▶ No.811476
>>811472 (OP)
Good to see she still stays a delinquent, no matter how "golden" her heart may be.
▶ No.811477>>811479
>>811472 (OP)
THE PLOT THICKENS!!!
▶ No.811479
>>811477
It already did so last chapter.
▶ No.811480>>811481 >>811484 >>811486 >>811505 >>813407
How did Tomoko go from an unpopular loser embarrassing herself in public and going stir crazy at home to being the fucking One Punch Man of popularity with as many friends as she could ever want?
▶ No.811481
>>811480
By behaving so spergy that it ends up being seen as mysterious or interesting.
Also, only a few of those girls is what you could call "friends". Many are just tag-alongs or simply there for the show.
▶ No.811484>>811485 >>812592
>>811480
Nip otakus weren't buying the damn manga so the author let the artist come up with her own ideas since they're much more interested in other productions (like that clone girls manga) and Watamote has run its course.
We had a good run, lad, just give it up and hope they'll let her graduate soon so we don't have to deal with the four people who keep making reddit-tier comments about yuri influences in this series. Besides, the new king of cringe manga nowadays is Back Street Girls.
▶ No.811485
>>811484
>Besides, the new king of cringe manga nowadays is Back Street Girls.
I think Chio-chan is much better at that.
▶ No.811486
>>811480
Watamote wasn't appealing to the shit taste nips so it got turned into a yurishit romcom with a gimmick of featuring 2DPD and, surprise, nu-watamote is mildly popular.
▶ No.811499
Shit, this is just trash. I finally try to read the latest chapters and Tomoko is just insufferable and the absolute worst part of the story. Not only that but her friends are annoying too.
>Also, only a few of those girls is what you could call "friends". Many are just tag-alongs or simply there for the show.
That's what all friends are, especially among 3d girls.
▶ No.811505>>811530 >>838864
>>811480
Her personality really didn't change much since the very beginning, the only difference is that she can talk to people now without dropping her spaghetti. But it's not like she has that many close friends, it's only really Yuri and maybe Nemo. Nemo is a bit of a crossover with emoji, in being a semi-comic-relief yandere lesbo, Yoshida definitely counts as a friend, but I don't think they're all that close. Mako barely counts and the rest of them are really only superficially in the circle.
I think Tomoko would get along with the fanged bitch too since they're both cunts and could talk shit about people forever, that might happen at some point.
▶ No.811530
>>811505
Tomato could always talk to her friends, she still stutters around girls she hardly knows unless its a spergy moment. Like talking about erotic voice acting.
she still drops it hard like saying she is now taking boyfriend applications.
▶ No.811532>>811575
It's obvious Tomoko is going to grow up to be an OL who preys on younger coworkers.
▶ No.811575>>811625
>>811532
Who is this actually?
▶ No.811625>>811679
>>811575
I can't remember, just found this random page in my image folder.
▶ No.811633>>811655 >>811695 >>811730
How the fuck did this turn in to yuri harem? I mean really how does this happen? It's fucking bizarre when you think about all the years reading this.
▶ No.811655>>811671 >>811730
>>811633
Realistically it's the only development they could do, as her getting it on with guys would piss off the audience.
▶ No.811671
>>811655
>that image
She still has to clean off all that shit anyway.
▶ No.811681
>>811679
My pride is sullied for being spoonfed, but thanks.
▶ No.811695>>812067
>>811633
I understand you are limited about what you can do with an autistic character that avoid relationships.
The author decided this because introducing guys, romance or drama would have killed the entire original purpose.
▶ No.811730>>811746 >>812553
>>811655
>>811633
Realistically, her friends would hang out with her out of pity or to put another number in the group and then backstab her into being a social outcast at outings and the like while prying on her loneliness to get some shit done that they themselves don't want to. But since gratuitous bullying (that isn't physical) would piss off otakus and autists, they go for the extremely too real for me storyline of autism just spontaneously sprouting around all she touches, like a King Midas that got his power from Chris Chan.
▶ No.811746>>811756
>>811730
>a King Midas that got his power from Chris Chan.
I'd fund it.
▶ No.811756>>811759
>>811746
Me too
But not in fucking watamote, the whole point of the manga is that uh oh being autists around other people and having grandeur means you're going to be emotionally and socially challenged for your whole school life, there's like a hundred other series that rely on the main character's autism to fill in the autism gap with the other characters. Why would they do a 180 on Watamote if not just to try and grab a bigger audience?
▶ No.811759>>811982
>>811756
>Why would they do a 180 on Watamote if not just to try and grab a bigger audience?
It wasn't to grab a bigger audience, it was to avoid the complete loss of the audience. They couldn't have made a manga about Tomoko being autismo supreme and nothing else, ever, it would've gotten stale. I'm pretty sure it was always intended to go more or less this way, but since this romcom-type yuri harem proved to be a popular development, they're going to town with it.
▶ No.811982>>812557
>>811759
>They couldn't have made a manga about Tomoko being autismo supreme and nothing else, ever, it would've gotten stale.
They had made it and it was still really great.
>I'm pretty sure it was always intended to go more or less this way
They didn't even know if they could've made it possible, it's only thanks to gaijin's money
▶ No.812067
>>811695
>that avoids relationships
I just see that as a challenge to create characters who are less clear in what they want.
▶ No.812553>>812559
>>811730
Your life must suck to be this dark and bleak
▶ No.812557>>812559
>>811982
>They had made it and it was still really great.
Yeah until they'd end up saying all there is to say about the question. Then you start ot repeat yourself and beside a few autists who love repetitive patterns, most people end up dropping the manga because it would just become boring.
So at some point, either you stop with a nice end before people are getting bored, or you keep going until the manga get shitcanned. Either way it would come to an end but then you lose a mean a subsistance, so you have to start over a new manga, which may be not meet the same success.
I can understand it's safer for a mangaka to keep going using the same characters the audience grew attached to and only changing the tone rather than just sticking to spaghetti droping until people are bored.
▶ No.812559>>812568 >>813418
>>812553
>as he replies on a taiwanese flipbook animation appreciation board
the projectors, Jack
>>812557
I would argue that they're playing it even safer with the more tried and trusted formula of "autistic, one dimensional girls doing autistic, one dimensional things". It would have probably been more appropriate if they had done an Angel Densetsu and made Tomoko's autistic life change a little bit for the better before letting her go into the sunset abruptly so that the reader can fill in the blanks of her future life, but then again they'd lose all those cushy merchandise deals with Tomoko's shrieking face on them.
▶ No.812568>>812569
>>812559
>all those cushy merchandise deals with Tomoko's shrieking face on them
Literally what merch? I think Tomoko got, like, one figure back in the absolute height of it's run?
▶ No.812569
>>812568
The nendoroid (soon to be 's as they'll inevitably make more for the new characters), the dakimakura, reprints and that weird baseball collab for the Komi-something-san meme.
▶ No.812592>>812596
>>811484
Well, I guess there is only so much you can do with the whole "unpopular girl" premise. I don't see a satisfying alternative to the lesbian harem route.
▶ No.812596
>>812592
It wasn't an "unpopular girl" premise, it was a brutal depiction of an incredibly autistic girl premise. This was the girl who genuinely thought she'd get a standing ovation for crushing a cockroach in class. This is the girl who watched couples having sex from a rooftop with a pair of kids. This is the girl who cheated at card games against children.
There was a lot of material there.
▶ No.812598
>autist secretly wishes to be popular
>gets her wish ... but with lesbians
>can't free herself from lesbian harem because autism
Seems kind of a tragic comedy, I bet this magnifies her awkwardness in non-yuri settings later.
▶ No.812616
>>811472 (OP)
These Mongolian cave paintings are still being made? Wew.
▶ No.813407
>>811480
By being female. Only men suffer and get ostracized for being spergy nerds
▶ No.813418>>817948
>>812559
Stop projecting your projections, faggot.
I'm pretty upbeat thank you very much.
That you think that everyone who visits an imageboard must be some depressed basement-dweller with no hope in life speaks volume of you. If your life sucks that much go kill yourself.
▶ No.817948>>818957
>>813418
>some depressed basement-dweller with no hope in life speaks volume of you.
It speaks more about your disbelief such a thing would be typical, not necessarily because anyone is a basement dweller but because kids are fucking nuts and part of their growth is exploring their empathy so they'll do nasty shit to each other that would make your typical Soccer Mom lose it. Kids don't start to even try to be responsible on their own without encouragement until they reach 14-15 years of age.
Of course there are some things a kid without some abnormal state of mind wouldn't do but cutthroat social politicking is not one of those things.
▶ No.818641
New chapter day
Oh yes. Every faggot get out of the thread.
Preemptive anti-disappointment spoilers: It's short as fuck and there's two weeks until the next one.
▶ No.818751>>818753 >>818760
>all these faggots acting like the series has fundamentally changed
Did you want some Charlie Brown tier shit where nothing ever happens?
▶ No.818753
>>818751
Yes they did. It should be obvious by now.
▶ No.818760>>818780
>>818751
A proper ending is better than mediocre content forever.
▶ No.818773>>818780
THIS CHAPTER WAS FUCKING GREAT!
I can't believe you faggots don't like this.
▶ No.818780>>818781 >>818860 >>818948
>>818760
>A proper ending is better than mediocre content forever.
When should it have ended then? I want to know what you consider mediocre.
>>818773
That's the previous chapter though.
▶ No.818781
>>818780
>That's the previous chapter though.
I assumed he was speaking more generally, to the people who don't like the direction the manga has taken.
▶ No.818860
>>818780
>I want to know what you consider mediocre.
not him but doing the same gag over and over without any character development its like beating a dead horse, sooner or later you gonna run out of ideas. Example of this is Tonari no Seki-kun
▶ No.818948>>821895
>>818780
It's mediocre because it's no more about cringe per-se but about a bunch of characters that get their personality developed in very short blurbs thanks to the structure of the chapters and whatever comedy there is is taken away from the MC and given to the side characters, who aren't as messed up emotionally and so it just feels they were added for the sake of shaking up the story rather than because they really needed to (Tomoko could already count on Komi-something-san and Yuu-chan to be her foil, now they're pretty much nonexistent, as Komiyama just appears to sate the artist's lust for pretty girls wearing unconventional outfits and Yuu-chan is fucking her boyfriend off screen).
It's mediocre because it's not bad, definitely comedic at times, but it's not as fun as reading it the first time.
▶ No.818957>>818968 >>822136
>>817948
>kids can only be bullies
Kids can be cruel, but the idea that everyone would try to bully Tomoko because she's weird is just flawed.
▶ No.818968>>822074
>>818957
>the idea that everyone would try to bully Tomoko because she's weird is just flawed
It's not flawed, it's Japanese. The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
▶ No.821895>>822151
>>818948
>It's mediocre because it's no more about cringe per-se
That's the weakest criteria for what makes a good manga I've ever heard. It's also avoiding the question: When did this happen? What chapter/place in the story? Tell me specifically when it turned mediocre.
▶ No.822074>>822087
>>818968
Dude, im in Japan right now. You can run into all kids of weird people, but no one is bothering them from what I could see. Japs don't seem to give a fuck.
▶ No.822087
>>822074
Are you in school? Of course people don't give a fuck about others in the street but school is where bullies act.
▶ No.822109>>822117
I like where it's going but it clearly shows that it's going to end when she graduates her 3rd year and actually have tons of friends.
I just wished it ended with her becoming pregnant instead.
▶ No.822117>>822122 >>822157
>>822109
We already know what she would be like as a mother.
▶ No.822122>>822124
>>822117
>mom I want you to meet my girlfriend and her parents for dinner
>ugh that's so much work can't I just suck your dick instead
▶ No.822136
>>818957
>but the idea that everyone would try to bully Tomoko because she's weird is just flawed.
Everyone who isn't at the very top of the social ladder will isolate weird kids if they aren't obviously physically disabled and said kid can't make their weirdness work in their favor. It's worse if kids are forced to socialize with weird kids and mentally handicapped kids by the school against their will, then it'll go from isolation to outright alienation and being singled out on principle.
▶ No.822151>>822159 >>822877 >>824689
>>821895
The generic answer so far has been "when the school trip arc happened" but it's been more of a gradual thing ever since the anime aired it last episode and had a much better resolution than the manga could hope to achieve. It reached its peak at around the 70th chapter because of the change in tone to the whole story, plus the drop in overall quality of the art. Backgrounds got less and less detailed as the shift went into drawing unique characters, but even the characters don't have as much detail to them or their expressions because they just need to fit more of them and increasingly more exposition and dialogue, sacrificing expressiveness. Ironically, emoji-tan is the only character that retained the exaggerated motions from the earlier chapters. You also get much less introspection from everyone's thoughts, which was also a pretty big deal in telling what Tomoko was really thinking and how people around her saw her and her actions. Again, emoji-tan is the only one that kept that trait. Let's gloss over whether the story is getting any good as it's more subjective than anything, the quality of the various chapters is really banal - shit you'd read in most other taiwanese comic books about girls doing girl things, something that even Tomoko mentions when she gets to actually be the sarcastic piece of shit she's supposed to be.
And at that, Tomoko doesn't even show to have developed any redeeming quality other than being able to hold water cooler conversations with the people around her, which again makes her having loads of friends all of a sudden kind of improbable - the earlier chapters were all about her trying to develop said qualities or pretending that she had them, only to fail miserably because of her selfishness, but now apparently it's rewarded or something, probably it's just a big setup for a friendless ending.
▶ No.822157
>>822117
Didn't that part end where she wasn't actually the mother of that kid?
▶ No.822159>>822875
>>822151
It feels to me like Tomoko stopped being the main character. We never hear her internal thoughts, and stories don't really revolve around her anymore. She just shows up occasionally like a background cameo every once in a while. Meanwhile there is no replacement, so the entire manga feels directionless and pointless because EVERYBODY is a side character now.
It's very similar to what happened to another manga character with "Tomo" in her name.
▶ No.822875
>>822159
>We never hear her internal thoughts, and stories don't really revolve around her anymore
She stil have inner thought in the latest chapter stupid, and all the side story while doesn't revolve around her, still connected in some way.
▶ No.822877>>836320
>>822151
>ever since the anime aired it last episode and had a much better resolution than the manga could hope to achieve
What resolution? the anime ends the same way it started, it doesn't resolved anything.
▶ No.824526>>824533 >>824535 >>824572 >>824573
Her yuri harem is growing.
▶ No.824535
>>824526
This is what popularity looks like.
▶ No.824572>>824585
>>824526
>The other delinquents are there
We haven't really seen them interact with the other characters yet, that could be interesting.
▶ No.824573>>824575 >>824826
>>824526
>being around more than two other people at once
She is no longer our girl.
▶ No.824585
>>824572
Probably dragged along or getting a beat down.
▶ No.824621
I'd love to see more of komi-something's bizzare fashion sense and •△•.
▶ No.824624>>824625
>>824620
Panel 1:
"Oh... there is no place for me to sit."
Panel 2:
"Why don't you sit down here? ...just kidding..."
▶ No.824625>>824629
>>824624
Thank you for Translation, thought it be something along those lines.
▶ No.824629>>824858
>>824625
Use Google translate and common sense as a lazy man's way to translate Japanese. In b4 Japanese purists starts reeeing.
▶ No.824633>>824677
>>824620
The air is thick with the stench of dykes.
▶ No.824677>>831714
>>824633
Yuri aren't dyke, faggot. They are the purest form of love, and isn't consist of ugly fat woman pretending to be a man
▶ No.824680
>>824620
Wait, the raw already been released? it said 5/24 for the new chapter
▶ No.824689>>824697
>>822151
I find it amusing how all these different people sort of orbit around Tomoko without her doing anything and without anyone being aware of it. That's got potential for an interesting story. I just think she needs to have more input, even if mentally, for it to be worth reading. Most of the chapters now are focused on the drama itself rather than Tomoko's amusing commentary on them.
>>824575
Alternatively, I see this "hang around and don't make any waves" strategy blowing up in her face. It will reach the point where everyone (falsely) blames her for being the nucleus of all their drama, since it only started happening when she entered their respective circles, and Tomoko drops the title as her final line.
▶ No.824697
>>824689
>everyone blames her for being the nucleus of their drama
>lesbian rape party
▶ No.824740
>>824620
>even the mother hen reacted
▶ No.824768>>824774
>>824620
Is this doujinshi? Doesn`t look like the original art at all
▶ No.824774
>>824768
Are you blind and retarded? Of course it'S a doujin.
▶ No.824788>>826901
>>824620
>a doujin looks 10 times better than original art
▶ No.824826>>825752
>>824573
It's better to die like a shooting star in the spring of youth than grow old and unlikable until you fizzle out. We should just call this Zombie Watamote.
▶ No.824844
>>824523
I'd ike to see some more of that.
▶ No.824858>>824864 >>824865 >>845007
>>824629
How are you letting it scan through images?
This could really come in handy when I'm trying to look up words while studying. This looks like a phone app, but is there a desktop version too?
▶ No.824864
>>824858
It's google translate app.
▶ No.824865
>>824858
Google translate phone app.
▶ No.825752
>>824826
But that's the opposite of what happens to Tomoko
▶ No.826518>>826596
What the hell happened to the raws for #9?
▶ No.826596
>>826518
I hope it's something batshit crazy like an apocalypse.
▶ No.826656
>>824620
I hate girls who act or say "dirty" things but never follow through. That annoys me.
▶ No.826901>>826934
>>824788
It lacks the charm of the original.
▶ No.826934>>827103
>>826901
I like watamote but even I can't defend the lazy artstyle. Charm is something you said to Mob Psycho or Shin Chan, watamote is just pure laziness.
▶ No.827103
>>826934
That laziness is fitting for the character of Tomoko.
▶ No.828875>>828967
So, Anon, are you man enough for me?
▶ No.828967
▶ No.828982
Where can I buy Ucchi merch?
▶ No.829069>>829080
Oh? The yandere is afraid, that's totally not suspicious.
▶ No.829076>>829083 >>829084 >>829088 >>831686 >>833871
>not into chuuni stuff anymore
>makes fun of otakus
>hangs out with the girls and reads fashion magazines and does makeup
This manga is shit.
▶ No.829080
>>829069
Is class mom gonna have to stab a bitch?
▶ No.829083
>>829076
Don't reply to the thread with negativity, it makes the local entry level guy upset.
▶ No.829084>>829089
>>829076
I'm not caught up and I dont know about the other points, but she always looked down on otaku
▶ No.829088>>829100
>>829076
Fuck off, nerd. Tomoko always made fun of otakus.
▶ No.829089
>>829084
Retards watch a couple scenes from the anime and then act like they're experts on what the series should and shouldn't be. Really annoys me.
▶ No.829100>>829105 >>829149
>>829088
That's because it was ironic. It's not ironic any more.
▶ No.829105
>>829100
>ironic
You mean because she was an otaku too, because that hasn't changed.
▶ No.829149
>>829100
>ironic
There is nothing ironic about being a complete self absorbed yet self hating hypocrite.
▶ No.831686>>831987
>>829076
The manga is great
MOAR
▶ No.831703
>>829348
That's not how binoculars work.
▶ No.831714
>>824677
This opinion just makes you the counterpart to the Fujoshi. You are just as bad as them.
▶ No.831987
▶ No.832622>>836216
Why does Tomoki use wa so much? Is she right about him being a homo?
▶ No.832892>>833633 >>836314
>wondering where the new chapter is
>check W3
>manga is on a hiatus for no particular reason for an unknown amount of time
▶ No.833633
>>832892
>an unknown amount of time
▶ No.833871
>>829076
Just rewrite it anon. The power of autism is amazing.
▶ No.836213>>836297
Get up, lazy bones! It's new chapter day!
Ha ha ha, what's with that look on your face?!! Ha ha ha ha!!
▶ No.836216
>>832622
Probably, he didn't plow Tomatos hairy snatch when she offered after all.
▶ No.836301>>836367
Another thing ruined by popularity. For all I care, Tomoko gave up and became a hikki, never to come out of her room again. The end.
This girl in those new chapters isn't Tomoko.
▶ No.836314
>>832892
HAHA Joke's on you - the artist was MIURA ALL ALONG!
I wish this series died with her just finally being able to speak to a faceless random. At least it would have shown her potential without killing her character and the story as a whole.
▶ No.836320
>>822877
She resolves to not take things (her problems) so seriously anymore. In a way she's almost telling the audience not to feel bad because it's all a gas.
Go back and watch it again. It's actually a decent ending for what the entire story was.
▶ No.836367
▶ No.836380
So does this mean Tomo wants Yuri's hands or is she offering her hands to Yuri?
▶ No.836391
>>836297
Great another thing I want to pound from behind. Large jackets and skirts go togeather like oil and milk.
▶ No.836539>>836541
▶ No.836541
>>836539
>>836540
Shit, 2slow
▶ No.836600
>Persona
>Mahou Shoujo Site
What's up with that? Didn't the manga only use obvious fake titles before?
>"Literally who?"
Or may it's just the translators doing.
▶ No.838864>>838941
>>811505
>It's Not My Fault I'm Not Popular!
>she gets popular
▶ No.838941>>839135 >>839137 >>840027
>>838864
>Tomoko bemoans the fact she's unpopular in-universe, makes her popular in real life
>Mangaka makes her popular in-universe, she gets unpopular in real life
>No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular
▶ No.839135
>>838941
It all makes sense now.. BRAVO NICO!
▶ No.839973
>>839959
>name drops Katou-san twice
>gets rejected both times
>doesn't understand why
She is now a full blown harem protagonist.
▶ No.839995
>tfw no yuri mommy gf
>>839959
I actually laughed out loud at that one.
▶ No.839996
>>839959
She didn't become a normalfag, this is downright Persona-tier.
▶ No.840015>>840017
>>839959
This is disgusting, even more so if it's an accurate translation and not just the typesetters having fun.
▶ No.840017>>840018 >>840631
>>840015
It's probably リア充, which is more or less equivalent to normalfag, which normalfags of course turned into a less offensive "normalfag" for their own use. リア充 has more of a specific connotation of people who are generally successful and fulfilled in life, especially romantically. It's basically what the autistic otaku types use to refer to lovey dovey couples with disdain.
▶ No.840018
>>840017
Word filter got to me there but you get the idea.
▶ No.840027>>840631
>>838941
>this manga was good but now it's dumb
>No, anon, you are the manga
<and then Watamote was a cunningly devised metatextual narrative
▶ No.840041>>846730
Tomo feeling she has to pick up new clothes for meeting Katou without even realizing why is just so adorable. While talking about Katou. That woman is dangerous, jesus christ.
Here are my hopes and dreams; Emiri runs into Tomo and Yuri while checking out the same university. At the end of the chapter(s) she listens i overhears them talking about the next day with Nemo. Emiri thus ends up following Tomo around, he heart aching as Tomo just keeps on romancing a new girl every day in her insatiable lust (Emiri vision). This naturally culminates on the outing with Katou.
It begins whit Tomo coming with clothes she is unaccustomed to wearing, and so they are somewhat in disorder. They have to stand at the gates for a while as Katou straightens up her clothing like a mo wife. It's disgusting. They carry on their day with Katou doting of Tomo every minute. After a while Tomo begins looking a bit knackered, and Katou asks if she is feeling well. "I-It's just a bit noise and crowded h-here", Tomo replies, blushing. Katou takes her hand and says "Come!" and they head toward the back of the University.
It's calmer there with only a few couples admiring the cherry blossom tree as they gently sway in the wind..They walk among the blossoms and chatter a bit while Tomo is trembling slightly, her eyes glistening and her face red. By the side of a path where they can be alone for a while Katou gently, almost whispering, asks Tomo to stand still as she leans to her side and looks deep into Tomo's eyes. Her longs hair flows over her shoulder and envelops them just as she rests her forehead against Tomo's, and for a moment nothing but the cherry blossom petals move there. "You have a fever", Katou says as she gently strokes Tomo's fevered temple. "You should get some rest", Katous says, as Tomo only looks at her with her fever hot face and then follows along, unable to resists. They find a park bench and Katou asks if she wants to rest on her lap the way she likes, and Tomo can only nod and mumble.
They lay there for a while. Tomo looks at Katou and looks at Tomo, stroking her hair. "H-how much? How much do I have to (re)pay you for this?", Tomo asks at last as Katou chuckles. "What you gave me last time would be fine", she answers with a warm smile. At that moment Emiri's heart breaks.
Reality: "Man, that was a wasted Golden Week. In the end I don't feel any surer about a University than I did before either. Oh well.
▶ No.840631
>>840017
Ah, alright, it would make sense they translated it like this. It still sucks ass.
>>840027
Just because it's a fun theory doesn't make it any better than the most generic moeblob.
▶ No.844524>>844525
Battle stations! RAWs have been deployed, scans approaching. Make sure you are strapped in or lying down becasue shit's gonna get real, pic related.
▶ No.844525
>>844524
How is that pic related? Who even is that girl?
She looks like some kind of loser who doesn't even have her own harem of yandere dykes.
▶ No.844879>>844881
>>844858
I don't even know why I continue to read this garbage.
▶ No.844881>>844898 >>844949
>>844879
You enjoy complaining about it in this thread.
▶ No.844886>>844901
>>844858
So close, we almost got to see Yrui's smile but Train-kun is a jealous girl.
▶ No.844898
>>844881
We're mostly just waiting to see how many other people will the Meido unperson and hoping this manga ends ASAP.
▶ No.844901>>844902
>>844886
>Watamote will end with a happy endings
When I first read it, I thought its gonna be depressing dark comedy but I'm glad it went this direction.
▶ No.844902
>>844901
Don't hold your breath. She could still fail the college entrance exams and become a ronin.
▶ No.844949>>845136
>>844881
That was my first complaint about it in any thread. I had actually defended it in the past but I finally felt disheartened and had to ask why
▶ No.844955>>845173
>>844858
>Quality stuff, get it while it lasts.
I didn't get there while it lasted.
▶ No.845007
>>824858
Search for Kanjitomo. It's a desktop program which can OCR Japanese characters anywhere on your screen.
▶ No.845136>>845403
>>844949
What made you stop liking it now?
▶ No.845173>>845234
>>844955
It started good but then it became mostly old stuff and it died quickly. I guess not even Japan has much new material with no new chapters and all.
▶ No.845219>>845234 >>845347
So, what's with faggots from other boards thinking we don't allow Watamote threads anymore?
▶ No.845234>>845282
>>845173
>I guess not even Japan has much new material with no new chapters and all.
It feels like it's been picking up lately though, I've been seeing new art relatively often.
>>845219
I don't know, but they're faggots on other boards, they can stay there.
▶ No.845238>>845347
Finally Watamote reveals the secret to friendship: if you are a piece of shit just find other pieces of shit who tolerates you and bam, shitty friends.
▶ No.845282>>845297
>>845234
>It feels like it's been picking up lately though, I've been seeing new art relatively often.
It has, but the art mostly rotates around the developments of the latest chapters so when Ucchi's she's gonna miss out on most of it.
▶ No.845297
>>845282
I assume she's always there, in every chapter. You just can't always see her.
▶ No.845347>>846118
>>845219
Most people left to tell other boards about how half the Watamote thread gets pruned of people who wrongthink.
>>845238
But where's the cringe comedy?
▶ No.845403
>>845136
I still want to like it, but it's been consistently letting me down. Chapter after chapter I keep waiting for it to get to the joke and when it ever even tries to be humorous it feels like its at most one small joke per chapter. I'm going to continue reading because it's been years and I can't just stop at this point. But it's been low quality for a while, I'm not even one of the people who complained when she got friends because at first it still kind of worked and I thought that the end to the series was coming soon. Now I'm realizing that it's going to continue into college with the same friends and the same thing that's been going on and it's just boring.
▶ No.845413
Yuri knows how to deal with little shits. This is why she is best girl.
▶ No.845732
>tfw you can't even type her face or you'll get banned
When will the maido persecution of Emiri end??
▶ No.846118>>846182
>>845347
>But where's the cringe comedy?
Take a look at a mirror
▶ No.846182>>846676
>>846118
This thread has enough cringe as it is, and it's mostly from people defending this pile of garbage.
▶ No.846676>>846730
>>846182
You mean from peoples that keep on whining about it?
▶ No.846730>>846810 >>846821
>>846676
Nah, from shit like >>840041
▶ No.846810>>847228
>>846730
>Peoples that defend watamote are more relatable to Tomoko than peoples that shitting on it
So what's the problem?
▶ No.846818>>846827
Even though the story isn't what it used to be, I could watch the adventures of Ucchi for a couple hundred chapters. A girl turning into a yandere stalker while thinking that she's actually disgusted with her target is hilarious to me.
▶ No.846821>>846825
So it went from awkward and bitter loner comedy to yurishit harem comedy with a dense female mc. Since the manga is trying to appeal to a new group of readers it's only natural that original readers who were fond of the old material would grow disgusted with the current state of manga.
>>846730
He's probably talking about the ridiculously long wall of text of cringy fanfiction in that post.
▶ No.846825
>>846821
>yurishit harem comedy with a dense female mc
Tomoko is socially retarded, but that's not the same thing as the dense MC's you usually get in harems. She's often the first to proclaim that someone's gay and probably wants to fuck her, and she herself makes passes at some girls, ie. Yuri in the last chapter.
▶ No.846827
>>846818
It's the story of /cow/
▶ No.846995>>847228 >>847270 >>849151
>inb4 all this yurishit is just a buildup to Tomoko saying/doing something so awful she loses all her friends, is actively disliked and sinks deeper into maddening lonliness than ever before
▶ No.847228>>847270 >>847420
>>846810
>So what's the problem?
These people are nothing like Tomoko though. Tomoko is (or rather was and has been but it has toned down to the point it may as well not be like that) an autist trying to be a normal person, which is a different, funnier and more unique kind of cringe than an autist being and doing autistic things like the person who wrote that wall of text above or all the people defending the yuri harem shit. You have lots of examples of the latter both in and out of real life, but the former was a special kind of autism that you really couldn't find anywhere else.
>>846995
I don't think the authors are that daring as to lose all the new readers just to make a statement. We're talking guys who are not afraid of having MLP references.
▶ No.847270>>847277 >>847297
>>846995
>>847228
I don't think the authors would do something that cruel mostly because they based Tomoko on their own experiences in high-school.Minus the bullying.
▶ No.847277
>>847270
That's like making a boxing manga and never having landed a punch yourself but it's okay because it describes how you worked out a couple of times in your life, like Hajime no Ippo.
▶ No.847297>>847372
>>847270
Didn't the original writer leave the manga and let the artist write the story as well, and that's when it went from being good and funny to being a shitty yuri romcom with unlikable characters?
▶ No.847298
>>811472 (OP)
>female spergs
>not getting bullied in the most cruel and awful ways by other girls to the point that they commit suicide
This story is more unrealistic than an isekai magic school harem where the MC is an obese NEET. Does the artist/author know nothing of the horrors of highschool female cliques?
▶ No.847372
>>847297
No, it's been the same writer from the start.
▶ No.847420
>>847228
>autist trying to be a normal person, which is a different, funnier and more unique kind of cringe than an autist being and doing autistic things
So.... just like Tomoko?
▶ No.848676>>848683
So do you think we'll get more yuri adventures in college or is the series ending at graduation?
▶ No.848681
>>848669
Will probably end at graduation, but it would be fun for Tomoko to start her awkward college life and maybe get a nice boyfriend that will let her play videogames in exchange of taking care of the house and bear his children.
▶ No.848683
>>848676
Given that they are doing multiple print runs for the recent volumes, they probably have enough incentive to continue. On the other hand, they might not have enough ideas to continue.
▶ No.848688
>>848669
>How to scare a pineapple.
▶ No.849091
>>848669
Stupid twintail yandere you can't possibly fathom her power levels.
▶ No.849151
>>846995
I can see this ending like roseanne, where it was really all just her writing a fantasy book about her life, and she was really just a spaz the whole time. The only thing that was true is that she became a literature major.
▶ No.849224
>>848669
meh, pretty boring chapter, no development like Yuri and Tomoko.
▶ No.849334
Tomato is so much more of an expert on sex toys now since the Christmas she used a Hitachi as an actual massager.
▶ No.850358>>850416
>>46821
>ridiculously long
Anon, it's 450 words ...
▶ No.850416
>>850358
That's kinda long for an imageboard post. Especially since he was just rambling and not saying anything interesting or substantial.
▶ No.854575
>>854569
Lesbian reveal inbound.
▶ No.854604>>854609 >>854611 >>854612
>>854569
Kuroki dresses like a normalfag now.
▶ No.854609
>>854604
She was trying pretty hard to dress like a normalfag to not embarrass Katou-san.
▶ No.854611>>854613 >>854832
>>854604
Every time I catch a glimpse of what's going on in Watamote it's always worse than before.
▶ No.854612>>854621
>>854604
Yuri helped pick out those clothes for her, she probably would've chosen something ridiculous if it was left up to her.
▶ No.854613
>>854611
>lesbo queen asks her to go check out a college with her
>she asks Yuri to help her buy clothes so she doesn't look like complete shit
>now she doesn't look like complete shit
>still acts autistic
>Tomoko thinks Katou wouldn't like her if she knew that she's a perverted autist
>Katou thinks she doesn't like her because Tomoko acts autistic around her, confronts her
>Tomoko spills the beans about being a pervert
>Katou doesn't care
>Emoji does emoji things in the background
I don't think this is worse than anything else in the past couple years.
▶ No.854621
>>854612
Hilariously, it still doesn't suit her at all.
▶ No.854623>>854652
>>854569
When did she ever make that before? I don'T think enything christian-related ever came up.
▶ No.854652>>854659 >>854663
>>854623
She hasn't but apparently she thinks if you go to a Christian university you have to make the sign of the cross.
▶ No.854659
>>854652
>"That'd yeah."
Yeah, you are correct. I read that wrong.
▶ No.854663
>>854652
Makes sense, she has said something like "I don't believe in any god" before.
▶ No.854665>>854668
Someone explain to me how the otaku Charlie Brown became about the main character manipulating her classmates to become the Queen Bee I never read this before but it seems to have gotten worse now.
▶ No.854668>>854672
>>854665
>main character manipulating her classmates to become the Queen Bee
>I never read this before but it seems to have gotten worse now
I sort of get where the dropfags are coming from, even if they aren't exactly right to comment on shit they only know half the context for, but you know none of the context and you still feel you should hop on the bandwagon. Take the opportunity to go and read it.
▶ No.854672>>854676 >>854688
>>854668
I'm assuming from what little I've seen that the first part was this series being a Charlie Brown tier series but the main character is a female otaku which was why everyone was driven to it even normalfags, and the 2nd part was truly about her gathering up all the girls in her school to become queen bee. Explain to me what was wrong with my initial assessment and why I should read it to correct myself beyond "No u."
▶ No.854676>>854677
>>854672
Not him but why don't you read through a few chapters instead and form your own on something that isn't second hand knowledge?
▶ No.854677>>854688 >>854925
>>854676
I'll cut you a deal.
I'll read the first 6 chapters and the last 6 chapters.
▶ No.854688
>>854672
>main character is a female otaku
No, the point was that the main character was utterly socially retarded. She literally couldn't talk to males, not even store clerks normally, and she'd constantly make herself look retarded in social situations even if they only involved women.
>2nd part was truly about her gathering up all the girls in her school to become queen bee
Queen bee is something completely different from what she is, and she didn't make the effort to gather up anyone as far as I remember. At most you could call her a harem's central character, but that's still more of a joke than the reality. Things happened, various characters became entangled with her, and she happened to end up with a friend circle. Along the way she started to be able to deal with social situations somewhat better, although she still makes mistakes quite often, but they're usually not of the same caliber as the ones in the first couple chapters.
There's also no "first part" and "second part", it's a progression through the entire manga. I don't know why you'd possibly believe that you can accurately judge a work without having read any of it.
>>854677
Just read the first 12 then, if you do 6-6, you'll come back with some cherry picked shit to claim you were right all along. At least after the first 12 you'll know what the beginning is.
▶ No.854755>>854778
>>854735
It's pretty amazing how one can use so many words to say so little.
▶ No.854776>>854783
>>854735
>Nice assumption there buddy.
I mean, usually that's what happens.
>now my question is why everyone even the people that read it act differently.
My perspective, as someone who likes the current state of affairs, is that apparently some people would've preferred had it stayed completely stale with just more cringe comedy/autism instead of any kind of tangible progress, but they mostly didn't hate the change that much, they just circlejerked themselves into a number of "Watamote went bad after X" discussions, dropped the manga, and ever since then make a point of always popping up wherever they see Watamote mentioned to proclaim that it went bad after X. It is that persistence that makes it appear as though it's the majority opinion is that it went bad, even though not that many people were reading the manga to begin with.
Though they are partly right in that there definitely was a shift in the content, but as you said, anyone could've seen that coming, Watamote would've been killed off long ago if there hadn't been any progression whatsoever.
▶ No.854778>>854846
>>854755
>1,004 characters is a lot
▶ No.854783>>854788
>>854776
>Watamote would've been killed off long ago if there hadn't been any progression whatsoever.
It quintessentially was.
>even though not that many people were reading the manga to begin with.
Yes they are were it just eventually dropped off because even normalfags got bored.
I don't think it's that though it's much too much of a heavy fisted type of shilling for that to explain it.
▶ No.854788>>854796
>>854783
I didn't count flavor of the month influx of normalfags after the anime aired into the "people who dropped it" group, because for them it's the natural consequence to drop it, but yeah, if you count them too, then a lot of people dropped it, though for different reasons.
>It quintessentially was.
If you're trying to imply that the artistic vision was changed for the sake of keeping it alive, I doubt the author wanted to keep it stale on purpose. At the very least, it still doesn't give off those "I hate this but I have to keep making it for shekels" vibes you get from shonenshit and some other eternally running manga.
▶ No.854796>>854804
>>854788
>If you're trying to imply that the artistic vision was changed for the sake of keeping it alive,
Not at all I said it was destined to change from the beginning. I mean't it died anyway regardless of changing, normalfags gave it a popularity boost and by 2014 it was dead.
▶ No.854804>>854808
>>854796
That's just how it is when something gets an anime. Especially in the west.
I think it's testimony enough to it being a good manga that it's still running and getting translated just fine, despite it getting dropped by casuals back then, and then some of the core audience later.
▶ No.854808
>>854804
>I think it's testimony enough to it being a good manga that it's still running and getting translated just fine
I'll have you know that happens to almost all manga, even the most obscure ones.
>despite it getting dropped by casuals back then, and then some of the core audience later.'
How very sad, for the industry as a whole I mean, that happens too often.
▶ No.854816>>854818
I hate Tomoko because she has friends unlike me and not staying an autistic social failure shutin neet for the rest of her life like me
▶ No.854818
>>854816
Based and redpilled.
▶ No.854832
>>854611
Suffer then. I happen to like it.
▶ No.854846>>854855
>>854778
>1,004 characters is a lot
For saying nothing? Sure is.
▶ No.854855>>854863
>>854846
Why are you saging Anon?
▶ No.854863
>>854855
Because it's off-topic.
▶ No.854914
Wow. This chapter was great. I did not expect this development.
First of all she finally did it. She managed to be in an uncomfortable situation with someone she doesn't know well without making a complete idiot of herself for a whole day. The chapter I kept thinking about in contrast was the McBurgerking one. After two years of everyone acclimatizing to her retardation this naturally accomplished the exact opposite of what she intended but damn if it I didn't feel something.
Other things I liked:
Tomoko internal monologues. I'd underscore it fifty times if the script would let me.
19 pages. With the above it felt like some kind of deliverance. The manga is just so much better when Nico has the space for a proper setup and conclusion.
Katou. I liked her before but she just gets greater the more chapters she's in. I love the fact that I still can't read this character at all. I could go on but let's condense it as page 12, the fact that she felt rejected, how she conveyed she felt rejected and her response to Tomo admitting her nature. That's a quite a bit to inform a character but I still feel I have no better clue where I have her now than I did before. It makes me wonder just what she suggested in the parent-teacher meeting to make them react the way they did.
When Katou took Tomo's actions the wrong way I liked that Tomo didn't go the misunderstanding route for X number of chapters but was upfront and Nico instead gave us the far more interesting development of Katou not giving a shit about Tomo's perversion.
Some really good Ucch. Makes me hope we'll get more direct interaction, even if it ultimately is just for the sake of developing the joke. She resting her head on Tomo's in the last page was adorable.
▶ No.854925>>854927
>>854677
That's a retarded way to judge any manga.
▶ No.854927>>855180
>>854925
Mods deleted his initial response where he admitted to being wrong while giving what he actually thought was wrong with the series and said that it was better near the end instead of the beginning, so it's a good enough way to judge all manga apparently.
▶ No.855180>>855191
>>854927
Not really. From what I recall, his post was mostly generic review filler words. It was so vague that you could have changed the names and you'd be able to use that for just about any other story. He also went on about how it should be clear to anybody who read the first chapters that her character would end up exactly the way she is now. Can't agree with that.
▶ No.855191>>855486
>>855180
>Review filler words
Probably because it was a review
>He also went on about how it should be clear to anybody who read the first chapters that her character would end up exactly the way she is now. Can't agree with that.
Explain how.
▶ No.855198>>855483
>People with no foresight don't realise the shit being set up in this arc.
This is going to a very dark, awkward place. Tomoko must know hope before despair.
▶ No.855483>>855490
>>855198
Yeah, I know.
>kuroki-san, you're going to apply to the same school as me, right?
Begin Tomoko facing the reality of having to choose between friends.
▶ No.855486>>855489
>>855191
>Explain how.
There was no indication that it would develop exactly the way it did. Actually, why don't you explain how this exact development was clear from the first 6 chapters?
▶ No.855489>>855491
>>855486
Tomoko was succeeding in socializing from the start how did you think otherwise.
▶ No.855490
>>855483
Or she doesn't get accepted to any college.
▶ No.855491>>855493
>>855489
She did not, nor was there any indication that she would end up with such huge CGDCT cast.
▶ No.855493>>855503
>>855491
Was that it? The cast size? Is that your qualm with the series? Out of everything it did wrong that's the major thing you view as a change?
▶ No.855503>>855504
>>855493
>Is that your qualm with the series?
I have no problem with the series. I preferred the early chapters but I do still enoy it in a CGDCT way. I simply find the statement "it was clear from the start that the later chapters would be like this" ridiculous.
▶ No.855504>>855566
>>855503
>Cgdgt
Doesn't strike me as such. I saw it more slice of life.
And it seemed as such to me since from the start Tomoko was progressing, she had success 3 chapters in.
▶ No.855566>>855605
>>855504
>And it seemed as such to me since from the start Tomoko was progressing, she had success 3 chapters in.
That's the problem of doing something as stupid as reading six chapters of something and thinking they are in any way representative of the direction of a story. That was shoehorned in by the editor to make it less gloomy and it's pretty much all the "success" she'll have for the next forty chapters. I'd rather say she's generally regressing whereby she does a dumb thing and then by trying to salvage or cover it up later makes it even worse. She markedly turns in on herself as each failure makes her more apprehensive and awkward and she eventually realizes the high school life she wanted has fallen completely out of her reach and she has to beg her brother to talk her. Until you've read the chapters with Kii-chan you haven't even seen the start of it.
The series took a sudden turn towards what it is now and it was catalyzed by a single event that was not foreshadowed. Before the school trip arc happened there was no indication it was going to be anything but another marathon of failure. I welcome the development and see no problem with a sudden turn of events, as that's how life often is, but there is no way it could be claimed it was something you could see coming. Up until that point that simply wasn't the direction the manga had been going and much of what little progress she had made before then was in areas which have since been pretty much jettisoned, which would be my one critique of the direction of the story.
▶ No.855605
>>855566
First things first
>That was shoehorned in by the editor to make it less gloomy
Do you have a source for that.
▶ No.858891>>858897
>>854569
I like Watamote but this is getting harem level being interested in someone. Is there a reason at all that she want to be with Tomoko? I don't remember any in depth interaction other than she does make up and eat lunch together that one time. I guess she heard stories about Tomoko prior to the lunch thing but that is really thin as far as motivation goes
▶ No.858897
>>858891
But Anon, Tomoko is a popular girl and everyone wants to be her friend and drink her vagina juice. That's been her character ever since the series started.
▶ No.859061>>859063 >>859340
New chapter day!
Y'all better be steeling your nerves for this one. It's time to stare into the abyss.
▶ No.859063
>>859061
Are you okay anon?
▶ No.859267>>859312
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▶ No.859340
>>859061
It ended on a fucking cliffhanger, nothing happened.