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{{quote|''"Don't open it!"''|'''[[Punny Name|Kiri Komori]]''', ''[[Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]''}}
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* 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-..."''
* {{spoiler|Kitahara}} towards the end of ''[[Onani Master Kurosawa]]''. Like everything after the [[Wham! Episode]], played tragically, hauntingly straight -- {{spoiler|we get to see when she finally ''snaps'' from all the abuse, bloodily cutting herself with a wood carving tool in response to two girls taunting her; when the main character comes to visit months later her mother is openly hysterical about saying the wrong thing to her and pushing her over the edge; It's shown she has good reason to be afraid of accidentally pushing her, too, as Kitahara has apparently attempted suicide 5 separate times during the past few months; when she finally does leave the room, she's reduced to panic attacks by all the sights, sounds, and wide empty spaces, and the idea of meeting people reduces her to tears. It takes a [[Cooldown Hug]] by the main character, along with a [[Patrick Stewart Speech]] about how important connecting with others is, to bring her out of it for good.}} Unfortunately, the [[There Are No Therapists|other]] almost universal trope in manga is ''also'' played straight.
* [[Great Teacher Onizuka]] encounters one such shut-in; one of the other students realizes that the kid is a hikkikomori when he asks the family about his activities and learns that he only leaves the house to buy train schedules because he's a train enthusiast.
* The main character of Holyland Yuu, used to be this before street fighting.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Endgame (TV)|Endgame]]'': Arkady Balagan after witnessing the death of his fiancee. He shuts himself up in a hotel.
* {{spoiler|Tsuyoshi}} in ''[[
* Curtis from the Canadian series ''Twitch City'' can be interpreted as a Western example. He's an agoraphobic Canadian TV [[Otaku]] who never leaves his Toronto apartment if he can possibly help it.
* The title character of ''[[Monk]]'', Detective Adrian Monk, was a complete shut-in immediately after his wife's death. The canon story was that while he was always a neurotic freak, Trudy Monk was the one person who helped him keep his anxieties at bay and function normally. Once she died, he had a [[Heroic BSOD]] and shut himself up in his San Francisco home, not leaving for three years straight. It isn't until the arrival of his nurse Sharona that he starts transitioning back into society -- well, transitioning as best as Mr. Monk can. Even as the series progresses, Mr. Monk is still getting used to simple things like going outside.
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