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{{cleanup|Claiming that this is a fanspeak term is like claiming ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' is a [[doujin]]. The description needs to be fixed.}}
[[File:citan 3954.jpg|link=Xenogears|frame|"Fetish object"? Fascinating.]]
 
'''''Megane''''' (Japanese, literally "wearer of glasses") is a Japanese nicknameslang -term for guys with glasses, either as individuals (like "Specs" can be in English) or collectively. However, anime fans both Japanese and Western use this word to refer to attractive males whose glasses serve as [[AnimeFetish FanFuel|a Speakfetish object.]] -These forcharacters guyscome within glasses.several [[Anime Character Types|standard types]]:
 
* For sweetSweet, 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]].)
The anime-fan term is usually restricted to attractive characters where the glasses serve as [[Fetish Fuel|a fetish object.]] They come in several [[Anime Character Types|standard types]]:
* For guysGuys whose glasses indicate that they are studious, aloof, or [[The Stoic|stoic]],; see [[Stoic Spectacles]].
* For cruelCruel lovers (mostly men) with glasses who inspire kinky masochistic fetishes, seeknown [[as ''Kichiku Megane]]'' (tropedand covered here asunder [[Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend]]).
 
* For glasses explicitly treated as a fetish object, see [[Sexy Spectacles]].
* 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.
 
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[[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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