>>12232I would say that the base idea of the main character being isolated from the rest of the world is one similarity. They struggle when it comes to interacting with people and their views of how society öÖö functiones are twisted by media/other forms of literature (and lack of interaction with reality, duh)
Sure, there are differences (obviously :p). Their goals differ a bit in the sense that Tomoko wishes to "be popular and sociably desired" from the begining. Maya, however, has made up this illusion of "i will be happy when i am completely alone", while at the same time subconsciously questioning whether or not this is something to be desired (her actual wishes being more aligned with Tomoko's). In a way, you can view Maya as potenitally Tomoko with extra steps.
Also, Maya gets help from others in the begining, while Tomoko is complitly isolated from in the start of her story (she eventually finds "help" from others).
There is the problem that we dont really know that much about Maya (besides what is told to us in the pilot/2 comics) compared to the "more developed" charatcer of Tomoko. So a very deep analasys of these two is hard.