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[[File:citan 3954.jpg|link=Xenogears|frame|"Fetish object"? Fascinating.]]
'''''Megane''''' (Japanese, literally "wearer of glasses") is a Japanese
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▲* For sweet, shy guys with glasses who inspire [[Moe]] feelings of protectiveness, see [[Megane]]. (For sweet, shy ''girls'' with glasses who inspire [[Moe]] feelings of protectiveness, see [[Meganekko]].)
▲* For guys whose glasses indicate that they are studious, aloof, or [[The Stoic|stoic]], see [[Stoic Spectacles]].
▲* For cruel lovers (mostly men) with glasses who inspire kinky masochistic fetishes, see [[Kichiku Megane]] (troped here as [[Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend]]).
▲* For glasses explicitly treated as a fetish object, see [[Sexy Spectacles]].
Despite the fact that some North American fans think that this is a fanspeak term, "Megane" has been used in manga and anime to describe males who wear glasses at least since [[Rumiko Takahashi]] wrote ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' back in the early 1980s.▼
▲<!-- Despite the fact that some North American fans think that this is a fanspeak term, "Megane" has been used in manga and anime to describe males who wear glasses at least since [[Rumiko Takahashi]] wrote ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' back in the early 1980s. -->
[[Spear Counterpart]] to [[Meganekko]] ("glasses girl").<ref>While girls who wear glasses ''can'' be called "Megane", as seen in ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', we have had a list specifically for the ladies [http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/meganekko/index.html since before All the Tropes -- and TV Tropes before it -- was created].</ref> Also see the [[Glasses Tropes]], including [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* Keitaro Urashima from ''[[Love Hina]]'' is the sweet, shy type, retaining his glasses even as he evolves into a more confident romantic lead through the course of the series. (Sadly, he doesn't seem to inspire any kind of feeling of protectiveness in the girls around him -- at least at first.) Additionally, he also expresses (albeit somewhat humorously) the "studious" aspect of [[Stoic Spectacles]], first with his quest to get into Tokyo University and then with his academic progress after finally making it in.
* The character from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' known simply as "Megane" ("Specs" in some English translations) is, despite his lovestruck devotion to Lum, actually more an example of [[Stoic Spectacles]].
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