Some people can go out on the town Saturday night, some people can see a movie, some people can even cuddle up with their significant others and all that stuff, sure, some people can do that...but I'm not those people.

This, is a hikkikomori weekend.

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Welcome to another edition of A Hikkikomori Weekend, this week, we'll be covering something I try not to discuss because of the fact that it's outside of a hikkikomori's character, but I think it's important to try and blur the boundaries, we may not get out much, but we are people.

This week's subject will be relationships, from a hikkikomori perspective.

Lots of people think that a hikkikomori is automatically one of those 3D Pig Disgusting-oriented 2D complex obsessed cretins, and while some of us do prefer 2D over 3D, you have understand that it's more an emotional and psychological attraction than an actual physical one.

Of course, some people can tune themselves to liking 2D characters more than actual 3D people, but you have to understand that ultimately, nature wins, and no one can truly say they aren't attracted at all to the opposite sex in the flesh. If you do, you're lying to yourself.

The 2D complex stems from the fact that 2D characters can be controlled, observed, you can understand and learn things about them that wouldn't be available through an actual 3D conversation with a living, breathing person.

Most hikkikomori are not the most social savvy people in the world, thus the reason they choose to run away from it rather than try, I myself can admit to this as well. Frankly, 3D women scare me. Of course, before acceptance is denial, and most would deny having a weakness, and instead delude themselves into thinking it's a choice, trying to rationalize it into a scenario in which nothing is wrong with them, it's the rest of the world's perceptions on beauty that's messed up.

Don't get the wrong idea of course, I'm not saying that it's something that has to change. Most hikkikomori would sooner be crushed under the change than be able to adapt to it.

Myself included.

It's just important to remember that for the hikkikomori, relationships are initially flawed. This of course is a general view and doesn't reflect the few cases of hikkikomori who actually have relationships. It's also restricted to just the hikkikomori who happen to also be anime fans, but that should be obvious by this point.

Where was I, oh yes, going beyond the physical hurdles that hikkikomori face in relationships, let us discuss the emotional hurdles.

Most hikkikomori interact with one, maybe two people on a live and in person basis per day. With this little amount of social interaction, we have adapted and become used to gathering our social needs as people from other methods. Mainly the internet. How involved a hikkikomori lets themselves become will determine the extent of those relationships.

Most hikkikomori are also paranoid, which lies at the core of why they're hikkikomori in the first place, a deep and brooding distrust and distaste for their fellow man, so it's not hard to see why they might not trust someone, online or off, enough to even let the prospect of a relationship come into view.

Of course there are also exceptions. People who are more afraid than paranoid, and thus are able to find salvation in a select few other people, and gain their need for companionship that way.

What this paints is a very colorful picture of the hikkikomori in regards to social interactions, and certainly not the cynical people hater that can be seen through most hikkikomori we know today.

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Oh, as for what I did this weekend, World of Warcraft, Melty Blood: Actress Again, CANAAN, Haruhi, and Hayate no Gotoku!! best sums it up.

--Kageryu