anyway, acekeianar@aim.com if anyone would be kind enough to contact me.

I love the anime so far for one major reason: it encompasses some normal scenery (a budding relationship with past loved interest = possible trouble in the future?) and it also has a dark, realistic feel to it that this could actually happen (except to a lesser degree in my opinion). With that said, as of episode 9, there is relationship forming between Sato and Misaki.

With the drug references being mentioned in the manga, the anime scenes where his appliances talk to him makes much more sense instead of just blaming it on his exile from mankind.

Also, Sato’s pedophilic nature is somewhat covered in episode 3 of the anime. Maybe they may cover it some more later. Who knows as of yet.

Sato himself is brought into the otaku land by his neighbor Yamazaki. He isnt initially a fanboy of any sorts. Yamazaki is the one who plays the Plrin song constantly, and is the one who shows Sato the life of a galge player (look up galge on wikipedia if you are unsure what this means).

I personally love the ED. Crazy lyrics and good music.

First, the beer bottle-breaking scene. He comments on the strength that karate masters obtain when they exile themselves (hence the scene before Satou decides to break the bottle), thus concludes even he can break a beer bottle due to his self-imposed exile from society (Spoiler: He does).

Secondly, as someone stated previously, drug references were cut. In the manga, he was sniffing coke (IIRC) and the talking appliances were a repercussion of that. In the anime, he’s been… smoking too much? Perhaps drinking as well, although it’s not directly implied.

Thirdly, there is no romantic interest between Satou or Misaki at this point in time. Misaki sees Satou as a prime candidate for her project, and Satou sees prime fapping material in Misaki. That’s all for now, but the thread between the two will probably progress further as the story goes along (if the manga is any indication).

Almost forgot the Plrin scene; the jello figure and the pudding hallucinations were the result of Satou trying to figure out why that mahou shoujo’s name was Plrin. The effect, before and after, was due to his constant annoyance with the same song being played over and over (for a month) from next door.