> Go to the local manga store, trying to see if they have Welcome to the NHK, cause even though I read it online I like owning physical copies.> Know its unlikely since it ended in like 2007 and the store I went to is mostly Demon Slayer and My Hero shit anyways, but figured might as well try. (I had money to spend. Felt like celebrating)> Too scared to ask about the manga, so go through all the shelves searching for it for like 50 minutes.> Cant find it so I eventually go up to the lady at the counter cause she seems nice and last time she helped me when I couldnt find a volume of Inside Mari.> I ask about it and she frowns like she didnt hear me. Asks me to repeat the title, which I do. Makes me repeat it like 3 times, then types it in her computer, saying really loud for the whole place to hear: Welcome to the NHK, you say???> I just nod, trying not to die. Dude next to me side eyes me. I want to disappear.> Lady goes: Thats way too old. Why would we have that ?Again, it ended in 2007. They still carry 90s manga so idk what her point was)> I apologize and get the hell out. I miss when manga stores didnt make you wanna kill yourself.
Imagine the smell of stinky unhygienic dweeb neets at rhe manga store
>>82673383why would you go to the store for something you're unlikely to find instead of buying it online?
>>82673436It used to be like that and it used to be a good place.>>82673440Because the weather was nice and I was having a good day. I realize my mistake now.
>>82673440he's lonely and wanted human interaction until he didn't anymore
Used to go to the manga store with my (ex) gf, but that was ~15 years ago. Haven't had a gf since
>>82673529If she were the same age now as back then I am sure she would be streaming/cosplay/onlyfans but it wasn't really a big thing then.
90% of the people who watched or read NHK don't understand it anyway, they just view it as "cute girl saves loser who has crippling anxiety" and don't dive deeper into it.
>>82673529Way to brag. Going to the manga store alone in this day and age is a humiliation ritual.
>>82673383Holy shit you have a whole ass store JUST for manga?
>>82673718I live in a big city so theres like 4 of them within 20 minutes from where I live, actually. You dont have those?
>>82673741No. In my tiny shitass city there is a bookstore with one cuckshelf of manga with the most boring shit possible. I am mad jelly
>>82673678If its not about that, then what is it about?
>>82673383never go into a manga store if a foid is working there, they arent really capable of liking manga so theyre just theyre out of sadism
>>82675501Does that apply to Japanese women?
>>82675619Yeah probably since anime and manga is seen childish over there
>>82675501No but like usually shes really nice. Maybe she just had a bad day or something. Or just genuinely didnt realize that yelling the name of a NEET manga Im trying to buy through the entire store might make me wanna kms idk. But it was awful and I will go back to online shopping.
>>82675694>Or just genuinely didnt realize that yelling the name of a NEET manga Im trying to buy through the entire store might make me wanna kms idk.Meh, she shits and pisses too. Who cares.
>>82675694Wouldn't you want to do something about your social anxiety?
>>82675720I wouldnt say that I have social anxiety. More like social situations usually dont turn out how I want them to, so Id rather avoid them all together. But if they went well for once, I wouldnt be scared of them. Its the worlds fault, not mine. (Obviously!)
