Of all the things I mentioned as positives for Welcome to the N.H.K. I forgot to add that this book is populated by crazy people.  I don't mean they think their Jesus or Napoleon crazy, but obsessed, compulsive craziness that drives the characters to do what they do.  The deeper into this story I get the more intrigued I become.  TokyoPop bills this series as a comedy, but I think that is a disservice to both this series and to straight comedic series.  This more of drama with a pinch f romance and fair helping of gallows humor.  Even the person who at first appears to be the most stable and together of the bunch turns out to have a lot of problems of their own.  By the close of this the most recent volume I am left with the conclusion that the main characters represent to sides of the same coin, and as a result are antaganistic toward each other as defense mechanism to keep from admitting that they are alike, and consequently being able to provide a counter balance for the other.  They both fear essentially the same thing, but they express it at opposite ends of the spectrum of human behavior.  Can they ever come to see that they need each other, but not as opposites, but rather as two parts of a whole.  Take these ramblings for whatever they are worth to you, I could be totally wrong, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense to me.

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