Watamote so far (2 episodes in) has been depressing to say the least. With Welcome to the NHK paling in comparison if you are masochistic. The difference is that Welcome to the NHK is funny and gives you glimpses of hope while ending on a fairly nice note. Watamote on the other hand is like a bully, it gives you a nice gift only to swat it out of your hands and crush it. It feels like anything good that happens to Tomoko will just result in her not seeing the whole picture or being crushed by something else.
The show actually left me not wanting to watch another episode out of dread. My worst nightmare would be not having the ability to communicate with others, I talk all the time and love to do so. I have to have human interaction pretty much all the time, if I don't talk to someone for more than a few days I start suffering from mental issues. I probably have some pending mental diagnosis coming but that is me, I start to have moments of psychosis and am less and less in reality. Though all I need to remedy this is a persons voice and us to start talking. To see someone that is so far from reality most of the time and can't communicate actually instills a feeling of dread in me.
My ears had a tingly sensation, the kind I get when I don't want to do something. Like my body is rejecting this anime.
So I think im going to watch something else for now. But I really need to get through the 20 shows on my watch list. Maybe I will start Gintama so that I have something to sort of reset my pallet. Like coffee beans at a candle shop or fruit slice at a winery. Something that is completely different and thus lets you look upon it with an unbiased view.
Though Watamote seems to be trying at a comedy they don't seem to know how humor works.
If you see a man trip you will laugh, if you see him trip then break his neck its not as funny, if you see him trip then break his neck then watch a slew of people brutally hit him till he is dead it is only funny to a certain crowd. But if the man is a 90 year old blind person that trips, breaks his neck, cries out for help, is bruatally murdered by everyone around him it isn't funny anymore. You took the slap stick out and made it into a walking stick that is being used to crush the poor mans ribs. This is essentially what Watamote does it gives you a character that has the false notion that she is the most popular girl. You establish that she isn't popular but then hammer the nail whenever you can. She lacks speech skills and when she does speak it is more pitiful than a dying mouses last squeak. Then she is remotely happy and is crushed, then she goes to the only thing that had made her happy and you find out that even that is nothing special and I quote you "no body cares about those characters".
Another note is that Kiss x Sis is also on hiatus. I enjoy some
scenes but overall the show is soft-core hentai.
Also I am once again in ISS which means
watching some anime while reading my Dance in the Vampire Bund Doujinshii
collection. I will start with the latter and move to anime when I see fit. I
can't really decide right now what I want to watch, maybe I will finish Black
Bullet so I can do a review on that, maybe I will wade through the infinite
waters that is One Piece. You will have to find out once I do my next update,
which will most likely be tomorrow.
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