Fini mes animes de la saison passée (Nier Automata mis à part, faut que je vérifie où en est le bordel de production), n'hésitez pas avec les recos des animes de la saison vu que ça a commencé.
Côté réalisation, rien de folichon
Surtout après avoir vu #TheGirlILikeForgotHerGlasses ça fait fade mais ça reste acceptable
Surtout que le chara design respecte bien ce qu'on connait via LN et manga
Le côté humour est très bien mis en scène mais comme pour ce que je dit sur #ZeroNoTsukaima, j'ai peur pour les scènes sérieuses
Crunchy a choisi la version "Thane" pour le prénom du 2ème prince :oh_noB:
Ce qui me gène j'ai l'impression que si on n'a pas lu le LN ou le manga, on ne peux pas suivre…
Seems this episode was a long series of opportunities for Mie and Komura to be exceptionally close to one another. Also, real cat! #anime#TheGirlILikeForgotHerGlasses
"Mince, j'avais zappé que j'avais mes lunettes en cours"
MAIS COMMENT ELLE FAIT?!?
elle est myope comme une taupe et elle capte pas la différence si elle a ses lunettes ou pas 🤣 🤦 #TheGirlILikeForgotHerGlasses
Fair warning, I'm watching The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses this season to 100% be a hater. Not because of the questionable and disorienting animation decisions either.
This show looks like a cute romance #anime on the surface. But I'm #disabled so unfortunately, I see a lot more here and plan to take notes.
This show is based on a #shounen property, so it's marketed at younger guys. So essentially, this is a romantic power fantasy of a disabled woman — Mei is essentially legally blind — where said woman is dependent on the man to get through a lot of basic life tasks. When you start seeing a lot of that, or have experienced that kind of thing in real life, it quickly becomes almost impossible to enjoy.
There's a thing that happens in a lot of shows in general where someone who is called everything but disabled is considered cute despite their "quirks" and the like too. Think Komi Can't Communicate if you've seen it. Now, imagine if that main character weren't a conventionally attractive girl. Would the show still be a success? In Komi's case, that's part of why so many students flock to her!
This kind of thing was brought up back when #Wednesday first hit #Netflix too. How the behaviors people said were iconic were the kinds of things a lot of autistic kids were bullied for in school. How they're only considered "cool" now because of the conventionally attractive lady doing them.
I've got a feeling I'm going to have a LOT of criticisms about this show so buckle up and get ready to have your ableist mindsets challenged! #TheGirlILikeForgotHerGlasses
Do you mean to tell me we have a girl that cannot even eat a small cake in front of her, yet she is able to get to school without being hit by a car?
Look, the premise is that this is a girl who forgets her glasses often and is severely visually impaired. She's disabled! And most folks dealing with their disabilities often find ways to adapt so they can function in their everyday lives. Blind folks can cook and could certainly serve stew — ever heard of Christine Hà? Blind folks can also feed themselves!
The show making Mei so absolutely helpless on purpose is a choice and a gross one honestly. This power caretaker fantasy is extremely uncomfortable. I hope more abled folks catch on to why the show is covered in ick.
This week's episode didn't have anything particularly egregious, just a lot of the same. If anything, Komura just being SO overprotective of Mei is becoming annoyingly patronizing.
It is okay for her to feel embarrassed! It's okay to say there's a bug on the wall she didn't notice! It's okay to say that she delivered a love note from someone else on accident!
Disabled folks make mistakes all the time just like everyone else. Sometimes, those mistakes do come from our disabilities. It's life, just like anyone else's life, and shouldn't be such a big deal.
Like, there wasn't anything particularly terrible this week, outside another moment where Komura doesn't make it clear it's him when Mei clearly doesn't recognize him again (which is kinda ick). It's just more of the boring same. I have zero idea how this can sustain a full season of television. #anime#disability
Anyways, the whole beginning of the latest episode is Komura trying to use Mei's disability of being very much legally blind to try and keep a secret from her. And constantly acting like there's no way she could know what is going on.
If anything, this infantilization of disabled people is something most of us in the #disability community have experienced, but it feels extra gross having it presented in a way that is supposed to be cutesy or romantic.
Either way, I knew my instincts on this show being more than problematic have been spot on. Hopefully I can find a good publication to take my post-mortem essay on the series once it's done. #anime
In all seriousness though, this episode was a moment where a few things got so close to maybe being actually good it was a bit painful. A lot of us disabled folks know we can feel a bit like burdens at times when others help us. (New flash: We aren't, fuck ableism.)
Well, Mei is this episode is definitely feeling some of that, not wanting to take away Komura's time hanging out with friends just so she can get help navigating to the post office. So like, it's kinda there as disability rep, but of course it's just blah when Komura has to keep trying to help her subtly instead because she lies and says she wore her contacts.
And then later on in the episode, Komura almost has a small moment of brilliance realizing hey, maybe it's not his job to always try and "protect" Mei. Is he going to stop infantilizing her though? Or stop being so weirdly possessive? Of course not, he's regressed by the end of the episode. But dang it, a less savvy me might have had hope. #anime#disability