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

First of all, even if the score is a 5, I don't wan't you to think that this is an "average" anime. This anime deserves the 5 for having really good pros to watch it, but also some awful flaws. It is funny at a time, then painful at the other. It can be really cute, then suddenly fall into creepyness. It can be hot then you're cold, you're yes then you're no, you're in then you're out... (Katy Perry could certainly do a review of this). This is retard let's start this shit ffs. As it is supposed to be a comedy, I'm goingto start talking about the lulz. Here it REAAALLY depends on your type of humor. The humor displayed in this show was pretty good if you are a goddamn masochist. I'm not saying that it was painfully bad, it was painfully funny. Gags were 70% awfully pitiful situations suffered by the main character Tomoko while trying too hard to socialize. This are funny...-ish, but also so fucking awkward that if you are not really similar to the main character (hence the "relatability" of the show"), you will feel more sorry for Tomoko's bad luck than actually aroused by the gag. The other 30% were made up of the delusions created by Tomoko's crazy, uncivilized mind. Tomoko is introvert to such an extent that her delusions are out of this world, and honestly, I did laughed quite a lot with those.

Concerning the art, it was actually quite great and unique. Shades of grey and colors resembled perfectly Tomoko's feelings at moments, animation was constantly aboive the average and I find particularly original the cubist-ish deformation that Tomoko suffered when she was let down. Sound was pretty mediocre, but the rest of the art was great.

Now, let's get into the main point of the series, aside for the humor: it's supposed "relatability". I was engaged to watch the anime due to the huge worship around Tomoko's character on the internet. People found it very relatable, and was waifu of many. I personally found the show WAY too exaggerated to ever be relatable to ANYONE, at least that I know. And I can tell you that I'm definitely not a popular guy, but hell, Tomoko was too much to handle.

Tomoko, as a character, although it has literally zero to negative evolution throughout the series, it's really interesting, but just an hyperbole of social anxiety. Time has passed too fast for her, and her egotistical though introvert attitude has made her not capable of establishing any new friendship with anybody in high school. What I definitely could see as the main point of the series (hence its title) is that Tomoko is constantly blaming on society for not paying attention to her and her superiority delusions. Her limited knowledge of human socializing and her days of gaming and watching anime have made her a "solo player", and dehumanized her to a point that she sees becoming popular as no more than a checkpoint on a video game, instead of considering that real life is an evergrowing "final boss" whose effects you can't control. Furthermore, the fact that makes the show much more suffering is that people are actually really kind to her. In reality, she would probably get bullied, but the fact that no one is coercing or bullying her, but just pitying on her and leaving her apart, makes it nearly impossible for Tomoko to blame anyone more than herself for her situation. However, no matter what, she keeps doing. Tomoko is quite of a horrible human being, but also a hopeless, defenceless one. Everyone would be like Tomoko under those conditions of social isolation.

In the end, who is to blame in this show? Tomoko? Society? Her parents or her brother? Her best elementary school friend Yuu-chan for being more popular than her? Imae-chan and Kii-chan for seeing her as a helpless stray dog? Probably everyone, or anybody at all. The fact is that this isn't anymore about the show. People like Tomoko exist in society nowadays, and the fact of leaving them apart is just as wrong as bullying them. Every human being deserves to be treated nicely at the least, but you know what? Let's get further from this point. Think about it the next time you are in school or in college when you see someone on their own for several days. Don't just be polite, but try befriending him or her just as you would do with any other person. Not being condescending, not being agressive, just being friendly. Maybe beneath that defensive armour of lonelyness you will find an awesome human being, forgotten by society long time ago, who may reveal it's own nature to its peers. Seriously, is that easy.

Overall, you may love this show, you may absolutely hate it, but you should understand it's purpose besides comedy: to show the reality of a person with social anxiety, and to teach how NOT to deal with it.