(CR) Suki no Ko ga Megane o Wasureta (The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses)

[Nachtwandler]

PV with opening song.

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[Guardian Enzo]

I refuse not to be distraught given the studio, it not looking hideous now is merely a cruel deception.

[Frontier]

It's weird that this both does and does not look like GoHands .

[Marcus H.]

I am actually fine with how GoHands will go ham on this adaptation.
My main concern is how much loss of eyeglasses would it take before people start getting sick of the premise.

[Frontier]

Spoiler:

You can tell this is GoHands doing a romcom because there's all that excessive 3D backgrounds and environment and compositing shots and they going wayyyy too extra on the animation and flourishes. I love how they depict Komura so blissfully in love with cherry blossoms transitioning into doves .

Gotta admit Komura has good taste crushing hard on a glasses cutie, though Mie also has her Oshi No Ko-esque galaxy eyes and her long, wild, hair going for her too. She also seems like a bit of a space cadet which probably explains at least a little about her problems .

Komura never thought he and his crush would ever speak, but when the titular girl he likes forgets her glasses (a common occurrence) he's the only shoulder she can lean on to get through the day. Mie without her glasses actually seems like a life hazard with how much she needs to strain her eyes to see anything and how she can barely see at all, but I guess her lack of awareness of personal space or boundaries helps get her up close and personal with Komura .

How did a frog even get into that shoe cubby ?

She's put her face into his textbooks...her feet into his shoes...those are now sacred and holy objects for Komura .

I love how Mie lives close to the school as the only justification for how she's able to make it to school without her glasses. Although it seems like her friends are aware of her barely able to see state without her glasses .

Komura "cursed" her into breaking her glasses, but I'm just wondering what frequent excuse they'll come up with for Mie to go glasses-less other than she just forgot them .

Brave of Mie to put herself out there and play sports even though she's liable to get herself hurt, but I guess she doesn't want to sit out stuff with the other kids. Also brave of Komura to try to protect her even if it lasts all of one second in dodgeball .

Mie does seem like the type to just fall stone-cold asleep in class (maybe from straining her eyes too much), but very kind on Komura's part to cover for her...even if she then wakes up and calls him "dad" (it's not that kind of fetish show). Though she then used his shoulder to rest on, so I guess it all works out. Too bad sensei isn't here for romcom antics in his classroom .

You thought Mie was straining to see Komura again and couldn't recognize him, but no! She was wearing contacts and just wanted to get a good look at him! Mie sure keeps Komura on his toes, though it seems like she's coming to really appreciate and pay more attention to him as a result, so there's that .

[AntonKutovoi]

I'm only a few seconds in and I'm already laughing at those shots from the downside (Komura looks like a Slenderman). I like the manga, but I think anime is going to be hilarious for different reasons

[kuroyanagi]

Ahhh watching this is going to be such a challenge... The two leads are actually cute and the gags don't miss the landing so I want to keep going but the random photorealistic forest backgrounds and the extremely long complicated pans and the wiggly movements are plain distracting... The second half of the episode is so much better after the camera direction calms down a bit and you can actually focus on what's happening.
In fact the voice acting direction and comedic timing reminds me a lot of Seitokai Yakuindomo, so if only GoHands could go back to the same visual aesthetic they had back then...

[grecefar]

I enjoyed myself and was smiling all the chapter.

They did a wonder with mie eyes and hair, I think is the first time I see hair moving so much.

[felix]

The 3D and the wierd angles are distracting in not a good way. Her hair also is either good or feels like some ai art monstrosity. Overall all those feels like this is a thing they did that supposedly is meant to look fancy, but is probably the "cheapest" looking thing in the show because of how tonedeaf/outofplace it feels.

All that aside.......

Overall they're a cute little couple with good vibes and the premise is great (hope it lasts for a while) so will add it to my weekly list. Just hope they cut down on the stuff thats not that.

Spoiler for Ep1 Ending Spoiler:

The ending got me, didnt expect her to pull that

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by AntonKutovoi

I'm only a few seconds in and I'm already laughing at those shots from the downside (Komura looks like a Slenderman). I like the manga, but I think anime is going to be hilarious for different reasons

I really had to power through those first few minutes. The animation was completely ridiculous, to me it was more cringe than funny.

Setting that aside, I did like the ep. Can't pass up on a romcom where Shion Wakayama plays the heroine. I wonder if Mie is going to spend the show half-blind or if they're going to abandon the premise. Mie is quirky enough for it to work without the glasses gimmick.

[Wandering Soul]

I wonder if a day will ever come when the animators at GoHands realize that they keep the camera under control and those crazy shots that they love so much come off as bad jokes.

[Master_Yoma]

Just how blind is Ai needing to be so close the a book just to read it and yet have the confidence to go to school with out her glasses on but at less its a good excuse to sleep in class

Well it this keeps up I dont think Kaede can survive he not really good as a shield but good of coming up with excuses on the fly at less

[stray]

Originally Posted by Kanon

Setting that aside, I did like the ep. Can't pass up on a romcom where Shion Wakayama plays the heroine. I wonder if Mie is going to spend the show half-blind or if they're going to abandon the premise. Mie is quirky enough for it to work without the glasses gimmick.

Yeah don't get your hopes up, the gimmick is definitely a big part of the series.

GoHands really likes to flex their 3D prowess for better or worse. Holy shit the reflective surfaces -- floors, lockers, eyes. I don't think I've ever seen a school with chrome lockers. Decent start I guess but MC is cringier than I remember. The manga was cute but I'm not sure I feel like revisiting it. Probably a drop but I'll see.

[Alchemist007]

Cute and funny, sometimes for the wrong reasons.

Originally Posted by Frontier

though Mie also has her Oshi No Ko-esque galaxy eyes

I find them to be more along the lines of Kamikatsu, some sort of kaleidoscope effect.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for ep1:

Oh gosh, GoHands. You love that weird color pallet thing and 3D thing that Handshakers did, but the sequence was too long and was too exaggerated for the contents of the anime. This is just another anime where a boy takes care of a girl that should not have survived up to this day
I mean, look at the manga! How does that artstyle translate to this incredibly... dense? character design? It looks like a down-to-earth Takagi-san clone.
Now, I guess I can see some people liking the exaggerated visuals. But that really weird delusion thing at the start of the episode? Just... no. WTF was that.

Putting aside that, these types of clones really hinge on the likeability of the main couple, and this girl is like a worse version of Aheren (that's saying something) and the guy is on heat the entire time. Yeah, the girl is cute visually, but aren't they always? Nothing else to say, seen and done so many times.

And no, just because you are self-aware how impossible it is for her to forget her glasses when she is at the disability-level of near-sightness does not excuse you
Couldn't you have thought up another gimmick? Like, she has a special disease that makes her squint every few days in a month? Man, that sounds stupid.

[Blaat]

I really enjoyed this one, including the excessive 3D rotoscoping (I do hope they tone it down though) the main couple are really cute so looking forward to see how their relationship plays out.

[Greenish Growth]

Usually it looked good...if it were still shots, but the weird animation gave me a bit of a motion sickness headache from the shifts. Good thing I wasn't watching it in a theater or I would be squinting with one eye closed watching it.

I'm as nearsighted as she is without my glasses. The good thing is that I can look at things with magnifying glass vision X2.5 because I can put my eye so close to something while still keeping it in focus. I get sleepy if I'm forced to go without my glasses for awhile (like at a barber shop). I can't focus on anything so my mind drifts like how it is right before I go to sleep in the darkness. I once destroyed my glasses at work. Fortunately I lived only a block away. It would have been dangerous for me to walk in the street for long. It would have taken a delay to tell that something was moving toward me because everything appears as a fuzz ball. Moving fuzz balls don't stand out much.

I think I better watch this in lower resolution to lessen my motion sickness issue. His reactions felt more exaggerated than the manga, but that's how anime adaptions usually go. A bit too much in anime form.

[Frontier]

I understand that it's not anyone's fault but Mie (and I guess Komura's if you believe he cursed her glasses into being broken) that she doesn't have her glasses when she's on lunch duty...but she really should not have been put in any sort of capacity of giving people food unless they wanted excessive amounts or getting what they wanted in a roundabout fashion because she can't see anything. Girls' just too earnest to think she can't perservere through her disability. Though I guess Komura gets to stand next to her and see her in a ponytail and apron, so it works out in the end .

The OP is very GoHands. A little too extra, a little too much crazy camera angles, and 70-80% of it is reused footage. All the same the song is quite nice and pleasant, and the scenes of Mie and Komura running towards each other is quite cute .

That's sweet that Mie saved some meat for Komura out of gratitude, but I really should've seen it coming that HE would be the one to get the potatoes .

So is a week without forgetting her glasses like a milestone for Mie or what ?

I guess we now have the justification for why Mie doesn't wear contacts more since it would save her the trouble of losing her glasses...she's scared she can't get them out and doesn't quite like the feel of them in her eyes. All the better for Komura though because he gets a chance to swear in front of the whole class that he'll be there for her whether she's without glasses or contacts. At this rate they'll probably be the class couple soon .

Poor Tokita. Dudes' glasses fog up and she thinks he's some complete rando in their class. I guess Mie recognizes people through their eyes, even when she has glasses ?

Finally exchanging LIME ID's! Knowing how Mie gets, it's probably for the best to have Komura just a message away, and it also shows that she trusts and relies on him, especially because he knows full well what she's like when she's without glasses .

I'm not surprised that Mie left her glasses on a train, but it's the perfect excuse to call in Komura so they can make a date out of it and he can finally see her in casual clothes and they can enjoy the sweets and Mie getting her new glasses. Dude even found the perfect excuse for holding her hand !

It says a lot that Mie still wanted to hang out with Komura even after getting her glasses. And that even when she could finally see everything again, her eyes were drawn only to Komura. It may have been a dream in real life for Komura (as the wounds of all his pinching can attest), but it seems like Mie's budding feelings for him are growing even if she's not fully able to recognize them yet .

Komura's not the type to ever think Mie is creepy with her mask + fogged glasses combo...but better safe than sorry .

The ED is cute enough with a duet between Mie and Komura's VA's with a shot of Mie just walking through cherry blossoms. It's simple, but cute !

[grecefar]

I like the opening, it was a catchy song.

They overused the plane scene and the repeat of mie critical hits but the date was cute and some of komura inner monologues were hilarious.

loving this.

[Kanon]

The MC is quite cringe but the heroine is really cute and it's really what matters the most for this type of anime. Although having a cool MC is always a very nice bonus.

Her being a complete airhead aside, I can relate to some of Mie's troubles, like her glasses getting fogged when wearing a mask. It really is a pain.

Mie casually scored a lot of critical hits in this episode. I'm also happy the story is already making it clear she's developing feelings for Komura.