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| WataMote is my favorite anime, but I've been wondering if the reason I like it is because Tomoko is "relatable". (I hate that word.) And I haven't really heard of people who like the show and don't have social anxiety. To be honest, I could be one of those people. My social skills have improved dramatically since first watching the show (I'm not a social butterfly, but I don't have too many problems.), and I still love it. I think the show is a masterpiece. Everything from the art to the music to the voice acting to the characters fit together to make a great story. However, I could see me liking it as a type of "nostalgia" for my awkward years, and I wonder if I would still like it if I was a natural extrovert who never had social anxiety. I'm curious about your experience in this. |
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| I haven’t watched the anime you’re talking abt but I highly doubt that the only people interested are ones with social anxiety. Anybody can like a whatever they wanna like |
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Captain-Andrew said: I haven’t watched the anime you’re talking abt but I highly doubt that the only people interested are ones with social anxiety. Anybody can like a whatever they wanna like Sure, people can like whatever, but WataMote is an absolute cringefest, and it might be very hard to like the show if you don't like and understand the main character, Tomoko. Tomoko being relatable is a big part of why people like the show. However, I can see people without social anxiety liking the show. (I'll call them extroverts for lack of a better word.) Many extroverts are very friendly to awkward introverts in real life. So, it's not a massive leap to believe that they could like the fictional Tomoko and be able to handle the cringe. |
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| I don't think Watamote and NHK Ni Youkoso (the older, more brutal, male variant. Sato is OG Tomoko you could say) are meant to be relatable. Both are dark comedies that happen to be very realistic and "relatable" in many ways, but very unrealistic and un relatable in many other ways. They're "relatable*" with an asterisk. I have had social anxiety at one point (probably still have a weaker version of it hanging around inside me) but never really fully connected with either MC. but like I said, that's not the point of the shows. I liked both shows, btw. Both extroverts and introverts can like this, provided they can handle the cringe. After all, we get to relate to villains or bad (on purpose) characters from other shows / movies despite having nothing in common with them. Watch Welcome to the Dollhouse for the movie version of a girl being bullied nonstop by life, it has coma inducing levels of cringe and awkwardness. |
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| I guess you like it better when you relate to the story and the characters, but I wouldn't say you need to have social anxiety to enjoy it. |
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| Relatability is a good thing in anime, but it’s not absolutely necessary to make a show or character likable. If a you find a character or a situation in an a anime relatable, great, but if it’s not there, that’s not a bad thing. You’re right to bring up relatability for this show. It sort of exaggerates how badly things seem for people who have social anxiety, but still I can imagine people relate to it easily. That probably plays a big role in its popularity. But for me, WataMote is just good. It’s a bit different. It effectively treads a fine line between hilarity and utter depression. It’s a little unique in that. Technically it’s “cringe comedy,” but that’s a spectrum like anything else, albeit a fairly rare genre. WataMote does it well. |
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| You just have to understand it, and I don't mean that like "you need X IQ to get this or you wont like it". But like just follow the basic concepts of what the anime is trying to get at, hell, you could probably learn what social anxiety is like during this anime. |
| Watamote helped me understand what I was going through while I was in HS. My social anxiety is still pretty much the same but at that time I had no idea what social anxiety was, and wasn't very knowledgeable on mental health in general. I basically thought I was the only one going through this and Tomoko made me feel way less alone and made me realize I wasn't the only one. Before watching Watamote I just thought there was something wrong with me my entire school life. |
| I don't think that you need to have social anxiety to like Watamote, but it does help. Personally, I loved the show. As someone who is very socially awkward, the show connected with almost instantly in a way that wouldn't happen if I didn't understand how it felt to be in similar situations. I think that is why a lot of people don't like the show- If you don't understand it like that, the show is going to feel weird and embarrassing. I think that a lot of parts of Watamote are really funny, and part of that is that I've done similar things and I'm really laughing at myself. |
| No, one just have to be openminded and be accepting that these things do indeed happen in real life. Same goes for a lot of other anime/themes. |
| Yes and that's what makes it funnier too. |
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| Nope, I'd say it depends on how you view each episode & if there's anything that you found funny that happened in the episodes. |
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| I love Watamote because it's very relatable to me. Of course, it takes it to the extremes, but I can totally relate. |
| Any autistic asocial geek will like it I guess, can't relate. |
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