It's not as bad as episode 1, even cute at times despite its dense male lead.įor episode 3 we have college freshman, glasses-wearing Mitsuki Kimura (Saori Hayami, Saki from Eden of the East), and her glasses-wearing boyfriend Toru Tanaka (Atsushi Abe, Toma from Toaru Majutsu no Index). The waiter is voiced by Daisuke Hirakawa (Makoto from School Days), and man does he sound bored here. Despite him being dense and not realizing who she is even after she tells him her name, the two kind of start dating, I guess. She is approached by one of the male waiters, Takashi Miyaguchi, who has a crush on her, not knowing who she really is. In episode 2 we have an idol star named Aya Ichinohe (Asami Imai, Chihaya from The who spends her days off reading at a cafe, her hair hidden by a hat and her face with glasses. End episode.Īt this point I was about ready to stop watching Megane na Kanojo, but since the episodes are only 11 minutes long (the 14 minute runtime of each episode includes the opening and ending themes), I continued to the next girl's story. Later it's revealed that the glasses-wearing boy himself wears glasses, and after being pushed by Kana the hypocrite wears them, where of course he falls for her because he can see her cute little features. Justly annoyed, she blackmails him about how he once peeked on her when she and her classmates were in the school pool, and he shuts up.
After 14 months pass by, and with it countless attempts to get her to take them off (purposely fogging up her glasses, for example), he finally confesses that an incident with a mean male teacher who wears glasses is the reason he wishes for her to take off hers. To really describe why they're bad, we're going to have to break down all four episodes, one by one.Īfter a lazy opening theme (the "animation" copy-pasted from the episodes themselves set to a song that the Tokimemki Memorial vocal CDs would reject), our first episode introduces us to generic high school boy Jun'ichi Kamiya (Nobuhiko Okamoto, Kyohei from Kamisama Dolls) and his upperclassman Kana Asou (Satomi Morita, Kei from Cencoroll) in the Literature Club, who he finds cute when she isn't wearing her glasses. Its stories and characters are shallow and weak, even when accounted for the small runtime of each episode.
#Anime megane series
It's less so the gimmick and more so that the series is plain bad. That is not the case for Megane na Kanojo. A solid production team giving it their all can make even the most mundane thing interesting. (I never saw it.) That's not to say a gimmick show about girls wearing can't work mind you, but it's all in the delivery. Megane na Kanoko isn't even the first anime to be built upon this gimmick SHAFT made G-On Riders about a decade earlier, where every female in the series wore glasses. If there's one thing I've learned over the years from watching anime, it's that Japan really likes drawing cute girls with glasses. Megane na Kanojo is about 4 unrelated short stories involving girls who wears glasses and the guys they like, or who like them. There is also a spinoff manga based on the characters of Kana and Jun'ichi, also by TOBI. The anime adapts four of the eight stories from the manga, nearly panel-by-panel in most cases.
Notes: Based on the manga by TOBI, published by Flex Comic Inc. Length: OAV series, 4 episodes, 14 minutes eachĭistributor: Currenly unlicensed in North AmericaĪlso Recommended: Not a romantic comedy per se, but Read or Die! is a good action series with a female lead who wears glasses.
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