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WATAMOTE ~No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys Fault I'm Not Popular!~

WATAMOTE ~No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys Fault I'm Not Popular!~

20138.21 Season12 EpisodesEnded

Overview

Fifteen year old Kuroki Tomoko has dated dozens of boys and is easily the most popular girl around-- inside her dating games. In reality, she gets tongue tied just talking to people, and throughout middle school she's only had one actual friend. As she enters high school, she desperately wants to be popular, but doesn't understand that real-life doesn't work like her games. Her artificial successes pave the way to real folly and failure. But why drop this strategy when there's always someone else to blame?!

Created by Nico Tanigawa
Written by Nico Tanigawa
Produced by Manami Watanabe
NetworksTV Tokyo

Top Cast

Izumi Kitta

Izumi Kitta

Tomoko Kuroki (voice)

Yuichi Nakamura

Yuichi Nakamura

Tomoki Kuroki (voice)

Kana Hanazawa

Kana Hanazawa

Yū Naruse (voice)

Rie Kugimiya

Rie Kugimiya

Kiko (voice)

Risa Hayamizu

Risa Hayamizu

Mrs. Kuroki (voice)

Ryo Iwasaki

Ryo Iwasaki

Mr. Kuroki (voice)

Yuuko Kurose

Yuuko Kurose

Hina Nemoto (voice)

Sanae Nakata

Sanae Nakata

Ogino (voice)

Themes & Keywords

nerdslice of lifebased on mangarecluseanime

About WATAMOTE ~No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys Fault I'm Not Popular!~

WATAMOTE ~No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys Fault I'm Not Popular!~ is a animation, comedy, drama series that first aired in 2013 exploring themes of nerd, slice of life, based on manga, recluse, anime. Created by Nico Tanigawa, it stars Izumi Kitta, Yuichi Nakamura, Kana Hanazawa. Fifteen year old Kuroki Tomoko has dated dozens of boys and is easily the most popular girl around-- inside her dating games. In reality, she gets tongue tied just talking to people, and throughout middle school she's only had one actual friend. As she enters high school, she desperately wants to be popular, but doesn't understand that real-life doesn't work like her games. Her artificial successes pave the way to real folly and failure. But why drop this strategy when there's always someone else to blame?!

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