Welcome to the N-H-K — Season 1, Episode 7: Welcome to the Moratorium!

Episode synopsis

Ever since his panic attack at Kaoru’s designs school, Tatsuhiro has become even more of a hikikomori and hasn’t stepped out once. However something unexpected has happened as he receives a phone call from his mom, who’s wants to meet him to see what he has planned for the future. Tatsuhiro feels that he’ll just end up being dragged back home due to his current lifestyle, so he ends up lying to his mom that he works for a company and has a girlfriend. This will prove to be a very troublesome lie but luckily Misaki volunteers to help.

About Welcome to the N-H-K

Sato is a tangle of anxieties and conspiracy theories, believing that the nefarious N-H-K wants to turn society’s misfits into a mob of hopeless recluses. Mysterious Misaki might be able to help Sato overcome his phobias—if she can pull him out of his existential foxhole and get him to face the world.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Welcome to the Project!
• E2Welcome to the Creator!
• E3Welcome to the Beautiful Girl!
• E4Welcome to the New World!
• E5Welcome to Counselling!
• E6Welcome to the Classroom!
• E8Welcome to Chinatown!
• E9Welcome to Summer Days!
• E10Welcome to the Dark Side!
• E11Welcome to the Conspiracy!
• E12Welcome to the Offline Gathering!
• E13Welcome to Heaven!