Watamote Emotional Breakdown - Part 3: Tomoko Kuroki and Her Story That Really Doesn't Matter
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- The finale of my three-part video essay on Watamote's Tomoko Kuroki. This video looks at Tomoko's character development over the course of the series.
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When the guy who did MLP stuff suddenly becomes not one of my favorite RUclipsr's within a niche fandom, to becoming one of my favorite RUclipsr's overall.
Wait…
That’s why his voice is so familiar
Oh shit
@@NoRegs30 who was he?
I gotta know
I couldn't agree more! Fucking love the sense of humor
What mlp person was he
BIG MANGA SPOILERS, relating to her school club dream of walking home with her (imaginary) friends.
BIG BIG SPOILERS
In a very recent chapter, Tomoko talked with some of her friends about stopping by a ramen shop after school. Let's just say this is something that showed up on her high school bucket list. Because she was never a member of a clique or group to begin with, her friends have wound up varied. She manages to interact with a range of top tier girls, delinquents, introverts, otakus and normies.
Part of it has been her simply paying more attention to others. But of course, she is also naturally funny. In one chapter early after the anime, we actually see her engaged in joke writing, using an organized diagram to brainstorm. One of her close friends now is a girl we met in episode 1 of the anime ("I haven't studied at all!") who turns out to be a closet otaku with a secret ambition, jealous of Tomoko's ability to put herself all out there, to do and say crazy things in public, then just soak up the embarrassment and move on.
Back to the story, an athletic girl that Tomoko thinks of as a "gorilla" guides the group of six to a place called Ramen Bastard that serves 4-pound bowls of food.
Some of the girls leave feeling pretty queasy, because they were embarrassed about leaving too much of the food.
But more importantly, while they're all walking home together as a group, Tomoko has a moment. The setting is exactly the same as her old fantasy. That moment she realizes that she's actually fulfilled that old dream of walking home with friends as night comes on, and also got to see some of the other girls throw up.
"You can't just get over mental illness by having a few positive experiences and little change in attitude." Fucking PREACH! You have no idea how hard it it to try and explain this to my super conservative family! "Oh just go outside, do volunteer work and accept Jesus into your life and all the trauma and bad habits we inflicted on you growing up will just disappear!"
Hate it when people do it.
Or, as I believe a certain blue teenager once said, "Lifting doesn't cure autism!"
Course you have to be careful about going the other extreme and thinking you can't improve, that everything is the fault of others, of your past, of political or religious orientations, etc. Bearing grudges isn't going to help you either.
Jesus? Nah, I can't just pray to the skies for help and forgiveness. Nothing happens, nothing.
But yeah, I understand your frustration.
@@veggsbacon1891 Kinda irrelevant if anything happens. Know what any mental health professional will tell you to do to improve your life?
Decide what "improve" means. What are you going to be *forced* to do if you pray? Figure out what to pray for.
May not be half the battle, but it's far more than the first step of a thousand mile journey.
Don't like religion? K., sit down. pull up a picture of someone you respect on your computer and then really, sincerely, explain to them your problems and try to tell them what you believe you need to improve your life. No religion required for the process, though it does help to establish some guidelines. *shrug*
This series has been really motivational for me, I mean it didn't bring some grandiose 180 change to my life or anything, but it did help me realize some things that will most likely help me in my future, so thanks
Not sure if my earlier similar comment got deleted or my internet just wasn't working right because I can't see it, but I don't see a reason it would get deleted so I've rewritten it
I actually find it super interesting that if you watch Tomoko's imaginary self, it evolves from being entirely different, see the floppy tittied monster that was her self insert in episode six (iirc), to the one shown here in the club fantasy. The face and body are different, but much more similar. Instead of being a F cup with windsocks down her shirt, she's much closer to Tomoko's actual body type. The face isn't that different either, IMO.
That looks like someone Tomoko could conceivably turn into by Senior year.
This evolution coincides with her plans becoming less grandiose and more realistic.
Man, this show came out when I was still in highschool and Tomoko was so relatable that it hurt. For years I was so socially maladjusted I literally couldn't speak to people, especially girls, unless I was with someone I knew. As a result I was never in a relationship and had basically no friends for the entire time I was in school.
I'm 25 now, and only recently Have I started turning things around, I work out regularly, I have a decent job, a small group of friends, and for the first time finally had a girlfriend. But even with all the improvements I've made I often feel like I'm just pretending that I'm better or that other people are only willing to be around me out of pity.
Like you say here, it's always a battle and that sense of anxiety never really goes away, but I'm much happier now than I ever was back then so it's worth it to keep fighting in spite of it.
Someone close to me actually just told me tonight: “people love you for a reason. When you feel like they’re just doing it out of pity, that’s your mental illness talking.” Never give up. Never surrender. It sounds like you’re doing great work. Keep going!
So once I came across the first video of these three, seeing that someone made 3 videos on it, and I already at least halfway enjoy the person and their ideas or whatever, I knew itd be something special to me. Coincidentally I vaguely intended to watch the show but didnt really put all the pieces of that intention together to have a drive to find out what the show was called and get started.
I started the show yesterday, and finished the season, and your three videos as of just now. Im kinda reeling a little trying to fully figure out my thoughts about it all.
I also relate heavily to the character, a few key differences that I guess gave me a "better" story, with quotations cause I don't intend to compare. One great hand I was dealt was that I have had a good many incredible people to grow up around and stick around that I could depend on for support, and would actually watch out for me. That and I'm not nearly as severely impaired as Tomoko is. Looking back in this moment, especially with the tint of glass your points in your videos give, I'm glad I was able to endure what I experienced. As of today, I have a good many friends to socialize with, even if they're all online. I can't help but sometimes feel that maybe I've gone too far in this mode of pursuit, since *all* of my friends are online, and I'm still not much better off with physical interactions, if not a little worse due to my time in front of my computer screen.
In addition to them all being online, I think I have had a runaway problem made from an incomplete solution to the problem of loneliness, which is to make new friends. I got good at making friends online, I'd say, which in itself is wonderful. However, I think that, too has both contributed to my time online, as well as my loneliness, since I don't believe I'm good enough at maintaining them, so I'm hemorrhaging connections and hastily making new ones in an attempt to offset the loss, with a few sticking around here or there. Now that I've realized that fact, I'm turning around and seeing how many dim, fading, or broken connections there are and the vague idea of trying to reestablish them and give them the respect they deserve, but there's so many that I couldn't ever hope to actually make it up to everyone that deserves it. Simply, I'm scared I won't be enough and I'm realizing I can't be enough for everyone.
I realize I may be rambling too much and I hope I don't irritate you, I just simply want to share my experience and thoughts on this I guess to help myself and, yknow, that sharing thing itself. I think you'd understand me fairly well. Im redundant! whatever.
Now that I've got all that out I did want to bring up something I had with the show and your videos, that being the notes in the anime where Tomoko and Tomoki remember their childhood and their closer bond they had before. I was hoping the anime would delve a liiittle deeper into that portion of uhHH things? however you'd call it. Those moments reminded me of my bond with my own sibling, and even though the anime didn't parallel my own experience on this one thing as close, it still moved me the most, aside from episode 11, with Tomoko's interactions with Yuu, quietly saying goodbye. In the moment I really wanted to call my sibling and just, talk I guess. However with it being three in the morning I can't cause I'd wake them up.
Ah to get things straight, I wanted to bring this up because you didn't even mention these moments in your videos, and I'd like to hear your thoughts on them, if any.
Aside from all that, there's more thoughts I have but they're loose and small and I'm tired so the effort to form them into thoughts well enough to chuck at you is too great compared to the stress of giving you a yet larger wall of text to trudge through.
Love your videos, I *will* go fuck myself, have a great day.
I'm really glad for you perspective on this. Watamote was a show I dropped because it felt like it was a show that was making fun of a girl that needed help. And it almost even felt like the show was telling us that she was deserving of what she got.
Ill give it another shot.
I hope going back and viewing it with a different perspective allows you to enjoy the show. I'd be curious to know your thoughts after trying it again.
I wanted to note what makes the ending of episode 11 so resonant is the fact that Megumi hugs Tomoko in the bear costume BECAUSE that is the only way Tomoko would be able to accept it. Megumi has this uncanny ability to read and understand people very quickly (hence student council president) and with Tomoko, she is willing to go the extra mile because she can see that the girl needs some kind of recognition that her putting in the effort is meaningful in some way. But unfortunately, Tomoko isn't in an emotional position to be able to accept physical affection from anyone, let alone another woman at the risk of it seeming sexual to her. Especially if the time with Yuu-chan has anything to say about Tomoko's attitude towards this sort of thing, at least at the point in the story the anime covers. So to circumvent that, Megumi wears the bear costume and gives her the balloon. Culminating in one of the most emotional scenes in fiction to me that the anime is able to give the gravitas to. Because we see Tomoko fail so much and to finally be able to connect to someone, in a sense to be understood by anyone for the first time in the story, is very powerful. In that sense, Watamote is a story about hope triumphing over despair. That even if you are kind of a garbage human being, if you try your best to connect to others someone WILL find you, even if you yourself don't entirely understand in the moment. The balloon is then used as a narrative device, along with the ending credits of that episode, to convey the impact the moment had on her emotionally, even though she would probably never be able to describe it in words. And that indescribable sense of "hope" and other related emotions, is such a beautiful thing to see depicted.
Also hi, I don't know if you remember me. We talked on skype a few times some years ago, and while I only now am able to appreciate your content I wanted to give you mad props for this miniseries, Watamote (the anime but more so the manga) is one of my favorite works in fiction and I will take any praise for it when so many people write the show off.
Great video.
I wish there were more shows about dealing with issues that showed progress like Watamote did.
Only one I can think of is Welcome to the NHK. I'm sure there's some more, but I've haven't kept up with new anime in a while.
Bocchi the rock is the new watamote
I actually appreciate you talking about the ending.
When I first saw it, I didn't understand it. If anything, I was super annoyed. I was thinking, "DAMN IT! She was so close, but then she get, like, gets pervy and freaks out so nothing is fixed?? What was the point of any of that?!"
And While I do still think that to an extent, I like your interpretation more. She has grown. Her struggle throughout the show isn't for nothing, and she has made progress. It's just that she still has a LOT to deal with, so she hasn't quite earned that "perfect ending" yet. Through more of her own development, help from other friends, and hopefully some professional help as you said, then maybe she can get there eventually. And through that lens, it's actually a very nice ending. It shows progress, but doesn't diminish how difficult progress can be or how much there is to be had.
That's sort of what I thought the first time. It doesn't make sense until you realize that Tomoko's not a goofy weirdo, she's mentally ill, and severely so. As soon as you understand social phobia, you understand Tomoko and what a powerful character she is.
@@absoluteunit30 I really enjoyed these watamote videos, really gave me an Appreciation for this show. If you ever decide to read the mangas I would like to know what You think about some of the changes that they made to her. Hope you're having a nice day by the way
"I guess you could say I can't take my eyes off her"
>immediately closes eyes
I came for the ponies but stayed for the fucker that makes these videos. Fucking love you man. :)
The last part made me misty eyed. Struggling and persevering is so key to living a fulfilling life. Can't wait to see where those train goes next week!
Watamote was always impressive to me. I struggled for ten years before things got better. The shame, humilation and those wasted years will always be a part of me, but the weight gets just a little bit lighter every day as long as you don't give up.
Man thanks for making this, i'm serious, i was going through a crisis recently but thanks to these videos i remembered, i used to be like that i highschool, one day i got tired of being lonely and having no friends so i tried, i tried to be social, to do new things, to meet new people, and it worked, but somewhere along the i stopped trying and now i'm lonely again, and i just felt like giving up completly, but thanks to your videos i now realise that i just need to try again and get help, thanks man, i really mean it
when the comedian becomes your counselor
mfw they have enough source material to make a second season of the animu but since the show has lost popularity they probably won't commission it.
*That's an oddly fitting fate for Kuroki...*
I refuse to give up.
@@absoluteunit30 now that's words to live by.
I just watched the entire series because of you. I haven't watched anime in years and I found myself loving this show. Even though my social skills aren't as bad as they used to, I still struggle to have normal conversations with people. I relate to Tomoko so much and the show was funny. Thanks Uncle Unit!
You have a talent for character studies. This is a good lane for you.
Because of your Watamote trilogy I started watching the anime! It’s as great as you described!
Great to hear it.
this made my night better. u truly is a Absolute Unit
I actually cried watching this
Great video
This just unlocked a memory that made me sad.
I was talking with a coworker in like 2017. They were like 18 - 19, me 22 at the time. Dude brings up anime and I expressed how I'm new to anime, and only like a few. He asks what animes I've seen that I liked and I told him I liked Jojo, Nichijou, and Watamote. Upon hearing Watamote, he literally laughed in my face and looked at me in a really condescending way. The dude just said "yeah" and just ended the conversation. I felt horrible, and never talked to anyone irl about anime again. I stopped trying to get into anime after that too. Haven't sat and watched one since.
Love your work, Thanks.
And with this ends the trilogy.
I must say when he released the first video dedicated to Watamote I forced myself to watch the series because I dropped it the first time I try to watched it, it was very hard to see because of the situations the girl went through, and far from being funny I was terrible embarrassed. I appreciate having found a compelling reason to watch this show.
The only thing I can say about Watamote that has not been said in these videos is that it is an especially recommended show to watch in adolescence and accompanied by these video reviews, if they can be called that way.
Anyone can learn something from this, no exceptions.
5:20 now youre making me feel nostalgic. Within the context of what you said and that particular star
I should get back to the manga
Good stuff, like really good stuff right here.
These videos made me rewatch Watamote, and I have even more appreciation for it than when I first watched. I think I failed to realize some of the progress she made in the last episodes.
Social anxiety is so baked in to the norms of how people see childhood - and many adults are so alienated from their own childhoods - that when mainstream tv/books/whatever show a kid who's shy getting ignored people don't think "How can I help them build their skill set?" and for many kids/people it compounds over time, like other advantages/disadvantages you get dealt through no quality or fault of your own. And we miss out on _so much_ that people could bring to the table if they weren't being held back by things that can be mitigated relatively cheaply early on. Let's make the pie bigger rather than fighting over who gets the biggest slice of the small pie we currently share.
You made me watch the anime, now I need to read the manga to know what happens, thanks Jerk
lol np, hope you enjoy it as much as I do
I like the frankness of this man. It is difficult for ordinary people to live a full life in a world of alienation and comodification of all aspects of life. The comrades from red Russia approve of you! Keep it up, comrade!
I'll try to remember this for a friend.
I have truly enjoyed your three part take on Watamota... The first time I watched it I felt so conflicted for Tomako. Many times it physically hurt, and was so hard to watch the trials she put herself through. But now having examined your views, I feels a lot better and understand more of the concepts I was missing. Thank you, thank you so much... ^~^
another great video keep going
It always annoys me when someone watches Watamote and says "nothing happens and she doesn't change any time during the show" because to me that's just saying "tell me you don't get mental illness without telling me you don't get mental illness." Just take Tomoko from episode one where she's hardly able to get a word out to her teacher when he says goodbye to her to the end when she's able to wish him goodbye as well. Our girl makes genuine effort and DOES change, as comedic as he practices may be.
These little victories continue for Tomoko in the manga where she now has a close-knit group of friends she really desired all along, and it all came in a natural feeling way.
Man I'm so glad these videos exist. We all know Tonkatsu is perfection itself and we all love her but videos like this 3-parter and Komi's are also very nice. Hopefully Absolute Unit can say his piece again sometime if Ms. Sinclair allows it (haven't seen all the videos, sorry if I missed any others)
See, your a legendary creator
It wasn't just cause of a fandom
It was you dood
Hey, hey Absolute Unit.
More of this, please. I loved this series. I love your voice. I love your opinions.
And I want MOAR!
As long as your delivery is at least as perfect, you can make that joke any time 🤣
Tomoko one of my favorite characters ever, and I love this series of videos you've done. I first watched this show in middle school when I was going through the same struggles as Tomoko. I felt like the show was made for me. It still makes me laugh no matter how many times I've seen it. I still struggle socially, but nowhere near as badly as I did before, and picking up the manga in the last few years I feel like I've matured along with her. Thank you for making such in-depth videos about this show. For as popular as it was at the time it came out I felt it deserved a deeper analysis and I'm fuckin delighted it came from you.
I think you’re getting happier, that is nice to see.
Hey man, you don't know me, but I've been with ya a while. I just wanna ask for one more outta ya, one last hoorah for the dwk totally legit series. You are my favorite content creator and overall strong person, and I don't wanna make you feel like you have too I was just thinking about a definitive end to the series, your way, not ours. Love ya man stay up
Here's to the Megumins in all our lives. You might not have realized they were helping you, you might not have even wanted them to at the time, but the helping hand they extended to us shaped our lives for the better.
In the Manga(yes again I will talk about the fucking manga). We don't know who is in the Costume. That make the *hug again Scene* really sad if she realize Wo was in the costume
Dear Megumi
PS: I love your Videos ,Man
Yeah, by this point in the manga she actually has a decent social life and a few friends but hasn't really talked to Megumi since the skirt incident that I can recall. Megumi's graduating, she hugs Tomoko, and Tomoko connects the dots. It's a really bittersweet scene.
Last time i was this early, it was with an RUclipsr i actually care about.
Finally got around to it but still big hype for 3rd part
That hug came just as I was thinking I'd want to hug her.
One of all my favorite slice of life animes to watch. I honestly cannot get enough of it. Kinda sad there isn't a season two of this anime but all in all I'm glad to have this precious gem none the less. I enjoyed your review of this anime my dude.
I'm a someone who you would say is average at everything that I do. If you give me something to do I'll do it as best as I can, as long as I know what I'm doing. I always have a plan if anything bad happens and it works, for the fist part, for the second part, a problem from left field just comes out of nowhere and derailes my plans, just to leave me unprotected with no idea what to do and somehow I got through without fucking it up.
My problem is usually "how can I start this?" That's the question I ask myself before any interaction, or anything that involves people. I wish I had more confidence in myself because it's the downfall of my life. With confidence I'm an unstoppable man.
My guy just become an anime reviewer full time that shit was wonderful
Dude, you should totally open one of these videos with you cracking open a beer and saying "Alright, so..."
It would make some of the old fans (including me) start geeking out.
Right. Now I remember why I loved this show so much. It's brutal honesty.
Nice trinity video project, I enjoyed every single one
I had some personal issues at home that I thought was normal a few years ago I saw a therapist for around half a year which drastically helped my personal self-worth and a method to help alleviate some of my social anxiety/phone anxiety
Beautiful words AU
So your voice had me on a panic so many times man aaa
I haven't seen the other videos before this one. But you really hit the nail.
I'll always miss your mlp stuff, but you're a pretty entertaining guy in your own right. Keep it up.
Idk if you'll see this but, I really enjoyed this short series of videos analysing and commenting on the themes of watamote. I actually hope you'll come back to this series some day and go more in depth and talk more about this anime
I just I remembered. In one of your pony videos, there was a frame of Tomoko, which is funny to me for some reason.
But yeah, love all three videos, man. And really like your take on Tomoko’s character. I watched the anime myself and listening you talking about her felt kinda nostalgic to me.
this series was fuckin amazing, always happy to see some good quality shit from you my man
6:30 I just want to shout out that touching moment with the hug with Megumi. No spoilers, but I can say that it even gets a very touching call back at the end of Kuroki's second years. That scene and the way they did that callback still bring a tear to my eye even all these years later.
Hey, man. Very good take on this. I discovered the anime about a week ago. Been going through a lot and ha, i can relate with Tomoko a lot in middle and high school. I stuttered like a mofo and i still do though not as bad. I just wanted friends then but i was crazy unsocial and aawkward. I feel like i would of been Tomoko's best friend if i knew her, ha.
Thanks for the 3 part series, dude!
Thank you
Thank you.. I have always loved this anime and seeing you make an in depth 3 parter of this anime made my day while dredging through a rough Monday at work in car service.. thank you.
While I don't have crippling social anxiety, I do stuffer from the experience of constantly trying to do things to make myself feel like I have an ounce of worth yet constantly fail at every single one I try, and the hardest part is knowing that I am so bad at everything that the 60-70 years I have available to me, if I'm lucky, is not going to be enough time for to find whatever that thing is, if it even exists.
Sir, this was good shit. I hope you keep at it with other series you enjoy, because we all would love to hear more of what you have to say about stuff we should watch.
Thank you so much for these three part series. I really love Watamote and I’m just glad that there’s some people out there like you giving the overall deeper meaning of this anime rather than what most people would think this anime is about.
"...and go F**K! yourself!" Ahhhhh... feels good to have that itch finally scratched. Good video (series) btw, a very interesting take.
I love that laugh at the end. For me, it resonates that each of us is our own worst enemy. I've contended with my own demons/diagnosis over the years and understand what it is to be lost in the bottomless neverwhere of you own headspace. Truly, all of us is damaged in some way - that's life and successfully dealing with that is a big part of growing as an individual. But when the damage is raised to pathological levels so to is the bill for overcoming it, demanding that much more effort, determination and - most importantly - self awareness. To me that is what is most hopeful about that final scene - from atop the heap of her many failings and suffering she gleans a new perspective, an awareness that lights through the fog of her own delusions bringing with it some small realization that all of her catastrophizing, doubt, and fear is the voice of her own shadow - a formless specter of her own making with only as much power as she decides to give it.
How do you defeat any demon, even one of your own making? You call it out for what it is and you laugh at it. The you turn your back and leave it behind because in the end, we only carry with us what we choose to take.
this series of videos are gold
After the first video of this trilogy about watamote, I read the manga and boy... it was good, thank you.
I had similar thoughts to the last 2 episodes but didn't over analyze it like this. How I summed it up was she has what she wants, even if she doesn't know it. Friends who seem to actually care about to and the beginning of a social life.
This is one of maybe 5 animus I've after watching it went and bought the mango needing to have more.
I ofcourse haven't read it, like any of them, but by looking at the covers and a few scant pages, she seems to keep on track.
I will continue to live in my delusional hope that there will one day be a season 2.
I feel so said for her in the Anime.
Because she is the same as me and that lonely like me...
Sweet I feel depressed
there is a way through the veil of lonliness
or just lone wolf it like me
Ah what a wonderful trilogy of videos. Hope to see more of this from you!
I really hope they decide to bring back this season and do the later parts of the manga
These 3 videos have been enlightening thank you
Not just only to you.
The funny thing about the cake factory scene according to an interview I read somewhere was that it was loosely based on an actual incident that happened to the artist. I'm not sure if the artist had the same delusions as Tomoko about making cakes being like a shoujo manga (I think the manga/anime they were referencing was possibly Antique Bakery) but she did end up working at a cake factory and found it to be a miserable experience so she quit pretty soon after being hired.
Another minor factoid about the cake factory segment is that, in the manga, it was just before Christmas and Tomoko's mother was reluctant to let her daughter work, while in the anime, it was still summer and Tomoko's mother was enthusiastic about Tomoko getting a job.
One minor correction: I think the mascot costume that Megumi Imae wore was suppose to be a dog, not a bear. In the manga, which I read before I finally got around to watching the anime on Blu-Ray 3 years after it aired, I honestly thought the mascot costume was supposed to be an elephant.
So glad to see someone remember this series beyond just the memes, really sad this never got a second season but I guess it was just "too real for me" for a lot of people.
When I watched it over a year ago I wanted to just give Tomoko a hug because I get what it's like to be socially isolated and feeling unable to reach out to others, while also wanting someone else to reach out for you to show they care.
Thank.
Megumi is a chad
The ending phrase never gets old 😂
Thank you for bringing more attention to this show, I always felt like it got kind of brushed aside after it's initial time in the limelight (Or maybe I just haven't been hanging around the places that still talk about it). Looking forward to whatever animu you might do another video essay on down the line.
After watching these 3 vids, I went and watched Watamote. I’ve not watched anime in years, and even then it didn’t do anything for me. I think I fell in love with Tomoko the same way many people did - “she’s my spirit animal”. AU was right about most things. And I don’t want to split hairs.
I decided to give my old PT an email. And go from there.
So excited!!
I personally think that the way they SHOULD have ended the anime was to show Tomoko and Imae in that same spot having a conversation to each other, and Tomoko slowly starts talking a bit more normal and doesn't stutter as much, then they both laugh, the camera pans to the sky, and shows the end credits. To me, that would be a more satisfying conclusion, even if it's not in the manga, because I like to think of it as a sign of hope for Tomoko's future. But that's just me. Although acknowledging the fact that Tomoko DOES make progress in the manga and has tons of friends now, they HAVE to make a season 2.
Aw, no fireworks scene. Oh well, thanks for the analysis, it was interesting to watch, especially now that you've revealed your own past to us.
I like her persistent attitude that lets her continue despite failures and suffering, but I generally go more towards characters like Naruto or Luffy for that, because it's mostly more light-hearted, but One Piece's Fish Men arc and Alabastar arc made me cry, too.
Watamote is one of the few animes that made me read manga and I've done so consistently. Tomoko's character arc in the manga has continued to be extremely fascinating, so for anyone who's more hungry for more, I'd definitely recommend it, even if I must say that lack of Tomoko's voice actress is a shame, given how amazing she is (both fitting the character and her love for the series as a whole).
I really like this series of videos, it took me a while to watch but I really enjoyed your take and perspective of the show. Hopefully, you don't take this the wrong way but I definitely enjoy your content way more on topics you are interested in, because you can clearly feel the amount of care and passion you have for the series in these videos. Tomoko is a trooper in all our hearts.
Nice Trilogy! A shame that we'll never get a sequel to the series though, really enjoyed that anime
I haven’t really watched any anime in years I was never really into but I might go back to anime what is a good one to watch
I remember in my Freshman year of High School (before my parents took me out to home school me because my ADD wouldn't allow me to concentrate in class) I made ONE desperate attempt to fit in, JUST ONE. I took up swearing and cursing.. cause everyone else was doing it and I didn't care about being cool, I just didn't want to be an outcast.. you know what happened? They laughed at me. Apparently when they did it it was cool, but when I did it, it was pathetic. But the swearing and cursing stuck with me. The one time I tried to change a key part of my personality and it gained me not a single ounce of acceptance, but it persists to this day.
I never again tried to fit in and just accepted that I never would, and I never did. I never did relate to my own generation, not until I found the Brony fandom in 2011, more than a decade after I was pulled out of High School and had tried a few years of community college that went nowhere.
A powerful go f*ck yourself to end off this last part. Awe inspiring.
Watching episode 10 makes me mad. Why because her Mom ruined her Daydream. When Tomoko tries to talk and explain what she was doing. Her mom ignores and told her that dinner is ready and she walks away. I felt bad for poor Tomoko.
While ik you dont do mlp content anymore, a deep dive like you have with this would be quite interesting tbh. Yea there's totally legit recap but those are more....episode recaps, a delving into the show like this where the characters are broken down i believe would be very interesting. Just a thought, especially since the show is over now and there's no more episodes coming out
What a great way to end the video!
i didnt think i wanted a 3rd part of this. but half way in - continue
Good Show!
Oh shit you're the pony dude. Used to watch you when I was a kid