August 15, 2013

It Strikes Me

...that while this banner does make for admirable honesty on their part,  such a high visibility release of this information is potentially counterproductive from a marketing standpoint.

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at 01:05 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
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1 Never saw Welcome to the NHK, huh?

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Thu Aug 15 05:20:21 2013 (GJQTS)

2 hikikomori?

Posted by: Mauser at Thu Aug 15 05:29:10 2013 (TJ7ih)

3 Shut-ins with psychiatric issues, either agoraphobia, social anxiety, schizophrenia, or some charming blend thereof.  Probably also borderline personality disorder in a lot of cases.  Hikikomori is a well-publicized aspect of Japan's ongoing social collapse, in public perception if not necessarily in fact, a large fragment of Japanese youth are going full-ama-no-Iwato, hiding in their family homes.

I haven't heard much about hikikomori recently, dunno if that means that the social panic about it has passed, or that people just got bored by reading about them.  I guess they've passed on to worrying about foreign affairs and the new nationalism?

Posted by: Mitch H. at Thu Aug 15 08:36:16 2013 (jwKxK)

4
Never saw Welcome to the NHK, huh?


Loved it.

(Never saw the last disc though)

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu Aug 15 14:20:24 2013 (F7DdT)

5

The stereotype now also includes them spending pretty much every waking minute online.

Himawari in Vividred Connection is initially presented as a fairly typical hikkikomori. (except that fact that she's a girl, and the stereotype is a young man.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thu Aug 15 21:26:27 2013 (+rSRq)

6 By the way, we should be grateful collectively to Japan's Hikkikomori, because a lot of the raws which get posted and eventually subbed for us come from them.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thu Aug 15 22:05:01 2013 (+rSRq)

7 So...you don't approve of the banners sentiment is what you're saying?

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Aug 16 00:53:27 2013 (F7DdT)

8 No, just that some dark clouds do have silver linings....

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Fri Aug 16 04:49:37 2013 (+rSRq)

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