Welcome to the NHK Characters

Kaoru Yamazaki is one of several protagonists in Welcome to the NHK. A major otaku and eroge fanatic, he is an old high school friend of Tatsuhiro Satou's, who had tried to save him from bullies long ago. Additionally, he holds a very profound dislike of women in general.

Misaki is one of the protagonists in Welcome to the NHK. For most of the story, her role is to cure Tatsuhiro Satou of his hikikomori ways and make him self-sufficient enough to function in society.

Tatsuhiro Satou is the protagonist of Welcome to the NHK, a series whose plot largely revolves around his life as a recovering hikikomori. As time goes by, he is generally able to find a normal life again, but not without some outside help.