At the Sentai Filmworks panel at Anime Expo today, they provided a brief but entertaining look at the dub for Watamote, which most people thought sounded a whole lot like fan favorite voice actress Monica Rial. Well, it didn’t take long, but she confirmed the news this afternoon with a very Monica Rial oriented tweet about it. The Anime Network is rolling out the twelve episode run of Watamote in English language form on Friday, July 11th, so fans can check out more of her work on the series then. They’ve previously been streaming the original Japanese language version with English subtitles since after the simulcast debut.
BAM! Tomoko Kuroki all up in yo face, beyatches! pic.twitter.com/ajo5zdAfNz
— Monica Rial (@Rialisms) July 4, 2014
Plot concept: 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 which makes Kuroki’s entrance into the social pressure cooker of high school a new and special kind of hell. Because 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 in WATAMOTE ~ No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular!
