goth volume welcome

books:

Welcome to the N.H.K. 6
Tatsuhiko/ Oiwa, Kendi Takimoto

Tokyopop, 2008

Welcome to the N.H.K., Volume 7
Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Kendi Oiwa

TokyoPop, 2008

Satou and Kashiwa almost have an affair while living together. After a heated argument Kashiwa decides to give her marriage another chance. Soon after, Satou is finally reunited with Yamazaki, who was actually working as a host in the red-light district. Having had a taste of the 'real' world, Yamazaki is bitter and angry - vowing to blow up the 'great evil' that has ruined his and Satou's life.

Welcome to the N.H.K., Volume 3

1 review

TokyoPop, 2007

Want to cut yourself off from the real world a little more?
How about joining a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG)? That's just what Satou does after almost losing his life to a suicide pact last volume. In yet another get rich quick scheme, this time by trying to become a gold/item farmer in a fairly obvious parody of Final Fantasy XI, Satou finds himself unable to disconnect from the virtual world where he's not only a hero, but ...

Welcome to the N.H.K., Volume 2

1 review
Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Kendi Oiwa

TokyoPop, 2007

Mom is coming to visit... you're single, desperate, and suicidal... what do you do?
In Satou's case, you get your young missionary friend to act like your girlfriend and lie to your mother. That's what starts off volume 2 of Welcome to the NHK as Satou and Misaki try and put one over on his Mom so she doesn't worry. This comes in the midst of increasing worries over not being able to write a convincing script for his Eroge (Erotic-game) project with computer programmer ...

Welcome to the N.H.K., Volume 4

1 review
Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Kendi Oiwa

TokyoPop, 2007

OTAKU WITH GIRL TROUBLE
Unlike most otaku, Satou and Yamazaki both find themselves having girl trouble in Volume 4 of Welcome to the NHK. They're both also having parent problems as well. Yamazaki is beginning to make inroads with a classmate named Nanako that he likes but he is being ordered home to take care of the family business. Satou has wants Misaki out of his life and gets another shock when he finds out his old ...

Welcome to the N.H.K., Volume 6
Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Kendi Oiwa

TokyoPop, 2008

Satou's hallucinations of Angel-Misaki are getting worse! Having run away from home, he now turns to arcades and pachinko bars for relief...but blows all his money and is reduced to nothing more than a homeless bum. With Yamazaki struggling with his own girl problems, who is Satou to turn to now? Fates are intertwined and character secrets revealed in this volume of otaku-hell!

Welcome to the N.H.K., Volume 8
Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Kendi Oiwa

TokyoPop, 2008

We last left off with Misaki offering herself to Shirou, but she can't turn her back on Satou. Yamazaki is convinced that building a garden of illegal herbs will create a strong enough revolution to free all Otaku from society's oppression long with the help of hentai games. The experience brings each of them closer and when Yamazaki goes to his parents' house, Satou and Misaki start living together. In the end, Satou takes another crack at ...

GOTH

3 reviews
Otsuichi, Kendi Oiwa

TokyoPop, 2008

great
i really enjoyed this manga, it's one of my favourites. it has something of a morbid story line, focused around various cases of murder... but i wouldn't say it's primarily a murder mystery. there is definitely that aspect to the story, but because the main characters react as they do to these murders.. well lets say that the death helps to set the mood of the story more than drive plot (at the ...

Welcome to the N.H.K., Volume 5

1 review
Tatsuhiko Takimoto

TokyoPop, 2007

A quick return to madness
Saitou is being forced back home, Yamazaki is being pressured into going back home, and Misaki's "project" risks being a failure. So far this trio has been together in one fashion or another--is now being split apart. This volume while showing their further fall into madness gives a bit more background story to each of them; including a not often mentioned character and her problems dealing with ...