NHK characters enneagram type analysis
bc they all really embody their types and i want to rant about it.
Satou - sp6
Satou is one of my favorite 6s. He's obsessed with the conspiracy worldview Hitomi gave him, and therefor is paranoid about knowing more then he should/(persecuted part of persecuted persecutor). He talks about being a hikikomori like he has no control over it. hes super easily influenced by others and lies to himself about it constantly. And his ending is so interesting.
In highschool his fear manifested as a lack of action(694 imo). he just went though life never investing in it, no need to fear messing up when you don't try. but in collage there was no support system and he couldn't just coast along anymore so he ran away.
He thinks of highschool as the last time things were normal so he looks back on it for answers and remembers hitomi's conspiracy theories. thus the satou we know is born because if there's an evil nhk then he has a reason to be paranoid. hes being targeted in his mind and has some kind of ego around that because they are targeting him for knowing too much(if he knows too much it means he knows the truth and is not left in the dark).
He also really identifies with the label of hikikomori. he will be like "oh yeah, i cant do this bc I'm a hikikomori, i forgot" like its a law of the universe, its crazy! he goes outside to stalk misaki and thinks "I'm not supposed to do this! according to rules I made up! even though I am already out here doing it!"
He's really easily influenced by others, unintentionally joins a suicide pact, and once he realizes its a suicide pact he just goes along with it. unintentional joins an Multi-level marketing scheme despite KNOWING IT'S AN MLM. like hes just so malleable, I see why misaki likes him, you can just give him an order and he'll swear to himself it was his idea to do it. its so funny.
He really does denial a lot too. he lies to others badly and lies to himself to convince himself he has control over his actions. he feels fundamentally afraid and distrusts others so he must pretend to trust himself.
And then there's the end. there's 2 parts to his arc's conclusion. the shows overall thesis on being a hikikomori and his personal arc. I'm gonna ignore the thesis and focus on the latter. satou, from the very start, possessed the capacity to get a life. he knew what to do and functioned as a person for years pre-collage. he knew how to get better but he was paralyzed by fear of change, and fear of admitting he doesn't understand the world as much as he thought he did(ie. there is not an evil organization running the world). but when push comes to shove he puts survival over paranoia. ultimately when 6ness shows it cannot work as a method of survival/fails as a coping mechanism he goes out on his own to survive.
That's the first part of his ending. Then he saves misaki. he questions his authority to tell her not to kill herself, because he can't really justify why life is worth living despite The Suffering. but at last decides to abandon rationality and save her. and then does something really interesting. he uses his own narrative/cope for better, he takes control of it. I mean he's so insane about it he jumps off a cliff but this show isn't about absolute happy endings.
The point is, I think ending his arc with "this isn't just my insane explanation of the world to bring me a sense of certainty/safety (but ruin my life in the process). its OUR insane explanation of the world to bring US a sense of certainty/safety" is a really interesting 6 arc.
Misaki - sx2
Misaki really embodies the sx 2 fixation at its worst. A self-worth defined by being needed, wanting to create dependency rather then actually help satou. She's a 2 disintegrating into 8 by trying to control satou via contracts/make him reliant on her/make him love her. She has no sense of value and seeks the love of others to fill the void. She doesn't feel like shes deserving of love so she finds someone worse then her who could be dependent on her.
By framing herself as a savoir she implies divinity and that the one to be saved should be grateful to their charitable angel. basically ' I'm good.(not worthless). I'm helping you. You need me to help you. You should thank me(love me) because I'm helping you). '
When yamazaki moves away misaki has the chance to have everything she wants. not only a transactional relationship were she helps someone but a relationship where the other party needs her and has no one else. because if there was anyone else surely the other person would like them more, because in misaki's mind she is innately worse then (almost)everyone.
The thing with misaki is that she needs satou as well. she was never going to save him, it was never about rescuing him. it was always the trademark heart-type 'insane gambit I will embark on to prove I am not fundamentally unlovable'. its debatable whether she ever believed she was going to help him, but I think subconsciously the intention was never to fix him; it was always to combat the deeply held belief she ruins everything and is better off dead.
Because misaki feels profoundly burdensome. she likes to be around satou both because he relies on her and because he is 'worse' then her. if satou exists as a NEET then she is not the worst person alive, if god exists then she didn't fail to save her mother or please her father or anything else.
But there's no proof god is real. and satou does not need her. Her insane gambit to prove shes not fundamentally broken has fallen apart. Misakis arc ends with 2 things: for 1, satou brings her into his delusion so it can serve as something to blame her problems on. For 2, she maintains a friendship with satou where he is not dependent on her. sure, they have a 'if you die, I die' thing going on, but aside from that satou doesn't depend on her for, like, actual biological survival needs(like food). misaki has to trust she is worth enough to be around willingly (kind of) (like the contract doesn't make him love her or go bankrupt.)
Hitomi - sp4
Hitomi's character focuses around being unsatisfied despite a perfect life, an attachment to sadness(and her relationship to satou as a part of that). Conspiracy obsession to blame problems on. And ultimately an ending of forcing herself to be allowed to be happy despite the feeling shes letting something go.
Hitomi is not happy, even though there is no clear reason for her to be sad. sure, her boyfriend is busy often but he loves her clearly; additionally this sadness was present in highschool when she asks satou about her dying and its implied she attempted suicide.
She mentions when she thinks of a person with a messed up life she imagines satou- she goes to him to hang out before the suicide pact. satou is also the only person she feels comfortable around when expressing how miserable she is. its also around satou that she talks about conspiracy theories in highschool. I believe for hitomi conspiracies serve as a reason for being unhappy. her life is great, so she points to a conspiracy to justify feeling sad. she doesn't really believe in the conspiracy like satou, its a tool for her to explain her identification with sadness.
Her and satou could never have had a good relationship because he fans the flame of her depression. cutting him off was the best ending she could have gotten, because she has to detach herself from the sadness even if it feels like losing a part of herself(and a friend).
Yamazaki - i dont know
Yamazaki's arc has a few themes. Hating women because he got indirectly rejected 1 time. The belief people like him and satou don't get dramatic deaths/the strong separation of reality vs fiction(and clear preference for fiction). Working to pursue his passion over family assigned role(AFAB yamazaki, Assigned Farmer At Birth). Anti-climatically settling for an uninteresting life as a functioning alcoholic on the farm w/a trad wife.
Yamazaki is such a hater. i think he might be an sx4(witch would mean satou's social circle consists entirely of heart types, witch explains a lot). he was stood up once as a kid and developed a narrative of all women being bad. he ignores contradictory evidence unless of course its a girl being nice to him in witch case the cope is no longer necessary. he's passionate about his interests and for sure kinda a weirdo, and he identifies with being a weird otaku. his final interaction with nanako(?)(the girl he liked) was him internationally sabotaging the friendship by being genuinely really shitty to her, instead of. like. saying bye? he had to show off how fucked up and unique he is I guess. he's socially rejected and its everyone's(particularly women's) fault.
Except maybe he's not a 4? he rejects the dramatic even though he prefers it. like he both identifies with abnormality and confines himself to mundanity. its so weird but not contradictory. he understands real life isn't a story and that specifically is why he prefers fiction(satisfying arcs and unrealistically charitable girls and all that). I guess it goes against the seeking to be special snowflakes part of 4ness but also maybe this is another way of identifying with suffering? idk.
His story ends with giving up on his dreams, accepting normality and making the most of it, its a very 4-coded arc conclusion. but who knows.
