Joseph Luster
May 15, 2023 
This weekend marked the arrival of a fan-favorite on HIDIVE with the debut of the WATAMOTE anime! All 12 episodes of both the sub and the dub of WATAMOTE: No Matter How I Look At It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular are available to stream as of May 13, just in time for the anime’s 10th anniversary.
The WATAMOTE anime is based on the manga by Nico Tanigawa. Here’s how Sentai Filmworks describes the series:
At the tender age of 15, Kuroki Tomoko has already dated dozens and dozens of boys and she’s easily the most popular girl around! The only problem is that absolutely none of that is real, and her perfect world exists only via dating games and romance shows. In fact, the sad truth is that she gets tongue tied just talking to people, and throughout middle school she’s only had one actual friend. All of this makes Kuroki’s entrance into the social pressure cooker of high school a new and special kind of hell.
While Kuroki desperately wants to be popular, she’s actually worse off than she would be if she was completely clueless as to how to go about it. After all, the things that work in “otome” games rarely play out the same way in reality, especially when the self-appointed “leading lady” isn’t the paragon she thinks she is. There’s not much gain and plenty of pain ahead, but even if it happens again and again, there’s always someone else to blame!
Source: HIDIVE
