Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!: Motenaishi, Nazomeite Miru

Watamote is a fairly decent anime, but the OVA is not - it feels a bit thematically contradictory to what actually takes place in the show; Tomoko doesn't deserve to be rewarded with the gift of an implicated destined meetup with a boy just like her, because the whole point is that Tomoko is a terrible person whose incapable of escaping from her world view that's formed from a malicious congealing of her spiteful loneliness and addiction to unrealistic romantic material, fueling her envious perception of the world, where every other woman is a "slut".

Episode 12 might have been a miserable ending to the series, ... but it thematically fit, especially as a warning about the dangers of Tomoko's type of lifestyle and thought processes, which ultimately alienate her from everybody that could possibly help her as she literally runs away from those that want to help her or like her.

It would have made more sense to have the OVA involve Tomoko changing her mindset, even just a little bit; enough to show that she's on the path to a better future.

First off, I love this series. It expressed social anxiety in a way that was very accurate and hilarious at the same time. And although social anxiety isn't something to that to laugh at in particular, it was still refreshing to watch and makes you want to extend a hand to those who don't fit in.

That being said, I didn't much care for this OVA. It involves Tomoko meeting a boy on the school's roof in very odd ways with the episode featuring both character's perspectives of the encounters. To me, it was very boring and hard to watch. I thought it was confusing right ... from the start and I didn't understand was going on until it went to Tomoko's perspective. I didn't enjoy it much at all and I was honestly just waiting for it to be over so that I can move on to a different anime.

I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad OVA but after watching the whole series and enjoying every second of it and then watching this episode, it left me in a very off putting way and I kinda just walked away from it. It's like watching a series you really love and once you are finished, you get that feeling like you don't know how you're going to move on, then you watch a really crappy episode of it and you're completely over it. And to be honest, I wish more great series had crappy episodes for the viewers to watch once they finish in order to kill that feeling and make it easier to move on.

But I'm not saying don't watch it, it's only a 27 min long episode, so watch it and judge it for yourself. I personally loved the series as a whole and this was the only episode that I hated.