Welcome to the N.H.K./Nightmare Fuel

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  • Welcome to The NHK ends what's a pretty silly two-episode plot on MMORPG addiction by dramatizing the main character at 50 years old, still mooching off his parents and addicted to the same MMO. Still having done nothing with his life, his elderly parents write his life off completely before the story fast forwards, they die, and he's done for. Though this is supposedly played for laughs, it's a real Adult Fear a lot of people, who would find the Family-Unfriendly Aesop to be disturbing.
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