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

What a ride, Cringe the anime. Watashi isn´t your usuel slice of life anime nor is it your usual comedy anime, this is a very dark comedy anime which can be quite harsh some times. For me it somewhat reminded me of school days (yes I like school days), we are following a person who is falling deeper and deeper in abyss of despair, you know for every episode that it isn´t going to get better but you still have this little hope inside of you, wishing for it will go well. Even though the anime is quite dark, it has its many really lovely andhilarious moments which are brilliant! but that entirely depends on your kind of humor :D THis is definitely not an anime for everyone´s taste.

Watashi can seem quite random at first but I think that it does have a meaning and lesson that we should all learn especially animefans. Most animes we see that either the power of friendship or enough determination will resolve everything! but what about those people who got no friends? And what´about having determination? We learn in anime that if you put your mind to it then you can do it, but is that really true? What about skills? what about even luck? There is more into things success than only determination, and also you can also try too much which this anime shows perfectly!
Also Watashi gives a big sucker punch for those animefans who "romantice" different archetypes because even though in the world of anime a tsundere is normally likeable and such, in the real world... probably not so much. :) So yeah don´t count too much on the things which we learn from anime but also those advices and such from the real life.
Watashi for me tried also to point out all the many demands of society of how to be popular and yeah there are f**king many demands to live up to! and there isn´t much room for different people, being popular is somewhat a archetype itself...
Only real openhearted people like the two female characters which we meet in this anime, they are the only ones who acknowledge Tomoko in her own way.

the rainbow faeces of the Unicorn - the good things
- This is not an average slice of life, highschool comedy (for me it is a plus besides I get bored of the normal classic high school dramas)
- Its animation is simply but uses a lot of different lovely artistic effects to really make us see the world from Tomokos eyes and portray her feelings (I love the fact that most people around her has no faces, this really highlights how little she is involved in the world around her)
- The voice acting of Tomoko in sub is quite perfect!
- The opening and especially the fourth ending are for me very good!!
- No plot you say? I really don´t understand the people who says that this has no plot, yes it does not go from A to B but it is entirely based on the concept of Tomoko trying to get popular and often with a different approach every episode, so it is not pure randomness at all.
- 12 episodes without really feeling that there was missing something is a accomplishment itself! (of course it ends like a chapter because *Spoilers*, but I think that it still was a good ending, a satisfying ending without being one c**kblocking ending)
- The artstyle design of Tomoko is quite great, she has a character design which would always be recognized because I haven´t seen anime character design which looks like her! :)

All the hurtful.... cringe! - The cons
- If you don´t like Tomoko as a character you will hate this anime because it is entirely depended on her. (so it is either a love or hate anime)
- Yes it is cringe the anime and yes a few scenes I only saw it partly while I was covering my face because I couldn´t handle the cringe XD
- It is a dark anime and the ending is not your average happy ending, therefore I am reminded of school days (even though it has not that schocking ending but Watashi still leaves you with this feeling of despair :) and yeah quite a handful of people would probably not be happy about that, but I loved it!)

Should you watch it? Definitely, just a few episodes would be good, just like it is recommended to see the first episodes of Serial experiments lain, it is a experience which needs to be tried because really just like Serial experiments lain is quite the special snowflake among the psychological thrillers of anime then Watashi is the special snowflake among high school comedies :) So yeah watch two episode if you don´t like it stop and take it as a experience, if you liked it, welcome to the ride!