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Welcome to the NHK Abridged
Welcome to the NHK Abridged Title block

Creator

CardboardLawyer

Starring

CardboardLawyer
ShamanStick
FlyingBandicoot
Adamwestslapdog

Run

09/27/2009 - 07/30/2011

Episodes

11

Link

Youtube Playlist

"MAIN ENTRY: HIKIKOMORI
PART OF SPEECH: N, ADJ
DEFINITION: A STATE OR CONDITION
OF ACUTE SOCIAL WITHDRAWAL"
- episode 1 opening text

Satou, a lazy good-for-nothing-asshole (aka. hikikomori) teams up with his neighbour Yamazaki to make a hentai video game to impress Misaki, a girl who is determined to put up with Satou's nonsense and cure him of being a hikikomori.

Production[]

Welcome to the NHK is the second series created by CardboardLayer, started after completing Phoenix Wright Abridged Attorney. Ezekieru is credited with making the opening title sequence, and FlyingBandicoot with helping to edit (first episode only).

A 12 second joke episode featuring a stick figure picture drawn by Adamwestlapdog (presently titled "Welcome to the NHK 10 and 11 by George dot wmv.jpg") was uploaded while the real episode was in production. A similar joke episode titled “NHK episode new.wmv” was uploaded between episodes 16 and 17.

Cast[]

  • CardboardLawyer - Satou
  • FlyingBandicoot - Misaki (ep. 3+)
  • ShamanStick - Yamazaki
  • Adamwestslapdog - ENDER
  • Xaiyuchan - Hitomi (aka. Senpai Girl)

Guest Stars:

Episode List[]

Episodes Air Date
Episode 1 Welcome to the Hell Hole! Sep 27th, 2009
Episode 2 (1.1) Welcome to the Belated Welcome! Oct 17th, 2009
Episode 3 Welcome to the Survival! Dec 1st, 2009
Episode 4 and 5 Welcome to the Chickity China Jan 31st, 2010
Episode 6, 7, 8 and 9

Welcome to the Goofy Understanding of Macro Pantology

Apr 1st, 2010
Episode 10 and 11 Welcome to the [Working Title] May 23rd, 2010
Episode 12-14 Welcome to Suicide Island Sep 2nd, 2010
Episode 15 and 16 Welcome to the Internet, Ladies Nov 28th, 2010
Episode 17-19 Welcome to the Greek Job Jan 30th, 2011
Episode 20-22 Welcome to the Goodbye May 26th, 2011
Episode 23-24 (Finale) Goodbye to the NHK Jul 16th, 2011

Running Gags[]

  • [Conflict: Resolved] and [Conflict: Unresolved] boxes at the bottom of the screen
  • Satou never signed Misaki’s contract. He doesn’t actually know that the reason he’s been meeting with her is because she’s been trying to cure him of being a hikikomori.
  • Bacon: With a Side of Rape is the title of the hentai game that Satou and Yamazaki are making
  • The stinger at the end of each episode is an odd narration by the ENDER
  • Satou is overwhelmingly enthusiastic and optimistic about everything to the point that he seems to ignore anything pessimistic said to him, or switch immediately to a happier topic such as his new goldfish named Goldie (which is mainly how he misses out on all of the hints that Hitomi drops about suicide)
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