That face at the end, that was priceless. Anyway, Sato meets up with his Hitomi, and they have coffee. Somehow he sort of blurts out he’s a hikikomori, but he’s O.K. with that, and he’s… I don’t get Sato. But yeah, she’s keep her strange calm exterior. And we see more of their past, and just how close of a relationship they had. Apparently they had sex on the last day of school… I didn’t remember that, so that was news to me. Here I thought Sato never got any. Well congrats, and I assumed she brought protection because Sato sure as hell didn’t. Anyway, with that weirdness out of the way, (like we’ll ever do that in this show) Sato confronts Misaki, and he tells her he’s a hikikomori. *gasps* After that, she begins counseling. And it’s basic, and Sato is a little offended because when she starts talking about psychology, she mentions Freud and she assumes he doesn’t know who he is. Because who doesn’t know who the hell doesn’t know who Sigmund Freud is!... I learned who he was a couple weeks ago. Anyway, after that Sato returns to Yamazaki with the script he wrote last night, and he looks to be changing for the better. Everything is awesome until… he steps on his precious statue. And… that face at the end, it was everything. It would be my face if somebody stepped and broke on my nerd stuff. Luckily my nerd stuff doesn’t include weird Japanese dolls, but no judging Yamazaki, you weird bastard, you. Anyway, I really liked this episode. It was more somber, and dealt more with the character. A light four for me on this one, but it was really really good. This is the part of the show you got the characters down, you know everyone, you’re intrigued, and you’re entertained. But it’s weird. It’s uncomfortable, but still somehow enlightening. Kind of like counseling…

Welcome to the NHK Episode 5 (Welcome to Counseling!) gets a 4/5

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