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Half of my class turned hikkikomri during pandemic. Many will never return to sunlight.

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Apologies. This sounds harsh but I am serious: I have wondered what would happen to the young suicidal who were bomb dropped into a straight survivalist situation. I mean no drugs, no alcohol, no food, no water, no anything. They wanted to kill themselves already right? Would they just die without Internet? Or would they find a whole new meaning?

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“Dear random person, you have a great taste in literature.“ –Giovanni Poggo

“One of the Internet‘s most depressing anthologies of horror and despair, and the ultimate guide to mental suicide.“ –Tim the Ghost

“Beyond belief, I have never read anything like it. Our world is going to pot!“ –IceMan

“The writing style is so realistic and fake at the same time it‘s mind blowing but my grandpa died.” –Grimmer

“Smurfette was the only female in The Smurfs, and the Smurfs on average had 4 times the number of sex partners than… never mind.“ –Kumbaya

“The Menticide Manual is one of the best series on the Internet ever written. And anyone who says otherwise is WRONG.“ –hwarang

“Dude had more passion in one friggin tune than 1000 pop stars now.“ –Rich Gouette

“A moment of silence for those who have not found the Menticide Manual.“ –Just a Normal guy

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Fascinating.

“incel” was originally a contraction of the term “involuntarily celibate”, a term these disaffected men used to refer to their lack of hope of ever having a lover.

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Great fan of the Menticide Manual and now this Japan series! Keep it up! Greets from MA!

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Surreal. It is happening everywhere in Asia now. Men have internet and see the competition out there. They realize that they will never find a wife or marry and have children, and even if they got lucky and cornered a poor woman into having sons would only replay the suffering in them. Better not to reproduce oneself. In China, half of all men are unmarried and have no sons. In Japan it should be the same. The Asia curse for men.

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Same everywhere. Massive poverty and hopelessness. The strong eat the weak. Better to hide from the monsters.

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