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

No matter how I look at it, this seems to be made for me. The premise was appealing, but it also delivered on it right off the bat and exceeded expectations. In short, it's fun. But it does have feeling and depth without ever dropping overall comedic tone. The visual techniques are quite clever and effective. Voice acting was just right (I would be afraid to even approach the dub for something that extremely expressive). The bar might be low, but rarely I enjoyed something so unapologetically. You might just have to relate to the main character to get the same effect. And unfortunately, thatincludes "no character development" aka "the grand escape". Sometimes, quite often, it doesn't happen. You don't get instant confidence by magic of a makeover (which is frankly a cliché that needs to die). That's kinda the point. You might know exactly what to do and never be able to put it into practice. Social anxiety is not "cute". It's painful, often agonising and naturally, makes place for anger and bitterness, which is accurately reflected in an obviously exaggerated manner.
(The fact that it had a reference to another anime I coincidentally watched parallel to it in the last episode was a cherry on top.)