By all accounts, Ai Mie is a little bit weird. However, her desk neighbor Kaede Komura finds everything she does adorable. His only wish is she would look at him with those beautiful eyes beneath her glasses.
One day, Komura notices Mie squinting and acting strangely. It turns out, she had forgotten her glasses and can barely function without them. Reaching out to her, Komura is more than happy to help her out, and as she continues to forget her glasses regularly, their relationship grows.
While it can be a bit repetitive with its hook, this series does do very well to highlight the extremely cute nature of first/young love. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses, head on down below.
Anime Like The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses
For Fans of Befriending The Weird Girl
Aharen-san is Indecipherable
Excited to have a different and more social high school life, Raidou introduces himself to his seat neighbor on the first day.
At first, he thinks this small girl is just ignoring him. However, he discovers that she has a quiet voice and is bad at determining personal space.
From this meeting, an odd friendship blooms.
Both The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses and Aharen-san is Indecipherable focus on seat neighbors that become fast friends as the male main character helps the girl he sits next to with her quirk. In The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses, he helps her see when she forgets her glasses while Aharen-san is Indecipherable has him helping her make friend since she is very quiet and has comical personal space issues.
However, they go about this similar basic premise in different ways. The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses is more slice of school life with a strong focus on those intense feelings of first love where you think everything that person does is so cute. Aharen-san is Indecipherable is also a romance, and does have romantic progression, but for much of the series, it is a silly comedy.
If you thought The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses leaned too much on that “one joke” that it had, Aharen-san is Indecipherable injects a distinct silliness to keep its similar “one joke” nature feeling fresh and fun with each new episode.
Komi-san Can’t Communicate
It is the first day for incoming freshmen at the prestigious Itan Private High School. For Hitohito Tadano, he considers himself lucky to get in and angles to not make waves during his high school career.
However, he finds himself sitting next to the beautiful, beloved, yet cold and silent Shouko Komi, immediately earning the ire of his classmates.
After a series of events leads to him being left alone with her, he discovers that she is not cold, but suffers from extreme social anxiety that prevents her from speaking. After a long conversation through writing, he wants to help her reach her goal of making 100 friends.
After a clandestine meeting where they learn a secret about their classmate, both The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses and Komi-san Can’t Communicate are about normal boring school boys helping out a beautiful, quirky girl that they like romantically.
However, while The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses focuses a lot on their day-to-day interactions, Komi-san Can’t Communicate often puts more focus on its large array of weird side characters. This keeps their relationship from feeling stale in Komi-san Can’t Communicate, but does slow down romantic progression significantly.
One Week Friends
High school student Hase Yuuki finds out the hard way how difficult romance can be after finding out Kaori, the girl he has fallen for, can only remember memories for a week at a time.
Because of this, she often shies away from making friends, but can Yuuki’s sheer determination help her come out of her shell for just one week?
Both The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses and One Week Friends feature average boys who become completely caught up in the reoccurring problem of a cute girl that they develop feelings for.
However, while The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses is more of a cute comedy, One Week Friends is distinctly different in that, while cute sometimes, it does have an element of drama. She forgets everyone after one week, so it can be a bit sad for her and the people in her life – as you would expect.
That said, both series feature that sort of smitten element of young love where the male main character finds everything his female love interest does just so adorable.
The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall
Unable to resist taking in abandoned kittens, and amassing quite a collection of them, Sorata Kanda is forced to move to Suimei High School’s infamous Sakura Hall. This dorm is used to house all the misfit students that don’t quite fit in the regular housing.
There, Sorata meets an array of different oddballs that inspire him to work towards getting back into the regular dorms and away from them.
However, when a new transfer student moves in, he meets the incredible artist, Shiina Mashiro. While talented, she is completely incapable of taking care of herself, and so, Sorata brings her into his care and his strange days truly begin.
If you enjoyed the dynamic of a normal school boy taking care of a girl he became close with who is kind of a hot mess at taking care of herself, but wish they were together more – then The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall is for you!
Both series feature normal guys that end up constantly helping a girl with small tasks because she either forgot her glasses or is just incapable of taking care of herself. However, unlike The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses that focuses on their time at school, The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall focuses more on their time living in the same dorm full of misfits.
The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall is a bit different in that the main character has his own small coming of age plot that he is exploring, and the series overall is much more comedy-focused while still being a slow-burning romance.
For Fans of First Love
Skilled Teaser Takagi-san
For Nishikata, no one knows him better than Takagi-san. Unfortunately for him, she uses this knowledge to unrelentingly tease him on a daily basis.
Nishikata vows to get revenge for all that blushing he has done, but is he good enough to overcome her skill?
Although they go about it in different ways, both The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses and Skilled Teaser Takagi-san focus on the first love blooming between desk neighbors. However, unlike The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses where it focuses on helping the girl with her problem, Skilled Teaser Takagi-san is about the girl teasing a boy as they still grow closer.
Both series really capture the more innocent feelings of first love between middle school kids and show off love in a immature, but likable to watch way.
The Dangers in My Heart
Kyoutaro Ichikawa looks like a normal boy, but he has a danger in his heart – a dream of murder. He has aimed his violent tendencies at the class idol, Anna Yamada.
While reading in his haven, the library, he accidentally runs into Yamada, who comes there to secretly consume snacks. Through frequent observation, Ichikawa learns that this beautiful and popular girl is actually a huge ditz and frequently finds himself supporting her from the periphery in her ventures.
Over time, Ichikawa learns that he doesn’t actually want to kill Yamada, but rather, his desires were actually something much different.
Sometimes when young boys have a crush, they find everything about that girl adorable. Other times, they confuse attraction with a desire to murder… These two series have all sides covered.
While The Dangers in My Heart definitely starts out more edgy, it actually quickly morphs in a very cute romance like The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses where the male main character attempts to help the girl he likes, but often does so from the shadows.
Both series take a slow approach to romantic progression where the bulk of the series is just the pair interacting cutely.
Kubo-san Won’t Let Me Be Invisible
Junta Shiraishi has a special, if not sometimes inconvenient skill of being difficult for people to notice due to his lack of presence. However, while even the teacher fails to notice him, his desk neighbor Nagisa Kubo seems to never miss him.
Unfortunately, Kubo likes to tease him on a daily basis and put his near-invisibility to the test in nerve-wracking situations. However, her playful antics begin to evolve into what normal people would easy see as clear feelings for him.
Did you enjoy how Komura and Mie were just kind of the cutest and most innocent cinnamon rolls? Well, Kubo-san Won’t Let Me Be Invisible is that too.
Both series focus on the slow burning romance between two characters that are just so innocent. While both series are about one character sort of helping the other, the roles are reversed. Kubo-san Won’t Let Me Be Invisible features a girl reaching out to a guy that no one seems to notice, helping him have a happy school life.
Although both series are romance anime, they often focus most on slice of life plots at school. They both detail small skits in their daily life featuring the “focus” of the series (forgot the glass / invisible to others), turning it into some thing sweet or funny.
For Fans of Wholesome Romance
My Clueless First Friend
Akane Nishimura is a quiet girl with an intimidating gaze. As such, her classmates gave her the ominous nickname of “The Grim Reaper” and started avoiding her due to fear that they would be cursed.
However, these rumors don’t deter the new transfer student, Taiyou Takada. He finds out about her nickname and her powers and immediately tries to befriend her with no hesitation, excited to be cursed and to be friends with The Grim Reaper. His cheerful disposition and ability to make everything seem positive is just what Akane needed in her first ever friend.
As The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses takes place in middle school and My Clueless First Friend takes place in elementary school, it is natural that the romance feels a little less mature and doesn’t progress particularly far. Instead what you get is a whole lot of cute character interactions as they realize feelings of first love.
Both series focus on girls who are helped by their male classmates. However, My Clueless First Friend is more about a transfer student being the very definition of “sweet, but dumb” in the best possible way.
Both series highlight young love in a very cute and innocent way. They are both the type of romance anime that won’t give you much romantic payoff, but they just make you happy when you watch them.
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
After seeing the “angel” of his school, Mahiru Shiina, sitting in the rain, Amane Fujimiya gives her his umbrella and catches a cold because of it.
While he expected her to return the umbrella eventually, he is surprised when she, a girl who is also his neighbor, comes over to take care of him.
Seeing the unsightly state of his apartment, she helps him get that in order and suddenly he finds that she is doing small household task for him every day after school as they spend more time together.
Both The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses and The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten is about the blooming romance between an average guy and a girl he reached out to one day. However while The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses is a cute love story about their time at school, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten does develop a more dramatic element.
While The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten does develop drama due to a few personal issues that the characters have, when it is just the two of them, it is just as cute as the interactions in The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses. However, instead of a guy taking care of a girl who forgot her glasses, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten is about a girl who cooks and cleans to be close to a boy who was nice to her.
Both series have that element of “these young people are old enough to remember their glasses / take care of themselves,” and yet they each have their own reasons for not doing that.
Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie
Izumi is a normal guy, albeit with a predilection for attracting misfortune.
However, the one piece of shining fortune in his life is his girlfriend, Shikimori. She is beautiful, popular, and absolutely in love with him.
Everyone around them is often surprised by how cool and dashing Shikimori is rather than cute and girly.
While The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses doesn’t move the romance forward very quickly, Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie skips that “will they, won’t they” burn and just starts the series focusing on a guy and a girl dating. However, both series focus on relationships where one party takes care of the other, but finds their flaws adorable.
Unlike The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses where Komura is helping Mie, Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie has a cute and dashing girlfriend who constantly saves her cutely innocent boyfriend from his never-ending bad luck. Essentially, she has all those suave “boyfriend moments” while he is just in awe of her, and that’s the joke.
Both series skip any drama in order to just let the relationship be very wholesome and enjoyable.
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