“If there is a certain sincerity and ethics in a dissociated life lived with self-awareness, it is because hypocrisy and deception dwell in the falsely coherent life.” CommentaryOtakuCommentary On Society Book:Beautiful Fighting Girl Source: Beautiful Fighting Girl
“The majority of hikikomori cases do not choose on their own to keep living that way just because they want to. They want more than anyone else to escape from their withdrawn situation, but they simply are not able to do so.” Hikikomori Book:Hikikomori: Adolescence without End Source: Hikikomori: Adolescence without End
“Even in hikikomori cases that continue over a long period of time, chronic symptoms tend not to stabilize; instead, there is a continuous state of mental conflict that gives rise to more mental conflict, as if new wounds are constantly opening.” Hikikomori Book:Hikikomori: Adolescence without End Source: Hikikomori: Adolescence without End