The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses

好きな子がめがねを忘れた (Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta)

7.2(98,711)

MAL Score

Ranked #3952

Popularity #1144

Comedy
Romance
Love Status Quo
School

Episodes: 13
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Jul 4, 2023 to Sep 26, 2023
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Kaede Komura has a crush on his classmate Ai Mie, the absentminded girl who sits beside him. Drawn to her—especially when she’s wearing her glasses—he quietly hopes for the chance to get closer, even though they’ve barely spoken.

That chance arrives when Mie shows up without her glasses, admitting she forgot them again. Watching her struggle to see, Komura starts helping her through the school day, and the small routine repeats as her forgetfulness continues. As Komura’s daily kindness becomes a familiar presence, Mie’s explanation for why she keeps misplacing her glasses begins to shift in subtle ways.

Otaku Consensus

The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses earned a modestly warm reception rather than breakout-romance status, reflected in its 7.16 MAL average and 69/100 AniList score. Its strongest asset is the tightly maintained love-status-quo pacing: directors Katsumasa Yokomine and Susumu Kudou shape tiny classroom interactions into a 13-episode slow-burn rhythm, while GoHands’ CG-heavy visual grammar gives the adaptation a distinct identity. The common sticking point is also that visual identity, with the studio’s hyper-polished camera movement and CGI presence drawing attention away from an intentionally delicate romance.

Why You Should Watch

Watch this if you want a low-conflict school romance built around nervous proximity, routine kindness, and the comedy of overthinking, without the triangle drama or confession-race structure that dominates many classroom rom-coms. It scratches a similar itch to Teasing Master Takagi-san and Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible, but it is softer and more inward: the tension comes from personal space, timing, and how much meaning a teenager can attach to one ordinary exchange. The 13-episode length makes it an easy, complete watch, and GoHands gives the material an unusually glossy, CG-accented look for a small-scale shounen romance. It works best for viewers who enjoy the “nothing huge happens, but every tiny change matters” side of romance anime.

Key Characters

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Kaede Komura
Kaede Komura is compelling because his crush is filtered through anxious observation, turning simple acts of consideration into miniature emotional crises.
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Ai Mie
Ai Mie stands out as a kuudere-leaning heroine whose absentmindedness is played less as a gag machine and more as a quiet engine for trust, awkwardness, and intimacy.

What Makes It Stand Out

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GoHands’ production style is unusually visible for a gentle school romance, with the AniList CGI tag sitting at 69%, making the show’s polished CG-assisted camera work one of its most discussed traits.
2
The series leans into the Love Status Quo theme rather than rapid romantic escalation, using repetition and small behavioral shifts as its core structure across all 13 episodes.
3
Katsumasa Yokomine directs under chief director Susumu Kudou, giving the adaptation a two-tier direction setup that helps explain its highly controlled visual staging and consistent classroom focus.
4
Takayuki Uchida’s character designs carry much of the romantic language, since the show repeatedly depends on subtle facial distance, eye-line changes, and the contrast between glasses and no-glasses presentation.
5
The sound team, led by sound director Hisashi Muramatsu with sound effects by Michiyo Saitou, supports the iyashikei-leaning atmosphere by keeping the school environment gentle rather than chaotic.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The anime is based on the work of Koume Fujichika, credited here as the original creator, and the adaptation aired as a complete 13-episode Summer 2023 series from July 4 to September 26.
Fun fact 2: Although it is a romance-comedy, AniList users tag it with Disability at 73%, an unusually high association for the genre and a sign of how central impaired vision is to the show’s identity.
Fun fact 3: Tomoyuki Sugimoto is specifically credited for title logo design, a production role often overlooked on database pages but important for a series whose branding revolves around a simple, instantly readable visual motif.
Fun fact 4: Shingo Suzuki is credited for concept art, while Hiroshi Ookubo is credited as main animator, highlighting how GoHands separated broader visual planning from key animation leadership on the production.
Fun fact 5: Its database footprint is substantial for a quiet rom-com: 97,371 MAL votes, a MAL popularity rank of #1145, and 1,795 AniList favourites show that it reached well beyond niche manga-reader curiosity.