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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
One day after school, Tohko looks in the literature club's mailbox and finds a bunch of scraps of paper with mysterious short phrases and strings of numbers. After they stake out the mailbox, they discover an emaciated girl, who says she is Kayano Kujo, wearing the school's old uniform and proclaims that she is already dead.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; One Night @ the Call Center; Operation Hell Gate and the other novels in the 24 series; Party Going; The Penultimate Peril; The Pigeon; The Poorhouse Fair; Popcorn; Prajapati; Rat Trap; The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Room Temperature; Saturday; Second Thoughts; Seize the Day; Snuff; Serious Sweet; The ...
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
Actor Jung Jae-young suggested the director, Lee Hae-Jun, to change the name of the film to "the drifting experience of the Jungs" (정씨표류기) to reference the fact that the actor and actress playing the lead roles are part of the Jung family, but the director insisted on keeping the name since he deliberately chose the family name Kim to suggest the universal nature of the characters.