TV Series · 2006 · TV Series · 2000s
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Scored from 27 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Tatsuhiro Satou is a 22-year-old college dropout who has spent four years shut inside his Tokyo apartment, convinced that his hikikomori existence is the work of a conspiracy run by a shadowy organisation he calls the NHK. A teenage girl, Misaki Nakahara, appears at his door offering to cure him through nightly counselling sessions in a nearby park, if he signs a contract and never asks why she chose him. Trying to seem less of a failure, Satou lets his otaku neighbour Kaoru Yamazaki rope him into building a dating-sim game, then drifts toward online gambling and an internet suicide pact. The Gonzo anime, adapted from Tatsuhiko Takimoto's novel, plays this as comedy and as a study of depression and social withdrawal.
Released in 2006, Welcome to the N.H.K. is an animation, comedy and drama television series. Episodes run about 24m. It plays in Japanese. Its country of origin is listed as Japan. Its certificate is TV-14.
Only 27 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 29 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,359 2000s television series, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Welcome to the N.H.K. lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 27.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
