Tatsuhiko Takimoto

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[Website](http://tatsuhikotakimoto.com/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/tatsuhikotkmt) | [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/TTTKMT) 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

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