They aren't prevalent enough in (white) American for there to be a sympathetic audience. If you aired a show about a protagonist with literally nothing going for him people in the US probably wouldn't watch it.
What are you talking about, moron? I think it's a pretty indisputable fact that living at home is more commonly accepted among nonwhite families than white ones. Or are you saying I don't have a job? Believe me, I wish I didn't.
NEETdom is undoubtedly on the rise in western countries these days.
Doesn't mean it's suddenly acceptable or normalized.
>sitting all day at a computer, doing nothing but youtube/livestreams,image boards and discord in a room full of cans and trash
yea thatll make for an exciting netflix investment, episode 2 mom went out so no pizza rolls
>welcome to NHK is pretty different from regular anime tho
It's not really. The medium is absolutely riddled with boy meets girl coming of age romance set in the modern era.
The guy isn't even a real hikikomori - the second he meets that girl he gets up, has a shave, and goes out socialising at cafes as if he's a normal human being. It's bullshit.
The only reason he does that is because he's paranoid to the point of believing nonsense conspiracies. He thinks people suspect he's a NEET, so if he goes out and applies to a job then he's proving them wrong. Even at that he ends up acting very awkward, doesn't even apply to the job, and then goes home defeated.
The west has literally 0 sympathy for people who fall out of society in that way. Hate of low status men specifically is encouraged.
Being honest, NHK is an alarmingly relatable show, watching it I was struck multiple times by how I've felt or done something exactly like Satou did. You could make something like it live action easily, wouldn't be any cringier than it already is in animation and the cringy bits are important for the story.
What the FRICK was her problem?
She was entire level of mental illness beyond everyone else in the show. Chronic depression.
>The west has literally 0 sympathy for people who fall out of society in that way. Hate of low status men specifically is encouraged.
This is exactly how it is in japan to you tard
>We give him a trauma and struggle
Then you lose the actual NEET audience and point of being a NEET. Now he's just a sexy shut-in because, uh, someone he loved died?
In the west, it gets to judgemental and preachy. Anyone writing it would make probably make it about racism or capitalism or some wole shit, ans it just doesn't work.
In the east, it gets too real. No one ever did another show like NHK because taht shit was a mirror to otaku and it was really fricking uncomfortable for a medium with so much escapism. NHK doesn't pull lunches it just goes "You love like shit and are a loser". At least it has hope, the show the ending where Sato and Misaki decide to help each be better people.
Adult male neets are the most lowest and worthless vermin imaginable. Grown ass man shut inside his room all day watching porn and shitposting on message boards. Literal subhuman. Don't want to do your part and contribute to society but fine with leeching. Even homeless bums aren't this low, they atleast except living on the streets as human trash.
1. Paying viewers watch television for escapism from their drudgery. NEETing isn't relatable for them in the same way as most normal people don't experiance long-term unemployment in their lives and those that can relate don't have much disposable income or read western comics.
2. A lot of what made NHK the anime work was in the soundtrack but this is difficult to pull off with music industry in the west and independent artists will be unwilling to do tracks for one-off soundtracks without expecting a cut.
3. Misaki will never knock on your door. That's the greatest lie of anime, that a good thing is coming your way and is just around the corner.
NHK is just too weird and realistic to work.
Genuine pos protagonist
People who tey and fail again and again
Abuse
Realistic perverts
Overall unpleasant people
It would fo great with the imageboard crowd but i just dont think the westvhas it in it to make a show like this. It would either be too edgy or too woke.
Misaki wasn't a good thing. In most ways she was worse, she saw as someone pathetic she could frick with. His life only improved, he only changed when he was forced into a sink-or-swim because that's the only way change happens
She was the catalyst for change and for all her faults was someone to share his life wife. You can't do shit when you're alone but be alone, with someone else (and especially a woman) the world is designed for you.
>She was the catalyst for change
No, she wasn't, that's the point. No one else can help you , you have to choose to or be forced to. He only changed and improved when his parents cut him off.
>that a good thing is coming your way and is just around the corner
Isn't that the point of the anime? Everything Sato deludes himself into trying fails. Misaki is a basket case herself too.
What does western comic trash have to do with anything? Neets over here don't touch it. Sure, most of them are weebs and read manga, but there's very little overlap between this and reading reddit-tier western stuff.
I like how once he's money gets cut off and he's literally starving it forces him to actually get a job
it's as the saying goes "how hard will you work once you are hungry"
NHK really resonated with me when I was younger but seeing how the creator is still a neet and never got his shit together, it just seems like this story had no insight to offer. It's empty at its core with a stand in fantasy girl to come in and save him like a medieval knight in shining armor. No girl is like that irl and it just gives neets false hope instead of anything real.
He regressed at some point and I think even was involved with some kind of MLM/cult or something, but he is doing better these days and is no longer a NEET.
And if you think Misaki 'saved' him then you didn't get it.
They aren't prevalent enough in (white) American for there to be a sympathetic audience. If you aired a show about a protagonist with literally nothing going for him people in the US probably wouldn't watch it.
>(white) American
Cute you think you’re a productive member of society
What are you talking about, moron? I think it's a pretty indisputable fact that living at home is more commonly accepted among nonwhite families than white ones. Or are you saying I don't have a job? Believe me, I wish I didn't.
Doesn't mean it's suddenly acceptable or normalized.
NEETdom is undoubtedly on the rise in western countries these days.
>sitting all day at a computer, doing nothing but youtube/livestreams,image boards and discord in a room full of cans and trash
yea thatll make for an exciting netflix investment, episode 2 mom went out so no pizza rolls
Japan made one. Guess America is worse than Japan then.
anime is a different medium than TV.
welcome to NHK is pretty different from regular anime tho. it could definitely work as a live action tv show
>welcome to NHK is pretty different from regular anime tho
It's not really. The medium is absolutely riddled with boy meets girl coming of age romance set in the modern era.
The guy isn't even a real hikikomori - the second he meets that girl he gets up, has a shave, and goes out socialising at cafes as if he's a normal human being. It's bullshit.
>goes out socialising at cafes as if he's a normal human being.
no he doesn't.
The only reason he does that is because he's paranoid to the point of believing nonsense conspiracies. He thinks people suspect he's a NEET, so if he goes out and applies to a job then he's proving them wrong. Even at that he ends up acting very awkward, doesn't even apply to the job, and then goes home defeated.
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OP literally gave an example how it could work
It could be from another persons view. How a girl saved the boy or something.
The west has literally 0 sympathy for people who fall out of society in that way. Hate of low status men specifically is encouraged.
Being honest, NHK is an alarmingly relatable show, watching it I was struck multiple times by how I've felt or done something exactly like Satou did. You could make something like it live action easily, wouldn't be any cringier than it already is in animation and the cringy bits are important for the story.
She was entire level of mental illness beyond everyone else in the show. Chronic depression.
>The west has literally 0 sympathy for people who fall out of society in that way. Hate of low status men specifically is encouraged.
This is exactly how it is in japan to you tard
Would be impossible without relying on larger criticisms of society.
Media hates incels.
>goes outside
>has friends
>talks to a girl
fake neet
This would make a good Netflix limited series.
But they would want some more diversity.
Neets are equated with Incels here whether the connection is justified or not, and media on Incel is just there to vilify them even more so meh.
Then we make the neet sympathetic. We give him a trauma and struggle that make viewers feel sorry for him.
>We give him a trauma and struggle
Then you lose the actual NEET audience and point of being a NEET. Now he's just a sexy shut-in because, uh, someone he loved died?
Is how it is
The Whale did it right
he's a fat homosexual who ruined his life by being a gay moron
that's a character you can really identify with
There's nothing likable or interesting about neetcels
social rejects are interesting to watch
We'll make him good looking.
they are funny when you put them on social settings
>neetshit would be boring to film
then just put in an attractive girl(female) instead of some recessed chin loser (me)
They'll make one and make the neet a white supremacist incel terrorist - screencap this
>western world
>become neet with no parents
>government sends you welfare checks
>japan
>become neet with no parents
>starve
There ya go.
In the west, it gets to judgemental and preachy. Anyone writing it would make probably make it about racism or capitalism or some wole shit, ans it just doesn't work.
In the east, it gets too real. No one ever did another show like NHK because taht shit was a mirror to otaku and it was really fricking uncomfortable for a medium with so much escapism. NHK doesn't pull lunches it just goes "You love like shit and are a loser". At least it has hope, the show the ending where Sato and Misaki decide to help each be better people.
>2020 + 3
>still no Misaki gf
Adult male neets are the most lowest and worthless vermin imaginable. Grown ass man shut inside his room all day watching porn and shitposting on message boards. Literal subhuman. Don't want to do your part and contribute to society but fine with leeching. Even homeless bums aren't this low, they atleast except living on the streets as human trash.
>except
hi Chang
1. Paying viewers watch television for escapism from their drudgery. NEETing isn't relatable for them in the same way as most normal people don't experiance long-term unemployment in their lives and those that can relate don't have much disposable income or read western comics.
2. A lot of what made NHK the anime work was in the soundtrack but this is difficult to pull off with music industry in the west and independent artists will be unwilling to do tracks for one-off soundtracks without expecting a cut.
3. Misaki will never knock on your door. That's the greatest lie of anime, that a good thing is coming your way and is just around the corner.
NHK is just too weird and realistic to work.
Genuine pos protagonist
People who tey and fail again and again
Abuse
Realistic perverts
Overall unpleasant people
It would fo great with the imageboard crowd but i just dont think the westvhas it in it to make a show like this. It would either be too edgy or too woke.
>Genuine pos protagonist
>People who tey and fail again and again
>Abuse
>Realistic perverts
>Overall unpleasant people
Make it about a wealthy horseman that can use normal words.
>inevitably ends up with acexual pride parade episodes
Misaki wasn't a good thing. In most ways she was worse, she saw as someone pathetic she could frick with. His life only improved, he only changed when he was forced into a sink-or-swim because that's the only way change happens
She was the catalyst for change and for all her faults was someone to share his life wife. You can't do shit when you're alone but be alone, with someone else (and especially a woman) the world is designed for you.
>She was the catalyst for change
No, she wasn't, that's the point. No one else can help you , you have to choose to or be forced to. He only changed and improved when his parents cut him off.
I know it sounds like it belongs on mug but life really is a two player game
>that a good thing is coming your way and is just around the corner
Isn't that the point of the anime? Everything Sato deludes himself into trying fails. Misaki is a basket case herself too.
What does western comic trash have to do with anything? Neets over here don't touch it. Sure, most of them are weebs and read manga, but there's very little overlap between this and reading reddit-tier western stuff.
that'd be a great indie project tho
how much budget do you need to film some guy microwaving instant ramen and jerking off in the dark
my dream project is pretty much this except its set in high school so it doesnt count as neetdom
What the FRICK was her problem?
I like how once he's money gets cut off and he's literally starving it forces him to actually get a job
it's as the saying goes "how hard will you work once you are hungry"
NHK really resonated with me when I was younger but seeing how the creator is still a neet and never got his shit together, it just seems like this story had no insight to offer. It's empty at its core with a stand in fantasy girl to come in and save him like a medieval knight in shining armor. No girl is like that irl and it just gives neets false hope instead of anything real.
He regressed at some point and I think even was involved with some kind of MLM/cult or something, but he is doing better these days and is no longer a NEET.
And if you think Misaki 'saved' him then you didn't get it.
He saved the girl. Not the other way. She was fricked even more then the mc
>it just seems like this story had no insight to offer
it had, he got a job and started to take self help seriously with the help of his imaginary gf
if the author doesn't learn from his own story, that's his fault
Ive watched FLCL and Tatami Galaxy, i'm not biting this bait again. All these animes are shit.
NEETs don't suffer in Japan.