Hitoribocci no Marumaru Seikatsu is one of the best SOL anime that I have seen in the past 2 or 3 seasons, it has great characters, art and overall pace for it. As usual I like to talk about the characters more when it comes to this genre so I'll focus more on that.
Bocchi who is the female lead is an extremely stressed character that is always worried about trying to make friends because she wants to be able to make with her only friend at that point, "Kai". While the stressed MC is an overused character trait but it was put to good use in here because that is not the only trait she has, when Bocchi starts making friends you start to see the geniuene points of her personality, the kind, lovely little girl that just doesn't want to be lonely and loves being with her friends.
Nako is the first friend she makes in the school and she is a cute TOMBOYish girl so that's already a plus in my book, she also cares for bocchi and helps her to take the initiative and try to make more friends.
Aru is the unfortunate girl that ends up being much more entertaining to watch and the way she interacts is mostly entertaining but though sometimes she could annoyingly repetitive, she is overall a decent character.
BEST GIRL sotoka is the BEST GIRL imo, she is cute, kind, caring and she worries for her "Master" so much even though she herself suffers from the same loneliness or even more than her. One of the best scenes in the anime is when she goes back to her home with no one in there and suddenly gets texts from all her friends welcoming her back. That made me tear up to be honest.
Kako is the ''rival'' of Bocchi and she is trying to be a better person in the complete opposite way by trying to do everything alone. We don't see her that much but she is becoming more and more friendly every time and it really is nice to see how she tries to force her ideas to show it to Bocchi and yet gets influenced by her everytime.
Kai who is a candidate for best girl is also a great character, despite how young they were, she realised it would be difficult for Bocchi to continue relying on her alone and not make friends so she made that rule of making friends with everyone. She is a cute caring character overall and I would love to see her more.
The side characters are also cute and it's nice to see how they aren't there as filler but more like genuine characters and could be easily explored more and more about them.
The main idea I'm trying to show is that you can be creative with the way you make your characters or even use a cliched character attribute in a better and more suitable way. I personally think this was done here perfectly.
The art is fantastic and the animation is great as well.
The voice acting is 10/10, Way too good and so fitting that I personally think they all need a pay rise, specially for Kurose (Sotoka's VA) as well as Bocchi's VA. A+ performance.
Overall I personally found this anime to be extremely enjoyable and if there weren't some overused jokes and a little better story, I would have given it a 10/10 so now it stands as a 9/10.
Would recommend it to SOL fans and anyone looking for a relaxing anime.
