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{{quote|''"Don't open it!"''|'''[[Punny Name|Kiri Komori]]''', ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]''}}
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* 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.]]
* 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
* 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.}}
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* [[House of Leaves]]: Johnny Truant, after working on The Navidson Record for a while.
* A non-anime example would be Eri Asai, from Haruki Murakami's novel ''After Dark''. After being deprived of a normal childhood because of her hectic modeling career, she abruptly locked herself in her room and went into deep periods of sleep, awakening only to eat and use the bathroom.
* Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, the protagonist of [[Oblomov|the eponymous novel]] by Ivan Goncharov, goes in a self-imposed exile from public life, not leaving his [[Tsarist Russia|Saint Petersburg]] apartment for 'years'. The novel was published in 1859, making this trope [[Older Than Radio]]. What's most interesting here is that such behavior wasn't seen as something really extraordinary for a wealthy Russian
* The main character of [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]'s ''Notes From Underground.''
** As well, [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Rodion]] [[Ax Crazy|Romanovich]] [[The Atoner|Raskolnikov]] from his ''[[Crime and Punishment]]''. The unhealthy amount of time he spends in his cramped, dingy apartment ([[Empathic Environment|emulating his mental state at the time]]) is theorized to be a contributing factor to the {{spoiler|murders he commits}}.
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* {{spoiler|Tsuyoshi}} in ''[[Sh15uya]]'' is revealed to have been one prior to having been put into the virtual Shibuya.
* 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
** Later on it's revealed that his brother Ambrose has the same condition, though Ambrose hasn't gotten over his. {{spoiler|He's eventually forced outside by Monk because his house was on fire.}}
* ''[[Psych]]'' had a one-shot hikikomori character who only went out on Thursdays to the convenience store and to buy video games. Once-a-day/week/month trips to a convenience store an ''extremely'' common hikikomori trait (as is only going out to buy games/anime/manga/etc).
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