One day I'll be popular...

私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪い! also known as: Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dō Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!, No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!, or just Watamote, is a manga (and shortly lived anime) centering around a losergirl Neet known as Tomoko Kuroki (ages 15-18 as of current chapter)

How did I find Watamote?

Well it all happened in around April 2022 because of some random edits and art I saw around instagram... No really I don't even have a cool backstory for the manga that's taken over my life for over 2 years now 0_0 anyways, I saw this cool stuff and thought I'd give the anime a try (as is the story with most watamote fans) from there I absolutely went MAD !!! Tomoko is probably in my top 5 characters of all time ? (rivalling the likes of Pinkie Pie) I see the me I was during peak pandemic times and before, tired, hypersexual and perverted over everything with no awareness of how to manage myself, lonely, and living every day as a trial against my desire to end it all. This is the Tomoko we see in the anime. But I wanted more, I NEEDED more. You can't just show me a blorbo and not elaborate on what happens next !??? Later on I started getting into the manga and fandom after a piece I made of her gained a little bit of traction on my instagram account (an account i had been trying to grow for ages) after this the real fixation kicked in, I would draw her over and over and over again. This was in my first year out of my old school where it felt like I was fighting to be alive at any given time. I did online and I was free to draw and create as much as I wanted.

meet the watacast

Tomoko Kuroki

Tomoki Kuroki
Yu Naruse

Kotomi Komiyama
Hikari Itou

Hina Nemoto
Yuri Tamura

Mako Tanaka
Masaki Yoshida

Emiri Ucchi
Yuri Tamura

Hina Nemoto
Yuri Tamura

Hina Nemoto
Yuri Tamura

Hina Nemoto
Yuri Tamura

Hina Nemoto
Yuri Tamura

Hina Nemoto
Yuri Tamura

Hina Nemoto
Yuri Tamura

Hina Nemoto
Yuri Tamura

My thoughts

So as someone who is a raging autist and thus is constantly thinking about this series against my will, you can imagine I have a lot of thoughts about it. This will talk about everything from the anime, to the manga, to the fandom and what I think a lot of people wanted from watamote, atleast in the non-japanese audience. I first want to say I am not an impartial party when it comes to talk about this as you could probably assume from the fact you are currently on a watamote shrine page, and my over 4k of watamote screenshots are scrolling on the left XD

My stamp collection