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sub_dividedFixed FST download links: http://sub-divided.livejournal.com/86235.html. Still missing WRCFST, but added the mysterious vanishing Fruits Basket soundtrack (tracklist -- scroll up for zip).
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wheezambu put these up:
Welcome to the NHK
Ep:01
Ep:02
Ep:03
Ep:04
Ep:05
Ep:06
Ep:07
This is that series about the hikakomori who thinks all of his problems are caused by the NHK (the television station, though he refers to it as the Hikakomori Association of Japan). I gotta say, the anime doesn't do much with the "main character suffers from paranoid delusions" angle. Though it is brought up occasionally, most of the focus is on main character Tatsuhiro Sato's social anxiety and terrible interpersonal skills.
I thought this would be a comedy with serious elements, BUT NO, it's a serious social commentary. There are jokes -- mostly centered around otaku haha -- but they don't really deflect attention away from the seriousness being a twenty-something shut-in. And consequently, some of them are not very funny. -_-; On the other hand the production values for this are phenomenal. It looks really, really good. The soundtrack is also great, and the voice acting. Basically, Welcome to the NHK takes no shortcuts. This includes the script. Tatsuhiro is not secretly cool, his condition is not the result of a cheap traumatic plot device (though for a while the series fools you into thinking this might be the case), the girl who wants to help him does not know what she's doing, his path to salvation is script-writing hentai dating sims, etc. Who knows, maybe all this is common sense in Japan. I was impressed, though. I'm not sure whether I like it, but I'm interested enough to keep watching.
Also, the moral of the series so far seems to be that it is better to be an otaku depised by the majority of the population, but accepted by a subset, than to be so preoccupied with being "normal" that you reject all social interaction that doesn't meet with your high standards. And that is definitely a moral I can get behind XD.
As long as I am dealing in uploads,
wheezambu put these up:Welcome to the NHK
Ep:01
Ep:02
Ep:03
Ep:04
Ep:05
Ep:06
Ep:07
This is that series about the hikakomori who thinks all of his problems are caused by the NHK (the television station, though he refers to it as the Hikakomori Association of Japan). I gotta say, the anime doesn't do much with the "main character suffers from paranoid delusions" angle. Though it is brought up occasionally, most of the focus is on main character Tatsuhiro Sato's social anxiety and terrible interpersonal skills.
I thought this would be a comedy with serious elements, BUT NO, it's a serious social commentary. There are jokes -- mostly centered around otaku haha -- but they don't really deflect attention away from the seriousness being a twenty-something shut-in. And consequently, some of them are not very funny. -_-; On the other hand the production values for this are phenomenal. It looks really, really good. The soundtrack is also great, and the voice acting. Basically, Welcome to the NHK takes no shortcuts. This includes the script. Tatsuhiro is not secretly cool, his condition is not the result of a cheap traumatic plot device (though for a while the series fools you into thinking this might be the case), the girl who wants to help him does not know what she's doing, his path to salvation is script-writing hentai dating sims, etc. Who knows, maybe all this is common sense in Japan. I was impressed, though. I'm not sure whether I like it, but I'm interested enough to keep watching.
Also, the moral of the series so far seems to be that it is better to be an otaku depised by the majority of the population, but accepted by a subset, than to be so preoccupied with being "normal" that you reject all social interaction that doesn't meet with your high standards. And that is definitely a moral I can get behind XD.