Review of WataMote: No Matter How I Look At It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! OVA

It's a cheeky little story about Tomoko when she was younger. It shows her cringeworthy personality of that period (yes a different type of cringeworthy than the current Tomoko). But there's a friend who falls for this tomfoolery and thinks she's actually cool. It's adorable and a good story. The art, animation, music, sound etc. play out like a regular Watamote episode. It's just this one isn't as depressing and is actually a little sweet. I like how they transition to the opening at the start of this, with a bunch of fourth-wall breaking. It's very nice. I have a very soft spot for this show. Iwatched a funny Mumkey Jones video about it back in the day and that left an impact on me. I really empathise and honestly sympathise with Tomoko and seeing her have a decent moment here was great. Such an adorable yet tragic character.

The little twist at the end is cool, it sucks this wasn't explored in the manga. Anyway, it's good and I recommend giving it a shot. If only they could adapt the rest of the manga into anime form then we'd get a more complete story with more wholesome character development. But it has been about 9 years since the first season came out. In any case, this OVA is a 7/10.