Tomoko Kuroki strikes me as a very excellent character in the hands of a poor author.
She's a hopeless NEET and if you don't know what that term means then you wont be the kind of person who relates to Tomoko.
But she's not really hopeless, a lot of the manga starts with Tomoko declaring her intent to achieve some small often meaningless goal to try and improve her social life. Then the author shoves her back into her NEET box and punishes her for wanting to improve herself.
Tomoko is a character cursed with self awareness, she knows everything she's doing is wrong and how its effecting her and strives to change. A change that is denied her by essentially God.
About the only good thing in Watamote the anime is the animation which does the Hot Fuzz thing of styling every day interactions with lots of flashy edits and quick cuts to keep the pace up. And the intro theme is nice too.
But just like the manga Watamote is a Sisyphean watch.
