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Watamote is my favorite so I'll say a few things about it too. Tomoko is taken to a comedic, over-the-top extreme (which accounts for a lot of her less-than-stellar qualities that you mentioned), but I still relate to her a lot because she's such an accurate representation of social anxiety, something I also struggled with at that age (and still do to a lesser extent). Like, her inner thoughts and private actions were usually absurd, but when viewed from the outside this is all that anyone ever saw of her:

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That may as well have been me trying to order something in high school, and a lot of other realistic moments in the anime could've been lifted straight from my life too. Tomoko feels like everyone is always watching her when, in reality, she's barely noticed by anyone. She spectacularly flubs the few chances at social interaction that she gets but even those barely leave a lasting impression. There was a sequence about her finding a quiet, out of the way place to eat lunch, and that was exactly what I did to survive my school years. The anime had a lot of moments like that, between the craziness.

Basically, I agree with what most people say about Watamote. Tomoko is a miserable person and she absolutely inflicts it on herself. That was never where I found the comedy, though, because to me that was just an excellent character study that nailed its representation of something I'm personally familiar with. The comedy of her thoughts and actions was great too, but the social anxiety was what elevates it to being my favorite.
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