I had my hopes up for this anime when I saw the animation was unique. I didn't look at the reviews and scores so that it wouldn't influence my opinion and the whole time I was watching the anime I didn't read anyone else's comments to also not let them influence my enjoyment but in the end it was nothing special, in fact it was a letdown.

The early episodes were great, it felt refreshing seeing the high quality animation and the different angles it uses to portray each shot. Like there was a 20 second scene at the start where the mc is just going up the stairs. It looked a bit junky but it's still good seeing the light reflect off everything. And also, the main heroine has a lot of hair and I admire whoever had to animate that.

The plot is that... well... the mc (Kaede Komura) likes this girl called Ai Mie. Mie is practically blind without her glasses, she needs to be 5cm close to someone's face to recognise them but for some reason she keeps forgetting her glasses, and Komura is there to help her with her needs since she's practically blind. And that's the whole plot.

I don't hate a generic anime with a different troupe, I'm a fan of isekai and most isekai are the same but there's a different troupe to it. Like reincarnated as a first class assassin in another world, reincarnated as a hot girl in another world, reincarnated as a slime in another world etc. I haven't watched much romance animes but I've watched enough to understand that most of the "romance" anime never actually goes anywhere. At most the characters will hold hands, and the season ends. Well, it's the same for this anime. However it did get my hopes up when Komura (the male mc) is first presented a chance to confess to Mie (the female mc). They were alone in the classroom during white day with no disturbances, no fireworks, no phone calls, no alarms, no friends suddenly barging into the classroom, nothing. The vibe was there, since it was white day, a romantic day to say. And guess what? Komura chickened out. Look, I get it, it's only episode 4. They haven't built the characters enough yet, they haven't raked in those big bags of money yet, I get it. And this is when Komura promises to himself that he will confess before next year's valentine's day and I had my hopes up... until the anime ended without any development at all.

There was also another guy called Azuma, he's the handsome popular type of kid in school and girl's will basically faint whenever they found out they're breathing the same air as Azuma. In one episode he makes a move on Mie, which is rare because despite being popular and handsome he apparently does not find interest in the school girls, except Mie. But after he found out Komura likes Mie he became a bro and let Komura have her. Respect to Azuma he's a real homie but the amount of times Komura has pissed me off in this anime, oh boy I wished Azuma was the main character instead.

To list some of Komura's flaws: He has abnormally low self confidence, he cannot stop stuttering, he does not speak his mind and he does not want to take the initiative.

Watching more and more episodes I realise Komura keeps belittling himself for some reason. Like I get it, if your crush suddenly does something nice to you, you'll feel like that's weird and belittle yourself to make your mind calm down and not think that she has feelings for you. But no, in many cases Mie has displayed that she clearly has feelings for Komura, she is very bold. Yet Komura is as dense as a rock, that's normal for wimpy main characters. But what isn't normal is that he keeps belittling himself. He'd insult himself like he's no better than a bug every time Mie makes a move on him. I thought there had to been a tragic reason for it but nope, it was never explained. I guess that just shows how little self confidence he has in himself.

To point out the stuttering, after completing the anime I read the comments and also saw most people complain about the stuttering lol. The stuttering was so crazy that even when not paying attention to the anime I'd get annoyed whenever he stutters, he'd basically stutter for every sentence he speaks.

"Good morning, Komura!"
"G-G-G-G-GG-G-G-G-G-GGGG-G-G-G-GOOO-OO-OOD Mo-o-o-o-o-o-o-orning, M-m-m-m-m-mie!"
"tf bro u good?"
"Y-y-y-y-y-yy-ye" anime ends before Komura finishes his sentence

To be fair, Komura does take the initiative sometimes, maybe 3 times in total. But most of the time, it's Mie that makes a move on him, and he'll always belittle himself and denies that Mie has feelings for him. This troupe repeated throughout the whole 13 episodes. Meaning there was NO development at all. I was so frustrated, such good characters, such good animation and such good voice actors wasted on this shitty writing. It didn't even seem like it was a cash grab anime, that's why I'm so mad.

Also, the funny thing is that the side characters became a couple before the main characters did.

Truth be told I would've dropped the anime on episode 5 if it weren't for Mie. Her character was so good that it carried the whole show. I also did some google search on the author because someone in the comments said the reason why the mc is so wimpy is because the author is a girl and they like wimpy little kids. Apparently the author for this series is also the author of oniichan wa oshimai, which the mc turned into a loli. Makes sense.

7/10, Mie carried the whole show and Komura trolled for 10 episodes.