In this thread we talk about the manga NHK Ni Youkoso!
> Japanese shut-ins, loli h-games and conspiracies, oh my!
Hooray for Jinmen acquiring this one! Two chapters released so far. Haven't compared their translation job to "the other one" but I doubt it could be worse!
It's a good book either way!
I totally agree !
yippie...i read the two last chapters.
and expected, it is not a happy ending!
Can someone please tell me which chapters correspond to which volume? :x
I know there are 8 volumes and 40 chapters...
I reckon the ending of the manga sucked. It was an abrupt ending, and the conclusion didn't explicitly tell us how the characters were afterwars, leaving it to our imagination. I hate it when that happens- rounded off endings, I mean. Just by reading that ending, how can we be sure Sato won't just descend into being a loser just like every previous way?
Ive just finished reading the NHK novel.
[spoilers]In the end, the story wasn't at all satisfying. I liked how yamazaki was more fleshed out in the novel than in the manga. However, the conclusion of the novel was at the same ntoe as the manga. It finished with some crapped up crazy events and an inconvincing suggestion that the characters were now happy and on the road to being productive members of society.
Wut? So now Satou, after failing several hundred times, can suddenly getoff his ass and do productive work? Yamazaki found a wife, after bitching endlessly about how real women are disgusting?
I feel that the author just half-assed the ending. Man, I just HATE crap endings.[spoilers]
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LOL it's like the idiot expected them to actually work.
Hey, Im not denying that im an idiot :)
You know, the author can't just pull out a suicide, which is the most probable happening, since this manga wouldn't be permitted?
Neither couldn't he pull off a really delusional happy ending for Sato.
Like you said, he has failed XXX times....why now?
The ending is consisting of crappy moral of the society ->
Accept your fucking fate and just go to work and serve for society.
Happieness is just most probably a illusion for the most of the people in the world.
A pity that the other one (from suicide pact) saved Sato from the Carbon Monoxide in the tent.
I have to say, I felt slightly dissatisfied about how the manga ended..
I felt that after all the problems, it tied up too neatly.
Still, I enjoyed it overall.
I'm not happy with the ending of manga too, but anime version has a better ending i think.
Anime ending is closer to the novel at least.
I first read this online. I recently bought all of them though because I liked it so much. But when I first read it I thought there were only 38 chapters so I thought the end of chapter 38 was it. Although It was very depressing it makes sense. The manga though is so full of emotion though I don't think I've ever read anything else that made me feel so much. I liked the actual ending though even though it was more unrealistic it wasn't that unrealistic. Satou and Yamazaki were still trying to make a galge and Satou was still unemployed. I loved it though my favorite manga by far