Why not watch Watamote or/and Girls band cry instead

Dellio_man said:
Look I'm late to this party. But watching this I've been enjoying it. But I can't help to think that the whole "Social Anxiety" thing was just done way better in watamote. Atleast the comedy side to it. Where they use many diffrent scenarios and situations to exemplify this weird and awkward nature that makes her Tomoko. Also the fact that she isn't some 1 dimensional character (unlike bocchi unfortunately) that can use that to her advantage to create many jokes about social anxiety situations. And I'm not even saying slapstick comedy is a bad thing I personally don't really mind it and rather enjoy it quite often But I just see what bocchi the rock was going for here and it seems like it was done better in Watamote.

And Also Girls band cry just being a holistically better Band anime entirely than bocchi. The pacing and soundtracks alone don't stand a chance against GBC so far from what I've seen (On ep 7 currently). And not to mention GBC and it's more realistic way of writing the characters and you know ACTUALLY HAVE INTERESTING DIALOGUE WITH EACHOTHER?? I've genuinely seen all of her friends be only support figures for bocchi rather than actually characters of there own as far as right now. And yes I know it may happen on these last few episodes of the anime but GBC could establish this in the first few episodes alone.

Didn't mean to make this a review but genuinely wondering how this was such a zeitgeist when the comedy they were going for was done a whole lot better in watamote and As a CGDCT band anime, Girls band cry did it alot better too. I am still enjoying it tho but just felt I had to express this concern.

MusashiKarlsefni said:
Idc, neither of them have Kikuri

Merve2Love said:
Why not both

Bocchi is just a bit lighter.
Not a problem

SATAN19 said:

Exactly
Why even compare?

mobxmentality said:
Im pretty sure nowadays pretty much every aspect of an anime has been done before
Whether its done better or worse (especially in comedy) usually is very subjective

Why not watch Watamote instead? Watamote is a comedy that is missing the music aspect
Why not watch Girls Band Cry instead? GBC is a music drama that is not focussing on the comedy aspect
combine both and you get Bocchi The Rock, apparently people want comedy + music thats why theyre watching this show, its not that hard to figure out

ktg said:
Lol, Bocchi is one dimensional?! Yeah, cool... The inserted songs are also better in BtR.
I haven't seen Watamote, but from what I've heard so far, it's not even close to BtR.

Klonz00 said:

As a Watamote Fan, for me

Watamote = Social anxiety + NEET + Antisocial

Bocchi = Social anxiety

You can see this with how Tomoko literally hate and badmouthing her classmate while Bocchi is mostly neutral with everyone

and Watamote comedy is really extreme and exaggerated that I don't think many people can relate to it while Bocchi's joke is really relatable for everyone

Watamote = Laugh because how stupid and extreme the joke is

Bocchi = Laugh because " Hey I experienced that"

Menternor said:
Watamote just hurts to watch. Not because of any relatability, but because Tomoko really represents a person you don't want to have near you.
Her depiction is just not realistic and the comedy is unfun... it is one of those manganime where I only experienced a bit of it and then skipped from scoring it all together.
Does she get better later on? Well, that's too bad, it took too long.

I'm still watching Girls Band Cry. Now that one I'm enjoying a lot, but I haven't watched enough to get a full opinion.
Still, I've watched enough to be able to tell that it's kinda pointless to compare it to Bocchi. The tone and feel of both are too different to make any meaningful comparisons. Kinda like comparing K-On to Bocchi... I mean, what's the point in comparing two anime that are only similar in the most superficial of ways?
Bocchi focuses a lot more on the comedy, GBC leans far more into the drama (from what I can tell so far). Both go for character development but from different approaches. You can just enjoy enjoy them both, if you can enjoy both bands of course.

FutoiOtaku said:
Why do I have to choose to watch anything instead? Is it a competition and I have to take sides? I’ve seen them all plus many more and enjoyed them all in their own way. Bocchi 2D? No development? Did you even watch it?
No need for divisive threads like this, we can all make our own decisions I think!

rohan121 said:
Bocchi is meant to be a light hearted cute series about a bocchi who is socially awkward. Watamote is about a girl trying to be popular with guys. Never seen gbc but it is probably not aiming for the same plot as bocchi.

Talxos said:
i like both watamote and bocchi but the cringe comedy in watamote fell flat on me a lot and sometimes made me have to turn away lmao

as far as bocchi goes the cringe comedy is elevated by clever animation imo, like bocchi being put in blender and thrown through bricks. it also has good music which is a plus (have never seen gbc so can't comment on it)

Dellio_man said:

I can say that bocchi has it with its wild animation in what make the jokes land for me to find them funny in which is what watamote doesn't have at all lol. It's just when you look beyond AT the jokes it's making it goes to show its all just Social Anxiety jokes and "thats so me" jokes. Which ig im finding a bit stale for me but still enjoyable enough to keep watching. As For watamotes comedy it's innovative with its absurd and horrible scenarios that come off as morbidly funny to me. Which constantly has u well morbidly curious in wtv antics she gets herself into and how she goes abt situations and not needing excessive animation for a punch line.

Honestly tho if were going by animation making something funny tho asobi asobe is prolly the best at that (definitely recommend 😎). As u said tho both are good and I can see that 100%

mobxmentality said:
Im pretty sure nowadays pretty much every aspect of an anime has been done before
Whether its done better or worse (especially in comedy) usually is very subjective

Why not watch Watamote instead? Watamote is a comedy that is missing the music aspect
Why not watch Girls Band Cry instead? GBC is a music drama that is not focussing on the comedy aspect
combine both and you get Bocchi The Rock, apparently people want comedy + music thats why theyre watching this show, its not that hard to figure out

Dellio_man said:

Its to start conversation. And as u can see it worked 😎 don't get too butthurt over opinions bud

FutoiOtaku said:

Who’s butthurt? Why the toxicity? I joined your conversation and shared my opinions in a non offensive manner. Jeez, kids these days…

Dumb said:
On top of all of the delusional stuff you're spitting, Bocchi came out before Girl's Band Cry and likely inspired it or was the reason it was greenlit in the first place. That's why it became "such a zeitgeist" as you say

Dellio_man said:

well u said it was divisive in which mean discussion what's a debate without a little bit of disagreement is all I'm saying? Y'know debate doesn't have to lead to toxicity nor u don't even need to take sides for it. All I'm saying bro it's just anime let people discuss stuff abt fiction it ain't politics

FutoiOtaku said:

Everything you said there is valid, so why the childish butthurt crap? I disagreed with the narrowness of your suggestion to choose only 1 of the suggestions without saying your opinions were wrong. Also your putdowns of BTR seemed unnecessary. Of course I already saw Watamote when it aired so I can’t watch GBC instead and even if it were so, I’d still watch both and definitely not miss Bocchi because it was brilliant. I just don’t see why these things need ranking when they are all top quality anime. BTW also try the recent Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night. It’s right up there too.