透明な夜に駆ける君と、目に見えない恋をした。

I already love this one. I like the fact that they don’t treat her like a baby who needs protection. That was my fear with this one. Of course she needs help with her disability, but she’s not a baby. The first episode felt like it handled it all with proper care, and didn’t treat her like doll that needs protection. She feels like an actual adult young women, and the male character isn’t some shlub that can’t handle being around women. Plus I love Saori Hayami

If you have any conscience or consideration at all, it’s impossible not to feel that your own problems pale in comparison when you see someone living with an impairment or disability that affects every aspect of their daily life. Koharu has truly triumphed; she is well aware of her limitations and the judgments of others, yet she keeps trying within her means and has the humility to ask for help when she can. It might not be the perfect analogy, but she could be the light Kakeru needed to steer his life toward a path that is more joyful and less purely pragmatic.

I want to go living on after my death. A couple seconds into the series, and we're already shown that line. I do hope that's not a bad omen. Those people were total pricks to avoid Koharu like the plague once they've learnt she's blind. They'd do well to learn from the likes of Sorano & Narumi. The latter seemed to be the jock type but he's got no issues with Koharu even when he's aware of her condition. Sorano himself had got problems of his own even if it's not a handicap. Reckon he's interested in Koharu as he wanted to know how she could be so cheerful despite her condition and how people treated her – I don't think she's blind in the latter aspect. I'm sold on this series already. A sprinkle of comedic moments without overshadowing the drama. A grounded and relatable cast instead of tropey ones. Fun fact: Sorano and Koharu are voiced by Miyu Irino & Saori Hayami, respectively. They had also played Shoya and Shoko of A Silent Voice.

Waiting for them to reveal she has a cogenital disease that gave her blindness and is slowly eating away at her health. I hope not because I just want a cozy, atmospheric, college romance but that intro doesn't leave much room for interpretation. If a blind girl can put herself out there and be as open with who she is and what she's dealing with, so can Sorano if he meets the right people to open up to. Also Yohei Azakami is playing Narumi and he has experience dealing with blind girls from The Invisible Man and his Soon to Be Wife.

Hayami Saori played a deaf character and now, blind. I’m getting Bunny Girl and Days With My Stepsister vibes so far. I’m liking it. And there’s already a lot of intricacies shown so far of what life is like being blind. The phone functions, the pathways Sorano seems to think he is, not say disabled, more like disadvantaged, with how his parents are divorced and feel Fuyutsuki is in a way similar but wonders why she has a more positive outlook. I feel like this story is going to be about how Fuyutsuki let’s him “see” in some way. It is interesting though. I’ve worked in social services recently. Not directly but I do have to get involved at times. And sometimes it’s the “most disabled” that are the most positive. The blind, the deaf, the ones without limbs. They are usually the happiest. I felt bad whenever I read the reports but being there and seeing them myself, I felt it’s the other way around sometimes, I felt bad for me for not being able to be as happy as them lol

The one I managed to talk to was hilarious. 40 years old, blind his whole life, has a positive outlook, likes to laugh but keeps it real as well. He tells me how people have asked him how he stays positive, if they lost their sight, they’d be sad to not be able to watch their shows and see views. And he says to them, I’ve been blind my whole life, how would I know what I’m missing out. And he also said how there’s a shift in how people don’t treat them so helpless as much but then he says “but you know I’m still fucking blind. I’m still gonna need some help” lmao. Hilarious guy. Really changed my perspective. In a way, he reminded me of Toph lol

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I have a friend of mine that has dogshit vision. While he can see with glasses, whenever he changes them, he has to make sure that the place he goes to has the machines that are strong enough to measure how bad his eyesight is. He actually told me the other day that he dreams of being able to see like a normal person for a day just so he can know the feeling. He also checked for laser eye surgery and the doctors said that it's got a 50% of permanent blindness if he tries it.

I assume this is going to be on the sadder side but so far it has been very cute and I appreciate how sweet Koharu is while also being open about how she deals with things. Also I love Koharu's voice, very sweet and soothing. Meanwhile I get where Sorano is coming from, not wanting to insult her and not understanding the places he can and cannot go with her because he doesn't understand her perspective. That can be a scary place, especially when you are someone who tries to stay out of everyone else's way. Early signs are this will be a strong keeper for me, curious if that holds over the next few episodes.

I appreciate showing both that and also how the MC struggles with wanting to interact with her but being scared he'll hurt her by being insensitive even as he does it. Two ways of handling it, and we get the internality from the MMC's PoV. His uncertainty is relatable, especially when he doesn't know her well enough to feel comfortable saying "just tell me if I fuck up," since that's usually a thing between real friends not new acquaintances.

Always love to see disability representation. Glad it challenged ableist assumptions like that being blind is a bad thing and not just a different way of experiencing the world. However I don't like how Koharu seems to... revolve around Sorano in a way? I feel she deserves to be a more independent character than that. Not sold on the romance yet either as the characters just don't seem like real people. I'll give it another episode to see if it finds its footing.

What? In what way does she revolve around him? They’re both main characters, but Sorano is the one whose perspective we are following. They have met through chance encounters, with a little push from Yuuko in the second situation. Of course there is going to be focus on the way they interact with each other, the way Sorano perceives her, and his thoughts about her cheerful personality in contrast to his own gloomy one. He is also one of three people we know she has become acquainted with in college, and he was specifically asked by Yuuko to help Koharu. With the way those other people were acting during the party, the story is clearly establishing that most people find it more bothersome than it’s worth to interact with her. Yuuko, Ushio and Sorano are the only ones we have seen breaking that pattern. In what way does she need to be more independent? She would have found her cane eventually, but it would have taken more time if Sorano had not helped her. Even if blind people can live relatively normal lives with modern aids, they usually still need help with certain things. It’s not ableist to recognize that being blind is significantly harder than living life with all senses functioning. Thus, a person with their vision intact can see a blind person and think that being in their situation would be a bad thing by contrast, without being ableist. It's possible to have sympathy and respect without pity.

i can't keep myself away from blind anime girls. I'm still waiting Yukiko Akaza to get animated. Koharu must be blind from a young age if she knows Braille. Very few actually bother to learn it, especially with modern technology a phone is usually good enough. Of course blindness is a degree anyway. The wonder of fireworks must be appealing, especially consider the sounds it makes. The eternal debate of how much aid one should actually give before it seems patronizing.

If I had a nickel for every romance anime with a blind Heroine and Yohei Azakami, I'd have two nickels which is also the amount of nickels I'd have for the amount of anime that have Saori Hayami as a girl with a disability and Miyu Irino as the male lead. I would imagine that sound is something very precious to a blind person. They can't see but everything they hear is an important part of their understanding of the world around them.

Back in the winter of 2024, we had Yubisaki to Renren , another romance anime about college students starring a deaf female protagonist, and it handled her disability really well. It's still too early to judge this one, but I hope this anime does the same for Koharu. As for the episode itself, I think it was a solid way to introduce our protagonists. Kakeru is just a dude who wants to keep his head down because he doesn't want to be seen as a problem due to him being raised by a single mother. I get that he has a lot of insecurities, but that really shouldn't affect his decision-making. When you see a blind person drop their cane, you immediately help them! Don't just watch while Koharu gets on the floor trying to find her cane! At least he's aware enough to know that he shouldn't have hesitated to help her. Koharu is just a delightful ray of sunshine this entire episode. Definitely a total opposite of how much of a downer Kakeru is. Of course, this is just one side of her. I'm curious to see if this is really what Koharu is like or if there's more behind all of that positivity. That line from her at the very start of the episode was very worrying tho. I'm definitely loving this so far, and I'm excited to see how both of our protagonists will grow and change in the future.

I think It'sa realistic portray of his character. He said that he always stays at the back, without being involved with others. He doesn't like the spotlight, so he's uncomfortable to watch over a girl and said girl is difficult to approach ( in his toughts ) So when she dropped the cane, he really hoped that someone else could've helped her, so he cannot being forced to be involved with her. The secod later, he cast away those selfish toughts but It's pretty realistic. A lot of us wants to avoid unpleasant situations by forcing them to others. He helped her the second later, disgusted by his own toughts but even later It's clear that he's torn between wanting to know her better and the fear to be rude with her withoit realising It. He's a kind guy with flaws and I really like It a lot.

Koharu is just a delightful ray of sunshine this entire episode. Definitely a total opposite of how much of a downer Kakeru is. Of course, this is just one side of her. I'm curious to see if this is really what Koharu is like or if there's more behind all of that positivity. That line from her at the very start of the episode was very worrying tho. If I had a nickel for every bright and fun girl who opened up the male leads' world while potentially facing a tragic end, I'd have tooooooo many nickels.

I get that he has a lot of insecurities, but that really shouldn't affect his decision-making. When you see a blind person drop their cane, you immediately help them! Don't just watch while Koharu gets on the floor trying to find her cane! At least he's aware enough to know that he shouldn't have hesitated to help her. This is the bit about this episode that irks me. If he saw his seeing classmates searching for something that he knew fell under a desk, would he not at least say, "I think I saw it roll under that desk"? There's Protag-prefers-to-keep-to-himself and then there's Protag-is-kind-of-a-jerk, and this felt like it was leaning towards the latter. I know this is one of those anime/LN tropes of using something totally mundane and turning it into a big dramatic showing of discomfort for the protagonist, but I wish they'd find better ways to do it. Even just him thinking, "I really don't want to be involved, but this can't be helped..." while he quickly picked up the cane or the bookmark would have painted him in a more sympathetic light than the over the top music and camerawork while this girl crawls around on her knees.

Another anime with blind rep?! WOO!! But no catchy OP like the Invisible Man anime 🥀 Japan is giving us diversity. We have cultural representation and disability representation. I’m hoping we get something like Perfect World > adapted one day. I was already seated for this one when I’d seen the premise and that we focus on uni students rather than high school or middle school students. Big plus for me. I’m curious if Sorano will be diagnosed with Generalized Depression or any sort of anxiety disorder. I’d be rather enthusiastic in seeing a disabled couple, especially the social, cultural, and psychological differences in a neuropsychological disorder and a physiological disorder. Koharu…makes me nervous this ending will have me crying. But for now, I’m going to enjoy this ride. So happy for disability representation, onto my list you go 🌻

This really wants to be a serious, sensitive story about how people with disabilities live their lives And I think for the most part does an ok job showing the small prejudices that people have (through Sorano's thoughts) But I think the premiere got too caught up in showing all the daily stuff blind people do that it started to feel a bit heavy handed More of an instructional video than a story I don't really know anything about Koharu beyond "she's nice" I know that can change beyond this episode, but I hope she's not just going to be some perfect angel that teaches him that blind people are people, especially since the cold open implies a sad ending

Very beautiful anime, both in visuals, pacing and story I can understand where Sorona is coming from as well by not really wanting to deal with all of this. I'd honestly probably feel the same way in his situation and I'd probably hate myself for thinking like that as well Also I'm really happy this takes place in college. I enjoy a romance anime with adult characters. The party at the start was such a university party vibe as well I do always find it interesting that in Japan the special pavement tiles for blind people are on almost every sidewalk. It's some really inclusive city planning. Elsewhere, including my own country, you only ever see them at train stations and maybe at busy pedestrian crossings I'm curious if she was born blind or became later. If she has never seen fireworks my guess is born Also, the flower, the white spider Lily, unlike it's red counter part symbolises positivity, purity, fresh beginnings, and rejuvenation.