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          This novel tells the story of a man who thinks that he is the target of a vast conspiracy orchestrated by Japan's public broadcasting service....

          Tatsuhiko Takimoto

          Japanese author

          Tatsuhiko Takimoto (滝本 竜彦, Takimoto Tatsuhiko, born September 20, 1978) is a Japanese author best known for his novel Welcome to the N.H.K.

          Career

          Welcome to the N.H.K. began as a single novel by Takimoto with a cover illustration by Yoshitoshi ABe, which was published by Kadokawa Shoten on January 28, 2002 (and on English in 2007).[citation needed] The story was later adapted as a manga series, also written by Takimoto, with art by Kendi Oiwa.

          Twenty-two-year-old Satou, an unemployed, reclusive conspiracy theorist living in Tokyo, meets a mysterious girl who tries to cure him of his antisocial, or.

        1. Twenty-two-year-old Satou, an unemployed, reclusive conspiracy theorist living in Tokyo, meets a mysterious girl who tries to cure him of his antisocial, or.
        2. It's a slice-of-life series about the quest for meaning and the struggle between comfortable isolation and socially awkward interaction.
        3. This novel tells the story of a man who thinks that he is the target of a vast conspiracy orchestrated by Japan's public broadcasting service.
        4. As many as a million young people in Japan are thought to remain holed up in their homes - sometimes for decades at a time.
        5. Welcome to the NHK, Tatsuhiko Takimoto's dark glimpse into the mind of an hikikomori, is a filled with drugs, conspiracy, otakus, lolicons, and.

          6. The manga began serialization on June 24, 2004 in the magazine Shōnen Ace, also published by Kadokawa Shoten. The manga ended serialization in June 2007, with eight complete volumes released. The series was also adapted as a 24-episode anime television series, which aired in Japan between July and December 2006.

          Takimoto wrote two Afterwords published in various editions of his novel. In the first afterword, dated December 2001, he stated that he was a hikikomori and was still