TAKIMOTO Tatsuhiko
Website | Twitter | YouTube Tatsuhiko Takimoto is a Japanese author, best known for Welcome to the NHK!, which began as a single novel that went on to be published by Kadokawa Shoten on January 28, 2002. The story was later adapted as a manga series in Shounen Ace. Takimoto wrote two afterwords in various editions of his novel. In the first afterword, dated December 2001, he stated that he was a hikikomori and was still recovering: "... the themes addressed in this story are not things of the past for me but currently active problems." In a second Afterword, dated April 2005, Takimoto admitted that he had not written "a single new story" since N.H.K. and that he was "reduced to a NEET, ... living as a parasite on the royalties from this book." He stated that he felt "completely unable to write" and "incapacitated." In 2016, a little over ten years after his last afterword, Takimoto created a blog post about "Welcome to the NHK", which could be considered a third afterward. Takimoto posted this to discuss his current feelings about his story: "... I could not write what I wanted to write. I have been stuck for years in this sense of failure and frustration." Takimoto elaborates on the ending of “Welcome to the NHK”, explaining how he used the “rush” method to make the “... characters “run” to get into the climax. This led to Takimoto writing a story that left him discontented:…
TAKIMOTO Tatsuhiko is credited as an author on 2 readable works in this catalogue, with publication years from 2004 to 2008.
Common themes in this collection include Drama, Male Protagonist, Psychological, Romance, Shounen, Action.
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