Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui! OVA Episode 1 Discussion

okanagan said:
Back when the series was airing, I also read ahead in the manga very carefully
to see what was being covered. The anime did not follow the manga linearly,
but everything was there, with just a few things being in the anime that were
completely absent from the manga. The best example is the ED sequence in
Episode 2 where she rides the swan boat on the lake. Also, there was the
homage to "Death Note" when Tomoko was doing an internet search.

This content does not look familiar to me at all. Please nobody spoil the manga,
but just say "yes" or "no" regarding whether this is original non-manga content.

I really wish that they would not call this "Episode 13". That means that fans are
going to be having angry debates at fan conventions for the next century about
whether there are 12 episodes and an OVA or 13 episodes.

Hraktuus said:
That was just... depressing.

Still loved it. Too bad a season 2 never got made. I'll have to read the manga.

Theory: It is possible the Tomoko we saw from the glasses guy's point of view is how Tomoko really looks, and Tomoko in most of the series is how she perceives herself. Thinking of oneself as "ugly" is fairly typical of girls her age, especially when they have disorders. The only time she is called ugly by someone else in the series is by her brother or when she made an intentionally ugly face to camouflage herself from her classmates. When others have spoken to her, it's actually friendly. As for why she hasn't been approached by guys based on looks... Japanese men are notorious for not approaching women, and really I think we can say American men these days don't have them beaten by much. Present day society is a lot more closed. People socialize less and play with their phones more. Tomoko is an inevitable product of such a society.

I love her no matter how she looks though. <3