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Meganekko is now a definition only Fanspeak page. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1644339753034880200&page=1
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: cutting real life section , started by captainpat on Apr 22nd 2011 at 7:29:01 PM
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Split?, started by Discar on Jul 15th 2011 at 6:56:19 PM
Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused, started by Monsund on Aug 29th 2016 at 6:44:53 PM
There's a growing number of "male example" entries in the list, getting us kinda farther to the concept of Meganekko, which implies being a cute girl.
Should they be removed? Or moved to a male megane trope instead?
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Maybe turning this into a "Moe Specs" trope would be in order. Meganekko is one of those names that's 100% meaningless unless you already know the trope. Or even more clear, "Bespectacled Cutie."
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Yes please. Meganekko is the most unreasonably confusing name I've ever seen for anything anywhere ever. Also, it's gratuitous Japanese on an English-speaking site & that's pretty much automatically a reason to groan.
I fail to see how Meganekko is confusing. It's a super common archetype in anime, same as other things like Tsundere or Bokuko, which have their own articles too yet I don't see anyone complaining.
You should probably chime in on the Trope Repair Shop discussion. This is probably going to be renamed and tightened.
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"Glasses on a Hot Librarian or Sexy Secretary are a completely different thing"
Why is it so different? To say it's *completely* different is overdoing it, at least.
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Because Meganekko are sweet, shy and innocent, whereas Hot Librarians and Sexy Secretaries are sexy and seductive. Can't do both of those at the same time.
Calling someone a pedant is an automatic Insult Backfire. Real pedants will be flattered.
"Hot Librarians (...) are sexy and seductive"
The Hot Librarian entry is far more ambigous in its description of the trope than that. It even suggests that Hot Librarians can be shy. And not all examples listed in the Meganekko entry are Shrinking Violets. There IS some overlapping. All things considered, I'm still saying that the word "completely" is taking it too far.
I agree. I don't know when Meganekko became so narrow a definition in the west. In Japan, if she's a girl and she's remotely cute, even if she displays non-wallflower traits, she's a meganekko anyway. She doesn't have to be shy and innocent.
Can this trope overlap with Nerd Glasses? ie: the character wears a pair of clunky oversize glasses that are occasionally opaque, but they somehow look very cute on her.
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Well, there's a few Meganekko characters that do have opaque Nerd Glasses, but they tend to be rare. Parfait from Vandread comes to mind, although her energetic wrench wench personality doesn't make her the stereotypical meganekko. Somehow, they tend to appear more in children's anime. Like Rimu from Kiruminzoo or Meganekko from Battle Spirits : Shounen Toppa Bashin.
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So, uh, why is this page not called "Glasses Girl"?
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Because there's a term for it already and "Glasses Girl" sort of ditches the "concise" part of the site's guidelines. Then again, so much other crap has been retooled beyond recognition lately it'd fit right in.
Except that 'Glasses Girl' is concise, if it were 'Cute, shy, innocent girl who wears glasses' is NOT concise.
The big issue with this title is that it's for a character concept that isn't explicitly Japanese, and yet has a Japanese title - and easily confused with Mega Neko.
"Did you expect somebody else?"
This trope went through TRS before. There wasn't enough interest to finish the thread and so it's now in the Appearance tropes cleanup topic.
Where'd the space come from? Megane = Glasses, and Ko = feminine identifier.
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I came to this discussion page wondering the same thing. Maybe someone thought it would be clever to emphasize the "Mega" even though that has nothing to do with the word's etymology.
The page also appears as Meganekko depending on how you reach it. The Mega Nekko links look like someone getting confused with the unrelated Mega Neko trope. Alternately it might be someone who doesn't understand the etymology and is picking out the familiar 'mega' component, I've seen it mistranslated in fan discussions as 'huge glasses' with nekko being assumed as glasses.
I came here for the same reason. It used to properly be Meganekko last time I was on this page. Is there any reason why we can't change it back?
I can't wait for someone to post a Visual Pun of a giant cat.
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Whoever wrote the caption didn't list what the caption is in reference to, only linking to the Shout-Out trope itself. Obviously, this is not how we link to shout-outs. You need to provide the link to the page of what's being referenced.
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