Alienation, Conspiracism and Finding Happiness | Welcome to the NHK Turns 20
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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: https://www.reddit.com/r/WelcomeToTheNHK/comments/fswuxr/complete_afterword_of_welcome_to_the_nhk_by/
Anime Lockdown Interview with Tatsuhiko Takimoto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuwqpgpaqd4&t=1260s&pp=ygUYYW5pbWUgbG9ja2Rvd24gdGF0c3VoaXJv
Works cited: The list is too long for youtube so here's a pastebin https://pastebin.com/sXnReU5N