


The first outing of hardcore gaming anime No Game No Life has aired, hoping to appeal to the hopeless gamer NEET crowd with its social outcast sob story concerning highly skilled gamers getting swept away to a game world as an escape from reality – with an adorable heroine for acquiring the attention of the the non-NEETs whose wallets will need to be pried open for the disc release.
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A NEET has been arrested for partaking of paid sex with a schoolgirl he paid to walk around Akihabara.
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Japan’s population of NEETs continues to burgeon despite the supposed success of Abenomics, with the proportion of young people now engaged in providing “home security” now at record levels.
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Shaft has taken taken a break from magical puellae and monstrous monogatari to kick off this season with an adaptation of hikikimori imouto light novel Sasami-san@Ganbaranai – though unfortunately many viewers were left wondering what it was they had just viewed.
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A hikikomori who concluded the only way to end his shut-in status was to burn his home to the ground is currently battling arson charges, on the grounds that he was insane at the time.
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Yet another hikikomori has stabbed to death his mother, in this case “for not being kind enough” after he resolved to stop being a hermit.
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The tale of a long-suffering imouto who would rather see her anime otaku brother dead than continuing his NEET existence has moved many online – and given that NEETs, hikikomori and otaku are widely regarded as the lowest forms of life in Japan, many are moved only to condemn her brother’s parasitic existence.
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Record numbers of young Japanese are choosing to kill themselves rather than face the prospect of becoming dirty NEETs, according to police suicide statistics, with their numbers more than doubling in the last 4 years.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Apr 27, 2012 05:45 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Akihabara, Arson, Crime, Idol, Maids, NEETs, Otaku, Tokyo

A gang of otaku who robbed and burnt dozens of properties in Tokyo have confessed that they committed their crimes so they could afford to attend AKB48 concerts and visit Akiba maid cafes.
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An old man who lives naked and alone on a tropical Okinawa island, subsisting only off the natural bounty of his monthly care package, has lately been picked up by the international media – although Japanese have been rather less sympathetic, with some denouncing him as a mere hikikomori or homeless, or worse yet, a dirty NEET…
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Thankfully having nothing better than to expose herself to random strangers on the Internet, this 19-year-old NEET has been sharing her less than private bathtime with all comers – although only the once, as they appear to have displeased her somehow with their chaotic deport, and she vows they are the last people she would want to meet… not that this is likely to put off her now fuller foldered admirers.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 31, 2012 21:30 JST
- Tags: Crime, Hikikomori, Mental Illness, Murder, NEETs, Otaku, Suginami, Suicide, Tokyo

A hikikomori who carved up his brothers with a kitchen knife and then hanged himself after his twin brother dared to tell him to get a job has been highlighting the dangers of hikikomori interventions…
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