/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I am looking for my Misaki who will save me from this pathetic life and bring me out.

Where are you, my misaki?

Calling all the NEETS, shut-ins and hikikomoris. How's life?

hello /jp/, i'm not from around and some people I know over at /mu/ suggested I ask this question here:

My cultural studies professor is obsessed for some reason with the Japanese culture and today I need to write a 2 page paper on the Hikikomori subculture in Japan, mostly describing it. Any info on where I can find some reliable information? It doesn't matter if it's not academic material.

Thanks in advance!

/jp/ would rather stay inside and sleep all day. Try Craigslist or something next time.

Welcome fellow NEETS/Hikkis/Emotionally stunted peoples with traumatic first world pasts.

How was your day? Oh, the same depressing routine where you brood about little-to-none productivity and how your brain refuses to funnel energy into tasks other than the internet? Never would've expected that. Or how about you having physical spasms over rememberng embarassing things that you've done in the past? Have you ever blurted out obscenities because of it?

Who do you blame your problems on?

any hikikomories? report in.

NEET/Hikikomori thread.

Anyone having a depression relapse?

So /jp/, as of next week, I will officially be graduating from neet status. Landed a job 4 states over and just put down a deposit for an apartment. Just turned 25 and had still been living at home, but I guess we all gotta grow up sometime huh?

This is the furthest I've been away from home ever before and I don't know anyone in this new town. I can't leach off my parents anymore, but at least I'm making enough money to live on my own now. The combination of vast distance and being away from anyone I've ever known is making me feel nerve-wracking. This whole week from when I accepted the job offer to now has been like a dream. Then it really hit me when I started packing up all my manga and anime figures into a box. This feeling of nostalgia and homesickness is pouring through me like a wave.

I'm fucking terrified out of my mind right now /jp/. I'm feeling all kinds of feels I've never felt before. Is this what growing up feels like?

Also, listening to this song might be contributing to my feels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2IPU05tZ2k&feature=related

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How does people afford being a NEET or Hikikomori?

Do you get some kind of money support in japan if you are unemployed for an infinite amount of time?