Audience reviews
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lycoping
This was a cute "cute girls doing cute things" anime. There's nothing wrong with it. The OP was pretty good, the animation was decent, all the girls are cute, there's plenty of humor, just enough unrealism... there's nothing I can really criticize this anime for too much.
There's also not a whole lot that makes it stand out.
Hitori Bocchi, an unrealistically named just-entering-middle-school girl with extreme social anxiety, is given a challenge by a friend - make friends with all of your classmates or I can't be your friend. So, wanting to get her friend back, she starts the "process" of making friends with everyone in her classroom, to varying success.
At points, this anime is cute, at times heartrending, at times beautiful, at times funny, at times cringey. It really does tick off al…
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First of all, Kai is a piece of shit. No actual friend would do that to you. The main character should have ditched her. She is a not a good friend at all.
Second. I hate the fact the main character goes through with it and tries to make friends with this reason. I wouldn’t want to be friends with someone who would only be my friend because she needs to make friends.
The comedy was horrible, I did not laugh ones and I just find the characters very unfortunate. The jokes were unfortunate and unfortunately it was repeated too much to make it even slightly entertaining. Unfortunately I had to watch it to the end because it was for my anime club.
The characters were annoying too watch. The character I hated the most were the main character because her whole personality was based around the…
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Another meme done.
Getting friends. It has always been hard the more of an introvert you are. Sticking like crazy inside your comfort zone will never bring you anywhere and you will never be able to become a better functional person of society. But what if somebody pushes you out of your comfort zone?
Hitoribocchi is a story about an extremely shy, introverted girl with no friends ( except from one ). She decided to get some friends after transferring into another school but her shyness keeps her from doing so. As a result, her only friend pushes her away and strikes a deal - "I will never be your friend again until you befriend your entire class", and thus begins the CGDCT story of Hitoribocchi.
I've always hated CGDCT. However, my hate does not target CGDCT in general but only speci…
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There are many cute, comedic Slice Of Life shows, and while I enjoy them for their pleasant light-hearted nature, there always seems to be something I find irritating, be it an obnoxious character, meandering dialogue, or the seemingly inescapable trend of Moe.
So given that the cuteness saturation is near critical in Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu, I did not expect much. I mean, even the teacher gets the full Kawaii treatment, both in visual design AND behaviour.
So I was very surprised how much I enjoyed the show, and how little I found tedious.
Yes, the characters all are excessively cute, but in an innocent endearing way, staying well clear of Moe territory. They even managed the obligatory swimming pool episode without being creepy about it.
And yes the story is not very deep o…
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Have you ever seen an anime so unbelievably adorable that you wish you could cuddle with it for hours on end? Well, there is no shortage of anime that gives off this sensation. The past decade has had no need for Cute Girls Doing Cute Things, or CGDCT for short, to over-saturation. Some have been good, bad, or entirely forgettable. Regardless of quality, they all follow the same formula even when they do a few unique tropes to the characters, narrative, or setting. The only way that I can consider one to be good is if the show manages to be fun to watch from an entertainment aspect and not if it does anything distinctive from other CGDCT anime. Thankfully, Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu, or Hitoribocchi, managed to perk my interest from the 1st episode onward.
I don't even know how I c…
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I really enjoyed this anime!! The main character was relatable, really brought me back to my high school days and the anxieties I struggled with then.
The characters were unique and loveable, my favourites were Nako and Sotoka. I liked that they all had their flaws and eccentricities. I particularly enjoyed the focus on the rest of Bocchi's class as characters, how the background characters all had interesting aspects that I wanted to see more of. It was refreshing from the usual unanimous crowds featured in most school-based anime.
The character design was interesting, I wanted to know more about characters without them needing to say a word simply because of their design, and I liked how each character had a different way of walking and interacting with the world, eg. the way they carr…
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Youkoso, Hitori Bocchi!
Hitoribocchi makes an attempt at moefication of social anxiety by presenting in comedic fashion a school girl trying to make friends while fighting her condition.
It's not often that a character with social anxiety is made a protagonist. As someone with SA, at times I can relate to her, especially during the show's more heartfelt moments. This show is pretty unfortunate then to stay in the comedy realm whenever possible and not delve deeper.
Watching Hitoribocchi is like eating junk food. It's kinda hollow when it comes to depiction of SA. Most of the time Bocchi makes friends by bumping/barfing into or near them enough times. Well, that's comedy for you, it's not like there were going to be any guidelines for making friends (could you send one over though?). You…
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Anxiety.
One could look up the meaning of the word in Google, probably in Urban Dictionary website. Very easy to look up. Here’s one of the first result that came up if you’re too lazy to search: “a feeling of unease, such as worry or fear, that can be mild or severe.”
Often, however, this particular word is one affiliated with, by most people, cowardice.
Many a normal person would always shake their heads, wondering what anxiety actually means. Some said it’s just a term to associate people who “run away from things”, others said it would be anything close to the word “delusions of panic”. Those who’d never experienced it – usually people who’d always claim to be winning in everything, even including life itself, and have encountered little to no amount of failures – created the former…
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Whenever I'm picking out something to watch each season, a safe bet is usually the "Cute Girls Do Cute Things" subgenre of slice of life. These typically involve the same character archetypes done to the death and with the same general feeling and structure to them. Bocchi is no different in this regard. It doesn't reinvent the wheel or redefine what it means to be CGDCT any more than Wataten or Kiniro Mosaic.
In spite of this, Bocchi is still an enjoyable show. Like the titular character, it does what it needs to accomplish decently competently and you can't help but love it. It's an absolutely adorable show that's just relaxing and fun to follow. Nothing special or extraordinary, but a good way to wind down after work and spend an evening to.
While Katsuwo's other work, Mitsuboshi Col…
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Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu is the prime example of a series that's perfectly comfortable in its own skin.
It doesn't try to set a high bar for itself nor does it try to stand out from the crowd. It finds a goal it's comfortable with achieving and achieves it in its own reasonable pace, that goal being a cute slice of life about a girl trying to make some friends. And you know what? That's perfectly fine.
The characters are charming, the plot is fine and the execution is pretty cute. It doesn't try to up the stakes, it doesn't abuse its own jokes, it doesn't try to be better. And while most people see that as a bad thing, I think that's the most reasonable thing for a show of this kind to do. More often than not, shows that try to stand out when they don't know how to end up fallin…
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HitoriBocchi is an anime that brings a creative and interesting idea about a girl who has social anxiety and needs to make friends with all the students in her new classroom to befriend Yawara Kai, her childhood friend.
The anime has fun and charismatic characters, they provide funny and relaxing scenes, especially Hitori, of course.
Among all the bad animes of this spring season of 2019, HitoriBocchi was one of the few good animes of this season, even being slice of life, a genre that I do not like much.
Overall, HitoriBocchi is a relaxing anime that has good comedy and great characters.
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Before going into this show, I expected to watch a generic CGDCT—certainly not something that I would review. Yet, as I made my way through Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu's 12 episodes, I found myself more and more inclined to write the text you are now reading. While the CGDCT genre is normally as inoffensive as can be, Hitoribocchi was often a thoroughly unpleasant experience. How, and more importantly, why, did this happen?
The show follows Hitori Bocchi (English: "alone") as she struggles with social anxiety after entering her first year of middle school. As her misadventures continue, she becomes friends with characters such as Sunao Nako (English: "honest child"), Honshou Aru (English: "has a hidden character"), and Sotoka Rakita (English: "came from the outside"). The names are…
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For starters, at first I was not giving anything to the anime, I was not even in my desire to watch, but the first episode came out and how I was already on impulse, because I had seen a new 3 the same day, I thought and watch and it was the best thing I could have done. Hotoribocchi is a very funny anime with an incredible premise, super charismatic characters even the main one, with his problem of shyness, captivates whenever he talks, I am horrible to point out mistakes in works, but what bothers me a little is the way in which the challenge of being "friendly" is implied for the main character, but I think it's more of a personal annoyance to have to see Bocchi sometimes go through it, in a somewhat "forced" way, but even so, in the end you understand the reasons , if you are looking f…
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Crippling social anxiety is by no means a joke. Inside a socially anxious mind, there is a constant irrational feeling that all people around you are hostile and scary.
That is one thing Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu understands well - and to my joy, instead of capitalizing on this subject to make cheap fun of the millions of possible situations where one with such a condition can embarrass himself to the point of becoming a social outcast, Hitoribocchi chooses to create comedy from a much more wholesome possibility - one in which everyone around Bocchi is everything but hostile. And it works.
Story : 8.5/10
Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu is the story of Bocchi, a first-year middle school girl trying her best, despite her social anxiety, to make friends.
Despite the name of the…
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It’s 2019 and even now in our generation, many people suffer from social anxiety. Even if you don't, I’m sure someone you know who does. The bottom line is, social anxiety is a problem that everyone has heard of before. But if you take a careful look at Bocchi, then you’ll really understand what it means to have social anxiety disorder. That is to say, Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu isn’t marketing itself as some kind of psychological thriller. No, what we get is a slice of life story that touches on a sensible subject but can bring smiles to our faces.
For a four panel manga, I initially believed this would have been a half-length show given the amount of context. As a full length anime, it actually works wonderfully well thanks for its small yet colorful cast of meaningful character…
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Hitoribocchi no ○○ Seikatsu (Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu) is a sweet comedy slice of life series featuring Hitori Bocchi. She is shy and has no friends at the beginning of the anime. This anime features the slightly awkward Bocchi trying to befriend the whole class. Why does she need to befriend the whole class? This is because Bocchi's previously only friend, Yawara Kai decided to stop being friends until Bocchi manages to befriend the whole class. Thus, Bocchi, who highly values her friendship with Kai, feels compelled to do so.
If you understand some Japanese, you might have noticed how Bocchi is named. Hitori Bocchi translates to being alone, or lonely. That fits with Bocchi's traits. This amusing approach in naming Bocchi is applied to all the characters in the series. For exam…
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The Spring 19 anime season is now finally over and I can definitely say that the spring season wasn't too kind to anime.
We saw the fall of Shield Hero with its lacklustre second cour, as well the disastrous debut of Fairy Gone, we saw the over-saturation of anime seasonal showelware, and we saw the Isekai genre shit itself with the release of Wise Man's Grandchild as it showcased that stakes and tension don't matter when you can have sick self insert pandering to cover up your half-ass plot and characters.
That's not to say that were not good anime to come out from the season as it's certainly not true.

Bungou Stray Dogs Season 3, Fruits Basket 2019, Sarazanmai were all great shows from the Spring 19 season.
Then there's Hitoribocchi my most anticipated of the season thanks to its p…
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When I first saw Hitoribocchi in the seasonal list I was excited. Being a big fan of CGDCT, and very much enjoying those CGDCT that focus on real, relatable problems, I was excited to see what Hitoribocchi had to offer. While the issue of low self-esteem and social anxiety is not new to CGDCT, I personally like to see what each take on it is, and to gleem whatever there can be from the situations that the characters get into. There is a lot of potential in the idea, as the wholesome friendly tone of CGDCT allow for these more serious topics to be covered without going too far down into the negativity spiral, and rather give hope, and show how one can be helped. Sadly, Hitoribocchi did not live up to this, and rather than use those factors to it's benefit, it ended up using them to its dete…
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SoL school-comedy anime are nothing new. BUT...what if making friends is PART of that problem? I'm sure we've been through moments like this, being awkward, then slowly opening up ourselves to more friends, and wash, rinse and repeat. This idea is too simplistic, it almost never works. But hang on for a sec.
From the same author who brought us last year's Mitsuboshi Colors (damn, that was a great kids show), Katsuwo's 2nd manga adaptation outing, is based on a group of middle-school girls, starting with the one that has social anxiety: Hitori Bocchi (her literal name meaning 'all alone'). Being concerned over the fear that Bocchi has in making new friends, Bocchi's only elementary school friend Kai Yawara ((her literal name meaning 'soft'), abandons her in the prospect that she could deve…
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There’s been a lot of great stuff this season, and Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu is up there. If you came here expecting a serious show, then this isn’t what you’re really looking for but if u came here for a heartwarming experience than this is it.
Story/Plot:
In the beginning all i really expected was a boring slice of life probably filled with cringe and a monotonous plot, but it ended up getting more interesting and funnier every week. The comedy and jokes are actually good, and it has a fair share of cute and heartwarming moments which will easily put a smile on your face. The characters are super lovable, and they will grow on u easily. The show starts out with Bocchi being afraid of talking to anyone and finding her unable to make any friends because of her social anxiety when…
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