Title: Watashi ga Motenai no wa do Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Studio: Silver Link
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life
Premise: Tomoko Kuroki, an accomplished shut-in, mistakes her copious amounts of experience with dating sim games for actual social skills. Her lackluster social life upon reaching high school prompts her to try talking to real people, with hilariously dysfunctional results.
Verdict: One of the core elements of comedy is how relatable the material is. As a recovering socially inept person (along with most of anime fandom), there is plenty to relate to here. Kuroki is the little misfit inside of us all. The silent panic attacks she has as her more outgoing classmates remain cheerfully ignorant of her existence, her overzealous celebrations when she manages to croak out a response to the occasional teacher/convenience store clerk/other normal person who actually speaks to her, the sinking feeling she gets when these small victories are interrupted by encounters with people who are actually socially functioning and romantically involved. All of these episodes recall the social outcasts that we once were (or once knew) in college and/or grade school.
And it is all familiarly, painfully funny. Kuroki's inner narrative tirades against her oblivious peers are sure to raise some eyebrows (she even sics the murderous short aliens from Gantz on them at one point), and another gag where she practices her conversation skills on an eroge had me in stitches. Studio Silver Link and director Shin Onuma were previously teamed up for the popular Baka and Test, and they seem to be up to similar comedic hijinks here. Whether you've put your social ineptitude behind you or you're still figuring it out, this show is sure to elicit a few "I've been there" chuckles.
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