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my favorite show this season, probably my favorite show ever too, and also the one i think i did the best job writing about here! if you've followed my posts on it, then thank you.

below are my final thoughts on the series, copied from the ep12 post:

...i already know that there's no such thing as "objective" criticism, but i feel like my thoughts on bocchi are even less objective than usual. because really, how i feel about this show is inextricable from my own life experiences, as someone who's also suffered from severe social anxiety. and, with that in mind:

this is the best anime i've ever seen.

i didn't think i'd be hit so hard by it. hell, i don't even identify as "someone with social anxiety". but watching this show, i've come to realize just how much my life has been defined by fear; fear of reaching out, of being reached out to, of seeing others and being seen, of... living. and you know, i've been doing really well the past couple years! i'm nowhere near as bad as i used to be. but... it was still something that i wasn't really thinking about. or, when i did, it was because that fear was rearing its head again. what if this was as good as i could get? what if i got worse again?

...so to see this show... to see this girl go through almost exactly the same pains i've gone through, and then slowly get better in the same ways i got better... to see her be so loved by all her friends... and to see her be told that it's ok, that she doesn't need to be perfect all the time, that even if she relapses she'll be able to get back up again—

it really, truly makes me feel like i'll be ok, too.

so, thank you, bocchi. from one disaster to another.

saori

@gayanimegirl

post index: Bocchi the Rock!