The Way Out is Through People | 20 years of Alienation and Welcome to the NHK

#WelcometotheNHK #anime #NHKniYoukoso In 2002, Welcome to the N.H.K; a fictionalized semi-autobiographical novel written by Tatsuhiko Takimoto hit shelves in Japan. The novel follows Tatsuhiro Satou; a social recluse who has spent most of the last four years isolated in his apartment and comes to believe that his seclusion is the result of a powerful conspiracy against him. It was a hit spawning both a manga and anime adaption. Directly in conversation with social trends in Japan at the time and tackling themes of loneliness, paranoia, conspiracism and alienation, Welcome to the NHK feels more relevant today than it did when it was first published over 20 years ago. It must be a conspiracy. 0:00 Introduction 3:02 Alienation: Hegel and Marx 12:11 Japan's Lost Decade and Lost Generation 17:24 What is Welcome to the NHK 24:02 Conspiracism and downward comparison 36:46 The value of "bad" art 38:50 Finding happiness after all 46:28 Outro 🎥: pixabay 🎨: irasutoya 🎶:City Lights written by yuhei komatsu via DOVA-SYNDROME 🎶:polar star written by こうだつの via DOVA-DYNDROME 🎶:黄昏Sunset written by yuhei komatsu via DOVA-DYNDROME 🎶:Everything has an end. written by brightwaltz via DOVA-DYNDROME 🎶:se-no-bi written by Noru via DOVA-DYNDROME 🎶:我儘な夜のハーブティ written by のる via DOVA-DYNDROME 🎶:春よ、強く美しく written by 龍崎一 via DOVA-DYNDROME 🎶:野良猫は宇宙を目指した written by しゃろう via DOVA-DYNDROME New model art is by: @artifexdemon Rigging is by me (!) Welcome to the NHK afterwords:   / complete_afterword_of_welcome_to_the_nhk_by   Anime Lockdown Interview with Tatsuhiko Takimoto:    • Q & A with Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Creator of ...   Works cited: The list is too long for youtube so here's a pastebin https://pastebin.com/sXnReU5N