u/HailLordBelial

I have a lot in my own digital collection on a removable hard drive.

Who else has an extensive collection?

I do this because tbh I don’t expect streaming to stay like it currently is. Especially free streaming sites. When I get old I’m gonna need my shows still to defeat boredom & lonliness.

The author of the book, Tatsuhiko Takimoto, admitted that he wrote Misaki as a pure escapist fantasy.

He was a real-life hikikomori at the time, and he desperately wished a girl like Misaki would magically appear to rescue him from his isolation.

He later warned readers that waiting around for a "Misaki" to save you is a trap, because it doesn't happen.

Specifically, Tatsuhiko Takimoto warned in the afterwords of the original 2001 novel and 2005 paperback edition that waiting for a "Misaki" figure to save one from isolation is a dangerous fantasy.

He admitted that the character was born from his own desperate need for escape while living as a real-life hikikomori, emphasizing that no one is coming to fix a person's life.

From my studies, all three of these characters came from Hokkaido, which would be the hillbilly “out in the rural boonies” type county folk in Japan.

Yes, Satou & Yamazaki are Japanese “rednecks” essentially.

& from what I read; they struggle more living nearby more industrialized areas like Tokyo, because of this childhood hillbilly setback. It makes life in Tokyo harder.

Hell… I even read that WAS (part of) WHY Satou was so scared of everyone & being judged & etc.