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NHK ni Youkoso!
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Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
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In order to make friends, one has to socialise. To do that, one has to go outside. But in order to go outside, one has to leave their comfort zone, opening up to the world. Both stories work when viewed succession, as it follows the struggles of all of the above statements.
While Welcome to the NHK follows Tatsuhiro Sato, a college dropout who cannot leave his comfort zone and go outside, Haganai, follows Kodaka Hasegawa who stuggles to socialise and make friends. Even though both characters are completely different, they can still be related to in some ways.
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Both shows deal with the concept that loners are freaks, with nearly all the core cast members being outcasts who don't have any friends except, in some cases, each other. However, "Haganai" is lot more comedy-focused, with the dysfunctions of the characters just being eccentricities (and the main character is actually completely normal), while "Welcome to the NHK", while certainly funny, is more drama-based and deals with very real issues such as anxiety, paranoia and mental illness.
Both are worth watching, though "NHK" is better due to being deeper and more unique, as opposed to "Haganai" which is more of the mainstream.
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