-oyasumi- Nhk Ni Youkoso - Welcome To The Nhk - -

In one, you go outside. You buy a can of coffee. A girl smiles at you. You run away.

You pull the blanket over your head. The blanket is a bunker. Underneath it, the world shrinks to the size of a manga panel. You hear the old woman next door watering her plants. She waters them every morning. You imagine the roots drinking, growing, plotting. She is probably a scout for the Hikikomori Eradication Project . The water is actually a pheromone that makes you want to join a cult. -Oyasumi- NHK ni Youkoso - Welcome to the NHK -

"No."

Oyasumi, sekai (Goodnight, World)

The NHK fee collector hasn't come in three weeks. That's the longest he's ever waited. He's training. Next time, he'll bring a battering ram shaped like a TV license. In one, you go outside

Oyasumi, oyasumi.