Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu

Many of us know what it is like to transition to a new school with few to no friends in a new environment, going through the arduous process of getting to know people again. Bocchi Hitori knows this struggle all too well, having just graduated from elementary school and thrown into middle school. Unfortunately, she suffers from extreme social anxiety: she faints when overwhelmed, vomits when nervous, and draws up ridiculously convoluted plans to avoid social contact. It does not help that her only friend from elementary school, Kai Yawara, will not be attending the same middle school as Bocchi. However, wanting to help her, Kai severs ties with Bocchi and promises to reconcile with her when she befriends all of her classmates in her new middle school class.

Even though Bocchi has no faith in herself, she is determined to be friends with Kai again. Summoning all of her courage, Bocchi takes on the daunting challenge of making friends with her entire class, starting with the delinquent-looking girl sitting in front of her...

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Hitori, Bocchi Main

Morishita, Chisaki Japanese

Sunao, Nako Main

Tanaka, Minami Japanese

Honshou, Aru Main

Kitou, Akari Japanese

Rakita, Sotoka Main

Kurose, Yuuko Japanese

Kurai, Kako Supporting

Ichinose, Kana Japanese

Oshie, Teruyo Supporting

Takahashi, Minami Japanese

Yawara, Kai Supporting

Kohara, Konomi Japanese

Ojousa, Mayo Supporting

Miyashita, Saki Japanese

Nakanai, Karane Supporting

Tomishiro, Madoka Japanese

Minagawa, Rau Supporting

Mukai, Live Japanese

Aoi, Hiroyuki Producer

Yamada, Ryousuke Producer

Shimada, Yousuke Producer

Nanbara, Mitsuhiro Producer

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Jun 7, 2024

lycoping

Recommended

This was a cute "cute girls doing cute things" anime. There's nothing wrong with it. The OP was pretty good, the animation was decent, all the girls are cute, there's plenty of humor, just enough unrealism... there's nothing I can really criticize this anime for too much.

There's also not a whole lot that makes it stand out.

Hitori Bocchi, an unrealistically named just-entering-middle-school girl with extreme social anxiety, is given a challenge by a friend - make friends with all of your classmates or I can't be your friend. So, wanting to get her friend back, she starts the "process" of making ... friends with everyone in her classroom, to varying success.

At points, this anime is cute, at times heartrending, at times beautiful, at times funny, at times cringey. It really does tick off all the boxes. But it just, well, ticks off all the boxes. There's nothing about this anime or story that made me actually *love* it, or feel anything particularly strong for any of the characters. Bocchi is a cute, but amazingly gullible girl who gets run over frequently by her tsundere classmate. Honshou Aru is a well-meaning, outwardly perfect but unfortunate girl ("I HAVE A NAME") who is mostly used for comic relief. She has a couple of other friends I can't even be bothered to remember. And then there's her teacher, Oshie Teruyo (yes, every name is a play on a Japanese word or phrase) who is scared of her own shadow and somehow got the idea, well... I won't say.

There are a few breakout amazing moments, though. The song at the end of Ep. 6, for example, is amazingly memeable and catchy. The heartbreak in ep. 7 can cause you to shed a tear. And, well... the characters aren't unlikable at all, well, mostly.

At the end of the day, it was a cute but mostly unmemorable anime that I watched and then pretty much forgot about.

That's pretty much what you're getting with this anime.

If that's what you like, well, you could do worse. In the "Pure CGDCT" genre it pretty much ticks all the boxes. I'll recommend it, you'll probably like it, and then promptly forget about it, like I did.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 21, 2021

Psycheouts

Mixed Feelings

Name: Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu (S1)

🟢 Genre: Comedy / Life stories
🟢 Token: C2C - 12 Episodes - 2019

🟢 Synopsis: Bocchi is a girl who suffers from a kind of social phobia, yet decides to take on the challenge of being friends with all her new high school classmates.

🟢 Opinion: Initially I expected it to be the funniest series of all, and although it is not, it has its strong points, mainly centred on the sympathy and tenderness of Bocchi and her classmates. It's impossible not to get attached to them.

Recommended: Funny and tender, for the whole family.
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🟢 Continuity: there is talk of an S2, but no official confirmation yet.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Dec 19, 2021

nyja-chan

Not Recommended

First of all, Kai is a piece of shit. No actual friend would do that to you. The main character should have ditched her. She is a not a good friend at all.

Second. I hate the fact the main character goes through with it and tries to make friends with this reason. I wouldn’t want to be friends with someone who would only be my friend because she needs to make friends.

The comedy was horrible, I did not laugh ones and I just find the characters very unfortunate. The jokes were unfortunate and unfortunately it was repeated too much to make it even slightly ... entertaining. Unfortunately I had to watch it to the end because it was for my anime club.

The characters were annoying too watch. The character I hated the most were the main character because her whole personality was based around the fact she needed to make friends to get a friend back. Fuck that shit. She was at points insufferably desperate at forcing you to become her friend. She just won’t leave you the fuck alone.
Next is the stupid ninja girl, who has apparently no other personality trait besides having boners for ninja’s. She just existed there in the show and I hoped she would vanish like a ninja.
The headbutt girl was also a piece of shit as she was quite unfortunate to have only one personality trait as well. Her jokes were the least funny of all and I can’t say more than that cause there isn’t more than this to her.
That stupid teacher, who the fuck becomes a teacher if you are that anxious? Why is she like that even? I totally couldn’t comprehend the way they decided to create this character. She also is one dimensional and has no other trait than being scared of her students.
The rest of the cast was forgettable as I don’t remember them.

The art and animation was fine and I have nothing to say about that.

This show was boring and not funny and not worth your fucking time. It wasn’t wholesome as I just thought the whole concept was stupid.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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