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[[File:hikikomori japan 8773.jpg|link=Axis Powers Hetalia|frame|[[Moe Anthropomorphism|Japan]], taking the art of being a hikikomori to the ''extreme''.]]

 

 

A psychological cultural disease, mainly present in Japanese culture, where a young person snaps [[Education Mama|under pressure]] and becomes socially and physically withdrawn into their household, often for years. Because of the social stigma and the assumption that [[There Are No Therapists|the person's family are the right people to handle the situation]], how many cases actually exist is uncertain.

 

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* Pictured above: Japan from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' refers to himself as a hikikomori in the strip alluding to Comodore Perry's arrival to Japan. Meeting the Americans after 200 years of isolation terrifies him so much that he almost has an [[Heroic BSOD]] at the mere idea of speaking to them.

** The strips with isolationist!Japan and Netherlands confirm this, as Japan locks himself in his room constantly and when Netherlands steps in he panicks and screams that he doesn't even want the sunlight to touch him. He even automatically curls up in a ball on the floor whenever he hears the word "open".

* At her introduction, Shiemi Moriyama from ''[[Blue Exorcist|Ao No Exorcist]]'' is one of these, but she overcomes it by the end of her introductory chapter.

* Chisame in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' apparently becomes one after high school for a few years, but later joins Negi's {{spoiler|Mars terraformation project}} as an adivsor. She already had something of the personality in the series, but wasn't as much of a recluse as these types usually are.

 

== Film ==

* [[Nerd Core]] artist Ultraklystron has [http://ultraklystron.bandcamp.com/track/hikikomori a single devoted to this].

* [[Entertainment for the Braindead]] portrays herself this way in some of her song lyrics. In "Resolution" she has to resolve to "leave the house at least once a day", and in "Relapse" she says, "I don't plan on leaving the house this year / If by then you still remember me, you'll find me here".

* "Isolated" by Chiasm is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].

* Alison Moyet - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t9wWgDOmek "Invisible"], [[Reclusive Artist|which reflected her real life situation for many years]].

* The video to Kim Wilde's ''Kids in America'' is about an agoraphobe, despite the song's lyrics.

 

== Theatre ==

* Marigold from ''[[Questionable Content]]'' started out as one (or very close to one. She obsessed over anime (especially hentai), works on a family company website from home and almost never leaves her apartment. Once she's introduced to the other characters, she begins to leave the apartment more.

** Hannelore used to qualify too, before we saw her. She suffers from some very severe OCD, and before the comic, she was a nervous wreck, incapable of surviving without assistance. When she is finally able to hug her father without freaking out from human contact, everyone present who knew her only as a child is shocked. By the time she appeared in the comic, while she wasn't exactly outgoing, she had advanced beyond this trope, as was much happier for it.

* [[Tower of God]]: Jaian Repellista Zahard is one of Zahard's Princesses, but ever since she got that sweet lighthouse she never left her room, spending her days spying on the tower and playing video games [https://web.archive.org/web/20140717083416/http://img.batoto.net/comics/2012/02/03/t/read4f2bbf1e9a9ac/img000011.jpg like Skyrim.]

 

== Web Original ==