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

NOT SPOILER FREE Watamote is not a comedy, it is a slice of life anime that is both depressing and cringeworthy, especially if you have experienced any social anxiety or have been painfully shy. Our protagonist, Tomoko, seems to be have both of those problems. No one seems to notice her, except her one friend, who hardly showsup, because she goes to a different school.
Tomoko has no idea how to be social and when she tries, she seems terrified, but she does try. Like many of us, she wants to be accepted and noticed. But she has no idea how to do that, and no one is helping her. She tries to find answers online but usually gets either no answer, or weird ones.
She struggles to find ways to be accepted/noticed and usually gets it wrong. And when she is not noticed, sometimes she has rather violent thoughts. Sometimes she lives in her head daydreaming about how she would like things to go, and then comes back to reality.
There is little hope for her, and many times she just resigns herself to the situation, only to come back later and try again to speak to someone.
Minor spoilers here: Near the end there is one episode that has some overt lesbianism, which was unnecessary and out of place (what were those writers thinking?!) And also near the end there is one person who reaches out to her.
Watching this was painful and I don't know how I made it through the entire series. If this was meant as a serious anime then it has succeeded, if it was meant to be a comedy it failed completely