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>>8707517
Watamote is a good anime. . . actually. . .

Watamote is the paragon of postmodern anime. Tomoko is the perfect embodiment of the Stirnirian egoist. Tanigawa shows his deep understanding of the human condition with his insightful rendering of Tomoko, but with the added application of Stirner's philosophy (which is deeply ingrained in Tomoko's character). Tanigawa also manages to evenly walk the line between cliche and idiosyncratic without boring the audience or alienating viewers with unknowable novelties.

Watamote has greatly advanced the anime dialectic with its many simple, yet brilliant, critiques of the great structuralist works in the anime genre as well as in art as a whole.

Watamote also manages to capture the essence of not only life in the postmodern world, but also, postmodernism in of itself with its self-referentiality and non-structural portrayal of civic life.

Watamote truly is one of, if not, the greatest anime of the past decade.