(omake: For the Formula One fans out there; great drive by Sato in Canada today, eh? That pass around Alonso for 6th put a huge smile on my face. Also, 50th post. Score.)

Quite possibly one of the hottest issues in anime today – even if the argument seems a bit one-sided at times.

And since it’s a bit slow for an episode recap today, it’s time for my obligatory 2 units of currency on this issue, and a bit of side comments as well.

Here’s what I plan to cover
1) Subs or dubs?
2) Fansubs or subs?
3) License or no license?
4) Deal or no deal?

And with that I really don’t have much funny to put pre-jump, so have a picture of Mayumi.

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I’ll be the first to profess that my main moe obsession, if you may put it that way, are meganekkos, a.k.a ‘glasses girls’. Perhaps it’s something about their character that usually goes along with the glasses, the shy and quiet, or perhaps strong and silent personality that goes along with it. Perhaps it’s that air of intelligence that it conveys. Perhaps it’s that vulnerability that the glasses – and following lack thereof (”I forgot to reconstruct glasses.”) - conveys, the same way that there’s such a difference between Hair Up and Hair Down, there’s a difference between Glasses and Not Glasses. Perhaps it’s because I wear glasses.

But the fact of the matter is, girls with glasses in anime are 99.9% of the time (I can’t even really think of an exception right now) utterly adorable, there’s been volumes written on the matter (especially in the linked blog post above that I commented on). And since I’m not really in the mental state to do a 500-picture recap of Shuffle! 18 – because that episode is huge, here’s a filler-ish list.

To be honest, though, it didn’t end up the way I intended it to be. Despite my rampant adoration for things with spectacles, I found out that I don’t really know that many characters in anime with glasses. There’s a gigantulous list over at Wikipedia but I can count the amount of characters on that list I recgonize on my hands, and the amount that I really care about is even less than that.

So I’ve had to make a few…augmentations to the list (hence the title), but still, let this be a monument to glasses. Contacts can go burn in hell.
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