Sweaty dude fan service.
It is a reflection of an actual problem in Japanese society; with the low birthrate, it is fairly commonplace for adults to live with their parents until they are married, well into their late twenties or thirties.
Unfortunately, with so few ready career employment options available, many in this position remain in education or are underemployed for a comparatively long time, and around 3-5% are neither employed or in education.
We are seeing shades of the underemployment and “over”-education issues in the west, but in Japan, “living in your mother’s basement” is not a derogatory comment; it’s both expected and the norm.
NEETs never look like that. Especially if they eat junk food, never exercise and stay inside.
I think it is a bit overdone and somewhat of an example of pandering to an arguably significant part of the anime fanbase but pretty much everything is if youve watched enough anime.
…what’s a NEET?
Not in Employment, Education or Training
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The actual use has more of a connotation of somebody that isn’t contributing positively to society. For instance, just going off the acronym, you could call a stay-at-home parent or a retiree a NEET. However, the term NEET is usually used to refer to a young adult that is perceived to be wasting their time doing nonproductive things rather than contributing back to society or bettering themselves in some way.
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No. A student might also be jobless.
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Mangaka self inserts that always think they are better than everyone else.
I’m waiting for the day some anime producer is brave enough to make the anime equivalent of
, it would be pretty fun to watch since the anime industry seems to be too afraid of actually drawing an overweight character.
Also, not even Charlie (The Whale’s protagonist) is a NEET.
Oh don’t remind me. Almost every story where the MC is bullied for their supposedly uggly looks they are above average looking, slim and decently fit. Even in the few stories where the MC starts out fat they lose that weight as soon as the author can find an excuse to do so. It’s ridiculous.
Never been to Japan and not an expert on NEETs by any means but their portrayal in Anime/Manga/LNs seems awfully romanticized to me. A lot of the Stories featuring them feel a lot more like self-insert fantasies than actual stories with characters and plot (exception exist, for example Mushoku Tensei before the Truck hits). On the other hand western stories aren’t free of problems with self-insert stories either so overall it’s fine, just not made for me most of the time I guess.
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