For at least the first half of the show I kept asking myself when should I stop and drop the show, I mean this show has garbage art, backgrounds look like some cheap condo housing visualization from the 2010s, most character art is below average with perfectly equal weight robotic line art and often questionable anatomy, there's a narrator like in Kaguya Sama but she only awkwardly reads one line every other episode.

In the end I did finish it, and it was good, I'm still not sure why. My guts tell me the source material was good but the animation studio was inexperienced or incompetent, but they tried really hard, and maybe that counted for something.

Simply forgetting your glasses sounds like a bad excuse to get the characters together but since Mie is basically blind without her glasses, it sort of becomes a disability for her and subtly changed the nature of this dynamic, I think. And if you look at it as being a story about a person with disability, I like the premise more than average.

this one image shows you a lot - insane hair volume, but low art quality - something is very wrong with her hand - Mie is legally blind without glasses

It's almost as if they knew they don't have the artistic talent to compete with other studios so they decided to focus on one thing, draw the most strands of hair of any anime so that at least it can be memorable. I guess they were successful in that.

Mie's disability is probably a big reason that kept me watching, I really got worried for her although don't think about this too hard because if she's so blind without glasses how could she forget it so often or even, how would her parents allow her to forget it at all. I do have some head canon in case you did think this far but please don't take this line of questioning any further, it's because the show is only 12 episodes but it covers over 1 year of time so it's like she only forgot her glasses 12 times which is not completely out of the question.

The source material seems strong from what I can see through the Anime, writing is decently plausible and we have many good moments of romance porn, reminding you of those precious moments of having a crush on someone at school. It is not a master work yet, there are some weird arrangements like for example Komura being embarrassed to hold Mie's glasses even though he already wore her glasses in a previous episode. The show also ends with a flashback that's supposed to reveal some great setup but I fail to see how that revelation was supposed to make any difference.

Not sure if this is from the source material but something tells me it's anime original, because it's so dumb. The show stops to give you this math problem of how to spend 1000 yen per month from gift cards when you can only buy 1500 yen gift cards. If the audience is really too young to instantly solve this extremely easy problem, I'd bet they don't give a fuck what the answer is.

There are some minor but notable differences in how student life is depicted, it would seem this version is more modern and/or more realistic? For example Mie wears shorts under skirts, their school swimsuit design is very modest rather than otaku fantasy. They also have communal lunch, like everyone have to sit together in the classroom? Not sure if that's more realistic or it just differs by school, you don't get that "where do I eat lunch" cliche from other Anime. Culture festival also works differently from your typical anime, there are no maid cafe or horror houses or at least we don't see them. Somehow I think this fits the otherwise weird background art since they lean toward photorealism, so more realistic settings are appreciated.

bonus point for lovable characters Mie and Komura I'm willing to give it 3 instead of 2 on presentation because the hair volume gamble actually pays off, at least this is a show you'll remember seeing.

As a fan of romance porn, it was alright, I don't regret watching it. If you're not into butterflies in your belly however maybe it's not for you.