May 24, 2024
It's complicated to review this anime, the first episodes set the story straight, its about this unpopular girl with social anxiety that wants to be popular and fails at it in funny ways. It makes us believe that we will see tomoko developing as a character, that she'll learn from her mistakes and eventually be popular, or at least that she'll get one or two friends, but that never happens. Not once in the 12 episodes. We watch this girl fail again and again to a point where it feels sad to watch, in the last chapters i was just watching because i still had
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a bit of hope that she would gain a friend but that never happened. It feels cruel and its painful to watch...But on the other hand...The first chapters are great, they very accurately represent the mindset of a "femcel" and the concept is quite interesting! i believe it could be a great anime if Tomoko got some character development at the end of the series, or if the girl in the bear suit and her became friends.
As for the humour, its a mixed bag. Most of it comes from the stupidly embarassing situations Tomoko causes, so depending on the person you can die laughing or cringe the entire series, personally even if i related to tomoko i still cringed most of the time, i stopped watching for a while because the humour became quite stale and it honestly made me depressed to watch this high school girl be tortured every episode, the show is very mean-spirited for some reason.
I would recommend watching the first episodes because they show an interesting character that i haven't seen in many other animes, Tomoko is for the most part a realistic depiction of how a mentally ill and socially awkward girl sees and interacts with the world and that's the most interesting part of the series, the thing that kept me watching personally, for the rest its all just awkward and repetitive stuff that i would rather ignore.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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