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I don't know what to rate this anime.

Let's start with a base of 5.
+3 for strong characters
+3 for well done drama
+2 for some decent comedy moments
+2 for being realistic in most situations
-1 for the annoying personifications of his mind(furniture coming to life)
-1 for bad animation/drawings at times
-2 for forgetting the romance in the beginning and at the end not resolving it.
-2 for a entire worthless middle, the game section, company section, and brother section, all felt added on, and basically by the time it was over everyone seemed to forget his crush on Misaki. It helped him get over his neet a bit, but that could easily have been handled by Misaki. They teased us with the almost kiss in the beginning and went with the "screw you anifags we aren't going to do anything with this"

so 9 overall? Kinda feel like it should be around a 6 because of the ending but it wouldnt be fair to rate it down that low due to the middle and final ending sequence

The ending was lacking but the rest of the series was brilliant.

my take? insane people who know their predicament trying to act sane.


essentially this anime is:
you either work eat live and die...
or dont work starve and die...

two roads that lead to the same end. ultimately it doesn't matter what you are or what you become. everything in life is just a distraction; ropes used to bind you to life so that you may delay your inevitable death. this is why i have great respect for people who commit suicide(not those who take others with them, those are lowest kind of human). either you experience things that ultimately lead you to that action, or you overcome your need to live, even though you know you will eventually die. both are extremely difficult to achieve, although no one really strives for them.

well although the romance bit was butchered and then thrown out, since they didn't pursue any interests on all the characters i think that kind of ending is fair.

Such a strong series, with such a weak ending. Not sure what to make of it... Maybe they were going for realism and the whole "gradual recovery" thing, but dammit I at least wanted a kiss. Gah!

8/10. Had potential and some great characters, but spent a bit too much time on comedy and misplaced some of the focus on arcs/continuity (the whole FFXI/Pyramid Scheme thing could have been much shorter).

I think the ending was extremely touching. Why would you want to see a kiss? That'd pretty much ruin everything.

I'm not of the opinion that closure should always be shunned to achieve a good ending. I know some people love open-endedness and when it's used well I appreciate it too. But the ending here just felt thrown away, not touching. At least to me.

There's such a build up in the first half of the series, and then they just drop it for not good reason really.

Can't have a 100% perfect anime I guess...

/shrug

theres a very good reason for that

watch it again

although, admittedly, the manga is better

No way in hell i'd watch it again. And frankly the manga ending is utter trash compared to the trash anime end. So it's even below that.

But as i posted earlier, like 9 eps of filler, and the first halfs plot forgotten is just shoddy writing.

Wow, this was a very good anime. Glad I watched it. I loved the open ending, I can now imagine what happens afterwards. This was a very realistic anime, and it gave us a very realistic ending. Loved it, glad we got closure on Senpai and Yamazaki <3

I think the ending was fully satisfying, the story which revolves around love, existentialism and fatalism bound everything together very beautifully at the end by both of them willing to give up thier lives if it meant a life without the other but to find thier reasons to live, each other, can there be any superior love if your willing to die for your love? No, in my opinion there can't, thier feelings alone justified any lack of physical intimacy.

The middle of the series at the time seemed abit fillerish but they became understandable in the end, reflecting satou's progress both forward and backwards and his inner insecurity which built up the end climax, Ive never been in so high spirits about an ending as this one, truly a masterpiece.
10/10, undoubtly one of the better tens.

It would be nicer if they end up tgt in the last episode ... but they nvr show that =(

The ending was perfect and very much in line with the rest of the anime. Yamazaki says " in drama's you have a progressive plotline and a resolution, but in real life all we have to look forward too are some vague anxieties." and I think that defined the ending fairly well.

10/10

yes! someone gets it!

As I re-watch it, I'm more annoyed by some of the threads that get dropped (but I hear they get more attention in the book), and by the main character's seeming lack of evolution, which makes me think this series might actually have been stronger as 13 episodes with some of padding and (near) red herrings removed. I don't think it was a perfect ending because the show never fully established what it was doing. Makes me want to check out the manga...

the show established what it was doing, the main character is obviously very easily influenced by his surroundings, thus his 'evolution' doesn't matter much. i think it is difficult to explain what it is that makes the ending so worthwhile... first of all you get to see the core of the relationship between the two main characters. second of all you get to see the motives of the characters... they are aware of what their feelings are about, and the thing is that all human relationship share this concept, which makes the 'awareness' of the two main characters in NHK so fascinating.

if your grudge with the show is just that there's an unnecessary amount of episodes, then i agree. some didn't contribute much to the importance of the plot. the manga is alltogether very different.

lol not bad ,i laughed at yamazaki lmao

exactly what i was thinking. I gave this a 10/10 until the last episode.

I think that a lot of people who were expecting some kind of a kiss or some other romantic revelation are really missing the point. It's less about romantic love and more about how the ways in which human beings connect and in particular about two damaged people who help repair each other.

A kiss would have been SO out of place. This ending is outstanding.

I don't like open endings because they are fricken retarded. If i wanted to create my own story with random characters, I wouldn't read a book or watch a anime or watch a movie. I'd go write my own story.

You know what happens after the end of the story? Nothing. Because they aren't real. So just complete the story.

agreed on every point