Welcome to the N.H.K. Volume 3

Welcome to the NHK #3

by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Kenji Oiwa

Follows the bizarre journey of Sato Tatsuhiro, a drug-addled shut-in who believes a sinister organization, the N.H.K., is the cause of all of his troubles and his relationship with Misaki, a girl he thinks is trying to kill him, but who becomes the love of his home-bound life.

Genres: Manga, Comics, Drama, Shonen, 漫画, Psychological, Graphic Novels

208 pages, Paperback

First published May 25, 2005

About the author

Tatsuhiko Takimoto (Japanese: 滝本 竜彦) is a Japanese author best known for his novel Welcome to the N.H.K.

Reviews

[Olly · Rating 4 out of 5]

A volte è come guardarsi allo specchio, ho quasi paura a leggere questo manga.

[Stewart Tame · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still liking this series. Misaki attempts to shame Satou into getting a job. His vision of himself still living with his parents at fifty is both hilarious and chilling. In his search, he encounters an old classmate who introduces him to a multi level marketing scheme that bears a more than passing resemblance to an actual company (let's just say it begins with "A" and rhymes with "Spamway.") Misaki attempts to free him from its clutches with less than stellar results ...

[LNEnjoyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love how it’s progressively getting more and more serious in regards to Sato and the way he feels entrapped in his own mind. I can’t wait to see how he changes, that’s if he does change. But i am seeing myself a lot in sato he is a very relatable character and I’ve never related this much to any fictional character in my opinion despite me only being on vol. 3.

[Rahul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Feels more real than the real world.

[Jon Ureña · Rating 3 out of 5]

A scattered volume. It contains the "arcs" about the protagonist, Satou, wasting weeks on an online game while his "therapist", Misaki, tries to get him out of it, and also the part about him falling prey to a pyramid scheme. I thought both were handled better in the anime. In the first one the relationship between Satou and that catgirl healer is developed more, so you get to care about both to a reasonable extent by the time the hammer drops. This arc also suffered from me having seen the show Net-juu no Susume, that features as well an isolated main character that meets someone special through a MMO, but in that case with less black comedy-esque consequences.



The second arc, about the pyramid scheme, gets resolved in the anime, but here it doesn't. He can't return the stuff, and he's being pursued by debt collectors.

Additionally, the manga version of Misaki tries to break Satou down through bondage, which maybe disappeared from the anime because of that reason.

As the high point, Satou meeting his high school senpai for a date despite her getting married soon. She's always interesting to have around, constantly engaged in a tug-of-war between securing a life for herself that won't collapse and feeling at ease with herself, which usually involves falling as low as abusing drugs or getting involved with complete black holes like the protagonist. Beyond Satou's interrupting delusions, she actually offers to have an affair with him, but Satou doesn't want to contribute to her instinct for self destruction, and just goes back home to his miserable life.

[Marcelo Flores · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ahora la vida del protagonista tropieza y cae a en la adicción a los videojuegos y las estafas piramidales, vemos como estos elementos quieren ofrecer cierto resguardo a los más desesperados, pero no son otra cosa que depredadores de los vulnerables. Nuevamente el autor ilumina temas tan oscuros con un fantástico humor negro.

[Ella · Rating 2 out of 5]

This manga sucks

[David Doel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is beginning to look like a journey through the underbelly of civilization. I'm not sure where it's headed but the story is holding my interest.

[Jun · Rating 2 out of 5]

Why am I still reading this

Just how bad can these characters get and just how long can they continue to get con. I have no clue.

[Rhys · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok it’s starting to get a bit repetitive I would really like to see some character development. 7.8/10

[TG Lin · Rating 4 out of 5]

這一集講到的老鼠會（多層次傳銷），故事誇張搞笑，但社會背景卻十分真實…

[Armando Hernández · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story is getting lame, Satou is getting more and more debts for stupid reasons, they don't continue with the video game production, also Misaki is less funny, the only good part of this volume was when Satou was playing online and Misaki try to separate him from the computer using tricks as wear her high school uniform or wear kitty ears.

[Minty-chan~ · Rating 2 out of 5]

unhhhh! sato keeps getting more in debt - and for such fustratingly dumb reasons! why are they so impressionable? and they are getting nowhere with the erogame production!
and yet i find myself continuing their story.....
dont mind me....

[Lynda Fox · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read the first 3 of this series, and didn't care much for any of them. Hey, what can I say, I had them, I should read them. I will not be reading anymore of this.

[La Revistería Comics · Rating 3 out of 5]

No recuerdo muy bien de qué iba este tomo, pero por lo que se ve en la portada, ¡¡todo indica que es un crossover con Ishida de Bleach!!

[Dony Grayman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Edición argentina sin sobrecubiertas ni páginas a color que probablemente repite ISBN de la española. Tomo 3 de 8.

[Derrick Rodriguez]

How can i read it