This review will contain Spoilers for the show One of the more relatable shows Ive watched. This also was my second Anime ever. Nice. SPOILER AHEAD STORY: There really is not much to this show though I still loved it. Lets summarise what there is though The show is about Tomoko Kuroki a shy young lass. She has barely any friends mostly cause she cant communicate well with her peers. Despite that she is locked on the idea of becoming popular but not popular like the WORMS who have a lot of friends but are nasty that she keeps seeing in school. In her mind she wants a calm and nice friendship with several individuals that are not her pillows and tissues. The show follows Tomoko and her several attempts at talking to people all of which fail. Each and every attempt at communication she makes ends up turning into an embarassing situation for her. From her trying to order a meal and messing up to bringing her freshly bought underwear to school and using it as a handkerchief. At the end of Season 1 we dont really get any nice conclusion she is still with no friends and she is okay with that. It was obvious that this was a set up for a Season 2 but.... that never came and probably never will. 420https://media.giphy.com/media/XLwNp75QUXHCU/giphy.gif CHARACTERS: There are only 3 main characters present in the show. There are several supporting ones though. Tomoko being the main character we get to see a lot of her personality. She really looks down on happy people with friends despite her wanting the same she believes that if she where in that situation she would be better than these DISGUSTING people. Yeah shes that type of a person. Next up we have Tomokos Brother Tomoki. He is much more normal than her having a nice group of friends and being able to actually communicate he shows clears signs that he does not care much about Tomoko. Though we see a video of them being young and caring about each other dearly. Last Main character is Yuu. A childhood friend of Tomoko. She used to be very much like our Tomoko but when they both entered different High Schools that changed she felt left out compared to the others and decided to become this flashy and fashionable girl. Making her the opposite of Tomoko. 420https://media.giphy.com/media/PdDsWKWnMrJqU/giphy.gif ART/ANIMATION: WATAMOTE is quite an average looking show. Of course that doesnt mean the animation and art style is bad. I quite enjoyed it to be perfectly honest even when Im looking back on it. The colour pallete is once again quite usual though it does lean towards more of a dark side when due to Tomoko and her outlook on life in general. 420https://media.giphy.com/media/akcdzh1LDFCGQ/giphy.gif MUSIC: The music is nothing to write home about. BUT the OP my god was it good. To this very day I still think that this was one of the most amazing OPs. The animation that accompanied it was also something amazing. 420https://media.giphy.com/media/sfBmBQCBu4wEM/giphy.gif OVERALL OPINION: WATAMOTE was an interesting show with interesting premise and characters. I had to pause the episode every now and then because of the sheer amount of secondhand cringe building up but that was mostly cause I too experienced a lot not all scenarios present in the show xd All in all this was decent show. note how are yall enjoying this format of reviews? if you have any suggestion be sure to tell me them :D
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