Eyeglasses fetish

In Otaku society, "Meganekko" (eye glasses girl) has been popular as objects of "Moe". Not only Otaku, but boys in general do not have any negative image for girl's eye glasses anymore. We have picture books of only women who wear eyeglasses, a club has an event called "eyeglasses night". A TV Talent Kawori Manabe who is well known an alpha blogger, tried to up her photo wearing eyeglasses on her blog. That post made the trackback world record in last year. (ha! strange story) I think "Tommy February" (singer) has changed the image for eye glasses first. She wears foppish eye glasses as a fashion item, I can't remember any singer or TV talent wearing eye glasses before her. Now there are some singers who wears eye glasses, she sells meganekko image.

Then now Megane Danshi (eye glasses boy) is getting popular. Tracing the history, I read the origin of "eye glasses boy love" would be weezer, the eye glasses rate is 75% in the band. They are very popular in Japan and they seem to have interests to Japan too. (Rivers Cuomo married a Japanese girl, did you know that?). As a recent topic, Hachimitsu to Clover (Honey and Clover) is the very popular manga which became a TV animation and will be a film this summer. There are two guys "Mamiya and Nomiya" who wear eye glasses in the manga. (Spitz made the movie theme). Eyeglass characters on TV or in movies had some negative image a long time go, but not anymore. Finally eye glasses boy picture book was released. Hmm. Since I had a lasik operation, I don't need them, but now I want some again.

Comments

[Rubber Fetish]

Its a great post..well done..i really like it..

[viancka]

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[Madalynn]

Nice blog with lot of useful information.

[Guy]

How times have changed in just a few years.
I remember seeing an article in
NEWTYPE USA several years ago
complaining about the decline of
women wearing glasses in anime.
The author thought the first step
to correct this was to have the
general population of women wearing
glasses. The author suggested having
Ayumi Hamaskai record a hit song
wearing glasses. I would have said
the same thing. But I guess Tommy
February rather than Ayu has popularized
the fad of eyeglasses.

[Cath Lee]

I think look like I'm from China if I wear glasses in Japan!

[Jrim]

Since I had a lasik operation, I don't need them, but now I want some again.

Yeah, I know the feeling. I always hated having curly hair when I was younger, and also kinda wished I needed glasses... Meanwhile, my straight-haired, short-sighted friends felt the opposite way.

Oh, out of interest - how can you talk about the sudden new-found popularity of spectacles in Japan without mentioning this guy?

[Mike]

I've always loved Tommy February! Then I found out she was the singer with the Brilliant Green - I've always loved them too! They're some of the only Japanese music I still listen too.

[Emma]

Oh, I love Tommy february6. Her music is really かっこい to me (I hope I typed that right).

Weezer has this song called Across the Ocean (or maybe it's Across the Sea) that's all about Rivers wanting to be with a Japanese girl and obsessing over the cute stationery she uses to write to him.

Personally, I like people who wear glasses. There are so many styles of glasses, so they can make everyone look great!

[Emily]

I love this article. ^ ^
The other day my friend and I were at a little Chinese resteraunt called 'Kon Chau', behind us were two Japanese men. I had over heard them talking and told my friend they were japanese. Since we are both studying Japanese it is always fun to try and ease drop. And my friend, having courage and all, got up and asked if they were Japanese, when they replied yes she spoke a littlw Japanese to them. They seemed to be amazed they talked to us through our whole meal [since we were sitting right behind them] The point of this is that, one of them taught us what 'moe' meant, and ever since then i've been seeing it everywhere.
^ ^

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