Are you still waiting for Misaki?

Are you still waiting for Misaki?

It's too late

Already had and lost mine years ago

Tell us more

i'm not 22 yet so yes

I used to be like you.

It's a long story, it would take 24 episodes to tell it.

She's still using the bathroom...

how do I stop being a hikikomori without a Misaki?

you don't

I've seen people say that NHK is an accurate portrayal of being a hikiNEET but I just don't see it that way. That lifestyle is total stagnation. The total absence of a daily life. There is no story and there are no events linearizing your recollection of the past X months or years. There aren't any characters either. It didn't resonate with my experiences at all because I don't have any. I have only unlived. It's like someone writing a song about how they can't express themselves, as someone who can't express himself it would make me feel something but also there's a hypocrisy there and the true emptiness I feel can never be made into a song. The only thing which can touch my guitar with the lifelessness I seek is dust

Well yes, there wouldn't be much of a story if it was the true daily life. That's why it's fiction with some realistic emotions.

it's an accurate portrayal of hikkineet, you're detached from reality

my angel, my saviour

The day I stop waiting is the day the rope wins.

until your misaki saved you?

It's not very accurate
When i was a NEET, i used to spend my days programming 8052 and AVR microcontrollers, writing file transfer programs in pure POSIX socket API, and making programs to make geometric art.
I also watched tons of anime, all scrapped using a utility i wrote using shell and regex on a cheap android phone

I don't want to be apart of some bitch's experiment.

That's very interesting
I think there might be something wrong with me because I don't "do" anything. Today was pretty exceptional because I mindlessly sat on the internet jerked off twice watched 1 episode of an anime... but for the most part I'm completely inside my own head and just pace around or swivel in my chair or stare.

I had my Misaki, but I blew it up really bad, so now I'm waiting for the sweet release of death.

emotional manipulation is wrong.

women are allowed to

which is why they're evil

Anons like you, absolutely need Misaki!

Misaki will just wreck me more

Trust the plan.

Misaki is an angel

Yes.

Sure smells like Anon Babble in here just way less bitter
I thought all Anon Babble posters were wealthy tech bros?

There's a reason why a lot of anime pics are posted on Anon Babble. Lots of Anon Babblefags go there and vice versa.

iirc Anon Babble was full of all tech savy users who had well paying jobs and quite a few were even married
Was there a demographic shift or what?

Anon Babble? tech?
What are you talking about? Anon Babble is my only board.

When i was a NEET, i used to work

Please tell the room what neet is.

I was not employed, gaining education or training to do anything though

oh dont remind me. as a neet of 4 years. this anime hits really close to home. But I don't have anything to say about it, anything to discuss.
Apart from noticing that I'm really into girls with mental health issues. I can't imagine falling for a wholesome normie girl

mindless scrolling

where? I feel as though the internet is just dead and botted.

[bpd girls] are evil and will destroy your life.

you can't break what's already broken, at some point all you're doing is moving the rubble around or sifting the sand of a ruin.

work =/= employment
If I and a male prostitute both fuck your mother in exactly the same fashion and are handed the exact same amount of money in return for the act then I'm still a NEET and the prostitue is still a honest employee for the escort company even though we did the exact same thing.

Funny you say that because I lost my Satou-san similarly.

she's rather plain looking but still so cute
how is it possible?

She doesn't mental health issues.

My own uncle's example shows that a woman who is even worse than you will not set you on the path of correction.
(the story ended sadly for him)

what is self employment

You don't belong to the group you claim you do

Anon Babble can have a lot of users from both of these demographics. I don't think they are mutually exclusives. Before Anon Babble existed, Anon Babble had ronery threads.

lies, she's perfect

Most hikkis are doing nothing but mindless scrolling until it's time to feed or sleep.

Its a dire situation to be honest. If you are at that point, you need to get out of it as soon as possible. Treat it as a deadly disease if you must
When you hook your brain into getting stimulation without an end goal, you start spiralling.
Think about it, all along evolution of thousands of years, we always did stuff with an end goal. Hunting, to get food. Walking to the river, to drink water. Jerking off, to gain pleasure. If you skip the first, and directly get the first, why would you do anything? Everything will feel like a pain in the ass to do, and you will constantly search for mental stimulation like watching random videos on the internet. Gradually your thoughts will stop and you will spend your life doing...nothing at all
Sorry I'm an ESL but my country has a huge problem with toddlers with delayed social and motor skills because their parents gave them smartphones and youtube to watch all day long. There is no reason to not believe that these can also cause issues in adults.

its explicit in the manga, implicit in the anime

You don't belong to the group you claim you do

I was NEET highschool dropout, and not earning anything. The microcontroller and programming stuff was purely hobby related. I was living on my parents money
Now I'm an electronics design engineer though. I like work but I'm still unfulfilled in a vague, weird manner

GET. A. JOB.

you guys are just horrible with time management. When I'm a neet, I spend 3-8 hours a day in my garden, with all sorts of veggies and flowers, and around 1 hour a day on exercise, mostly cycling. I sleep 9 hours a day, I eat all my meals home-cooked, as slowly and regularly as I desire
When I worked, I was always out of time. I just worked, then lied in my bed, mindlessly scrolling on my laptop. I lacked the energy for anything. My meals were whatever I could make or buy quickest, and I had to eat them quickly, causing stomach issues. My life was empty, It was just struggling, suffering, and recovering, so I can struggle some more.Pointless life with no good moments.

purely hobby related

Now I'm an electronics design engineer

The hobby was your training to a job
Training/internship is usually unpaid

after finishing the anime should one read the light novel or the manga first?
also are there any other anime with a similar feel to nhk?

oreimo

I'm pretty okay at investing my money. I spend around two hours a week total on that.
Other than that I sit around doing nothing. I click through this website, join the same voice chats with people that annoy me, look forward to the 1-2 gamesessions I can still enjoy. And that's it. I don't even watch anime or read a lot of manga anymore.
I feel so empty. The day to day isn't actually any bad, but then I see stuff like the kyoani fire having happened in 2019 and I die inside. Where did time go? Is this what the rest of my life will be?

I guess you are right
Although i went to univ after this but i didn't learn anything there and it was my hobbyist stuff which actually taught me stuff

She's just a girl with low self-esteem, no special interests or goals in life. In addition, for self-affirmation, she has specifically found a man with whom she will feel superior. Any attempt you make to be better will be sabotaged by her. You both will fail miserably and there will be no happiness.

I read the light novel and liked it, would recommend it, never read the Manga, but I don't remember how things end.

i didn't learn anything there

Many such cases

It's part of the experiment, please understand.

no I've stopped answering the door

She's still waiting for you, anon...

I would say yes and no.
Satou at various points failed in leaving the NEET life. He was almost a programmer / script writer, he was almost a MLM guy, he was almost in a cult, he almost killed himself, he almost became an MMO gold seller.
All it would have taken was one of those to take off, and he wouldn't have been a NEET anymore. There are NEETs who have given up the ghost, like you and I, and there are NEETs who are still trying to scrape themselves out.

Im talking to a girl (our families are friends they're trying to set us up)
It's quite boring but the worst part is i can't relate to anything she's taking about. I don't like to travel, i don't have friends, i don't use social media except 4ch and a few other hobby related imageboards. I actually don't like leaving my house. I have my hobbies but i can't talk to her about them
She's a good girl for putting up with me, and she speaks a lot. She keeps going on how I'm just like her dad who also doesn't like going out or talking much

I just don't feel anything towards her. No attraction, no closeness. Nothing.

Not really a NEET since I'm in college, albeit doing online courses, and not really a hikki since I do go outside occasionally. No friends, besides my cousins I hang out with sometimes. I want to be a teacher and do the whole Japan thing through JET, possibly (most likely) come home after a year or two and teach in Murica. But it feels like I'm stuck for some reason. Nothing really feels enjoyable anymore. I'm worried I fucked up and picked the wrong career path but I also don't want to just dropout of college because for one, my parents are paying for it so I don't want to just have all that money flushed down the toilet for nothing, and two, I wouldn't even know what to do instead long term wise. No other field really interested me, any job just seems soul crushing and that I would hate it if I had to do it day in and day out. Gomen for the blogpost but it's an NHK thread I guess, that's how things go.

If I and a male prostitute

I was going to defend you until you said this shit.
You can "work" in ways that are non monetary, such as doing programing work that isn't sold, or having a garden, or just doing things.
Once you make money from it on an even semi regular basis it just becomes self employment.

but my country has a huge problem with toddlers with delayed social and motor skills because their parents gave them smartphones and youtube to watch all day long.

It's not just your country, that's a very normal human thing to happen.

Writing fanfiction all day to fap for years is technically training to be an author but it's definitely NEET life until you make the switch, 2x more so considering many people don't. The same activity isn't suddenly !NEET just because they leveraged it later.

Misaki is a devil

I've been a neet for almost 10 years
I can't drive so I can't even leave the house to escape my shitty family
Now my dad's cancer is coming back and my life is about to be over because he cared less about saving money his entire life than taking care of his own health
I just want to disappear

She's a girl who is trying to help a man she has an interest in. That's all. That's all she needs to do to be a "good girl". That's how low the bar is for women, not that that's a bad thing, and that's why their inability to measure up in the modern age is so unfathomably depressing.

the way i cope is telling myself that ill end up like satou. just find the most menial job possible and eventually turn it around

Angels can't be devils.

But I have to drive to work
and I'm too mentally ill to drive or make myself do anything

is there any bus near you? you can also get a bike i know its fucked up but steal one if you have to. if you are fat like i was then you can start with weight loss. maybe try to save some money if you have allowance from your parents so you can live on the street for at least a week in the worst case scenario. our ancestors were able to survive living out in the forests, i think we can survive sleeping on a bench.

closest bus stop is a mile away and I don't know anything about it
biking or walking here is miserable and really dangerous

allowance

lole

Even on there, there's a surprising amount of more or less socially active people over there too, and it seems like most of it is just people talking about women issues, or some narcissistic high school drama. Almost every time I try to take anything there seriously I just end up feeling like a moron. I can't relate to anyone on there.

where?

Pretty much everywhere on internet. Content doesn't need to be interesting or even worth looking at, it just needs to be scrollable, anything that can help spending time. I think one of the scariest thing for hikkis is to have time to self-reflect. It's too painful.

then prepare an emergency bag of food and supplies that you can find. its gonna suck no matter what, but having even the slightest backup plan will make you feel more at ease for now.

author isn't a real job neither is fping

work is only work when I say it is.

thank you omnipotent anonymous stranger who chooses to bless some laborious acts with the work moniker and not others..

Keep this up or you'll end up single in your 40s. Otherwise, keep looking elsewhere.

girls with mental health issues

There's no such thing tho

I don't answer phone calls, don't answer the door and I haven't been outside for more than a few minutes for years. Misaki isn't getting to me anyway.

Nah, I'm done for.

I need a true BRO like Kaori. I have had enough of f*ids who see me as some kind of cute pet rather than a human.

i was misaki but fucked up bad

moshi moshi?

waiting for Misaki

I don't have the time in the day or the patience to entertain Misaki pretending she can fix me, when she's already several inarguable levels worse than me.

Why would you want to have a Satou in the first place? Also, show tits.

You too.

it's a combination of nursing instinct and social inability, plus the romance of two people verses everyone else, but this is actually a bad mix for someone who is mentally ill and makes them worse

That’s why Misaki never helps Satou in a substantial way. Only the well adjusted (larping as an incel to rebel against society) Kaori stops him from committing suicide, wakes him up from MMO grind, is actually a friend etc.

The moment when Kaoru had to drop his studies, hobbies, ditch his potential girlfriend and leave his best friend to live the farm life is what moved me the most.