Hooked on "Chi.". ...Or rather, am I hooked on NHK?

The Asahi Shimbun 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
Manga Grand Prize winner
【Chi.—About the Movement of the Earth—】


I had heard the title often, and I knew that the author, Uoto, had received the award as the youngest person in history.

But I had never read it. Just the other day, I had an experience where my younger sister and nephew kept saying things that I assumed were imitations of lines from the work, while saying




"Chi. is interesting!".

What is wrong with these people...
I thought as I listened, but... oh, somehow, it felt...

a philosophical impression.


That was how I became interested in "Chi.".

But when I asked why both of them could imitate it so dramatically with gestures, it seemed that the anime was being broadcast.

It was broadcast in its entirety on NHK starting last October and is being rebroadcast from this spring, but the two of them said

they watched all the episodes on Abema the other day. It seems their imitations came from that.

So, I took this opportunity to watch all the episodes on Abema as well.

As a result,

I got hooked.

A historical fiction based on facts.

The torture scenes were so terrifying that I couldn't watch them and skipped through them, but... it was a work that got better the more you chewed on it.

The beliefs and contradictions of each character were painfully straightforward, and I occasionally empathized with them or was moved to tears.

Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Copernicus, among others... great figures whose names only appear in the work. Although I like the sound of their names, I am poor at science and mathematics, so I didn't even remember what they had done, but I ended up looking them up.

Even someone like me knows that
the Earth rotates and revolves, right?
as a matter of course now. Even if it wasn't as harsh as the content of this work, I was deeply made to think with my limited vocabulary that



...there must have been a lot of things that happened...
in history before it was proven. That is "Chi.". I also bought the comics.

I thought, this is something I need to memorize the lines for too... I'll join my sister and nephew in doing the imitations.

And so, although I watched all the episodes on Abema like my sister and nephew, as a way to wrap up the title, I will recall NHK from here. Things broadcast on NHK recently often overlap with my feelings. It's as if the right thing is there just when I am drawn to it.

While I was thinking about end-of-life planning,
a while later,"I Want to Die Alone"started its
drama adaptation.

Plus, the theme song is by Ringo-san, whom I love.

This is also... since it's a drama adaptation of a work

billed as an end-of-life comedy manga,it's quite cynical, or perhaps realistic... and
every time, I find myself chuckling.

Even the parts where I wonder... if it's okay to laugh at this...
I end up laughing anyway.

And, like this drama, the original work, and the theme song,
Yes, exactly... I want to think about end-of-life planning
in this bright and positive way...!
I think, and it makes me a little happy, so it has become one of the dramas I look forward to.

That's right.

Speaking of synchronicity,
"Happiness is Eating and Waiting"was the same.

Around the time I was diagnosed with a collagen disease,
I discovered this work through a follower's article.

Later, this was also adapted into a drama on NHK,
and while watching it every week,
I also bought the comics.

Am I just prone to getting hooked on NHK?

Or rather than NHK... is it the power of AI



that reads what I'm interested in?

Also, is it something called the color-bath effect?
Thinking it was strange, I asked



ChatGPT




Tennesseeabout it too.

I see.

Not quite right... but not far off?

But let's keep it simple here,
and just call it all a matter of fate.