Hikikomori: Difference between revisions

* A serious example, taken to extremes, is Takumi, the protagonist of ''[[Chaos;Head]]''. He lives in a shipping crate surrounded by anime figures, is deluded enough to see anime girls talking to him, and is paranoid to the extreme. The effects of his personality and lifestyle on the characters and situations he (reluctantly) encounters are the major part of the story.

* 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.]]

* 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]]''. 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.}}

* ''[[Eden of the East]]'' has Itazu Yutaka. Called Panties, not only because the kanji in his name can be read that way but also because he became a recluse after losing his only pair of pants. {{spoiler|In the movies, he is no longer one.}}

* Leopard of ''[[Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo]]'' has the distinction of being anime's first hikikomori AI.

* Chrona from ''[[Soul Eater]]'' seems to display symptoms of this, as [[Ambiguous Gender|he/she]] has a distinct trouble interacting with people due to an abusive upbringing. Prefers to stay in his/her room in [[Fan Nickname|Mister Corner]], often for several days at a time.

* Tomohiko Yamada of ''[[Satou Kashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai]]'' hasn't left his house in three years, and rarely leaves the comfort of his statue, book, and video filled room. Even his mother recognizes that he fits this trope: ''"Tomohiko has that rather popular condition, right? What is it? Hi... hi... hiki-..."''