Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta

Kaede Komura is in love. After being seated next to the airheaded Ai Mie for the past three days, Komura cannot help but be attracted to his bespectacled classmate. Although he has yet to have a proper conversation with Mie, Komura dreams of the day when she will look his way.

One day, Komura notices that his seatmate is not wearing her glasses, learning by questioning Mie that she forgot them and has a tendency of doing so. When he sees her struggle, a concerned Komura takes it upon himself to help his crush. As the boy offers his assistance to Mie day by day, her reasons for constantly losing her glasses slowly evolve from the answer she initially gave.

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Mie, Ai Main

Wakayama, Shion Japanese

Komura, Kaede Main

Itou, Masahiro Japanese

Azuma, Ren Supporting

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Someya, Narumi Supporting

Shimoji, Shino Japanese

Hibuchi, Yuika Supporting

Miyashita, Saki Japanese

Kawato, Asuka Supporting

Uchida, Aya Japanese

Yasaka, Tomo Supporting

Kobayashi, Yuusuke Japanese

History Teacher Supporting

Saitou, Junichi Japanese

Mie, Mother Supporting

Yukana Japanese

Science Teacher Supporting

Takahashi, Shinya Japanese

Kishimoto, Reigo Producer, Planning

Nakanishi, Hirofumi Producer

Kudou, Susumu Director

Yokomine, Katsumasa Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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Jan 11, 2025

Cynthesia

Recommended

Yet another anime featuring a herbivore male and a quirky female’s adolescent relationship, one of the more annoying trends in recent anime in my opinion. It’s no secret that the average anime romcom has always been 90% com and 10% rom but reducing half of the face of the show to a complete blank slate has never sat right with me. That aside this managed to be a fairly enjoyable experience all things considered. GoHands are pretty ambitious when it comes to their production style in recent times, opting for super detailed character features, most notably the hair, and unique angles/perspectives. Episode 1 is a ... little jarring, I think they tried a bit too hard with the “one shot” type effect as the ‘camera” moves through the school but the rest of the show works great. It’s a really unique aesthetic, especially for the genre it’s in where most studios go for a more streamlined style. It definitely feels like a work in progress at times but I thought it worked very well. The couple ends up being… fine. Komura can get on my nerves a little with how incredibly dense and self loathing he is, although I can sympathize a little after reflecting on my own intrapersonal relationships in middle school. I would’ve liked if he gained a little self confidence through his relationship with Mie, e.g Otonari Tenshi, but he mainly ends up being one note. On the other end Mie was great. She’s definitely an above average ditzy character and I loved her absolute lack of personal space. They pulled out all the stops to make her as cute as possible and it really shows, Shion Wakayama did a very good job conveying all her little noises. I also liked that she even started going on the aggressive in the last quarter of the show which helped it not feel like a drag which was very much appreciated since the first three quarters were pretty by the book. I would’ve liked if Komura received some of the same development but watching her lay it on thick was still more than enough sugar for the soul. While the story rests on it’s tropes pretty heavily, it provides a unique aesthetic and is more than enjoyable enough for anyone looking for some sweetness.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 9, 2024

DesolatePsyche

Mixed Feelings

#Review (short ver):
*In a nutshell: Poor parents wallets. Awkward glasses breaking girl and awkward guy never blossoming love story.

#PROS
+Great GoHands unique Animation quality and style
+Fairly cute moments?
+Pleasant enough OST

#CONS
-Fairly frustrating nowhere moving romance
... -The awkward “romance” between odd characters a bit too exhausting to my taste
-Found character dynamics rather poor
-Side characters???????

#Review (comments/longer ver):
*Story
A romance Anime that nuances about a girl that forgets her glasses..? I mean… A LOT. Yes she has some sort of mental defect that is moe’fied . Which for most part is rather cute, but that also means her future partner needs also be caretaker. Anyhow.. story, the idea for the most part was fairly interesting itself but somehow I found the that the whole storytelling somehow flopped hard. Lot of “cute moments” didn’t really get conveyed well enough for me nor much of happening in the story actually progressed anywhere for the most part. Story presented some moments that somewhat promised a concept of “progression” yet somehow managed to let down me as the viewer. Hard to explain without any spoilers. But somehow as far as slice of slice moeblobs go with bare minimum romance, I found this one rather lacking on every aspect when it comes to story telling and story development. Do I consider the story itself bad? No, but it definitely wasn’t any good. It’s okay enough if you like this sort of nuanced caretaker type of storytelling and are sold with this sort of “slapstick comedy?”.

Probably also should talk about the “romance” part as this is the romance Anime after all.. but I honestly cannot really comment much about romance progression. As for the most part I felt it was one sided romance jabbing with other side exploring it’s curiosity of another human being that eventually leads of self-realization. That is best way I can sum it up without giving too much away. So for the most part the “cute” moments weren’t particularly “cute” for me.

*Character
First things first. Main female lead is girl who forgets, breaks her glasses to an extreme level. She doesn’t compare to my horrible short time memory. And prescription glasses cost a lot of money.. so I feel bad for the parents. Aside that she is very lazy “my own pace” character which itself is cute stereotype but taken to an extreme level with her “issues” with forgetting I would say. Has her moe side, but I’m not big fan of her.

Whilst main male lead… isn’t much of a better character. You know those old school classic ecchi harem protagonists who don’t have balls for anything yet are degenerate to some extent, yet pull off when important stuff happens? Well.. he isn’t that… and in those Anime it works because of comical aspect. But in this Anime this guy seriously struggles … on so many levels whenever to whenever to do, say or not do, say something. So basically is extremely ball-ess, yet has some sort of odd superiority complex when it comes to main female lead character, yet acts like a creep in non ironic manner. Basically character that somehow tries to be old school stereotype but is modernized in some manner thus creating that really odd and unlikable character? At least for me.

Side characters????????? What happened to the writing there. I honestly, remember almost absolutely none of the side characters. They are like ghost characters. Few talked, but NPC A, NPC B…. that’s their worth pretty much.

*Art & Sound
GoHANDS, enough said. If you like their Animation approach and style. Then this Anime won’t disappoint you when it comes to Animation. It has great quality and unique style as per usual. It can be at times head spinning inducing because of how heavily camera rotating and movement rich at the times GoHands makes their stuff, but nevertheless I loved the Animation itself.

Music and soundtrack in general as well was good enough. Some tracks were fairly pleasant and noticeable, nothing too amazing, but well enough and fitting for most occasions.

*Enjoyment & Overall
It has interesting concept, great Animation, some cute moments but the characters kinda sucked, side characters were non existent and the whole story telling and progression felt fairly weak. But overall… I did enjoy my time for the most part even with the issues I had with this Anime. So barely 6 I would say.

#Total Score 6/10

#Review info
*Reviewing Info: In nutshell. Personal value >> "objective/critical" valuation. More info on my site.
*Review layout: WP non-H, nerfed for MAL
*Review type: Anime

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 3, 2023

ConisVM

Not Recommended

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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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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