Story Watamote is my first anime series. I was depressed and sad for weeks and I was surfing YouTube then the first episode of this anime got suggested to me. I watched it and I can say this anime made me get rid of my depression. I watched the whole thing in one day and I didn’t even know this thing I’m watching is called “Anime”. Anyways The whole story is about Tomoko Kuroki, an introvert girl who is a huge Otaku and wants to make friends and have an amazing high school life. I’m not introvert and I have tons of friends but I still related to her and that’s weird af. I guess this anime isn’t for everyone. I enjoyed this anime so much and my boyfriend didn’t like it at all. So you can say not everyone will like this show. Another thing I can mention about this anime is that each episode kinda has its own plot so you barely see any development or story progress. I haven’t read the manga so I don’t know how the story goes in there. All I know is that this anime and the preferences it uses are hilarious. You can find Death note, parasite and... preferences in this anime and they all make this show all better. After watching this anime I felt like a sadist cause I actually enjoyed how painful and dark the main characters life is. The amount of dark humor this show has was good but some jokes used in the show made me cringe or be like “mmmmm....” so basically the story was a mix of awesome and stupidness. Some parts did bore me and some parts made me love the show. I can’t say how I exactly feel about it. I both love and hate Watamote. Slice of life anime aren’t bad but I usually drop them after a few episodes, but thanks to how relatable Tomoko was I kept on watching.
Characters This anime is a slice of life and is only focused on Tomoko so she is the only character that matters in this show. I usually like to write about characters but in this case not really because I seriously have nothing to say. Tomoko an introvert girl who wants to have a perfect high school life. She wants to be popular among boys and have a boyfriend like the rest. The problem is she can’t even talk to girls so.... boys are out of the question. She is an otaku that means she is mostly busy playing games and watching anime. After a while she noticed she can’t even talk to her teacher and because of that she started practicing talking with her little brother. I can’t say this anime doesn’t have any character development. It has but way too little. I wish they would show more of her development. Another thing that I noticed was the fact Tomoko doesn’t know she actually has Anxiety and kept blaming other people for not being normal. I wish they showed us other sides of anxiety. Some parts of Tomoko’s personality was relatable af. Like the part when a got boy talked to her and she was like “OMG A HOT GUY TALKED TO ME”.
Art and animation Most of the characters were way too simple and by that I mean there were no eyes. The animation were pretty smooth and Tomoko and her brother looked actually good and detailed. Specially their facial expressions were done flawlessly and that made the comedy aspect much better! The backgrounds looked simple some parts were plain and simple colors and some part were detailed. I found myself in awe of how great some scenes were.
Soundtracks
The opening is amazing. I seriously liked the opening and every episode I listened to it and watched the music video. The music video itself was really meaningful. All the chains showed in the video showed how hard life is for people who have anxiety and are introvert. Voice actors did an amazing job specially Tomokos. Rest of the ost were average but I still enjoyed them. The ending was pretty good as well. I really liked the music and music video to it. To be honest I liked the ending more than opening.
Overall This anime isn’t for everyone. As I said some hate it and some like it and As a person who actually enjoyed this anime i say this anime deserves as many rewatches as you can think. I recommend it to people. The ost, original soundtrack, were flawless specially the ending. The art wasn’t anything good but it wasn’t that bad neither. And the story was actually interesting (at least for me!)
