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Why, who's this fine babe!? There oughta' be lines out the door to see her!

Here we have a particular girl.

An unpopular girl.

And her story...that really doesn't matter.

Tomoko: In other words, an ugly girl who guys don't like. That's not me at all.

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Tomoko Kuroki is a legendary high-school girl with over fifty years' worth of romantic experience and over one hundred male admirers... in the world of otome gaming, that is; In the real world, she is an unattractive, lonely, creepy fifteen-year-old Otaku schoolgirl with severe self-esteem issues, so much so that she avoids all contact with her classmates.

When she enters her first year of high school expecting her life to suddenly become cool like it does for protagonists in manga and games, she is stunned when absolutely nothing changes. This forces her to take a hard look at herself for the first time, and resolve to become more sociable and popular. Hilarity Ensues.

No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dō Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui!), also known by its official shorthand "WataMote", is a Cringe Comedy manga published online by Nico Tanigawa (actually two people) with a cult following on /a/ and /v/. Even Tanigawa herself communicates with Anglophone fans on her Twitter account.

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Unlike its protagonist, the series is quite popular, with the third volume selling more than 170,000 copies in the first month. In addition to an anthology and a fanbook, in January 2013 a Spin-Off, No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault My Friend's Not Popular. (Watashi no Tomodachi ga Motenai no wa Dō Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui.), began running in Monthly Joker. It starred (and was written from the point-of-view of) Yuu Naruse, Tomoko's best friend from middle school who crossed the threshold into adolescence far more gracefully than she did.note The spinoff is reprinted in the digest collections of the main series. The spinoff concluded after 28 chapters.

A novel anthology was released in 2019, dedicated to the much-expanded cast of characters that Tomoko had gotten herself acquainted with since her second year.

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As a sort-of-milestone special, Volume 18 of the series included a special edition that finally came with official character bios as well as What If? stories featuring what would happen if Tomoko befriended different cliques of girls during her first year.

The series has been licensed by Yen Press. A one-cour anime adaptation premiered in July 2013 as part of the Summer 2013 Anime lineup. An OVA was released in October 2014.

The anime can be legally viewed at Crunchyroll for people living in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Also available on Hulu in the USA

See also Choku!, an earlier manga by the same authors, and Kuzu to Megane to Bungaku Shoujo (Nise), also by the same authors.

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