The glasses being fake has always been canon, though - he only starts wearing them when he's exiled to Tokyo and he ditches them when he moves back home. He doesn't have a vision problem, the glasses are just a visual metaphor for him curtailing the rebellious aspect of his personality as he tries to have a No Trouble Year.
It's strange how rarely we see characters who canonically have vision problems, given how common vision problems are in real life.
This is such a good point though. Especially in anime, and anime-inspired media; I can't think of a single example of a character what wears glasses if they're not leaning into the nerdier tropes. I mean, I guess post-timeskip Kanji from P4G? And, uh, Katherine from Catherine. It's more common in western live action, I think - I could name at least four characters. Maybe five!
... this is a terrible comment. In my defense, it is 3AM.
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It's strange how rarely we see characters who canonically have vision problems, given how common vision problems are in real life.
This is such a good point though. Especially in anime, and anime-inspired media; I can't think of a single example of a character what wears glasses if they're not leaning into the nerdier tropes. I mean, I guess post-timeskip Kanji from P4G? And, uh, Katherine from Catherine. It's more common in western live action, I think - I could name at least four characters. Maybe five!
... this is a terrible comment. In my defense, it is 3AM.