Jul 19, 2023
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.
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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.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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