(CR) Jijou o Shiranai Tenkousei ga Guigui Kuru (My Clueless First Friend)

[Guardian Enzo]

Amid a veritable flood of interchangeable LN adaptation announcements, one I actually care about - not official but reliably leaked. English title "The Clueless Transfer Student is Assertive". Very funny and charmingly innocent elementary school romcom manga where the male lead is unintentionally a total chad.

https://twitter.com/MangaMoguraRE/st...131847680?s=20

[Frontier]

Why am I getting Mysterious Girlfriend X vibes...

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by Frontier

Why am I getting Mysterious Girlfriend X vibes...

No, definitely not - the tone couldn't be more different (and for the record I love Nazo no Kanojo X).

[Nachtwandler]

Character designs look a bit similar.

[frubam]

Oh! Really liked this one =03. Never expected to get an anime though.

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

Character designs look a bit similar.

Yeah, I can sort of see that a little. Similarity ends there though.

[Guardian Enzo]

Airing in 2023, studio is Signpost (Pierrot offshoot, did the last two seasons of Kingdom).

[Guardian Enzo]

And a preview:

YouTube

https://youtu.be/w_Izqk28Mrs

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[CrowKenobi]

My Clueless First Friend Anime Reveals April 9 Premiere, More Cast, Visual, Ending Theme Artist

[MCAL]

Congratulations Enzo!

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by CrowKenobi

My Clueless First Friend Anime Reveals April 9 Premiere, More Cast, Visual, Ending Theme Artist

Looking really cute .

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by MCAL

Congratulations Enzo!

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[MCAL]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

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As in another anime you'd like to watch airing in Spring. (Unless you understood that in which case... )

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by MCAL

As in another anime you'd like to watch airing in Spring. (Unless you understood that in which case... )

Oh! Well, that’s been known with this one for weeks so at least it’s nothing added to the pile.

[Frontier]

Spoiler:

Really sets our male lead up when he sees a bunch of kids teasing and messing with a girl because she's a "Grim Reaper" and his main takeaway is..."wow, she's a Grim Reaper? That's awesome!" .

You really have to feel for Nishimura though. She's just got kind of a gloomy face but everyone treats her like the plague and messes with her, and she's so used to it that she just goes along with it and doesn't want to get anyone else involved with her if it means they get teased too. But that's why it's so important that she has someone like Takada in her life who thinks she's awesome and wants to be with her, and spins everything to where being a "Grim Reaper" actually seems kind of fun .

Never expected to see Shizuka Ishigami and Konomi Kohara paired together! Shizuka Ishigami is like playing early episodes young Thorfinn with no filter and Kohara really imbues Nishimura with a stoic but very sweet disposition .

The Opening is pretty cute, with a dream of knight Takada saving Princess Nishimura and the two of them having a lot of fun with their future friend group !

Man, Takada is a chad in the making! Not only does he, in his carefree way, get other kids to admit that Nishimura is normal, but he also stares intently at her eyes, expresses his desire to walk home with her, and then holds hands with her! So much lewd handholding and it was literally the first day they met !

Kasahara crushing on Takada? I see that ending well .

Oh hey, Jun Fukuyama is Nishimura's dad! That's cool .

I love how Takada sees a bunch of kids doing a "barrier" and his takeaway is that all these kids have superpowers to be able to put barriers up. Not that he thinks he needs one for Nishimura, which is all she needed to hear .

Hino seems cool. At least there's one other kid we can rely on .

Nishimura is finally recognizing what she's been missing in her life after finding a friend and having someone to talk to, to the point where she can't stand being alone any more, but Takada is more than willing to hang out with her as much as possible. Not sure how much the poor girl's heart can take it though .

The ED is pretty nice and serene with Takada seemingly dreaming of Nishimura in a dreamscape trying to find him...before the real Nishimura bonks him over the head with his book .

"The Grim Reapers?" So what you're saying is they're already the class couple !

[Guardian Enzo]

Is the world ready for the arrival of the ultimate chad?

[grecefar]

"He was coming rather strong."

Indeed... I'm going to love this anime, takada is unbullyable.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for ep1:

I was worried it was gonna be something similar to Yabai Yatsu, but it turned out that both the protagonist and heroine are pretty nice kids and the drama just comes from people amused by her eyes. I mean, just the eyes, right? Everyone has derpy faces, so that can't be it.
And from the OP, I can see where it is going. I can't see the bullying thing go on for too long, or its gonna get repetitive there, but once that is gone, then there goes the gimmick of the story.

It was cute, fine enough watch.

[FlareKnight]

Takada is absolutely amazing . This guy is just great. He's so utterly upbeat and positive about basically everything. The right kind of clueless to bust right into this class bullying and just shake things up. Really turning this "curse" into a blessing. Since it's thanks to everyone being that way that led to Takada taking notice. Whether it's barriers or being a Grim Reaper he's all over wanting to get in on the supernatural things he thinks are going on here.

Best thing though was making clear that he'd still want to be Nishimura's friend even if she was just a normal human (which she is). Even the eyes that everyone make jokes about are just a cool thing for Takada to be super positive over.

He might give this poor girl a heart attack though .

[Alchemist007]

Cute show, the new kid can show these lunatics what genki means. Like the ED in particular too.