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File: 8600484292cc551⋯.jpg (236.52 KB, 1920x1080, 16:9, [delete this in autism].jpg)

 No.5130

Hey /animu/, never noticed there's another actually ACTIVE anime board that isn't a circlejerk, so I really, really wanted to talk about this issue with people who don't just watch the same genre of anime all the time and that don't ban you by citing "spam" any time you bring up a point they don't really like: the subject matter, which I hold very dear to me in my autistic manchild mind is the absolute fucking state of Watamote.

How could one of the pinnacle of cringe comedy turn into a shitty slice of life manga filled with vapid characters that don't really do anything but go on school field trips, act as extreme, one-dimensional caricatures and soak up so many panels that Tomoko is lucky to have four or five speech bubbles for entire chapters, wherein she acts absolutely nothing like her pre-school-trip arc self, with no real explanation or defining moment as to how her personality flipped that quickly (barring her feud with Komi-something-san), and how, despite her personality being absolutely terrible regardless of arc, she manages to have a harem spontaneously form around her despite the fact that none of the characters actually like her barring Yuri? How did we go from an autistic girl making reaction faces and acting out juvenile power trips while lowkey wanting to be normal into Sex and the City with high school nips?

 No.5134

It seems as if the mangaka wrote herself into a corner and don't know how to do a proper character development.


 No.5138

>>5130

Author wanted to do story development, with the problem that his really solid premise didn't really support it (good luck believably going from major autist to demi-stacy in anything short of a Gintama-length run).

He decided to say fuck it to that and sacrificed the premise to story development.

Next manga this is going to happen to is Goblin Slayer, guaranteed.


 No.5147

>>5140

>Killing monsters that aren't goblins

It's over if that happens.


 No.5149

>>5140

Have you read chapter 20 yet?

It pretty strongly hints at it. Either my story sense is 100% off, or it's going to turn into some retarded conspiracy happening and our lovely autist-kun caring more about family and friends or some shit than coming up with more ways to go full Hitler on any greenskin in reach.


 No.5168

>>5130

>never noticed there's another actually ACTIVE anime board that isn't a circlejerk, so I really, really wanted to talk about this issue with people who don't just watch the same genre of anime all the time and that don't ban you by citing "spam" any time you bring up a point they don't really like

welcome home son


 No.5237

File: b75ec4d20bd0529⋯.png (266.31 KB, 500x540, 25:27, tomoko_is_cheerful_and_fun.png)

>>5134

>herself

Last time I checked, the man was the author and the woman was the artist. Apparently the pre-school-trip stories (actually even earlier than that, I think it was pre-mlp-reference) were heavily based on the artist's high school memories reinterpreted by the male author, whereas nowadays the artist has been given a much bigger role in the writing department of the manga (but I'm very inclined to believe their editor is just making them follow all of the various shitty ideas they shoehorned into the series).

>>5135

>>5146

Go read it, mate. She spent the best part of the most modern issues in school trips or at meetups with her "friends" and the 4komas have been increasingly more prominent despite none of them being any funny.

>>5147

That's just how Skullgirls became Socjuswars + male allies.

>>5168

Thanks, brev. though this place needs IDs


 No.5258

>>5242

I think it's just because they want to rush Watamote's ending since they're also working on plenty of other projects and we all know in our hearts that it all ends at her graduation.


 No.5261

>>5130

Simple - character was accidental and author didn't even understand what exactly is that about her people liked.


 No.5299

>>5242

>the writer fell for the artist

That happened? Did the artist make any comments on what the writer's penis was like compared to all the dick pics that got sent to her?


 No.5302

>>5299

I said guessing


 No.5326

>>5258

I'd buy that excuse with a dash of >>5261.


 No.8413

The OVA has warned us that the fight for popularity would kill it.

I wonder if a manga, or any kind of work, can move from a central premise to another and still be good. I am not going to lie I have liked a lot of the things that are new to the series. But as you guys have pointed out, I can't ignore that the author may have sacrificed something important for the sake of popularity (ironically enough), that would make it to be a true loss. I still follow it, but the points brought on here left a mark.

>>5237

I heard that she was the one that vetoed bullying in the series.


 No.8414

>>8413

>I heard that she was the one that vetoed bullying in the series.

Why?


 No.8445

>>8414

I think it was because it hit too close to home for her. She was the most socially retarded among the two, liking western cartoons (disney things) going hikki for sometime. I guess she did want a healing series while the writer wanted to talk about the darker aspects of being an outcast.

While there is a lot of SoL faggotry in "nu-Watamote" mostly because of nip fans (who are adoring the new direction, otaku nips seem to hate any realistic pointer to their problems, they have their own flavors of faggotry) we can still see some of the darker aspects in it.

Nemo likes to indulge shock and cringe in other people (like some weebs like to shock normies), Yoshida spergs out against people who don't like her inocent cartoons (like people who wants to keep anime as just sol stuff), Komi is obsessive about her hobbies alienating other people… It is discreet but is still there.


 No.8607

>>8445

How much different would the series be if bullying had been included?


 No.8610

>>8445

Is the rumour of her fucking the writer true?


 No.8692

>>8607

It probably would have been way too depressing to last very long.


 No.8720

File: 1d46f5550e4ca09⋯.png (182.67 KB, 870x1236, 145:206, watamote_c129_009.png)

I dunno, Tomoko managed to be her usual autistic self for a couple of pages this chapter. Don't give up all hope yet.


 No.8732

File: b178ba95c4624c1⋯.png (1.51 MB, 948x1920, 79:160, Binks.png)


 No.8789

>>8610

Don't know about that. But considering it is a man and a woman duo that would be natural.


 No.8790

>>8692

True. I don't think that feeding oneself with large doses of misery for a longtime is good for the soul. Sad works that overstay are just torture.


 No.12027

>>8720

I haven't been following this in years, what the fuck did they do to Tomoko's hair?


 No.12058

Huh you mean the board that is now directly above us? It's almost like you are trying to demoralize someone else so that you can feel better about yourself. That reminds me of the kind of girl Tomoko was before she became a turbonormie.


 No.12067

>>12027

It looks like she's still wearing the mouse hat from disney world but it became melded with her hair like Jotaro.


 No.12083

>>8789

It might explain why he allows her to do certain things.


 No.14285

>>12058

>turbonormie

If anything, she's more of a normalfag's rendition of a weird person rather than a normalfag leaning autistic girl


 No.14290

I only watched the anime




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