later in 2019 ...