Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!
No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!

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In "It's Not My Fault That I'm Not Popular" or in short "WataMote" the embarrassment your feel is very real, the humor is often hilarious and will have you outright cackling. And the emotional callback scenes will take you on nostalgia trips galore. You just might find yourself rooting not only for the characters, but also cheering your own otaku self to grow faster than them (yeah, I don't expect "normal" people to read this).

This manga has some of the most genuinely second hand embarrassing moments of any piece of media out there. It starts off strong with them and belts you with them ... chapter after chapter. If you are an emotionally sensitive person like me, you will truly feel the pain in your heart as you try to escape the pages by skipping past panels, sometimes resorting to closing the book or "book" outright. It even gets so bad that I and people I know have literally run away, both I during reading the manga and my friends when watching the anime. It is a beautiful experience that I believe makes this manga pretty much a masterpiece in its own right.

The best (worst) part is that people say the things in this manga are exaggerated and never happen. That simply isn't true. Everything you see in the manga is completely realistic and does happen. This leads us to the next important point though: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. This manga has a LOT of it even though it starts off as a gag manga. It turns into a full on slice of life over time and you get to see the plot and its lovely cast of mostly teenage girls develop and mature. The manga does a complete genre shift over time, but it remains great. If you are able to claw your way through the first 30-50 or so chapters, you are rewarded with a manga you will enjoy coming back to like drinks with a good old friend. There will be a bit of slowdown here and there down the line as the transition happens, but it may well be worth your patience through it. The truly second hand embarrassing moments mostly disappear while lesser ones stay, but you've built an immunity at that point, although a few big ones still make their appearance down the line.

The art isn't top notch or overly detailed. It never has been or will be... nor is the paneling the greatest. It runs like a 4-koma manga most of the time. The author's use of expressions is great though. The character's expressions usually aren't extremely exaggerated. They are not even immediately obvious, you have to read into them, even with the simple drawing style, but they will also never leave you guessing the intended emotion, no matter how deep, unless the author intended it to be mysterious. The expressions are consistently spot on. The art quality also never gets egregiously bad. The style is very comfy and feels like a warm bonfire when you just want to sit down and check out the latest chapter or twenty. The embarrassment is very real, the humor is often hilarious and will have you outright cackling and the emotional callback scenes will take you on nostalgia trips galore. You just might find yourself rooting not only for the characters, but also cheering your own otaku self to grow faster than them (yeah, I don't expect "normal" people to read this).

If the art and paneling of this manga were on the level of something like Berserk or Vagabond, I would easily give this manga a 10. Or perhaps not, maybe this is the kind of art the manga needs to feel quite as comfy as it does. It is definitely NOT for most people, but for the people that it is for, it is a complete homerun. So my objective rating is that it's almost a masterpiece. It's one of my favourite manga of all time.

Wasted potential :( The first 12 volumes are fantastic. Tomoko is such a popular character because she's relatable, duh. But on top of that, to see such an unabashedly disgusting loser painted so earnestly was really refreshing. Much of the comedy came from the misunderstandings and awkward situations she would find herself in, giving the manga endless fuel to create comedic situations. You felt for her as she navigated through this world while clearly suffering from mental illness. It had a simultaneously tragic and comedic tone while never compromising one over the other.

Sadly, the manga loses serious steam around 12 volumes in. The story ... arc was always going to be about Tomoko making friends and coming out of her shell. I looked forward to it. But it happens way too fast. It feels like the authors dumped a dozen characters into the story who are all weirdly obsessed with being her friends; it doesn't feel organic at all. But much worse is that Tomoko just becomes an entirely different person. She goes from a tragic, cute, and unpredictable mess that feels like she may never be able to fit into society to a pretty bland protagonist that will sometimes get shy or say something vulgar. Again, I must emphasize that the issue is not that Tomoko changed. It's that it happened far too early and unorganically in the story.

The manga has transformed from being a tonally unique story, with an engaging protagonist with equally hilarious gags and painfully uncomfortable situations, to a sllightly above-average slice-of-life manga focused on melodrama. The characters are likeable enough, but I've decided to drop the manga because I can't get over that tinge of disappointment when I remember how good it used to be.

its 2021, i have just watched the anime and decided its time for the manga. Picking up where i left off maybe chapter 30 or some. And for some time it was really enojayble. Enojoyable to a point i really liked this manga, however as you continue, it just gets worse and worse and bad.

Let me remind you, this manga has 190 chapters last updated today. And i do not think it is going to stop soon.

And another reminder, this manga has been going for 10 YEARS.

Let me give you a quick rundown of what happens.

First we meet tomoki, the mc. She os ... a loner, and only has one friend. Until now we experience life in her point fo view. She does emberrasing stuff n all that shit. Up til 20 or some we meet her new friend glasses girl, she fine n all.

In chapter 60 or some the big climax happens and she goes on bus party n gets 4 new friends, yakuza girl, another loner but cuter, popular girl and a last one i fucking do not remeber. Its all fun she gets friends yada yada.

We continue on to chapter you know what fuck this.

ITS NOTHING, NOTHING EVER FUCKING HAPPENS AFTER THAT. WHY DID I READ THIS HOT GARBAGE.

Now i get that this may seem like a good fun comedy but, i legit needed to quit reading it at like chapter 132 cus it just got fucking boring. I hoped something major would happen to this but, nothing. nothing happens.

Get this she is in the same school for fucking 10 years, without the authors doing nothing, just trying to milk it until its fucking dead.

Do not read this manga, it is not worth it.

Its the kind of humor where anything the supporting c do is funny, hahah guys she painted her hair XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Nah fr fuckk this manga, These authors are something else man i am fucking telling you. Making the same manga for 10 years, 10 years. And Doing nothing but, spending the whole place in the same school.

But, but the art is good and the charachters!!!

No they are not, if you really look at the characters they are not even drawn finished, they look like fucking sketches. And do not make me start with these boring ahh characters.

We have girl that is like a mom
We have girl that is a emoji
We have girl that that is annoying
we have girl that wondes why mc painted her pubes silver
we have girl that say gross
we have girl that has no face

so on and on

And i even have forgotten all their names. Tomoko and ucchi are the only i remeber.

I reccomend you not reading this actual garbage peice.

However if you really want a manga like this. You could try reading LITTERRLY ANY SCHOOL/COMEDY MANGA.

Oh and spouler alert, she gets popular and eventually i think some will change but i doubt it. Just a reminder, 10 years.