http://www.animenano.com/ An anime blog aggregator and community. en-us It seems several scenes in dissolute otaku anime Welcome to the NHK in fact harbour subtely placed tributes to Strike Witches (which of course at that time was still restricted to light novels). The cameos take the form of by now iconic witchy cover illustrations adorning backgrounds as posters. You will not be surprised to heat that [...] Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:37:57 -0000 http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/11/15/nhk-witches-welcome-to-the-nhk-strike-witches-cameo/ Maybe! Chaos;Head Anime Diet called it Welcome to the NHK meets Higurashi meets Satoshi Kon. I think that’s a good assessment — the story concerns a hardcore hikikomori with delusions/hallucinations who sees a possible grisly murder and experiences some nice reality warping — but Chaos;Head’s first episode feels like less than the sum of its parts. What did [...] Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:03:22 -0000 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/shamefulotakusecret/~3/420809655/ Welcome to the NHK! meets Higurashi meets Perfect Blue–does it work? I think I’ll have to say yes, for now. What we have so far is a little bit like Satoshi Kon territory: a story about the blurring between reality and fantasy (delusional fantasy, in this case), and like in Higurashi the most innocent looking things [...] Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:46:52 -0000 http://animediet.net/anime-reviews/2008-q4-fall/first-look-fair-chaoshead Strange, to say the least. I was expecting something similar to Tsukihime, but instead got Welcome to the NHK with blood. Since I really disliked Welcome to the NHK, this is a really bad thing. The main character has an annoying personality and a whiny voice, and the other characters aren’t the most interesting either. [...] Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:27:56 -0000 http://calamitousintents.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/chaos-head-was/ This is Volume 1’s Cover… There we go. Oh god kill me now. After like 2 years of hearing and reading about it, I just started reading Welcome to the NHK’s manga yesterday, and heck I’m thrilled! This is what I’ve been craving for! Angst. Comedy. Potential Love-Love Relationship (I haven’t gone up to chapter 2 [...] Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:56:32 -0000 http://are-are.net/2008/09/17/mr-stupid-is-sooo-stupid-i-just-started-reading-welcome-to-the-nhks-manga-yesterday/ Because that is what she is so far–like Heath Ledger’s Joker, who knows what kind of background or upbringing she really has? Who knows how much is truth and is a lie? It turns out this is a fairly suitable theme for the entire volume, too. The manga is beginning to arrive in territory that the [...] Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:14:30 -0000 http://animediet.net/manga-reviews/welcome-to-the-nhk-vol-4-the-infinite-layer-cake-of-misaki Note: this is not a typical review of a manga. I am mainly writing my thoughts as to how this compares to the anime, which is one of my top 10 of all time–a key reason why I even started anime blogging. With these volumes, the differences from the anime begin appearing–most of which put [...] Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:03:10 -0000 http://animediet.net/uncategorized/welcome-to-the-nhk-vol-2-3-divergence So over the weekend I was gathering a pile of manga to return to book off, in an ongoing attempt to lessen the amount of crap I no longer care about in our apartment, and JP handed me his pile of NHK ni youkoso manga. I was like “le gasp” I wanted to read that! [...] Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:46:18 -0000 http://www.minaidehazukashii.com/hinano/2008/09/10/manga-ni-youkoso/ Yesterday, I quit my job. I quit because it was affecting me mentally and physically. Everyday I went to work, I would get horrible headaches and my mood changed from good to the son of the devil. Thank goodness that I go to school because I would be a total NEET. I don't want to become like sato from Welcome to the NHK Right after I left my former job, I applied at two other places that I'm Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:30:01 -0000 http://www.otakudan.com/2008/09/i-quit.html September 1 TokyoPop .Hack//G.U.+, Vol. 3 .Hack//XXXX, Vol. 2 Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, Vol. 1 Gothic & Lolita Bible, Vol. 3 Loveless, Vol. 8 Princess Ai: Encounters, Vol. 1 Speed Grapher - Manga, Vol. 1 Welcome to the NHK, Vol. 8 September 2 Viz Media Black Cat, Vol. 16 Bleach, Vol. 24 Dr. Slump, Vol. 16 Gin Tama, Vol. 8 High School Debut , Vol. 5 Hunter x Hunter, Vol. [...] Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:37:36 -0000 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/theanimeblog/~3/382679203/