Hikikomori

I guess if I were to live alone it could end up looking remotely like that too. My family doesn't buy into the idea that a laundry basket is just a box, and so is my room...

Hoo!!! is too sad... the have a serious problems... they need help...

Pictures 9 & 10...That bed especially looks like it needs cleaning ^^; How do the people get around their house with so much stuff?

Ok...I think I'm going to hurl.

WOW. I don't even know what to say...its almost amazing. XD

-_- seriously those are some messy places, totally take a dumpster and a bunch of boxes to those places... its not hard to keep it at least a little tidy lol unless they have some problem ^_^;;

Wow, my room sometimes gets to a state of being really untidy but it could never get like that.
I just recently tidied my room and it feels so spacious looking at those makes me sort of feel claustrophobic.

I don't get it- if that room's where they spend the most of their... Well, life, wouldn't they want to make it a bit more, if not clean, then at least a bit more organized? How do they even manage to get in/out of the room when they go to the toilet, or to grab food without damaging the manga, anime, and stuff that's all over the floor? Some of these rooms look as if they're even garbage dumpsters- there's plastic bags full of garbage all over them, and some look like a homeless dude sleeps there- he/she just piled up all the stuff they own in that single, utterly filthy and disorganized space!

Or, is it just a way of silent protest against all social norms that we know of? PUNK&ANARCHY!!

oh my.
I'm probably going to end up like that with the cleaning habits I have. ._____.

This is seriously something that strikes the eyes. I can understand that people in Japan resent hikikomori and otaku, if they have this as an example of one.

I'm gonna have to be careful not to end up like that with my room >.>

Or is it too late?

Holy ---- (Previous Oh my! reaction stolen by Jello; ^_^)
The question is, how does one move around?

they seem to be missing a floor??? lols

GOOD LORD!! Well, ベルさん over at Figure.fm made me feel bad by saying that his room is more tidy than mine, but at least I can say it's not like THAT!!!

Now those are my kinda Rooms!! Very Spacious! Have Fun On Wonderfest Danny!!! ^ ^

All of those rooms remind me of Welcome to the NHK. I gather the manga artist must have included rooms like that in his research.

I like keeping things tidy and in order, so I'm pretty sure my room will never look like that. ^_^

I'm sorry, but this is just sad. My room has gotten really cluttered before, but never got to this state. Some of theses look like garbage dumps. (I should really be thankful that I have such a large bedroom)

Perhaps the pictures are of people in the middle of Spring cleaning. My room kind of resembles that when I remove all my things off my shelves to dust it off and then reorganize my things into keep and dispose piles. Finally, I stuff the things in the dispose pile into garbage bags and stack the other things back onto my shelves.

I don't have the tidiest room but if my desk gets too cluttered after a few days I go on a cleaning spree. I can't live in a place like those photos.

for the first time I saw a room that more horrible than mine !!

my room was like this when I was back in secondary school but not like this. ^^;;

And I complain that my room is like a storage unit...they have it a lot worse...

GAH - those rooms give me nightmares!

Im a very tidy person, and i like minimal clutter and a simplified living space!

Except for that last one those are painful to look at, how could anybody live in such a state? That last one is kinda cool with all the books stacked up, fine if it's a storage room rather than a bedroom.

Wow, just wow.

Ok, I'm not a clean freak, but some of these are disgusting!
I've been cleaning out and reorganizing the computer room partially for otacool, but mostly I wanted to ditch some clutter before the fall and better utilize the space.
The bedroom is next, but thats more of just the workbench in the corner that needs some sorting out.

Is this where Megumi Noda lives? Looks like there's a ton of neat stuff in there, and a ton of not so neat stuff. *sees futon* (=_=);

Yeah.. wow... That futon.. ick. Trash.. everywhere.. Ick

I'm not a neat freak by anymeans.. but if I lived like this, I'd expect my buddies to come and kick the crap out of me till I cleaned my act up.

Poor things.

Damn, that looks AWFUL. In NYC there's the occasional report of a person's home being filled with trash just like this, and those guys usually died in their garbage....

What the..!??! R u Serious!?!?! Oooooh may God!!! No comment....

I can't understand how people could live in their own rubbish... It's just so sad.

I lold at the video tape there called "GODDAMN"

I'm a hikikomori in a sense, but I would never live in a place that nasty. I spend most of my time indoors but I prefer living in a semi-clean environment.

Just like Pantsu in Higashi no Eden. ^-^

With such room... I'll sure get fired by my parents, housemate or landlord for sure!

Generally I'm not that perfect as in keeping everything in order but at least I organize my items so I can easily access them when I need to without ransacking the whole house. ^_^;

That is just...how do they live like that?

Granted, my sister-in-law and her boyfriend live like that, but I still can't understand it. Why would you let things get that bad?

You would think hikikomoris would have slightly better computers if they spend all their time on them >_>

I would puke if I have to sleep on that filthy bed :(

Woah, people actually live there?! Some of that stuff is just plain rubbish, and agreed that bed looks like it's seen better days!

This looks dangerous. If an earthquake ever hit some of those places the occupants would be buried to death. The only hikikomori I like is the zetsubou sensei one.

That... bed. It's... amazing.

They need a Japanese version of Clean House. XD

OK, now I feel my room wasn't that messy compare to those~~~~~~~~~~

i'm a hikikomori thought i keep my rooms more or less clean XD the lady u mean i think i saw a japanesse show where they went to her house and her whole house even outside was filled with stuff and garbage it was incredible! O.O

6th picture up from the bottom.

The text on the box towards the bottom left hand corner accurately summarizes the collection.

How can you live like this O_O

That's what I call a real Hikkikomori ^_^ just like the main character from Welcome to NHK...

Wow reminds me of this super messy room with heaps of fast food rubbish a couple of years back... that one was @(#&@*&

Fairly certain Yomiko Readman lives in the room pictured last.

It must suck having a Hikikomori room.. I bet it takes an entire spring to do a spring cleaning.

It reminds me of Welcome to the NHK.

I am a bit of a neat freak my self, I could never live like that.

so...the situation is actually to the point where they refuse to even go outside to take out the trash?
i can understand the useless junk, but at the least; the trash.

Those rooms terrify me. I'm not the neatest person on earth, but I still need to be able to see the floor!

lol wow those look amazingly like my place... I wonder if i could get all my pizza boxes stacked up in one pile for a picture XD

Wow... if I ever decided to seclude myself in my room I'd certainly keep it much cleaner that that. Maybe the clean room type of person just isn't the type of person to become a hikikomori. I'd actually be interested to see a hikikomori with a clean room ^^

Cuz i know im capable of creating a mess in my room, im witholding myself from buying models and mangas T_T

I don't think I saw a toilet in any of those pictures. Wouldn't it be perfect if the bathroom was spotless?

At least it looks like stuff that they can use, not like this case:
http://www.houston-imports.com/dirty/dirty.html

I almost expect to see dirty underwear with skid marks...

That reminds me it's rubbish collection day tomorrow.

Surely those are old pics, the one with the ancient Apple pc especially, maybe Hikikomori are not tech nerds. The home delivery restaurants must love them.

Nice? :D

Uaaaaa...Now that's cluttered. I'm really not one to talk about orderliness, being quite cluttered myself, but that's like a cluttered special attack which I haven't quite mastered yet (and I think I'll be skipping that training as well anyway). The only thing I'm really paranoid and super clean and ordered about are my figures...which might be a bit sad, hehe. But really, I have a clean sort of cluttered going. Not dirty...just lots of stuff in seemingly odd places.

Also, I like my garbage outside in the dumpster too. It's rather a bad roommate I think. Very inconsiderate, full trash bags are. They smell and refuse to use proper hygiene. So it's best to make them stay outside. Seems cruel, but sometimes inanimate, smelly objects need tough love.

But with all seriousness, I'd be very...out of sorts if I couldn't move without stepping on something.

These pictures actually scare me.

wow, that is really bad. Some of us work so we can't all live the dream.

Gosh.. I can't live in this type of messy room and it looks hard to walk around. ^^;;

O.O GAH!! Wow I looked at that picture for about 2 seconds and scrolled all the way down here-_- I'm like Takasu from Toradora, cannot not stand messy crap. Imagine how long it would take to clean all that up? O.O AAHHHH!!.........

is that a junkyard or a room??
seriously how can ppl survive in such rooms..

Those rooms are just plain trashy. It give a false impression of the word Otakus. Those people really do have a problem. Look at that box on photo #11 says. Why would anyone want to live in such unsanitary conditions. Those are the type of people that need help,imho. That's all I have to say about this.

Someone needs to start a Hikikomori cleaning service. They would rake in the profits. That is, once they manage to get into the room that's been barricaded.

This reminds me of Nodame. =.=||

How can someone live in places like this....

This is just too much thing and messy, I wonder how they live inside there.

I think I would have to light my room up with fire if it became that cluttered. Alot of work it would take in reorganizing the rooms.

I'd like to make another comment if I may. There's a song from the 50's that starts out with the words"Take out the papers and the trash, or you won't get no spending cash." Time for the Hikikomori Hazmat team to arrive. YUCK YUCK. lol

GAH LOOK AT THAT MATTRESS!!! NASTAYYYYY!!!

Good lord, it's like having a mini-Smokey Mountain in it, one could swim through the mess.

Seriously speaking, living like a NEET is not an excuse to at least maintain habitable quarters. This is filthy beyond believing.

This is so messy!
Don't support it. I would just die inside.
The tons of dust mite and micro organisms infesting inside.
Wouldn't be surprised if a mushroom popped up.

Whoa, I don't even think that I can even live in that kind of mess.

Wah!!...1st time I've seen such thing. I always prefer the neat and tidy way ^^

I guess when it comes to being amazing, real world otaku trump their 2d counterpart. My room is the opposite, pretty much empty, only a PC on a shelf-table combo and a bed.

How do they even manage to get it to that state?! at some point wouldn't they realize that it's a bit messy, and start cleaning it up? before it got to rooms overflowing :P I wonder if anything has died under those piles. Hmm...

They should at least stack their things properly 0__0

Definitively messy~

Erm ... are people actually living in these conditions? >_<

Aaaaahhhhh! I could not live like that, that is a nightmare! You would think being inside all day hikikomori's would be a lot neater with their domains.

OH MY GAD!!! Clean that mess >.<

umm my parents would Kill me if my room was that messy..but then again....my room is AS messy T__T

Wow, thats pretty high level!
At least the last one has kind of neat stacks.

Kind of reminds me of Yomiko Readman's apartment.

Those are nasty! I cannot live in a place as messy as those. They probably get papercuts on their feet just walking to their bed, wherever that is.

that's unhealthy...

This is.. Really intense.

What a way to start the day. >_<

That bed grosses me out most of all, poor girl for letting it out of control like that.
But seeing there are like these "crimescene" photos of the place it must mean someone else from outside is jumping in to help/clean right?

So maybe their rooms aren't as cool as I thought they would be. Messy room is fine, but having garbage inside.. maybe not.

don't know how they can manage to live in those conditions. Wonder how they navigate thru that at night. They'll be knocking over piles of tapes and books all over the place.

How do they live in a room like that?

Sorry, but some people needs to really start getting themselves together and clean their rooms! Reminds me of my brothers junk.

Looks like my actual room.

OMG !! What a mess. They should recycle old books to reduce them.

No way can I ever get my room that messy.

How are they gonna live in that condition? I wonder how...><

wow i don't think my place could ever turn into some thing like that no matter how much i fall as a hikikomri/neet

For a clean freak that is just hell, wonder whats going through there mind when they come home to that.

whoa good thing i"m a clean freak so my room won't end up like that ever. I want to clean that room.

Love the ast picture. How can all that not fall down?

Wow, those are some pretty depressing pictures. The books and manga are bad enough, but the rubbish is the worst of it. I could never live in a room like one of those - I love everything being neat and organised.

Looks like my first apartment here in Taiwan ^_^

That bed is beige...how can you even entertain the idea of sleeping there?

those rooms are too ugly. dont they feel like cleaning up their place even once? those places must stink like garbage dumps. too shabby. yuk!

I could never live in those conditions cos I seriously like my room neat and tidy. I just hate it when it's messy :/ I wonder how do they actually live in there

Yeah yeah good old manga/anime "Welcome to the NHK"... of wait this is real...
Yeah you shouldn't joke about it.

In a way it's interesting what these people "think" of their lifes. THe otacool rooms show that we like to look at out hobby in our room. Do these people really like THAT junkyard?? - WIth this basic thoughts they could start to make a difference!!

I thought my room was a mess D: Mine looks almost empty in comparison xD;;

I've been throwing some stuff out, but I'm a bit of a hoarder so it's slow going ^^;;

They may lost the energy to keep them life.
I cannot feel as if it is only them problem...

These look like police photos, "this is the state of the room before we found the body buried under piles of rubbish"...

WOW i never knew being a hikikomori was THAT bad. I soo want to befriend him/her.

God, that's crazy o_O

my mum would have a seizure if i messed up my room like that!
which is why i always keep it slick and span... ^^
i am sure that goes the same for the danny choo who wipes his table down daily.

What a mess... Nodame would be proud.

That's... how do they live in it??? It's just so... how can anyone stand that kind of situation?! Not for me!

Not to be rude or anything... That's what one would call a "dump" ^^;;

How can they live there?! >.<

my god.....................I don't even let my room get THAT MESSY!

and i thought i was a messy person! good god... how do they live in those rooms? i can't even see the bed in many of those pics. do they sleep on top of all those junk or something? ><

From the looks of these rooms, I guess the only sure way to clean it is with a flamethrower! LOL XD

But seriously though, clean up the place once in a while!

hmmm looking closely it seems if you was to sleep on a few of those beds you would have to stay in the same position cause if you move..

GAME OVER

Gah, I have a storageroom like that. But the ones with actual trashbags: didn't think it would be real.

the reason why they have so many garbage inside their house is that they don't go outside their home right?

If I was on the spot to see such a mess, I will drag the owner of the house and "educate" him on tidiness & Cleanliness.

NEED TO CLEAN! I don't think I could live in that environment..

I wonder how long will it take to clean up the place?...

and just i though my room is messy enough...

That person better pray, wish, and hope that a fire (especially electrical) doesn't start. There's a whole lot of burnable goods lying around.

I like my room pretty clean. That is a nightmare. :S

I couldn't live in a place like that, maybe is it because i like clean and tidy rooms ^^

O.o Someone needs to call Mahoro the Automatic Maiden or something. Can't even see the floor in there.

they have lots of things... wondering why.
In NHK ni Youkoso, they are not that disorganized. =P

Dude, that's not cool...

Photos number #9 and #10 - that futon needs replacing so badly it's sickening. It's far beyond the reach of cleaning and repairing.

The bed scares me... My room is far from tidy, and I'm not a fan of cleaning up either, but still look nothing like this. I still prefer to sleep on a clean bed too.

What pig pens.

A couple of places, I dealt with very messy people. One place I was the lead Unix sys admin. One guy had a Sun SPARC 20 "pizza box". The system had exhaust on the sides. He had a hard drive fail and he demanded the machine get fixed. I told I would fix the machine after he cleans the mess on his desk and explained to him why the HD failed because the vent was blocked. He also had crap on the floor piled up as well. He also made it impossible for me to run the lab as I saw fit. I insisted the lab be kept clean and he would always want to dump stiff in there.

Another place, had this 400 lbs woman and I had to work with her sometimes. I refused to work with her at her desk. When we moved to a new office, management put her desk in a place where it could be seen from outside. My desk on the other hand, I kept clean, they put me where it was seen.

Too much to clean, too much of a hassle, too much else too do.

Well, that's what I say anyway and my room looked like that some months ago. But then I wanted more space for other stuff, so with plan "rearrange stuff" I managed to clean it up.

As I said, this was some months ago... My room is starting to look bad again :(

Looks like my basement (gotta stop sleeping on the couch). ^^

I would be very scared to sleep in one of those rooms...what could be lurking under all the doujins and manga??

basically, u survive these conditions long enough and turn into a ju-on. then u start mastering the art of crawling out of tvs. then u audition for the lead role in any upcoming horror flick. and u earn lots of money and start blogging full time. before u know it, u're danny choo muahahaha

I could never live like this. =P

Soto wa iya,soto wa iya!!!!!

Earlier in this thread someone mentioned "hoarding;" it's a psychiatric condition and I also believe that is what's happening here. I have never let my home become so cluttered and messy; I couldn't do it. If for no other reason, I would feel so sad if I did anything to damage my computers or my collection of anime, manga and figures.

My home is pretty clean, but it's not perfect, of course. You know what? After seeing this, I am going to do some cleaning! じゃ、また。

This is something.

I know my room is a little messy but this just makes mine supper clean. I just hope mine never goes to be in that state.

Damn those are some messy rooms.
Can't say much because my room looked like that few weeks ago.
I had trash everywhere and magazines on my bed. Got clothes just sitting on the floor and everything was very messy and unorganized.

This is sheer madness, I cannot stand a mess so seeing this really makes my head spin. >_<

This article seems a fairly poor representation of hikikomoris as a whole; certainly not all hikikomoris live filthy slothful lives as these photos show. It would be nice to see what an even distribution of photos from hikikomoris' abodes look like; there must be plenty of totally OCD ones that would put the photos here to shame!

My roommate during freshman year lived like that. The floor on his side of the room was uneven and covered with laundry with loads of junk underneath. If you squatted low you'd smell the strong stench of months uncleaned laundry. His desk drawers were full of discarded nut shells, too. It baffled me why he had such a doting girlfriend despite all that.

Pro rooms ....first post *cheers*

My bedroom looks almost like the one in the pictures..~~~

How could they even live in a place like this, there is barely space to move in.

lol, holy crap that's bad no one would put anime on the floor to walk on !!! my room is-ant that bad but i do toss everything i don't want in one place then at the end of the week throw it all away though lol... my mother is worse her room is about just like that only the bed and everything around it is cloths papers, but she is barely home though lol...my room has allot of space in it so it does not look that crowded but if my room was that small it would looks a little bit the same but i would never have my anime on the floor i keep all mine in 1 stop !!! ^^

I can't live in a place like that

I could never live like that. I would go into ultra-cleaning mode if my room was ever like that.

I couldnt stand Having my figures in such filth.

I'm not a total neat and clean freak.. but this is definitely something I would not like to neglect my room to the point it becomes a sty of some sort ;;.

the odd thing is though, the owners are still most likely be able to find whatever they will be looking for even in that kind of mess. :)

My room used to be like this when I was a kid (shared with my brother). You had to step very lightly and very carefully or you could break yourself or break something else.

I could never have my room in that condition now. I would go crazy. @_@

(STARES)

I never believed it was possible to have an apartment messier than mine. Hell, it's so messy, it must be a 24/7 job keeping it that way.

(Looks at own flat)

Yeah, I'd better get crscking with cleaning up. If the next job I get requires me to move, I'll have to be ready...

How can you even walk in there x.x

Apart from Japan, Hikikomori is a serious problem in Hong Kong.
If I show these photos to my friends, they maybe will misunderstand Otaku as it.

Rubbish is around the bed and fills the room full=.= Terrible>.<

OSHI-!
My room used to look like that a few months ago xD''

Seriously, that's the level where fun ends. That's not chaos, that's a big rubbish bin.

Wow...this pictures are awesome this is how a real hikikomori lives yeah..true.

Could they just use a bit less platic junk for the scenery like the top one.

worst than my room

Its sad to be a Hikikomori. The first time I heard this word was when I saw "Tokyo!"(btw, amazing movie). Maybe people want to rest from the world, who knows. You cant call them crazy.

So filthy... Not that I'm one to boast, but at least I can see my carpet.

wow! My room looks so clean & tidy in comparison O_o'
At least I take the trash out & keep the bed clean

there's a limit to being a hikikomori XD that's insane =w=;;;;

It's like looking into the future; scary thing.

Can you imagine losing your keys in that? It would be several months before you could find them but then again Hikikomori don't go out much

this makes me love my room even more.

I'm sorry, but that's just un-schway. All the garbage everywhere and god knows what kind of that "substances" are on that futon. That room has more crap in it than otaku stuff. Not cool.

People who prefer to live in filth no longer care to shape the environment to fit their physical needs, and thus show signs of de-evolution.

And that's real, son.

And I thought my place was bad.

hikikomori+otaku ?? no way!!!!!!!!!!1

I can't be sure but these pictures of the rooms like they are I believe or I could be wrong might be in the dictionary under the word of "Pack-Rat."

Oh wow, I'd hate a messy home like that, but that iMac G3 is win. :D

That must suck for hoarders; ie, when they had to clean up- if they cleaned up :S.... I'm glad I don't have that issue....

Oh wow.. I wouldn't be able to survive there for even an hour >_<

So sad. I tried to help clean a horder's home. As soon as we put the trash out on the curb he brought it back in. Stuff towered over his bed and he only slept on HALF of his twin bed because stuff was piled on it. I feel so much for these people. I really do. :(

i know im no neat freak, but my room is never as messy as that. looking at this, how can anyone live like that

Ha! its funny how some of the people take the time to put thing into a trash bag, but just don't take it out.

that bed in pictures 9 & 10 looks absolutely disgusting

I don't get the build up collection of empty bottles!

We all have a few friends like this, do we not? :) lol...

Having friends with rooms like these make me such a neat freak!!!

Wow...