Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta

“Am I supposed to be holding her hand?”

The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses delves into a rather unsettling narrative, catering to a peculiar desire among certain individuals who yearn for a disturbingly infantile partner. Kaede Komura, the protagonist, becomes infatuated with his classmate Ai Mie, who suffers from poor eyesight and frequently forgets her glasses.

“I can’t not wash my hands… But maybe I can swab the sebum off my hands and preserve it.”

Kaede's fixation on Mie intensifies due to her apparent vulnerability and dependence caused by her visual impairment. Rather than being deterred by her squinting eyes and lack of common sense, Kaede's ... attraction intensifies. He eagerly becomes Ai's constant helper, exploiting her visual limitations to gain her reliance on him. Someone accurately described him as, "A seeing eye dog for Stevie Wonder." First just mundane things like sharing books, then tying her shoes like she’s a toddler, and THEN spoon feeding her like a baby, etc… In doing so, Kaede manipulates the situation to his advantage, fostering a sense of dependability while indulging in a skewed power dynamic. I hope nothing is more mortifying than watching the cake scene. However, given there have only been three episodes, it could get much worse. While feeding Mie cake (his idea), he says,

“Twelve bites to finish the whole thing.”
“I pictured her father in my mind and begged for his mercy twelve times.”

After three episodes, Kaede's infatuation evolved into a deeply unsettling obsession. Ai's visual impairment becomes the foundation upon which their relationship is built. He capitalizes on her reliance on him to strengthen his emotional hold on her. In a twisted turn of events, Kaede molds himself into the person Ai yearns to see. This blurs the boundaries between genuine affection and a disturbing fixation. If it weren’t for the over exposed lighting and upbeat elevator music, GoHand's bizarre directing paired with Kaede’s disturbing inner monologues would create a fantastic horror anime.

Despite the disturbing main character, the visuals stand out more than anything else. Studio GoHands' decision to employ their patented janky camera angles feels more like a distracting gimmick than a creative choice. It’s not quite as ugly as Hand Shakers, but it’s not very appealing either. Instead of enhancing the romcom aspects, the lack of visual cohesion pulls your attention away and nauseates you. This makes the two leads’ interactions seem more distant than cute/comical. For a romcom, these interactions are crucial, but presented with wild hair motions and cameras flying all over the place like a mosquito, you can barely pay attention.

Inconsistency between the art styles is further exaggerated by the clash between the hyper-realistic background art and the 2D character designs. I think they rendered everything with an engine like Unreal because it looks like an overexposed video game. Buildings, streets, and grass all appear to be static images, like they were lazily slapped onto greenscreen last minute. The designs are fine, a bit glossy. They were adapted from the manga by GoHands character designer who designed Hand Shakers and K. The contrasting aesthetics between 2D art and 3D backgrounds are never more obvious than anime like this.

With its horrendous adaptation, The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses disappoints manga fans while Kaede disturbs anime-only viewers. The visuals, characterized by janky camera angles and a clash between hyper-realistic backgrounds and 2D character designs, create a nausea-inducing anime. The overexposed lighting and generic upbeat music fail to mitigate the disturbing nature of the source material, so you'd be better off reading the manga. The adaptation disappoints in every category—it especially fails at its main goal: being a wholesome romcom.

I usually don't write reviews, but this Anime has such awful writing that I feel compelled to.

Starting with the only redeemable point, it is well animated and has beautiful art.

Now the bad points on this Anime, which are ALOT:

The characters and history seem to have been written by a kid.
The main character is a straight-out loser; he has no redeemable points other than *MAYBE* being kind. Some of his traits;
-He's a spineless coward.
-He has white knight syndrome.
... -He cannot speak more than three phrases without stuttering and seems to be surprised all the time since he's always gasping for air.
-He has an inferiority complex and a superiority complex at the same time.

The MC is so pathetic that he cannot even touch the FMC glasses without blushing and thinking of absolutely absurd things, he can't even speak the most simple of things to the FMC, and he never makes ANY logical decision.
*POSSIBLE SPOILER* At a certain moment, he is tasked with a simple mission: cut a VERY small section of the FMC's hair that got stuck on a locker, but this loser of an MC almost fails to do so. He starts to sweat profusely, gets extremely blushed and starts to panic.
BUT, mainly, the MC "says" that he likes the FMC romantically, yet he does not want her to improve and become a better version of herself, he wants her to be a weak maiden that he can *PATHECLY* "rescue", He is so bad that he gets angry/jealous just from having other boys talk to the FMC.

And about the female main character, she is clearly mentally impaired. Other than that, there is no explanation for her forgetfulness towards her glasses when she can't even distinguish a cat from a plastic bag. YET she goes out of home nearly every day without her glasses, and people around her think it is normal. Maybe even worse than that is the fact that, throughout the year, she broke/lost at least 5 pair of glasses, and no one seems to say a thing about it. In one of the early episodes, she says that she can already identify the main character by his voice, even though a few minutes earlier in the episode, she absolutely confused another classmate for the MC.

Just an absolute shitshow of writing of demented characters. Far beyond that typical highschool romance Anime.

I BADLY NEED SEASON 2(even if I already read the manga)

One of the anime that I didn't expect to be this good. Actually I am more on watching reincarnation, adventure, or science fiction, but when I encountered this everything changed. I started reading the manga although it is ongoing , but still as a loyal follower of this series. Please I badly need a season 2. Now that the first season is finished, we fans of this series are eagerly waiting for next season. To the creator and studio who are doing this series. This is truly a masterpiece for me.

As much as the visuals can carry a show, its frustrating to watch an MC that can't use basic communication to help Mie in any meaningful way.

The situations set up don't lead to any growth for Kaeda Komura, and instead he ruminates over and over about how he likes Mie too much, and is incapable of basic communication because of that, where a simple few words would help him and the girl he likes rectify any situations from her forgetting her glasses.

To what end do we as viewers have to wait for the main character to grow enough to simple just talk out ... loud, and how infantile can Mie be, where she's clearly unable to operate as a person without her glasses?

if the growth is there after the next few episodes, then Ill amend the score. but its frustrating to watch a show where the first 7 minutes dragged on to feel like 30

This anime gets a lot of flak, but trust me if you can bear through the first few episodes, it gets better.

I feel like the anime is unnecessarily hated due to the fact that GoHands did an absolutely horrendous job in animating the first few episodes. But as the episodes go on and the animation tones down to an acceptable level, the anime as a whole gets a lot better.

The story also develops quite well. It's slow at first, using the forgetting glasses trope a bit too much at some points, but even if they overuse the gags sometimes, they manage to make almost ... every scene worth watching. The interactions between Mie-san and Komura-kun get better and better as the anime goes on, and it's fun watching a fluffy and wholesome romance once in a while. It makes it better that there's a lack of fanservice and more of a "children discovering love for the first time" type of focus because frankly, I think everyone had enough of fanservice at this point.

In short, if the watcher can bear through the first few episodes (especially the first one, absolutely horrid), they'll for sure remember this anime fondly. But if you can't handle the first episode and don't want to waste your time, please read the manga, it's a gem and one of the best romances I've ever read.

Praying for a second season <3

Typically, the best, or at the very least most memorable, romance and slice of life anime have an engaging story and a likeable set of characters. There are countless anime out there that follow this, however The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses doesn't have any whatsoever. The main leads of this series, Kaede Komura and Ai Mie, are some of the most annoying protagonists in any romance story I've seen so far. Kaede constantly thinks and says very weird and at times lewd thoughts about Ai, while Mie's IQ drops over 1000 the second she doesn't have her glasses. The show also likes to ... randomly decide when Mie forgets her glasses, making it hard to stay engaged in the narratives throughout this season. The only decent aspect of this show is the actual dynamic between these two characters, but with a flimsy plot and characters that would work better as a supporting cast, this anime just isn't it.

Story: A boy likes a girl because she always forgets her glasses.
Animation: Sweet Lord Jesus, it's a mesmerising blend of 2.5D and 3DCG...that could it hail the comeback of the infamous studio GoHands?

If there is a lesson in AniManga that the veterans have suffered through and the newbies have not, it is that "less is more". No, I'm not talking about lowering quality for quantity; rather, it's setting expectations straight. But to that, you might say: Come on, when it comes to works from the infamous, primarily 3DCG studio that produced one of the god-awful shows of the 2010s (a la Hand Shakers), how can ... you NOT be excited about how the studio is going to continue wrecking source materials going forward? And my answer will be: GoHands has probably the biggest risk of producing not 1, but 2 shows this season, and while the core staff team may still be overzealous of its prowess in uncommon animation techniques, I personally think that GoHands has really scored big this Summer season...in a good way.

The first of 2 shows that studio GoHands is producing this Summer: mangaka Koume Fujichika's Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta a.k.a The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses, which if you've been through many rom-com shows over the years in AniManga, this one would sound like it's just that: a bland rom-com of a developing high school boy who's obsessed with this beautiful and pretty high school girl, just because the recurring gag is in the name. But above all of the many self-conscious episodes that one might reckon that the joke has been and can play out endlessly until the author decides to finish the romp to satiate those who are sour and just want this joke to end, the devil is in the details, and truer than not, the source material is a delight to read and see the various interactions, though that mileage may vary.

As for that interaction, don't go expecting the male MC of Kaede Komura to be like Takagi-san's Nishikata, Komi-san's Hitohito Tadano, or even BokuYaba's Kyotaro Ichikawa. Just because they're about the same age between middle and high school doesn't mean that they behave with the same mentality; it's how authors decide to progress their characters that makes the difference. But for some weird reason, Koume Fujichika seems content with wanting Kaede to just act like the adolescent boy who's discovering love for the first time, and even after multiple attempts, he still fails to catch on that his love interest in female MC Ai Mie is just that: an absentminded girl who always forgets her glasses. If I have to take a gander, Ai is a walking trope (not meme) who does the near impossible, like getting to school without her glasses despite her house being just a stone's throw away, and in relation to those who really wear glasses for shortsightedness, she loses the perception of distance and has to sit very, VERY close to Kaede to say, borrow his textbook to read or see his face clearly, which obviously makes the eyecandy blush.

Sure, the good-natured, shy adolescent boy exhibits the "boy at the back of the class" trope who gets the girl, which in this case is Ai herself. He is always aware that even if Ai prepares her glasses before going out of her house, she's bound to forget them somehow, which doesn't surprise him all the more. This is always true in regard to their classmates, who notice their romantic shenanigans. One good example is Ren Azuma, the popular guy in school who is the epitome of a ladies' man. His Ikemen-style appearance and gentleness earn the favour and confessions of the girls (to which he'll kindly reject them), but what entices him more is that he's aware that Kaede is in love with her, so if the opportunities arise, he'll support them whenever necessary. This is why Ren Azuma is the likeable Ikemen wingman. Another example is one of Ai's classmates, Narumi Someya. The pigtail-haired girl, who always seems conscious of Kaede intentionally getting too close to her, is a jealous and attention-seeking girl. Otherwise, there's not really much going on with other characters, like mangaka Souichirou Yamamoto, who opts to just have the main Takagi-Nishikata couple on the front and centre line (with the Ashita wa Doyoubi girls as extras), but the investment into the support cast is just left out as such and only needed when the chance is called for.

There is no doubt that the main talking point about the show would be its production, handled by the infamy that is GoHands. And boy, they sure LOVE to flex their unusual, over-the-top animation that many will find jarring, me included. The manga was simple, drawn really nicely, and cute, but when it comes to the studio, especially if this is your first time watching a show produced by them, I'd recommend that you get used to it because this is their signature animation trademark that has never changed since K Project back in 2012. For the most part, I can take it for what it is since I've been disseminating my eyes since the days of Hand Shakers, and I'll say that the show is rather nicely produced. It's just that the majority will hate the artstyle, and for good reasons that I cannot fault them with.

The music is really nice, given the OST produced for this show. Tsuzuri's OP "NAME" is a jazzy song that will delight with cute, fluffy, and wholesome vibes, and I know for a fact that it was composed by Vocaloid producer DECO*27, which he has composed Anisongs in the past. But as well as the OP is, I can't quite say good things about Masayoshi Ooishi's ED, featuring Kaede and Ai's VAs, which, while being a cheerful song, the ED sequence was cute but kinda garbage for being visually bland.

In the eyes of the beholder, Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta a.k.a The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses is a show that you can either take or leave as it is. While it's not a rom-com that I would personally recommend for being overly ambitious on the animation front and the story beats moving slowly but not progressing, it's still a good show that is worth the relaxation beats of a simple love story between the male and female leads, of how one repetition could surprisingly veer off the usual rom-com tropes and still stick to its sole objectives.

It's just a feel-good rom-com with no BS love drama or pretences, when all is said and done. A decent return to GoHands.

Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta is a surprisingly cute experience from start to finish.

If I had to start with one part that I'm going to talk about, it has to be the style of the anime itself. As if you get used to that, and see the brighter side of it's other parts, you'll come to like it.

Art and sound: 7
I would've ranked this higher if all of it looked good, but it certainly does not. But does it all look bad? Certainly not. The way the style, and the animation flows. Just take Mie for instance. Every inch of her hair seems ... to blow in the wind, all of it moving instead of a few bits, or barely at all. It feels alive, it feels real. Much like other characters. There is a natural charm when it comes to it's style and presentation, something that'll grow on you, despite some of it's starting movements looking...Questionable to say the least. There is some prettiness in here, and it should be appreciated.

The sound really fits in well, I can feel the general atmosphere perfectly, as when in certain scenes, it goes a little more upbeat, while really capturing the moments in other places. Really well done.

Story and characters: 7
We've more likely had a dozen school anime romances up to this point, that you may be tired of them. But what really holds this story in high regard, is Mie herself. Mie is a bundle of so much. She's a treasure that you'll come to love, and really makes this show tick for sure. To follow that up with Komura, who is thoughtful, kind, and considerate of her, and it builds a solid foundation connection, that'll be a sweet watch. Further showing that a story doesn't need to be action packed to be good. Sometimes a story following two sweet characters, bond, and naturally develop, can be just as good.

Suki na Ko is a sweet show, that deserves to be watched, and if not, for sure, you'll want to check out the manga and want more. Someting to adore for sure.

I'm always reluctant to post a "mixed feelings" review. I think this option is overused. I didn't think I would use it, but here I am. I suggest you try the show with the expectation of eventually dropping it if/when you feel like you've seen enough.

This anime was promising. The relationship is so cute, they're nice kids, it's a middle school setting so that's a welcome change from the high school romcoms.

But the comedy... 4/10, below average. It is very peculiar. Some people - not me - have a problem with the fact that the girl constantly forgets her glasses. You may not like it, ... but at least it has the merit to be absurd, which is very valid comedy, true and tried. On the other hand... Many gags in this series overstay their welcome. Luckily, they don't insist on Mie forgetting her glasses; it is just used as a reason to have something going on. They quickly glance over it and move on. However, the studio has a bad habit of beating a dead horse with the other gags.

Examples: in one episode, a flying plane appears in the background, with sound and everything, for a good 5 seconds, whenever Komura (the male main character) feels embarrassed or shy. It happens not once, not twice, but three times!
Komura regularly moans in these kinds of situations, when Mie gets close to his face or whatever. At one point, he lets out a moan, as usual, and (almost?) at the same time, the narrator starts speaking. And they deemed it funny to have Komura keep on letting out short moans over and over again while the narrator's speaking. Stop killing the jokes by making them last too long! It didn't need to last the entire narrator's speech, just a couple of moans over her were fine! It was funny at first, but it quickly became... Look, I'm not going to call it obnoxious, I'm just going to qualify as peculiar once again, but if you don't like it, it will definitely be obnoxious to you, just like it was for me.

Story: 0/10 as there is no overarching story so far. But that's not a diss. It's just a slice of life, this type of show doesn't need a story. It may have one, but it's not a requirement.

Voice acting: no rating. Mie's fine. She's cute, yet not moe. Komura, on the other hand, is a BIIIIG hit or miss. He sometimes uses tremolos when moaning; which he does, OFTEN, more than warranted, MORE THAN COMICALLY OFTEN! Yeah, it gets on my nerves at this point. If you enjoy it, good for you. It's also a talent from the voice actor, so credits to him... But that doesn't make it good. Not saying it's bad either, it's a subjective matter.

Music: 5/10. Completely forgettable. In fact, I literally don't remember any of it.

Art: 7/10. Most of the time, it's a 9/10. But they keep on insisting with weird shots and weird points of view... They're just exploring technical stuff in my opinion, and that's not a good thing for a published final product. Some shots are legitimately terrible, even. I thought it would only be in the intro of the first episode, but they made it reappear... The classic animation is really well done, however. The hair, in particular, is carefully animated.

Enjoyment: started as an 8/10, it devolved into this current 4/10. At this point I don't even feel like finishing the episode I started watching. I paused it in the middle of it because it made me feel the need to write this review.

Overall: 5/10 average.

Usually, I'd put a anecdote here to embellish the review and catch your attention, but honestly, this show doesn't have a single appropriate line worth mentioning.

Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta (or SukiMega) is your average rom-com highschool anime meant to soothe the souls of those who watch it. It's about a certain middle schooler who has a crush on the girl who sits next to him in class, but guess what? Her eyesight's bad, yet she keeps forgetting her glasses! How moe!

Look. This concept *could* definitely work. On its own, it isn't a bad idea at all, but how this show handled ... it is awful. The protagonist of this anime, Komura Kaede, is supposed to be a nice and innocent boy who's hopelessly in love with a cute classmate, sure, but this anime instead portrays him as a disgusting and perverted boy that is unhealthily obsessed with an unsuspecting girl.

Since Mie, the girl with poor eyesight, forgets her glasses, Komura devoted himself to helping her out. One day matter, you say? No, nigh miraculously does this dunce forget her glasses on a daily basis. It really gets on my nerves, but yeah, that's the setting of this anime, so you get used to it. The situations in which Mie and Komura find themselves in should be wholesome, take a scene where they share they textbooks for example. Cute right? No. Always does this anime manage to make the most wholesome scenes absolutely appalling. He just *has* to think up a ridiculously gross idea that you wouldn't expect from a middle schooler. They even mention that 'young boys tend to be a little gross when they're in love' or something. However, this anime doesn't make him a 'little' gross, but just plain disgusting.

Creepy fella be saying he won't wash his hands anymore after touching her??? Alright alright, the contents of his thoughts aside, Komura's also really annoying. I get it. Middle schoolers get conscious about indirect kisses, cute. But when this guy does it, it just become creepy. At every moment Mie says or does something, he blushes and begins the train of thoughts yet again. In the beginning, it's manageable. But after a while it gets really annoying how he has to comment on everything insignificantly normal action.

You get the deal already, so I'll stop this for now. What did the anime do good? The animation, I'd say. The animation looks very pretty, and makes Mie look beautiful, probably trying to show the appeal of her. But honestly, that's about it. The music is generic beyond belief, and the story (on the surface, and not looking at execution) is pale. I mean, this anime consists of boring skits every other rom-com anime tried before, and manages to ruin them. Walking home together, sharing contact info, meeting at the shoe lockers etc., you get it. There's barely any progression aside from Mie developing false affection and rather dependance for this crazy fellow. He is basically exploiting her for her poor sight, and she has no clue, and sees (not really, she forgets her glasses) him as a dependable person.

There isn't anything else worth mentioning, and I can only name bad things about this series. Undoubtedly did the manga do it better, even if I haven't read it. Usually I would recommend a show I didn't like to a limited group of people, but to be honest, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, regardless of their interests. 'Turn your brain off' they, but my god, my morals aren't something I can turn off, you know? Look somewhere else, this isn't the series you're looking for.

4/10 with a little mercy, but 3/10 if I can be brutally honest with you.

Visuals that cause your brain to relish and visuals that cause you an aneurysm are almost always unlikely to Go Hands in hands. Yet sometimes the natural order of things must be subsided for one measly reason or another. And from the award winning team that caused you a minor aneurysm by mere mention of shaking hands or the people that do, bring you their lastest delight, The Gifted Girl Who Never Grabs Her Glasses Even as She is as Blind as a Blind Bat in a Large Open Expanse in the Dark.

Plot: The plot is extremely simple to follow, a Gifted Girl Who Never ... Grabs Her Glasses Even as She is as Blind as a Blind Bat in a Large Open Expanse in the Dark, is in one way or other being helped by a Classmate who has crush on her. So much so, he'd crush her glasses if it came down to it just so she can rely on him a little longer. There, that's the plot. Whatever happens is more or less meaningless.

Characters: Thus far we only know about two of them, and they are both mentioned in the plot. Nothing further to add to that.

Animation: This is where I'm most confused. At times it looks like the best animated show of the year without exaggeration, and at times it causes a minor aneurysm just by looking at it. For instance, just look at the Opening credit, there is a scene where the male protagonist is enveloped within a mist of doves, and shining particles with his hands stretched out as if he is trying to embrace something/someone. It looks absolutely magical. Then there's another scene, again from the opening credit itself, where the male and female protagonist run towards eachother to embrace, again it looks almost too good to be true.

However, just as you want to rip open your clothes, tear the neighbours house down, burn the saucy heretic, crucify the heinous person who badmouthed your 2D goddess, and shout at the peak of your vocal cords that this is best animated series of the season, you get an aneurysm merely by the angles themselves without the aid of anything else. How to even begin judging this is a dilemma, as such let's just keep the opinion to my myself until the end of this season.

Music: Liked the music. Nothing revolutionary here, but the vibe is good and cheerful, pretty enjoyable. The opening song was very, very good. The ending credit was equally decent. The OSTs fit the atmosphere of the Anime pretty well. Nothing to complain so far.

Enjoyment: Compared to most other things, this is certainly more enjoyable. Let's be honest this does not seem to be the best romance of the season, but whatever it is, it is done with care and lots of effort. So looking forward to next session of aneurysms.

Oh man, where do I even begin with? This anime adaptation has stolen my heart, and I just can't help but gush about it. But let's address the elephant in the room first - the haters.

It's a sad fact that some people out there just can't appreciate the beauty of wholesomeness when it smacks them in the face. The world seems to be full of cynics who wouldn't know genuine heartwarming content if it danced in front of them wearing a neon sign. It's as if they've forgotten how to feel the warmth of pure, innocent love and kindness. But let's not dwell on those ... who are missing out on the magic of this anime.

Now, let's dive into why this anime is an absolute treasure! It's like a ray of sunshine on a gloomy day, a warm cup of cocoa by the fire, or a cozy blanket on a chilly night. If you ever needed a break from the constant barrage of action-packed, high-stakes dramas, this show is your ticket to serenity.

The story follows our adorably clumsy protagonist, Kaede Komura, who has a crush on the girl of his dreams, Ai Mie. But here's the twist: Mie keeps forgetting her glasses, and can't see a thing without them! Sounds simple, right? That's the beauty of it. The simplicity of the plot allows the characters and their relationships to shine brightly.

What sets this anime apart is its ability to find magic in the everyday moments. It captures the awkwardness of young love and infuses it with a sense of innocence that is almost nostalgic.Komura's bumbling attempts to help Mie navigate a glasses-less world are both hilarious and endearing. Their interactions, filled with misunderstandings and genuine care, are what make this anime a heartwarming masterpiece.

The character development is simply splendid. You'll find yourself rooting for Komura as he stumbles through life, and you'll cheer for Mie as she bravely faces the world without her glasses. It's a rollercoaster of emotions, from heart-fluttering moments to those that'll have you grinning from ear to ear.

The animation is top-notch, with each character's expressions beautifully animated to convey their emotions. The background music perfectly complements the story, enhancing the feels during those poignant moments.

Here's a brief rating;
Story: 8/10
Characters: 9/10
Animation: 10/10
Sound: 9/10
Voice Acting: 8/10

This anime may not be for everyone, but that's okay. If you're an awesome person who can appreciate the sweetness of a budding romance, the awkward charm of young love, and the warmth of wholesome storytelling, then this anime is an absolute must-watch. Don't let the haters deter you; give it a shot, and you'll find yourself wrapped in a cocoon of fuzzy feelings that you won't want to leave. So go ahead, immerse yourself in the heartwarming world of Komura and Mie – you won't regret it!

Let's start this off slowly. I... don't mind stories that have slow starts, some may have a rough start but still managed to be a groundbreaking experience to behold. I... don't mind romance stories despite my personal dislike for them if the characters are likeable and a joy to watch without feeling unnecessary and existed for the heck of it. I... also don't mind if the animation looks mediocre or generic, it doesn't entirely determine the anime's quality as long as the story is not... boring. Yet this is what this anime has managed to pull off, a disappointment in terms of characters, visuals, ... and comedy itself.

Since this anime's genre is Comedy, you usually need to keep in touch with these two things in any show to make SURE it's any good, are good characters and pacing. The whole premise is about Komura having a massive crush on a girl who just keeps forgetting her glasses almost every single damn day. A good anime can get away with telling these stupid overused jokes if they knew how to properly execute it or even had good characters. This anime's comedy is pretty plain and repetitive, to even get a smirk after witnessing the same joke for 13 episodes in a row while happening MULTIPLE times in a single episode would be a goddamn miracle to witness, because I don't think anyone could actually find this slightly amusing.

The only time(s) I actually laughed when I was trying to stomach through their interactions being replayed 100 times by now were the fact GoHands actually recycled scenes from this anime and they didn't even bother to reanimate how these characters move, it's also quite hilarious how often they did this cheap trick. So you're stuck with an endless loop of scenes that are a sign of overblown budget on EP 1 which caused them to reuse them for the majority of the anime. EP 1 had some incredible visuals but sometimes felt nauseating and too bright to watch until GoHands came up with this brilliant idea to just don't make anymore good animation and instead show them the 3D buildings they have made for the show so you can see how much of a disconnect these characters with their own environment. It could still take place in a bus and it wouldn't change a damn thing. Keep in mind I'm laughing at the show, not because it had anything funny.

Although still, I can forgive these shenanigans if it still had likeable characters, but my oh my, how reality disappoints so often. I am confident that if these two big issues were resolved immediately, it would have been a lot more enjoyable to watch and be an easy recommendation for romance and comedy lovers.

Issue 1: Is Mie a real character or what?

It was how the love interest is treated like a trophy to look at, not as a real character to support and empathize. Initially, I can accept that because most school crushes usually were perceived in this way for a while but this anime really drags it out way too long than it should. The moment I heard Mie finally started speaking for herself, I was like "Wait, she has her own mind?" Although, the story gradually started to treat Mie more as a character to be paired with Komura other than a trophy for most of the time, it took extremely long to get to that point and any feeling of support I could have for them is long gone since they barely build any kind of actual chemistry when the guy just wants to be a NPC, watching Mie being a goofball the story portrayed her as it is.

Issue 2: Komura is so annoying to root for.

I know there's a difference between light-hearted shows, where you'll often find simple-minded or somewhat horny characters especially in school teens and dramatic shows that mostly feature morally grey characters, but what matters in that character should be personal growth, no matter how insignificant it may be. Which comes to the next point, Komura has received no kind of growth, leaving the only part of growth that's happening is the hollow romance and misunderstandings. You see, whenever a girl gets really close to you, you start to stutter, you just figured out you almost made physical contact, so you backed off to avoid any misunderstandings. This story realizes that and instead of moving on, it decides to replay the same scenario for almost every episode and it's not a progression of Komura and Mie slowly understanding each other, it's the slow process of Komura trying to figure out with his miniscule brain cells that it's okay to be with Mie. So if you're okay with every episode showing Komura blushing every time he sees Mie getting too close for comfort, this is your type of treat, you're welcome. Imagine having the side characters somewhat overshadow the main characters, being more unique and impactful to the romance progression than Komura x Mie.

I rest my case. Hereby lies a disappointment I have expected from the day it aired up till this day. Goodbye, I will never think of you again.

SO, what I was saying before, on the plus side, the romance is CUTE, the art is cute, no denying that! If someone just want too see that side, go ahead, even if anyone ask me about those parts, I would say I love the art, I too watch and read stories with cute romance like this. BUT the fact remains that the plot is too raw and too unrealistic! Bye "the plot" I mean about a girl who has extremely bad eyes that keeps on forgetting her spectacles.

The first and most obvious problem is the fact that the author simply doesn't understand anything ... about people with poor eyesight. I'm not sure about the term, but, first things first, is Mie nearsighted or farsighted? In other words, what type of lens does she have on her glasses? Well, the author obviously didn't think about that since in the story Mie cannot see clearly things that are less than an inch from her eyes, she can't see things or people (like Komura in episode 1) meters away either. To make things worse, limited to my knowledge, there are no contact lenses that can be used to help people with an eyesight that bad, yet, the story goes with Mie wearing contact lenses and became able to see normally.

Not to forget, the fact that she frequently forgets her glasses is weird, like, even I who can see clearly only up to about 15 centimeters/6 inches, can hardly go anywhere without my glasses, in other words, it's amost impossible to forget it, it always will be my top priority. And again, the story goes about a girl who has eyes that are technically blind, who kept on forgetting them. LET ME SAY IT AGAIN, not losing them, or breaking them (well, technically the story went like breaking it once), but forgot to bring them, again and again. How did she even survive walking all the way to school? By that I mean, how did she not stumble on anything?

Back in the days (don't know now), there was this trend like, people being silly every time someone takes off the glasses, most of them were teasing the person in question, believing he or she cannot see at all. So again, how I see it is the story is made is like, adapting that old bullying trend and adding it a bit of romancy spices on top, In other words, the author simply reawaken an old bullying the trend (which is annoying, mostly because, it wasn't a choice to have poor eyesight). AND YES, for me personally, I've been there, I don't want to go back there, I don't want to see others there either. NOW, with the fact that the plot is about poor eyesight in an unrealistic manner and there was clearly a bullying trend like that, IS IT JUST RANTING IF I think the plot is simply to bully people with poor eyesight due to, IDK, poor script-writing?

So, again, to me the show isn't recommended because (1) the obvious lack of research about poor eyesight, with (2) the genre that's described as comedy and (3) the fact that there were (or maybe still are) insults towards people with poor eyesight in a similar manner as how the story is brought. And even if, let's say, I was wrong about the author simply bullying by making this story, the script itself was bad on it's own.

The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses is exactly as the title describes. Middle schooler Kaede Komura has a crush on his classmate Ai Mie, who has a bad habit of forgetting her glasses. This leads to their main interactions as Komura continuously helps her when she's in need.

Much of the beginning, as well as many early reviews may have you believe that this is a one trick rom-com that solely relies on its initial gimmick. It may seem so at first, but what starts as a mediocre episodic romance series turns into a well written and sugar inducing coming of age love story. ... As is often of anime adaptations, manga readers know best.

Let's start with the animation and soundtrack. The artwork is beautiful and the music is usually calm and fits well with each of the ongoing scenes. Many of the backgrounds also look really nice, but is somewhat mitigated by a few instances of odd cgi. On top of this are the awkward camera angles, which may cause motion sickness in some people, which is typical of a GoHands series. If you can look past this though, you'll find a well animated and heartwarming show.

The characters in this are also really well written.

The lead Komura may seem like your typical overreactive and spastic protagonist at first, but he's just a good and loveable kid learning how to deal with his feelings of first love. Over time you get to learn about him and how he thinks as he grows closer to Mie.

And yes, there is progress in this one.

The main heroine, Mie is equally as loveable. She's a bit air-headed and forgetful which leads to the her often leaving behind, losing, or even breaking her glasses. To make things worse, her vision is awful which leads to Komura giving her a helping hand.

Along with the main two is a solid cast of side characters who, although don't receive too much screen time, help to contribute to the plot in a meaningful way.

And no, there is no love triangle here.

Overall, as a longtime reader of the manga I highly recommend this anime. Each chapter covered is adapted well, and each episode becomes sweeter and sweeter. Eventually it will ditch its episodic format and turn into a consistent story.

In other words, don't watch if you have Diabetes.

Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta (The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses) is by far one of the few anime that would make much more sense as a 12-minute episode format. There is simply not enough content to extend any episode to 24 minutes and this cannot be stressed enough. The main character has a multitude of dialogues about the sentence he is going to say before he even says a single sentence out loud. To that end, he doesn't even finish his sentences half of the time due to nervous rambling/stuttering. Either that or he backs out of saying anything like he ... was going to say and blurts a random exclamation about something unrelated.

Komura has to be one of the most annoying personalities in any modern romcom and that says a lot. There is usually an expectation of possible plot progression being blocked by some random encounter with another person but this is another level of a waste of time altogether.

This is such a sad thing to say as the lighting and camera movements, this anime demonstrated in the first episode, were something to potentially look forward to.

One of the best animation this season anime quality is on next level every details are so realistic like watching a high quality movie.
Storyline is basic not so unique but the way it is presented is remarkable you won't get bored while watching it and will smile unknowingly on many scenes.
Music part is very well it goes exactly with the storyline no issues on that part.
Animation as i said above is great even a door have that much detailing that i very much appreciate the animation studio for that for such a quality work.
Character design if said to be in simple words is that they ... are cute middle schoolers side character are almost none that part needed some work i guess a little more works on the side character would be nice but as the story requires to be only focused about the naive but cute first love story type so its best suited according to that.

Conclusion:- the anime is a good anime for a relaxing middle school romcom with more content with romantic part but mainly on how the mc forgets her glasses, if you like takagi san you will definitely like it as it gives kinda same vibes

Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta is a summer anime that many people have been anxiously waiting for.

The story is about a boy, Komura, who falls madly in love with his classmate, Mie who doesn't see very well and in fact wears glasses. The story is based on Mie that a two by three breaks/forgets her glasses and Komura who helps her during the day and slowly they begin to approach each other experiencing mutual feelings.

BUT THERE IS A BIG PROBLEM!
The protagonists cannot be seen, I have enormous hatred for Komura, same attitudes, same actions, same things repeated for 5 episodes. They can't understand ... each other's feelings and that they can't step forward and grow each other.

It is possible that many do not agree with this statement, but Komura looks almost worse than Kazuya from "Rent a Girlfriend"!
I was waiting for this anime a lot, and I had very high expectations but it was probably the main flop of the summer.

🫡Jo greets you!

There’s an old sentiment that gets repeated when it comes to consuming art – everyone is entitled to their own interpretations and opinions. In the pure abstract, this is true, but it’s also true that media sometimes requires us to lean more towards certain takeaways than others. I highly doubt anyone would watch *Girls und Panzer* and come away with the sense that it was critiquing Soviet Union sociopolitical dogmatism—though I would love to see someone actually try arguing that in earnest—or that *serial experiments lain* was just everyone tripping balls on LSD and that all that stuff about “the Wired” was just a drug-induced ... hallucination. Yet every once in a great while, there comes a property that, either in its material as written or its presentation as shown, is a genuine Rorschach inkblot test. How you end up seeing it says more about you than it does about the art itself, or to put this into more contextually-relevant terms, more about you as a viewer than it does about the studio that made it.

Enter *The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses,* a show whose trailer quickly became the recurring conversation in the leadup to the Summer 2023 anime season. Even before a single episode had aired, everyone seemed to map a feeling onto it. “It looks like garbage,” one would say. “It looks awesome,” another would chime. “It looks like awesome garbage,” shouted a third person. The truth is that all three are correct, because studio GoHands managed to create a show that would be impossible to disappoint, providing an endless stream of frustration for its detractors who saw it as nothing but drudge, comfort food for those who wanted something free and easy with its romantic comedy, and hilarity for those who wanted to see the “most extra” presentation for shockingly mundane material.

And the material certainly is that. Caught within the whirlwind of young infatuation, Komura Kaede is smitten with his next-door seat neighbor Mie Ai. Though not the smartest student or the most athletically gifted, Komura cannot help but find her adorable (and with that many individual strands of anime hair, who could blame him?). One day however, Mie ends up forgetting her glasses, leaving her to rely on Komura for the present situation. From there, the show’s vignettes follow a familiar cycle of Mie forgetting her glasses back at home and Komura being right there to either help her navigate when she can barely see, or try and make heads-or-tails of the myriad situations that cause his emotions to catch on fire. All the while, others are keen to weigh in on the plainly obvious budding relationship unfolding. Azuma, the class’s “cool dude,” makes it plain that he finds Komura’s attraction to Mie amusing, and secretly cheers him on, while Komeya takes every chance possible to ask Komura if he’s kissed Mie yet, and so forth.

Like the innumerable romcoms before it, *The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses* banks on delaying any sense of confession or upfront emotional confrontation between its two characters to pad out the material and indulge in silliness and hijinks. Under normal circumstances, there is nothing here to tilt one’s head, except that because the characters in question are in middle school, it makes a little more sense why they aren’t quite so forthcoming about their own feelings. But the presence of GoHands’s over-the-top form of presentation does change the manner by which the material presents itself tonally. Because everything visually is so absurdly elevated to overcompensated degrees, everything within the written material is given a heightened sense of ridiculousness, even when a situation itself is completely run-of-the-mill.

On the surface, it reads as a kind of cinemanarrative dissonance – the mundanity story of the text does not match the story of the visuals. In a film textbook, this might be framed as a death sentence; for *The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses,* it is the essential ingredient to fueling most reactions towards it, positive or negative. There is absolutely no reason why Mie’s hair should flap around like it has a life of its own when the window isn’t open, or the sound to go insane when she says something that makes Komura’s heart almost explode, especially when a situation just doesn’t call for it. Perhaps it could be said that the visual styling for *The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses* is to somehow recreate the way in which Komura sees the world. His thoughts concerning Mie almost cause his brain to short-circuit in real-time, and we become privy to his wigging out by gazing into the abyss of weird body proportions, camera angles, and aggressive effects. It is as though his mind constructs reality like the mirrors in a funhouse. That might be amusing for an attempt to find compositional harmony within this series, especially when confounded by questions that seem tailor-made by textbooks to address something amiss in cinematography.

But buried underneath an endeavor like that is something far more cosmically eye-rolling, the question of “why is this like this” – of all the pieces of media GoHands could have given this treatment to, they gave it to something **this plain!?** Even *Hand Shakers,* perhaps GoHands’s most-infamous and well-known property, could offer the excuse of being a battle fantasy. It seems almost like a joke, but one that insists on treating it like a serious artistic decision, all the while you can’t escape the sense that it’s constantly winking at you to let you know that it’s aware it’s trying way too hard, and still occasionally failing outright.

The experience is too surreal to cleanly summarize, frankly. I do not know who decided that *The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses* must look this way, but I find myself not caring to want to know, either. All I do know is that, in the moments where Komura manages to actually score some genuine points (like being willing to lie to Mie’s mom because he doesn’t want Mie to face her disappointment, or skimping out on a day at the arcade with his friends because he’s worried Mie won’t find the post office), I was having a blast watching it all unfold in its preposterously-presented glory. Even though not “every frame’s a (stupefying) painting,” there were plenty, and because of that, I couldn’t help but laugh at jokes I’d never find funny otherwise, or find myself cheering for characters whose actions I’d shake my head at.

Point being, *The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses* is a showcase of GoHands putting in not 100%, but a very particular kind of 100% that offers an endless supply of what-the-fuckery for those who see it that way. When American film critic Pauline Kael wrote in Harper’s Magazine in 1969, “…movies are so rarely great art that, if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them,” she could only dream of a show like this.

What a beautiful medium anime is, isn’t it?

It's average. The whole plot baseline (so far) does not work. Nearly every comedy scene is based on the crush of the mc forgetting her glasses (Who would have thought). Her eyesight is so bad that she doesn't even recognize people actually really close to her. If that's the case, no person on earth would ever forget his or her glasses. Never. This fact alone irritates me so much that I can't enjoy the show (I see that another explanation is that her glasses break, but that's not enough. At one point it is made clear she has contacts). If the explanation "Yeah that keeps ... happening because she is just a lost person" is sufficient, then enjoy your comedy here. However, I would argue that most people need a more logical approach to fully engage in the show. That doesn't mean that you are not allowed to exaggerate or simplify a situation to make the point of a joke clearer. In case you can't really see my point: Try to imagine what the pivot of a comedy situation you watch is. After that, estimate what would destroy the base of the joke of the situation and how likely it is to happen. When it is very, very likely to happen many times and the whole point of the show is not an exaggeration by any means, then I personally can't enjoy the comedy. The situation feels constructed and forced. I often had that feeling watching this show.

Summarized: I do feel pain but it's not severe. ->5/10 (Keep in mind that only 3 episodes are out. I don't expect growth in quality, but I will edit or delete this in that case)

Opening: Actually pretty solid. I like it, but I don't really take music into my evaluation.

Characters: In any case, it's important to keep in mind that we haven't even had a fourth episode yet, so there is still room for growth and improvement. In theory.

Animation: I'm not overwhelmed, but it's not bad at all, either.

All in all, I hope I can save you from wasting your time on this (for now).