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i haven't done one of these in a while. So prepare for maximum weird anime freakout.
TOP FIVE ANIME GUYS IN GLASSES
5. Aotoa (or Autor) "Princess Tutu"
Picture provided by the splendid ponyflipped! I always love the sort of Deux-ex-Machina characters who come in at the very end of series to give the show a plot for the last two episodes, not because I like that sort of plot device, but because they're so COOL! And Aotoa is very super cool. True to the glasses-boy code, he is distant, too smart for his own good, and wants you to know that he is too. I mean, hell, he knows more about Fakir (the angsty Darcy-esque protaginst we all love to hate and then just love) than Fakir does about HIMSELF! And it's hard to mindfuck Fakir, since Fakir usually mindfucks other people. Apart from his glasses boy powers, he's also kinda human. He's got everthing going the way he thinks it should, he's in control and sure how the story's going to end, and then shit starts hitting the fan. And you can just see the words "Oh, shit" forming behind those glasses as the world starts to go well and truly crazy around him.
And he out-talks everyone else in the show. In a show like Ptutu, that's a very, very hard thing to do.
4. Jin "Samurai Champloo"
Jin is hilarious. Why is he hilarious? Because he doesn't do anything. Travelling with the man he's sworn to kill (not for any reason; they both just want to really have a great fight) and the girl who saved his life, he is by far the quietest one in the bunch. Mugen (the other swordsman) is running around getting a)robbed b)jailed c)drugged up d)loved up e)fucked up or f)all of the above, Fuu (the girl) is trying to get something to eat and keep the three of them from getting locked up for good, and Jin always manages to get out of stuff, just by doing nothing . He's the most unfriendly and taciturn out of the whole pair, but there is ALWAYS someone who just starts talking to him, or hitting on him in a bath, or buying him lunch, and then xthing you know Jin's solved the mystery of the slavery ring, because he was invited into a chess game with the leader of it. In my opinion, the true mystery of Jin isn't how you pronounce his name, or how he got to be so good at swords, or even how he got to be so good at swords with crap vision, but how he just draws people to him without EVER OPENING HIS MOUTH.
Komui "D.Gray-Man"
Hee hee. Hee hee. I love Komui. I can't even tell you why, exactly. As the leader of the crew of exorcists trying to kill demons and evil folks in the world, he isn't a major character, being of the sort who directs from the back and sends the portagonists off on various scary and incredible. But he's just really, really funny . He is a big slob, he drinks coffee nonstop, he's always trying to dodge his work, he's downright scary when it comes to surgical procedures (yes, he does do them. No, it isn't pretty), and he's got an almost creepy fixation with his little sister. He's just AWESOME! i mean, he builds a giant robot version of himself. Who DOES that?
And for all this, Komui's kinda a good leader. He's not out on the front lines (of course not! He's not a hot bishounen character! what would he be doing out there in the spotlight?), but he directs his underlings well, and cares about them. He also is pretty cute about the aforementioned sister. She was taken away from him when she was tiny, and had to be strapped down to a bed because the exorcist people were afraid she'd kill herself, she was so unhappy. And then suddenly Komui's at her bedside, travelling from another country and taking up another job just so he can look after her. That's kinda cute.
Plus, he's the opposite of your stereotypical glasses guy. That's just cool.
Uryuu Ishida "Bleach"
Yes, he looks a lot like Jin. No, they aren't the same person. Ishida, in fact, is the last of the Quincys, a race of supernaturally gifted humans who can shoot arrows of bluw light without using an actual bow. All they need is a little tinkly bracelet and a mark, and they've got an instant weapon! So he's already cool, just for the whole last-of-his-kind thing. But the true power of Uryuu Ishida is that although he is a prissy and obnoxious know-it-all who's snarky and sews for fun, he's really cool . I can't even explain how.
Example: He brings a spare cape with him wherever he goes. and he's still the second strongest out of the whole teens-who-kills-things group. how does that HAPPEN?
Kyoya Ootori "Ouran High School Host Club"
Of course Kyoya is number one. Who else perfectly personifies the glasses guy? He's cool, he's impassive, he's calculating and smart and slick. As the Second-in-Command and "Mom" (ha ha ha ha) of the Host Club, he seems to run everything from behind the scenes, and is the first one to discover Haruhi's secret. In fact, he figures it out more or less the second Haruhi appears. He's just a genius like that. He says he never does anything if there's no benefit in it for him, and yet he has strange outbursts of kindness that are downright alarming, because you really don't expect them. Haruhi theorizes that Kyoya's a lot like Tamaki, his best friend and leader of the host club who is incredibly outgoing and flamboyant and all over the place and constantly doing good deeds just because he seems to like it. It doesn't particularly matter if this is true, because we LIKE him as a bastard. he's an AWESOME bastard.
KyoyaxClipboard OTP!
TOP FIVE ANIME GUYS IN GLASSES
5. Aotoa (or Autor) "Princess Tutu"
Picture provided by the splendid ponyflipped! I always love the sort of Deux-ex-Machina characters who come in at the very end of series to give the show a plot for the last two episodes, not because I like that sort of plot device, but because they're so COOL! And Aotoa is very super cool. True to the glasses-boy code, he is distant, too smart for his own good, and wants you to know that he is too. I mean, hell, he knows more about Fakir (the angsty Darcy-esque protaginst we all love to hate and then just love) than Fakir does about HIMSELF! And it's hard to mindfuck Fakir, since Fakir usually mindfucks other people. Apart from his glasses boy powers, he's also kinda human. He's got everthing going the way he thinks it should, he's in control and sure how the story's going to end, and then shit starts hitting the fan. And you can just see the words "Oh, shit" forming behind those glasses as the world starts to go well and truly crazy around him.
And he out-talks everyone else in the show. In a show like Ptutu, that's a very, very hard thing to do.
4. Jin "Samurai Champloo"
Jin is hilarious. Why is he hilarious? Because he doesn't do anything. Travelling with the man he's sworn to kill (not for any reason; they both just want to really have a great fight) and the girl who saved his life, he is by far the quietest one in the bunch. Mugen (the other swordsman) is running around getting a)robbed b)jailed c)drugged up d)loved up e)fucked up or f)all of the above, Fuu (the girl) is trying to get something to eat and keep the three of them from getting locked up for good, and Jin always manages to get out of stuff, just by doing nothing . He's the most unfriendly and taciturn out of the whole pair, but there is ALWAYS someone who just starts talking to him, or hitting on him in a bath, or buying him lunch, and then xthing you know Jin's solved the mystery of the slavery ring, because he was invited into a chess game with the leader of it. In my opinion, the true mystery of Jin isn't how you pronounce his name, or how he got to be so good at swords, or even how he got to be so good at swords with crap vision, but how he just draws people to him without EVER OPENING HIS MOUTH.
Komui "D.Gray-Man"
Hee hee. Hee hee. I love Komui. I can't even tell you why, exactly. As the leader of the crew of exorcists trying to kill demons and evil folks in the world, he isn't a major character, being of the sort who directs from the back and sends the portagonists off on various scary and incredible. But he's just really, really funny . He is a big slob, he drinks coffee nonstop, he's always trying to dodge his work, he's downright scary when it comes to surgical procedures (yes, he does do them. No, it isn't pretty), and he's got an almost creepy fixation with his little sister. He's just AWESOME! i mean, he builds a giant robot version of himself. Who DOES that?
And for all this, Komui's kinda a good leader. He's not out on the front lines (of course not! He's not a hot bishounen character! what would he be doing out there in the spotlight?), but he directs his underlings well, and cares about them. He also is pretty cute about the aforementioned sister. She was taken away from him when she was tiny, and had to be strapped down to a bed because the exorcist people were afraid she'd kill herself, she was so unhappy. And then suddenly Komui's at her bedside, travelling from another country and taking up another job just so he can look after her. That's kinda cute.
Plus, he's the opposite of your stereotypical glasses guy. That's just cool.
Uryuu Ishida "Bleach"
Yes, he looks a lot like Jin. No, they aren't the same person. Ishida, in fact, is the last of the Quincys, a race of supernaturally gifted humans who can shoot arrows of bluw light without using an actual bow. All they need is a little tinkly bracelet and a mark, and they've got an instant weapon! So he's already cool, just for the whole last-of-his-kind thing. But the true power of Uryuu Ishida is that although he is a prissy and obnoxious know-it-all who's snarky and sews for fun, he's really cool . I can't even explain how.
Example: He brings a spare cape with him wherever he goes. and he's still the second strongest out of the whole teens-who-kills-things group. how does that HAPPEN?
Kyoya Ootori "Ouran High School Host Club"
Of course Kyoya is number one. Who else perfectly personifies the glasses guy? He's cool, he's impassive, he's calculating and smart and slick. As the Second-in-Command and "Mom" (ha ha ha ha) of the Host Club, he seems to run everything from behind the scenes, and is the first one to discover Haruhi's secret. In fact, he figures it out more or less the second Haruhi appears. He's just a genius like that. He says he never does anything if there's no benefit in it for him, and yet he has strange outbursts of kindness that are downright alarming, because you really don't expect them. Haruhi theorizes that Kyoya's a lot like Tamaki, his best friend and leader of the host club who is incredibly outgoing and flamboyant and all over the place and constantly doing good deeds just because he seems to like it. It doesn't particularly matter if this is true, because we LIKE him as a bastard. he's an AWESOME bastard.
KyoyaxClipboard OTP!