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* In the first ''[[Hell Girl]]'' anime series, there's a female hikikomori whose school teacher tries to reach out to her. At the same time she is communicating with what appears to be another student online. That person is actually her teacher (who isn't aware that the person he's talking to online and the student he's trying to help are the same person). [[Hilarity Ensues|He encourages her to send her teacher to Hell.]]
* One ''[[Sakigake Cromartie Koukou|Cromartie High School]]'' episode involves a guy who's tough and violent in real life, but friendly on the internet. He starts losing patience when a troll directs a string of nasty posts at him -- ending with the deadly insult of calling him a hikikomori. (He then punches a guy out on the street for bumping into him, [[Dramatic Irony|unaware that it's the troll]].)
* In the soccer manga ''Meister'', one of the [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] in the school's soccer team is Koori Taira, an admitted hikikomori who seems dually based on L from ''[[Death Note]]'' and Gosunkugi from ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma One Half½]]''. He's antisocial, confrontational, self-centered, and seems to think he has hypnotic powers. But he's also the core of the team's defense and a generally unstoppable engine on the field.
* Yuu Matsuura in ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' was this close to become a hikikomori at age 12, {{spoiler|when he found a letter written by his grandmother, which hinted that the man he knew as his dad wasn't his biological father.}}
* In ''[[xxxHolic]]'', Yuuko essentially forces one of her clients to become one when the price of the wish is that she never allow her image to be captured on film ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]).
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