These are the characters from the series MEGANEBU! .
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Main Cast: The Meganebu
Akira Souma
Voiced by: Kenji Akabane (JP)
- All Men Are Perverts: Not really.
- Alternate Character Reading: "Akira" usually means "bright," but is written with a kanji that means "mirror" or "lens."
- Anime Hair
- Big Eater
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Is he ever.
- The Cloud Cuckoo Lander Was Right: He correctly calls William out for being a wishy-washy person... but because he only wears his glasses sometimes.
- Crazy-Prepared: When it comes to glasses, he always has a solution for everything.
- Custom Uniform: He has the pants on, but the upper part of the overall is tied to his waist.
- Declaration of Protection: Towards his brother Hikaru. All his efforts for building the X-Ray Glasses? All for him.
- Even the Guys Want Him: Mitsuki to be exact, but it could extend to the rest of the club as well.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Foolish to Hikaru's Responsible.
- The Heart
- Hot-Blooded
- Idiot Hero
- Keet
- Large Ham
- The Leader
- Meaningful Name: The kanji of his name means "mirror" or "lens."
- Sibling Yin-Yang: His younger brother Hikaru is far calmer and smarter than him.
- Team Mom
- There Are Three Kinds Of People in The World: Those who wear glasses, those who don't, and the ladies.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Or, in his case, Praying Mantises.
Yukiya Minabe
Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe (JP)
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Akira befriended him when no one else wanted to talk to him.
- Doom Magnet: The reason for his Friendless Background, until he met Akira.
- Gentle Giant
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: He can build just whatever you ask him for... except for the X-ray Glasses, which always ends in Epic Fail.
- Innocent Fanservice Boy: He promptly takes his shirt off to be more aerodynamic.
- The Klutz
- Mr. Fanservice: There's always an excuse to show his toned body.
- No Social Skills
- The Quiet One
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
- Shrinking Violet: Very, very shy.
- Sleep Cute: He naps for exactly one hour in the afternoon.
- Stoic Spectacles: But not really. He's just shy.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Takuma Hachimine
Voiced by: Atsushi Tamaru (JP)
- Delicious Distraction: Easily distracted with cream puffs, and Mitsuki knows how to take advantage of it.
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: "Staaaaare" when he's looking at something.
- Sweet Tooth: He loves his creampuffs.
Mitsuki Kamatani
Voiced by: Kōki Miyata (JP)
- Absurdly Bright Light: Can produce this with a perfectly aligned smile.
- Amateur Sleuth: In Episode 8. It goes as well as you could expect.
- Clingy Jealous Guy: Will do anything in his power to prevent Hayato to get close to Akira.
- The Cutie
- Homoerotic Subtext: With Akira, one-sided.
- Jerkass: To Hayato.
- Keet
- Love at First Sight: He felt something special for Akira as soon as he appeared in the inaugural act at school.
- Older Than They Look
- Real Men Wear Pink: Well, dark pink.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Akira-sempai.
Hayato Kimata
Voiced by: Ryōhei Kimura (JP)
- Abhorrent Admirer: Interestingly, Mitsuki thinks he is this to Akira. He, on the other hand, just doesn't care.
- Abusive Parents: Mentioned very off-handedly, but apparently his dad once beat him up for bringing back the wrong change when he went to buy some curry bread.
- Audience Surrogate: Kind of. Since he isn't too knowledgeable about glasses (because his are fake), he's a good target for exposition of glasses trivia.
- Butt-Monkey
- The Chew Toy
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander/Insane Troll Logic: He is the one who proposes a 55 minute-clock to get out of class earlier. And the rest of the club follows.
- The Cloud Cuckoo Lander Was Right: And it worked... for a while.
- Cosmic Plaything: The universe just loves torturing him.
- Keet
- Pet the Dog: When Akira congratulates him on his 55 minute-clock idea in Episode 3, much to Mitsuki's dismay.
- He becomes more integrated into the group in latter episodes.
- Purely Aesthetic Glasses: The reason why he's treated with so much disdain at the club.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: So much so, a ghost is awarded a higher club position than him.
- Unlucky Everydude
- With Friends Like These...: Especially in regards to Mitsuki.
Others: School
Hotaka Shirogane
Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto(JP)
- A Day in the Limelight: Episode 10, second half.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Strange example. He became a teacher because Tetsuo had saved him and his club back when he was a homeroom teacher. So he's willing to save the Glasses Club if they ever need him.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Suggests this to Shirogane when he gets depressed. It doesn't end well.
- Hot Teacher
- Reasonable Authority Figure
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly to Hariu's Sensitive.
- Smoking Is Cool
- Those Two Guys: With Shirogane.
- You Remind Me Of Myself: The reason why he takes care of the Glasses Club's members.
Kyosuke Hariu
Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi (JP)
- A Day in the Limelight: Episode 10, second half.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: He makes a total fool of himself after drinking some sake.
- Hot Teacher
- Reasonable Authority Figure: NO.
- Self-Deprecation: He wants to quit being a teacher because he arrived late to a meeting.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive to Shirogane's Manly.
- Those Two Guys: With Hariu.
Kouichi Mochizuki
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (JP)
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Heartbreakingly so.
- Expy: Of Nitori from Free!.
- Invisible to Normals: The only way he can be seen is through the Mk.35 X-Ray Glasses Yukiya accidentally built.
- Look Both Ways: How he died.
- Nice Guy
- Our Ghosts Are Different: He was bound to the school after dying because he had Unfinished Business with his friend and classmate.
- Posthumous Character: He died many years ago. If he were still alive, he'd be in his late thirties or forties.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: And he does, with the help of the Glasses Club.
- Unfinished Business: Returning the glasses he had broken.
- Walking Spoiler
Sachie Kugishima
- Voiced by: Yasuhiro Takato
- Cool Old Lady: Wicked chef, published author, Glasses Wearer.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only female in the show.
- Supreme Chef: And a published author on nutrition to boot.
The Student Council
William Satou
- Voiced by: Noriaki Sugiyama
- Actor Allusion: His seiyuu plays England in Hetalia: Axis Powers. And William is...
- But Not Too Foreign: Half-British.
- The Cutie
- Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Has a bad habit of saying his inner thoughts out loud.
- Feigning Intelligence: He looks sharp and smart, but he isn't really fit for his job.
- Student Council President: Not that he's any good at it, mind you.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist
Lorenzo Watanabe
- Voiced by: Mitsuaki Madono
- But Not Too Foreign: Half-German.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite enjoying torturing William a bit too much, he genuinely cares about him.
- The Man Behind the Man: William is too silly to be a competent President, so he's actually in charge.
- Sadist: A mild version. He seems to get some kicks out of William's suffering, complete with blushing.
Tooru Suzuki
- Voiced by: Chihiro Suzuki
- Berserk Button: Don't call him '3'.
- Big Damn Heroes: In the last episode, he helps Akira retrieve the X-Ray Glasses from the school's clock.
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The Danza: He shares his seiyuu's last name, Suzuki. - Odd Name Out: The only full-Japanese member of the council, and it shows.
- Rule of Three: He seems cursed with the number three, due to being labeled "Number 3" because there were 2 other Suzuki's in his class. Third in athletics, grades, height...
- Tsundere: Yes dear, you totally happened to have some eggplants and you just walked past the Meganebu room to randomly leave them there for Hayato, didn't you?
- It's so obvious that even Akira can see through it, and tries to reclute him for the club.
Maximillian Takanashi
- Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio
- But Not Too Foreign: Half-French.
- Large Ham: In the hammy, theatrical sense.
Antonio 'Tony' Tanaka
- Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata
- But Not Too Foreign: Half-Brazilian.
- Funny Foreigner
- Gratuitous English: Constantly. Strange, considering his actual nationality.
Others: Family
Hikaru Souma
- Voiced by: Atsushi Kousaka
- The Cutie
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Responsible to Akira's Foolish.
- Ironic Name: A name that means "light" used on a blind person.
- The Reveal: He's blind.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Akira is loud and crazy, but Hikaru is calm, collected, and smarter.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He barely appears during the series, and only has a good share of scenes in Episode 12. Then we learn that it's because of him that Akira is so determined to build the X-Ray Glasses.
Shinji and Satoru Hachimine
- Voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo and Akira Ishida
- Ambiguously Gay/Camp Gay: Satoru, very much so.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Shinji is Manly, Satoru is Sensitive.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Shinji.
Yuuto and Ikuto Kimata
- Voiced by: Ryōhei Kimura (both of them)
- Ambiguously Gay/Camp Gay: Yuuto, even more than Satoru.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Ikuto.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Both. It runs in the family.
- Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Just like Hayato.
- Real Men Cook: Yuuto.
