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Oct 23, 2020
Ok, so i've just finished this anime, so i may be in the hit of the moment, but if it wasn't for some episodes that kinda bored me and tell myself that this wasn't going anywhere and that it was a solid 7, i would give this a 10/10.

Spoilers warning. (and personal experiences and probably akwardness coming warning hehe)

So i came with high expectations to this anime, i didn't know anything else about it than that it was about a NEET. With that in mind, and seeing only good things about it, i entered into watching it.

First couple of episodes, great. But then, all the way before episode 13-14 (The off meeting arc), i just wanted to drop it, but i still had faith that it was going somewhere and for something. Then, the off meeting arc happened, and (being kinda personal) i just didn't expect what i was about to see. This entire couple of episodes were a 10 for me. I just couldn't tell what just happened. I never cry with anime, just a couple times (with anohana, death parade, and koe no katachi; which all of them where just tears), but, the scene where the old man reunites with his son, just teared me up like nothing, and i just couldn't help but throw some tears out of my eye.

The following episodes were good, but not as good as the just mentioned. The pyramidal scam episodes were just ok. Like, i did not love either hate it, i just didn't care a lot about it. But then, in the episode where Yamazaki leaves Tokyo, hit me, not as hard to want to tear up, but it was there.

Ever since that episode, things were starting to pick up, every episode seemed like it had a purpose. But in my book, it was still a solid 7.

But then, the last 2 episodes came in. When the ambulance came to pick up Misaki, i just wanted to cry for some reason, i don't know if it was because the suicide topic is a sensitive thing to me because of personal experiences, or just because i was so connected to the characters that i just couldn't help but feel pain for what Misaki was going through.

Then, they get to the mountain thing, Sato obviously making me furious for not making ok decisions and being a jerk (i'll talk about it later) and Misaki at a thin line of dying. The rest of that episode just, i don't know, but, just hit me really hard. Everyone was better. All of this time, wanting things happening, they happened, and better. And just watching as this series ended, those flashbacks at the final credits made me want to tear up, but i holded up.

Then, for some reason i can't explain, when coming here to MAL to make the review, i just started crying. Like, crying like if a dear friend died, or something bad happened to a friend or family member, that kind of crying.

It's the first time it has ever happened to me. Not on anime, but on every media. I just can't explain what happened to me. But the fact that this show managed to get me crying after finishing it, it's amazing.

I would love to give this a 10 because of how many things this show made me feel, but i know i'll regret it later, just like i did with Death Parade, that i gave it an inmediate 10, just to change a couple weeks later.

The characters were incredible, the only one i didn't like was Sato, the main character. Like, i get he is a hikkikomori, but that doesn't give you the right to be such an assh0le to everyone. Everyone wanted to help him, but he just didn't want help because... just because no.

The rest of the characters were pretty solid and i empathized so much with the main ones that i just couldn't help but to feel pain, sadness, happiness and other feeling when something happened to them.

This show i know will be important to me, and i just wanted to delete my memories of it, so i could watch it again, and cry like a little boy for the first time i've done in years.

Thanks for everything, Welcome to the NHK.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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