Wasureta Furi wo Shite

No review here as of this upload. So I will be the first to make some informative kind.

I won't explain what the narrative is about, the synopsis is there, rather the plus points it brings. I really liked how the execution of "Pretending to forget" goes around, it uses a narrator to dialogue the route of the main character You Machida, which I thought was quite clever, in that, I don't know if I am correct in saying this, but it feels like a good way to look at things from within the mind rather than a surface level. Correlates well with the mental illness ... of depression and what the mind does during that time. It also gave You Machida a good kind of character, which conveyed his dullness lifeless state in this time. I don't think this was melodramatic, or that kind of depression some people like to fake in their teenage years. It felt genuine.

Audiovisuals were good too, very good use of basic outlines that just fit with this story, I can't say depression is a simple matter, but the monotonous and lack of excitement here merges well with a plain style. Sometimes it gets a little abstract though, which was good in its own respect of weary feels. The use of layout was interesting too, it was kinda like a manga panel at some parts which fit well with the job of You Machida. The sound was good, not too much to focus on that, I liked it for what it is "in the moment". The narrator's lack of expression in voice was clever too, which relates to the lifelessness I explained.

I enjoyed this short quite a bit, although I found it hard to understand, it was really something that I found something to like rather than dislike. It is an interesting one for sure. Side note, not too sure if the narrator = You Machida. I couldn't read the credits since they were in Japanese, and no MAL DB info will tell me if the two match. Overall, good 13 mins spent. Nothing I would fuss about.

I can't recommend anime <--> manga, but if you want, you can check out "My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness", which focuses on the same themes of mental illness.