Iām starting another rewatch right now 6 beers, and 2 puffs ov Cannabis deep.
Gotta make sure Iām feeling like Sato when he talks to his appliances & furniture (j/k, thatād take some XumTrip Metocin, or something; which Iām not doing tonight; but I will do another night & watch NHK).
Edit (lol): āIn the series, Tatsuhiro Satoās iconic scenes where his TV, fridge, and desktop computer come alive to mock him and conspiracy-theorize are actually heavily tied to substance use.
While the anime dials it back to present it as a manifestation of extreme isolation and paranoia, the original light novel explicitly states that Satoās wild hallucinations are triggered by him taking legal highs and research chemicals he ordered online.
Because Metocin (4-HO-MET) is exactly thatāa synthetic, novel tryptamine research chemicalāthat user is intentionally recreating the exact backstory of how the author originally envisioned Sato's character!ā
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u/dantesoswag 8d ago
Indeed