Should you watch Welcome to the N-H-K?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.

Welcome to the N-H-K
Anime · 2006
Sato is a tangle of anxieties and conspiracy theories, believing that the nefarious N-H-K wants to turn society’s misfits into a mob of hopeless recluses. Mysterious Misaki might be able to help Sato overcome his phobias—if she can pull him out of his existential foxhole and get him to face the world.
The sides of Welcome to the N-H-K
- A recluse convinced of a conspiracy
- A strange girl who offers to cure him
- Online games, cults and pyramid schemes
Welcome to the N-H-K is good for you if…
- you can laugh at Sato's paranoia and his worst days.
- you like a raw portrait of a young man who can't leave his room.
- you like awkward young adults trying to grow up late.
Welcome to the N-H-K is bad for you if…
- you can't watch depression, addiction and suicide on screen.
- you don't watch anime.
About: isolation · depression · friendship
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