The protagonist believes NHK is an association that is part of a vast conspiracy to purposely create hikikomori through various moe anime programs designed to keep people at home: Of course, originating as a Japanese phenomena, a fair amount of hikikomori "tropism" is found in Japanese forms of popular entertainment such as anime and manga.Ī prime example being the manga and anime series N・H・Kにようこそ!, (Welcome to the N.H.K.) where the main protagonist is a hikikomori or NEET who believes that Japan's public broadcasting network's acronym, NHK ( Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai or 日本放送協会 in kanji) actually stands for " Nihon Hikikomori Kyōkai", or 日本引きこもり協会 in kanji. TV Tropes does a nice job of detailing hikikomori found in popular entertainment here. As a result, hikikomori are increasingly showing up in fictional storylines and even as the main protagonists. Since hikikomori came to public attention in 19 due to a number of sensational news stories, hikikomori as a concept has crept into the media and popular entertainment discourse. Or US animated show South Park's scathing skit on all the popular Internet fads of recent years in the US:īut even in other formats and genre of media, "tropes" can a be a handy storytelling device for a writer or producer as it adds an interesting wrinkle to the planned story-line. I suppose the most extreme example of trope exploitation are types of entertainment that trade on a series of inside jokes on current cultural events such as animated show Family Guy: There's a lot of interesting interlinked media tropes found at the site ( such as the internet and " rule #34"). ![]() Tropes being common themes or relatively predictable ideas introduced to an audience as a type of literary "short hand" as it may be assumed by the writer or producer that the reader/viewer is already familiar with it. I find it interesting in that it is a collaborative cataloging of not just TV but general media "tropes". I've known about the wiki project called for a some time now.
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