The reference is made towards Aizen, who takes off his glasses with his face heel turn moment. We then proceed to see him claim credit for every evil deed in the said manga.
I've watched the Bleach anime from the beginning, and even still I was like "damn, that's an obscure reference!!!" In order to get that joke you would have had to watch Bleach over the course of 6 years, or watch 2 episodes that are extremely distant (about 200 episodes apart), the second of which didn't air in the US until this year!
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An additional Literature reference is -To Kill a Mockingbird-, when the sheriff tells the bookish attorney Atticus Finch that he can't shoot a rabid dog several suburban blocks away without risking killing citizens behind it, makes a cryptic reference to a shared wartime experience...and hands his rifle to Atticus!
He takes off his glasses—the peaceful, intellectual, peacetime front he shows the world, now. A lens falls and cracks, and Atticus contemplatively grinds it under his heel.
He takes a sharpshooter's aim, and kills the dog with 1 shot. In that expert shot to the dog's head from hundreds of feet away, he demonstrates his martial expertise, his steely nerves, his fierce loyalty to the safety of his community, and his humanity—he didn't even want the dog to suffer anymore, even though a shot to it's body would have been easier to make, and just as lethal.
Atticus Finch: Beware the Quiet Ones.
Somebody needs to include tsukihimi here. The main character takes off his glassess to go instant ass kicking mode and it's a major plot device
Maybe it's just me, but I don't understand the Bleach reference to Velma in the picture. Explanation? :3
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