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Jan 23, 2020
Mixed Feelings
Watamote is a very bizarre anime. But it is not bad.

The anime is talking about a lonely high school girl because of her severe social weakness. This girl spends every day of her life trying to become a popular and beloved girl and to have friends and boyfriend. Unfortunately, she cannot become so no matter how she tries, because she has no experience. She always has embarrassing situations that make you feel sad for her and you desperately want her to overcome the obstacles she faces.

The idea of ​​anime is unique. Because it does not want to make you enjoy it, but wants to make you hate everything that happens in it for that girl. As it does nothing for her favor, but putting her in situations that make her hate her life and herself more than before. All this anime wants to do is make you sympathize with her by giving you an absolutely uncomfortable feeling.

The big problem with this anime is that it never develops the character of the girl. it does not want to address the problem she suffers from, rather it wants to destroy her in a more correct sense. I hated this a lot, to be honest. It would have been wonderful if it had focused seriously on the bottom, as I said before, this idea is unique. It just needed to be done in a good way. This is a big flaw I know, but since I am attached to the girl, I cannot rate it based on my enjoyment.


Let's talk about the girl's family. This girl has her parents and a little younger brother. No one in that house is taking care of her or even knows about the problems she is experiencing. They do not treat her badly, no, but to not care about your daughter and not knowing anything about her is a fatal mistake many parents make. I think her parents think of her as perverted or something. As for her brother, he does not give a shit. Although the anime did not mention this, for me, her family's lack of interest in her is the main reason for what she suffers from. This may be considered a personal opinion, but we all know how the family affects its children. Either positive or negative. As for friends, there is that girl named Yuu who was studying with her in middle school. This girl has appeared about three times I think. In fact, I do not consider this girl a friend of her, because she does not know much about her and little meets her. She spends most of her time with her high school friends. This character exists only to make Tomoko jealous(she doesn't really want to make her feel like that) and cause the anime wants to show us that Tomoki is a lonely girl who has nothing special in her. So Tomoko has no friends. Although a little girl showed up once, who is the daughter of her mother's friend and who respects her a lot. But in that episode in which this girl appeared, she learned that her big sister (she calls Tomoko big sis) actually needs help and decided that she will do what she can to help her but she disappeared and did not appear after that.

The majority may consider this anime a comic, but to me, it is not. Because it is only trying to mock social patients and make them a fool as if they were the ones who chose to be like that. For people who have or suffer from the same problem or even people who have good hearts, they will understand the concept of this anime. As for people who are not, they will think that it is stupid. But I hope you see it carefully and put yourself in the shoes of this girl because there are a lot of people that society does not care about and always blame on them even though they actually should care. We humans cannot reach a better place if we do not help each other.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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