Watamote Review

I'm feeling better so I can now post my review on Watamote, also to save time I'm just going to modify my last post as it's pretty much setup for reviewing this anime.

Tomoko is a new high school girl hoping to be popular just like in her Otome games, however reality isn't so generous as poor Tomoko is a social outcast finding it very hard to talk to people not helped by a look which tells the world that she's an insomniac or pumping drugs and just generally trying to fit into a society that's no longer as simple as it was back in middle school. With this in mind, Tomoko tries her best to find ways of becoming popular with each one failing miserably.
Now this anime can be taken in three ways, a comedy or a study of social anxiety or a mixture of both, which has led to some criticism that opens it's audience to some uncomfortable truths about themselves as some anime fans are social outcasts and I'll admit that I sometimes dive into that category as I hate my own company.
On the other hand, the forbidden love child of Keima Katsuragi & Sunako Nakahara, Tomoko is someone you want to see succeed, from moments when she loses her fatigue lines, to a good day with her blossomed buxom best friend, to a moment of kindness with her brother, to a hug that the audience have been wanting to do since episode 1, you want to see her succeed and yes it is another 12 episode anime but you do actually want to continue the manga afterwards to see if she does succeed. The dub is top quality but you'll find it difficult dropping the sub version as Tomoko's original voice is rated one of the best. Also the music is incredible, definitely one of my favorite opening themes in recent years.
Final Verdict: Approach this anime the same way you approach Welcome to the NHK and other anime with similar protagonists, you may get some uncomfortable reminders about yourself but you also get a hero that you want to see succeed, more so than the harem kings and queens who don't deserve it.
Definitely worth a watch.

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